thought I’d stop all my whining and post a few pics 🙂 We now have two rooms that are done, the laundry room (and who wants to see pics of that!?) and Taryn’s room.  She has baseboards, she has crown molding, even window sills, yup, she’s livin large!  Ok, so she still needs knobs on her closet doors, just one little detail but I’m just so happy to have closet doors at all!  It seems like ages ago that Taryn, Jason and I were living in this room when we first got back into the house (the master was filled to the gills with building supplies for a long time).  The only place the playpen (which served as Taryn’s bed […]

What a nightmare.  We fired our contractor today.  We had to.  What an awful experience.  The guy decided he needed to yell at me without warning, amoung other things.  I doubt he would have behaved that way if my husband would have been in the house.  Not cool.  I kicked them out of our house but before they actually left, Jase had made it home.  I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve heard Jason raise his voice at someone in the 6 years I’ve known him.  I actually don’t ever think I’ve heard him cuss at someone, but the guy deserved it.   So frustrating.  Nothing with Hurricane Katrina has been easy, so why should we be […]

Yesterday was better.  We had to go over a bunch of stuff that was done incorrectly with the house, but they fixed it.  Mostly the trim and some issues in Ty’s room, but it now looks great.  All that’s left in his room are installing the closet doors and then Jase needs to paint one wall.  I can’t wait to have it all put together in there, it’s going to looks great with all his new furniture!!  I am hopeful it will be done tonight or maybe tomorrow – yay!! Taryn’s room is a work in progress.  Let’s just say she’s less than thrilled with having people in her room.  She keeps yelling at them "DAT TARYN’S!"  Her room still […]

We are in reconstruction hell.  No way around it, why bother trying to sugar coat it?  It is what it is.  Constant stress.  I’m so ready to be done, it can’t end fast enough.  Not just the constant chaos, the in and out of people in your house all day, the never ending tools, paint, sharp things, nails and an uber long list of other things left everywhere for a toddler to get into.  If that wasn’t enough, we’re having trouble with our contractor.  It’s more than we can take, unnecessary drama, I just want my house done.  I keep trying to remind myself, a few more days and then we can move on…..but by today, it really does feel […]