It's been a couple of weeks since I posted. We are both very exhausted from all of the decision making. Can't wait for the house to get finished so we can have our life back. The workers have taken the old carpet out and the old horrible linoleum underneath it. It looked like a real pain getting the linoleum up, I felt sorry for the guys. They also have scraped the ceiling and demoed parts of the fireplace.

The house hopefully will be finished in a couple of months. The workers are now patching drywall. Next week the cabinets go in the kitchen and the new sliders in the livingroom, dining room and bedroom. Doors also will be going in. The new garage door is going in Friday. It will be exciting to see it starting to come together.



Right now we have to make a decision about the fireplace mantle. I've gotten some pics off the internet and magazines. We are going to buy the bathrooms and kitchen sinks tomorrow and of course the faucets. Our budget is dwindling fast and we still need to pick out our countertops for bathrooms and kitchen.

We have befriended an orange tabby that came with the house, our granddaughter named him Frederick. We go by there every night and feed him. He used to run away from us, but now comes up to us and loves to be petted. He's really starting to show a lot of personality. He's a sweet old cat.

James and I Bought a ranch style, fixer-upper built in the 60's. We are in the process of remodeling and hoping to have it finished before we go to China to pick up Lucy.

We met with several painters, drywallers, ceiling scrapers. They all sounded really good and most were recommended by our new neighbors. We decided to go with Han who does it all. It was the easiest thing to do to keep all the steps organized.


We are literally replacing everything inside the house except for the drywall. Beams are being removed, the cottage cheese on the ceiling is being scraped. New heater, ducts and vents. So there is a lot of decision making to what kind of doors, hardware, kitchen cabinets, molding, baseboards, switches, flooring, lighting, kitchen & bathroom fixtures, sinks, toilets, tile. We are the type of people that agonize over the littlest decision, so we've had to get over that quick. We just hope we are making the right ones.