Our life as we see it...
Well, I have been putting off blogging for a while because I had promised that I was going to post pics/stories about each of the girls for their birthday...bu-ut we haven't had any time to get/process any recent, good pics of the girls. So I guess I might as well blog about everything else going on since I don't know when we'll have any time to get good pics.
So here's an update on our house and our life currently. Over this last weekend (labor day weekend) we prepared to tear off our current roof in preparation to installing a new one. On Monday bright and early, Josh headed up to the roof and got started on the tear off. Now let me tell you this..we had three layers of roofing up there on our roof. It was a brutal job and I didn't even go up there! (My firm and fast rule is that I will do/learn any home improvement project that you throw at me..in fact I enjoy them. But I do not go on the roof or under the house. That's my rule.) A little while after Josh got started, his brother Jay arrived to help. A couple hours later another friend came and my dad showed up. My dad wasn't doing very well up on the roof for some reason so he didn't last long up there..plus there were only 3 roof taker offer things. Well, not even being up there, I saw what a hard job it was..Josh and Jay kept coming off the roof and collapsing on the ground and chugging Gatorade and water. I literally thought I was going to have to go catch Jay a couple times as he was descending off the ladder. Wouldn't that have been a sight! Well, 90% of the tear off got finished that day and that evening, we had a whole team of helpers helping clean up...boy was it a mess. And my poor flowers. I've worked so hard for my flowers. And they all got squashed. =( Anyway, we got a significant start on the clean up thanks to the help.
Tuesday morning, Josh worked from home a little in the morning so that I could take Bryce to his new school and get him registered. I got to take him to his class and meet his teacher. And then I left. It was hard. Last year when he started school, the girls had just been born and weren't even home from the hospital. So we had so much else going on that I didn't even really have time to think about him going to school. Not that we don't have a lot going on this year! But I've had more time to think about it and worry and grieve about it I guess. Plus the fact that all summer we haven't had any idea where he was going to go and what was going on..so we hadn't had time to really set roots of thought into any one place. Does that make sense? Anyway since we hadn't even found out that he could, in fact attend Corbett Grade school this year until Friday, we had never even been inside. So I was taking him to a new place that neither of us had ever been and I had to leave him there all day. Anyway...I didn't cry...but I did have a hard time leaving. But he was fine. And so far he LOVES school and he seems to be making a lot of new friends already. He really likes his teacher and LOVES the fact that not only does he get 3 recesses, but also a snack in addition to lunch. If you ask him, these are the best things about his new school. If you're like me and wondering why they get three recesses, it is because at Corbett, they only have a Mon-Thurs school schedule. So the days are from 8am to 3:30. 7 1/2 hours of school a day is a lot! Hence the three recesses.
For the remainder of this week, Josh will be working to finish repairing parts of the roof that need to be replaced and laying down the remainder of the tar paper in preparation for the contracter coming on Friday to put on the new roof. What a relief that will be after all this! This coming weekend, will be full of repairing some dry rot that was found under our house during the inspection and possibly having to take out and replace our bathroom floor. Not fun.
In case you're thinking that we must be made of money in order to do all these things, you're mistaken. We are, at this point getting a bit worried about our money situation. I always thought that you made money when you sold a house..not the other way around. I had no idea at the cost of having to do all these things. We sold our car a while back in preparation to do the roof..but it's costing more than we had expected and then we have to add in the dry rot repairs. Which hopefully won't be terribly expensive, but still. I now know that when we sell our next house, we need to have money set aside for these things..somewhere in the ball park of $5,000. So that's my advice for anyone who's thinking about selling a house any time soon!
The good news though is that we're on track to close on both houses on or before September 14. Holy cow! That's in 8 days. Yea! We also got the results of the appraisal for our new house yesterday. It appraised for $301,000...we are paying $243,000! Wow! I wondered if the appraiser had actually gone inside the house...
So here's an update on our house and our life currently. Over this last weekend (labor day weekend) we prepared to tear off our current roof in preparation to installing a new one. On Monday bright and early, Josh headed up to the roof and got started on the tear off. Now let me tell you this..we had three layers of roofing up there on our roof. It was a brutal job and I didn't even go up there! (My firm and fast rule is that I will do/learn any home improvement project that you throw at me..in fact I enjoy them. But I do not go on the roof or under the house. That's my rule.) A little while after Josh got started, his brother Jay arrived to help. A couple hours later another friend came and my dad showed up. My dad wasn't doing very well up on the roof for some reason so he didn't last long up there..plus there were only 3 roof taker offer things. Well, not even being up there, I saw what a hard job it was..Josh and Jay kept coming off the roof and collapsing on the ground and chugging Gatorade and water. I literally thought I was going to have to go catch Jay a couple times as he was descending off the ladder. Wouldn't that have been a sight! Well, 90% of the tear off got finished that day and that evening, we had a whole team of helpers helping clean up...boy was it a mess. And my poor flowers. I've worked so hard for my flowers. And they all got squashed. =( Anyway, we got a significant start on the clean up thanks to the help.
Tuesday morning, Josh worked from home a little in the morning so that I could take Bryce to his new school and get him registered. I got to take him to his class and meet his teacher. And then I left. It was hard. Last year when he started school, the girls had just been born and weren't even home from the hospital. So we had so much else going on that I didn't even really have time to think about him going to school. Not that we don't have a lot going on this year! But I've had more time to think about it and worry and grieve about it I guess. Plus the fact that all summer we haven't had any idea where he was going to go and what was going on..so we hadn't had time to really set roots of thought into any one place. Does that make sense? Anyway since we hadn't even found out that he could, in fact attend Corbett Grade school this year until Friday, we had never even been inside. So I was taking him to a new place that neither of us had ever been and I had to leave him there all day. Anyway...I didn't cry...but I did have a hard time leaving. But he was fine. And so far he LOVES school and he seems to be making a lot of new friends already. He really likes his teacher and LOVES the fact that not only does he get 3 recesses, but also a snack in addition to lunch. If you ask him, these are the best things about his new school. If you're like me and wondering why they get three recesses, it is because at Corbett, they only have a Mon-Thurs school schedule. So the days are from 8am to 3:30. 7 1/2 hours of school a day is a lot! Hence the three recesses.
For the remainder of this week, Josh will be working to finish repairing parts of the roof that need to be replaced and laying down the remainder of the tar paper in preparation for the contracter coming on Friday to put on the new roof. What a relief that will be after all this! This coming weekend, will be full of repairing some dry rot that was found under our house during the inspection and possibly having to take out and replace our bathroom floor. Not fun.
In case you're thinking that we must be made of money in order to do all these things, you're mistaken. We are, at this point getting a bit worried about our money situation. I always thought that you made money when you sold a house..not the other way around. I had no idea at the cost of having to do all these things. We sold our car a while back in preparation to do the roof..but it's costing more than we had expected and then we have to add in the dry rot repairs. Which hopefully won't be terribly expensive, but still. I now know that when we sell our next house, we need to have money set aside for these things..somewhere in the ball park of $5,000. So that's my advice for anyone who's thinking about selling a house any time soon!
The good news though is that we're on track to close on both houses on or before September 14. Holy cow! That's in 8 days. Yea! We also got the results of the appraisal for our new house yesterday. It appraised for $301,000...we are paying $243,000! Wow! I wondered if the appraiser had actually gone inside the house...
posted by Kristi @ 8:40 AM
1 Comments:
At 12:26 PM ,
Katy said...
It great to be updated. I'll be praying.....we decided not to sell/move until 2/2008. God speed! love.
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