Thursday, June 12, 2008

Flooring and the Flu

Our carpet installer is able to install carpet without the door jambs in place, so we are on track for a FRIDAY (as in, tomorrow!) carpet installation! It's very exciting! Jeremy has done all the tiling downstairs in the boys' bathroom and in the laundry room, and he also got the stairs rounded and prepped for carpet and applied "floor leveler" to the spaces in the subfloor and "levelquick" to the areas of cement that needed tlc after removing the old tile grout. Today he's getting our "FiberFloor" (resilient floor - like vinyl - for bathrooms and kitchen). Hopefully he will be able to lay the master bath portion that will butt up to the carpet today, and then we'll truly be as ready as possible for our carpet install. Jeremy's mom has been helping out with cleaning things so that we'll be starting fresh with clean subfloor under the carpet (THANK YOU, THANK YOU!).

I, as usual, haven't been doing much on the house except working on the logistics and phone calls. It's been rainy and chilly so the boys and I have had a quiet week of hanging out inside. Today is supposed to be nicer, and it's Taylor's last T-ball game, so we had been looking forward to getting out today. However, Taylor got a 24-hour stomach flu yesterday. He was fevered and couldn't even keep water down most of the day, but thankfully, after a good night's sleep following a good day's sleep, he's doing much better. He's eating and his fever is gone, but he still feels "wibbly wobbly" this morning. I doubt he'll have the energy for playing t-ball tonight, but we might go watch the game, since it is his last one. We're hoping that the rest of us don't get this bug!

Ascha's due in less than two weeks, which is both exciting and overwhelming to think about. Hopefully after this carpet goes in, Jeremy's mom and I will be able to move quite a bit of the smaller stuff in the minivan so that "moving day," whenever it occurs, won't be a big deal, even if Ascha is around.

Here are a few more pics of the house progress. We have some of our lighting in now and all of our outlets are working, which is nice. Here is the kitchen:





Here is our family room / play room / guest room. I really love this gray-blue color:




And here is our bedroom, which may or may not stay this color, and may or may not eventually get some accents in the same blue as the family room. It is a silvery gray which we chose for both the guest bath and our bedroom. One of the reasons Jeremy liked this gray was because it looked very silvery without looking purple at all... of course, that was on the paint chip. In the guest bath, which has no natural light, it is a perfect color and just what we expected. In our room, bathed in natural light, it is quite purple. I am sneakily happy about this, because all our color choices tend toward the masculine. (Gray and blue in the bedroom, for example). I really like those tones, but once in a while I fantasize about having a feminine color somewhere, and now I have that, at least for a little while. :-)

PS - I finally redid the video posts from a while ago - you can see Taylor's "wind-up" for batting and Aric's silly question in that May post now. :-)

1 comment:

Kami said...

Great progress! Jeremy is amazing at his work pace and you sound so calm!!