Monday, May 22, 2006

Preparing for the new baby

We have about two months until our new little one arrives. We're in the final count down, I now go to the doctor every two weeks. AND the construction has begun! Andy was knee deep (almost literally) remodeling over the weekend, the bedroom that will soon be the nursery. Of course with an old house, nothing can be as simple as just painting, but we keep telling ourselves the more work we put into the house (who am I kidding, Andy does all the work) the more it increases in value (not to mention the fact that we like it better, too). The bedroom was previously occupied by me for scrapbooking, sewing, and was my walk-in closet. The room has a sloped ceiling and in the part that wasn't sloped some brainiac put a closet type system that was far too big for the size of the room, so Andy pulled that out and realized that the paneling covering the walls is nailed directly to the studs, so now we're talking drywalling the entire room. Next, he determines that someone had also dropped the ceiling for no apparent reason, and Andy would have none of that! We also decided that a small closet is necessary so that needed to be framed in and the window needed to be replaced. It sounds like alot you say, but it's no sweat for...The Andyman. So Saturday the demolition began and down came some of the insulation that Andy blew in two years ago. Talk about a mess, Andy was covered when he came out of that room, but he was able to re-use a lot of it and with the help of the neighbor got drywall up on the ceiling. He got the closet framed in too. This weekend the project continues, I think from this point forward, things will start getting cleaner, well, until he starts sanding the drywall seams. I guess I'll just keep my vacuum and dust cloth handy. I know it'll be worth it in the end. And to think all I really wanted was a space to be able to pull out and start sorting baby clothes.

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