I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here
"The swimming pool is down the stairs."
"Inside the house? Oh boy!!"
Yup. I guess our trials of house building are coming a little closer to the end than some.
Let's start at the beginning, shall we?
Monday: Morgan has the day off and we plan to spend the entire day putting stone on the exterior of the house. Problem: for some reason right about lunch time (right when I get there, as always) the stones keep falling off. As you can imagine, this is quite frustrating for him. In an effort to express his anger, he kicks a board. The board is leaning against the solid concrete foundation. By 4:00 he can barely walk. We leave the house and head to the ER to see if it's broken. It's not. That's the best news we'll get for days.
Tuesday: Carpet Guy calls and says carpet is on backorder. This is not the bad news for the day. We stay home ALL DAY playing around town and being together as a family as Morgan has taken the day off work due to his foot injury. We went to McDonald's with the girls and had ice cream cones and just had a really fun lazy day. Should've known we'd have to pay for taking a day off. (And there was guilt involved, don't get me wrong. Morgan made the comment, "It's kinda funny that our house is a ticking time bomb and here we sit.") When it comes time for Morgan to do the night check out at the plant, we all pile in the truck and head to the house to look to see if the rock is still up. Kind of as a joke but who knows, really. I say, "Why don't you run in and measure the shower opening so I can go talk to someone about ordering a door for it?" He runs in while we wait in the truck. Then panic is on his face and he's waving me out of the truck. We had left the hose on the day before. There was a tarp in the window well preventing any drainage and there was A LOT of water against the window and flowing into the house.
Since this story is already long and boring, let's just say we spent the evening differently than we had planned. And we'll also so how blessed we feel that we went in when we did, that it wasn't worse than it was, and that it didn't happen a few weeks from now when we will have had $2,000 worth of carpet + furniture in there. We feel very very blessed.
