Absolute Chaos!

Home improvement projects are painful.  There is absolutely no way around it.  If you vacate during the work, you miss errors and mistakes and come home at a point too late.  If you live in the house during it the disruption of routine, the noise, the mess, the clutter...OH MY!

We have wanted hardwood floors since we bought our house in early 2005.  We are an atopic family.  Dust allergies abounding, not to mention allergies to pretty much everything green.  So, hardwoods are perfect.  We decided to go ahead and do it this spring.  We picked our floor, got the estimates and work started last Monday.

Calamity after calamity.  Cracked boards, gauges, albino board next to dark board in prominent place.  Nothing life threatening but certainly a PITA!  The contractor is holding up their end of the deal but it is still painful.

So, do I really want to design and build the house of my dreams?  If 1,200 sq. ft. of hardwood is this painful what would a whole house be...not sure I have it in me.

M and I are traveling to Park City this week without the kids so I can attend the Evo Conference (#evoconf  www.evoconference.com) for work.  It should be a nice getaway and it should significantly help this pitiful blog ;-)   Shortly thereafter we will go to see my brother for the first time in about 7 years (I've seen him but not been to his house).  I suspect our house will be chaotic for a while.

K had his orientation for Fast ForWord this week and did well with it.  He starts July 6th...2 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 6 weeks.  Fingers crossed that it jump starts him for 1st grade.