Everyday It's a-Gettin' Closer

So...good news: our cabinets are IN. "In" as in, in the warehouse, ready to be delivered to our house. However, the kitchen is not QUITE ready for them. There still isn't a floor. I've been balancing on floor joists (horiztonal beams, unequally spaced) to get to my laundry room. How's THAT for talented, eh? I can walk across them WITH a full load of laundry in my hands! You might say "why not lay some ply wood down across them?", well...we don't have a large enough piece of ply wood...we tried using multiple small pieces of the old floor we tore up, but I found that to be more dangerous than just walking on the joists. Weird, perhaps. But it is so.

Anywho. My husband has been working very hard to get everything ready. As mentioned in a previous entry, this house is a can of worms. We COULD'VE ignored the big can we found---old and dangerous wiring throughout the house---but instead, he re-wired EVERYTHING properly, and "to code". Sure, it took extra time....but would I rather my house burn down due to bad electrical? No. No thank you. So I am very proud of my "do-it-all" husband for learning how to do that. Saved us a lot money (by not having to hire an electrician). And saved our house from potentially burning down.

Now, here's the plan: this Saturday with the help of a few other guys, we plan on laying the sub-floor, and getting the walls ready for cabinets. While the guys are doing that, Becky and I will be painting all the 3rd floor doors. They come in an off-white color from the store....but all of our trim on the 3rd floor (and eventually the rest of the house) is bright white. We will also hopefully get the touch-up painting finished in the bathroom, so we can hang our ginormous mirror, and the other picture.

Then on Sunday we hope to start tiling the floor in the kitchen (which will take a few days). Then we can have our cabinets officially delivered, and then we'll install them. And THEN, if all goes according to plan (which usually doesn't happen), our appliances will be delivered NEXT Saturday. Which would mean we'd have a fully functional kitchen in 10 days.

We shall see if that really happens lol. In the meantime, I'll post pics this weekend of our progress. There WILL be progress...of some sort :)

Love You Til The End

The title of this entry is the name of a song...it's from P.S. I Love You (sad movie).

Anyway...I've spent the last 3 days sick w/a cold. Two of those days I stayed home...yesterday being the worst day of all. Ugh. The common cold. I don't care how common it is, it's MISERABLE.

BUT....having a wonderful husband to take care of me helped tremendously. He got me tea, medicine, soup, popsicles (yum), gave me a sinus massage, did funny dances and spoke in a russian accent to make me laugh. It worked. No matter how hard I tried to remain miserable and keep a straight face, I couldn't do it. He was just too ridiculous not to laugh at.

I love him :)

That is all.

Not it's not. Speaking of love, today is my parent's 38th wedding anniversary! Woohoo! Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!!! Thanks for being such great examples to us :)

Now THAT is all.

Can 'O Worms

So here are some updates in the Griffiths household: We have no kitchen floor. BUT we are close to having one. We're just trying to get the heat situation figured out, then we can lay the floor down, which we already have. We have the sub-floor, the stuff that goes on top of the sub-floor and underneath the tile, and we have the tile. Once that is down, we can do the trim, paint the walls, and install the cabinets, appliances and counter-tops. Piece of cake :)

This house is a can of worms. You start one thing and then discover 4 more things that need to be done before the first thing can be done. More time is added...and more money. Nothing's ever easy. Nothing ever happens in the timing we would like it to. But darnit, when it does get finished, I am going to enjoy every minute of it! Not that I'm not enjoying it now. Not many people get to customize their house the way we are. It's really kinda fun, when it's not stressful and draining :) God is teaching us a lot about patience, and dependence on Him. And how to work well with others (i.e. each other). We've improved significantly since we started working together, cause God is awesome like that. I'm sure one day we'll look back on this season of our lives and laugh....ok, maybe not laugh....perhaps give a deep sigh :)

In the meantime, I'm preparing myself to entertain and host. We can't WAIT to throw the biggest house warming party Fishtown has ever seen. I'm already imagining how I'll set the table, what kind of centerpiece I'll use, what I'll (mostly Ivor) will cook (he says he wants me to cook, but I see the look of pure joy on his face while cooking and I just know he won't be able to resist).

This might not happen for another few years, but it will happen...I know it.

:)