March

So at work it is the DEAD time, so I am totally bored. I have caught up on a lot of blogs tonight, and I still have an hour of just sitting here. It is driving me nuts because this isn't what I want to be doing. I want to be home soothing my grumpy baby, I want to be tearing apart the bathroom we are remodeling this next week with my wonderful parents, I want to be home with my husband that I have only seen for about 20 min today. I love my job, but could I take the month of March off?

So now you are wondering about my family. Jeslyn is still teething, but what can I do about that. She has also started realizing when mom is not home so dad is having fun each night I am gone. I love my children and it is hard to be away from them, but they need to build their relationship with their dad too, so I think it is ok to spend a few hours a week away so that that relationship can be built.

We are still renting, but our second bathroom is just not very good, and since Nathan's mom wants it changed so much we finally decided it was time to just do it. I am trying to do as much prep work as I can befor Dad gets up here to put me to work. The more prep work I do the more I am horrified with how it was put together. I started by taking shelves out of the closet in there. Each shelf was held up by 2 2x4s and each one had 5 nails at each stud. That was not fun to work out. Then I started taking the panelling off the walls. The closet wasn't to bad, it was just nailed to the studs, so pretty easy to pull out for the most part. Then I started taking it out in the main part. Another nightmare. So the walls had no sheet rock on them. They had one type of pannel nailed on the 2x4s with another type glued to that. Luckily the glue is old enough that when we take a hammer to the walls the glue just breaks away the the first panneling comes off. Next we get to tear apart the other panelling because the nails have been glued over and the panelling is not durrable enough to withstand a hammer pulling on it. Then between the walls is carpet padding. We aren't sure why that is there, we are thinking it is for sound proofing, but who knows. Another fun thing is all structural things were put in after the panneling so we are trying to rip the panneling away from light switche and outlet boxes. We have to take out the toilet before we can get the rest of one wall out and the medicine cabinet had to come out before the paneling too. I am getting pretty handy with a hammer this week and my hand are all scratched up. I didn't get a before picture, but if I take one before we tear out structure you will see it just as beautiful as it was before we started. I am so excited for next week and the chance to get a new bathroom downstairs.

The not seeing Nathan much isn't a new thing, he leaves for work just before I wake up unless Jeslyn thinks I need to be up a little earlier. On the days I work he gets home about 20 min before I have to leave. Those end up being long days, but the chance to save up for a house of our own is so exciting. Just one more month YIPEE!!! Have you done your taxes yet?