August 21, 2008

And Then There Was a House

Yesterday I walked through my front door entrance and joyfully gazed at all of my downstairs rooms. Those guys move fast. There was not a doubt in my mind that as of tonight, I will have at least a second floor and I was right. It is finally feeling real.

I walked with the girls through all of the framed up rooms and imagined where I’d place my furniture. It’s going to be so much fun from here on out. The basement isn’t really my thing. The actual rooms are so much more exciting.

The girls wandered through with me for a while until they got sick of me telling them to please not fall through the hole into the basement where we have yet to get stairs. Then they decided to jump on a piece of plywood for a while, careful to avoid the discarded half of a hot-dog and the other trash that I’m hoping will get put in a trash can instead of just buried in our yard. I actually spent some time picking some of it up and throwing it away. When there’s a trash can in your front yard, and a dumpter directly in front of your house in the street, there’s just no excuse for that.

While they may not be the cleanest bunch of dudes, they are certainly hard working. They were already hard at work at 7:45 a.m. yesterday morning and they were still there at 4:15 p.m. after Big I had her "meet the teacher" social at her new school.

I think she’s feeling a little better about school and I know that I am as well. Her teacher is a veteran and seems very nice. From the other kids and parents, we learned that she loves art and she’s the only teacher in the school that has an actual piano in her room. Apparently she likes to sing as well. While we were standing there, another little girl came up to the teacher to meet her and I instantly recognized her and her Mom.

Her Mom was my Sunday school teacher many years ago and her daughter played with Big I at Vacation Bible School last summer. Although they didn’t remember each other, the fact that they are in the same classroom made me so happy. After we talked for a while, the Mom introduced Big I to another little girl who seems like a real sweetheart as well. It was such a relief for me to know that she’ll know two kids when she shows up next week for class. Although she’s still a bit apprehensive, I have a strong feeling that she’s going to really like her new school.

Now, without further delay, I give you the BBM house as it stands as of yesterday (we didn’t get pictures tonight because it was dark by the time we could have gone with a camera. We’ll go back in the morning). . .

This is the view from my front door. Straight ahead is the family room, to the left the dining room, to the right the living room, straight back and to the right is the office and straight back and to the left is the kitchen, laundry room, powder room (not visible in this shot). . .

This is a view of the family room from the kitchen area. The family room, with its high ceilings, gas fireplace, quarter round windows and skylights is my FAVORITE room in the house.

And here is the view from the front. Tomorrow, I’m betting I’ll be able to show you our second floor.

On another completely unrelated note, I found that my blog was being linked from HotBloggerCalendar.com tonight. Apparently I’ve been nominated to be on a hot blogger calendar? Who knew that something like this even existed; and more importantly how the heck did I get on that list? I must look way better on this blog than I do in person. Cool. While I have no expectation of winning a spot, I would like to thank the anonymous person who nominated me. So, if you’d like to fess up, I’ll thank you properly. It was very sweet, even if you do stay anonymous.

I also desperately need to fill up a spot in my fantasy football league. The draft is tomorrow night. Interested? If so, email me asap!