Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Our House, On the Corner of Our Street

Here is a little advice. Never buy a house that has to be completely painted from floor to ceiling and needing various other home improvements, when you are in your first trimester. Or really, if you are pregnant at all. You know those shows you watch on Saturdays that are about people who buy fixer-uppers hoping to rehaul and "flip" them? I watch those shows and I see all the mistakes people make, thinking they are going to get X amount done in X amount of time. I always thing of how foolish those people are.

Now I know better. While we are not attempting to flip our house, we did intend on making many improvments before we moved into the house. We went into closing thinking we could get everything done in six weeks. Yeah, right. Combine a sick and tired pregnant woman, a guy already putting 40 hours a week into his day job, 2 rambunctious children needing constant entertaining, and a house older than half of my siblings and delays happen. I had such high hopes of moving into a house where all the projects were finished and we just got to enjoy living there - gone! The plan is to move in this weekend. While the driving back and forth between houses (a 20+ minute drive) and living off of fast food life will hopefully be over, I think we'll just be trading one form of chaos for another. Well we've got about five months until the newest Lewis joins our family, so that is our new goal. Wish us luck!

5 Validations:

Catherine said...

You can do it! You'll be so happy once these shenanagins are all over. And you'll look back and remember the crazy times, but then you'll also be happy that you got stuff done! I'm proud of you & can't wait to meet Little Lewis!

Risa Stumm said...

Congrats on Baby #3!! ... AND a new house! So fun! Okay, okay, lots of work, too... but I still can't wait to see the finished product. ... of both projects! :) Good luck!

Allison said...

Wow, you've been busy since the last time you've blogged. Congrats on everything!

Dianna said...

CONGRATULATIONS on baby #3! Exciting that ya'll are getting a house. Maybe one day we'll be able to come see it.... Hope things slow down for ya!

Andrea said...

I know how you feel. We bought our 50 year old house when I was 6 months pregnant with Will and our timeline got stretched out a LOT longer than we thought it would take. We got done what we could to move in and haven't worked on it since, sigh. Eventually. I want pictures!