Progress at last

I have frames up and roof trusses on and the brickwork done on the garage....I think I'm finally going to get that extension after all... life has revolved around the extension lately...sorting out prices for garage doors and heating and cooling units and and and......I am so looking forward to my husband going back to work(he's on a couple of weeks holidays overseeing the building work) when my life can go back to normal...

Has the...

novelty worn off? I guess it has...or my life is so boring I don't want to bore everyone else with it...or nobody cares enough to leave a comment so I wonder why I bother.....or .....well not sure I will continue to blog....who knows.....or maybe I will as I think it's good for venting...if I have anything left to vent about.....mmmmm maybe I'll be back maybe I won't but does anyone care...who knows?

The house

is finally taking shape....I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I am so relieved that it is finally happening....soon the kids will have their own rooms and their will be space to move WOOHOO....it'll be wonderful!!!!

Karate

always wanted to do it now I am...signed up me and the four kids to start karate class.....going to be hugely fun (I hope) and good for us all....discipline and fitness much needed in this house...(well fitness really only me but wouldn't hurt the rest of them to get a little fitter)...

My husband

surprised me
...I had been thinking that he was ready to nag me about going out and getting a job....we had always decided that I would be a stay-at-home-mom while the kids were all young and thankfully he is on a decent enough wage that we can do that(there's not a lot over at the end of the month...and savings....what's that? but we don't have any major debts apart from the mortgage and a small loan and we can afford to live reasonably well but things are sometimes tight..depending on what bills come up I guess...) but we always knew that when the youngest went off to school I would be thinking about getting a parttime job ...or trying to make a career out of writing....we decided to give me a year on the writing front and that year is nearly up with no changes(gee I have to be writing to do that but in all honesty it is the first time in so long that I've had total me time during the day that I've been doing that having me time instead of writing time so I haven't accomplished very much) but DH was great he said he could hardly blame me and suggested another year....but to make sure I didn't squander that year like this one....and he was more than happy to say he'd take time off over July/August so I could go back to the US for the writers conference in Reno so WOOHOO...support from him...which means I have to do exactly that ...not squander my time and try and make a real success of writing so I can justify his confidence in me as well as mine in myself

WOOHOO

A miracle has occurred...the building work has started...I can see light at the end of the tunnel.....and I can't wait....maybe when we all have our own space we will not get on each other's nerves quite as much as we do now

To renovate or

not to renovate.....what was I thinking? Building from scratch or buying established might have been a better idea after all..instead of almost doubling the size of the house.....I know it is going to be great...IN THE END....but I have to get to the end first....hell I have to get to the START!!!!!! Thought things were going great guns when the site supervisor showed up on our doorstep full of confidence that everything would be done....and a lot quicker than I thought ...but then a couple of times he was supposed to meet with my DH and he postponed the meeting then didn't even bother to show or phone when he didn't make it and what was supposed to happen today doesn't look like it will be happening until maybe with luck tomorrow but that has put off laying concrete for another two or three days....which means delays in bricking and carpentry etc etc etc.....finished by Christmas? A dream....but will it be a reality?

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yep that about sums up my day blah blah blah....