progress, plans and valentine wishes...

Hello friends! My page is starting to load just a bit faster now , not anything to brag about mind you but faster than it was. I am still connecting at the same speed however.

I knew that our electrician and the heating and air guy should be out this week but I didn't expect it to be yesterday. It turns out that our H&A and electrician are one and the same. Thus far in this building process we have been so blessed to have nice, clean mouthed workers and I am hoping this continues, they also are good about cleaning up after themselves. I have heard for years how stressful it is to build a house and all this and all that but I have to admit that so far it has been a mostly stress free experience. There was the thing with the power company that just about caused me to have "the big one" but other than that it has been a good thing. I do get a bit stressed over it but it is self induced from anxiety of wanting the finished product so that we may move in. I mainly stress over goofy things like what furniture to buy for the living room or how I am going to set the office up. Oh well it will be done in no time and I can lay my head to rest over the living room furniture and the office....LOL!

Monday evening Mr. Breazy and I went over to the house and done some clean up in the yard from where the wind had blown things around and we also discussed some plans for things that will have to be done when all of the construction is over. I had my first little sit-down on my front porch with a glass of sweet iced tea and it was more wonderful than I could ever have imagined or dreamed of. As a matter of fact , Mr. B and I done our planning while sitting on the steps of the porch, it felt really good to sit there knowing that we were actually sitting on OUR front porch planning things to be done after OUR house was done. It is starting to sink in a bit that the house is ours but I don't think I will completely feel it until we move in there. While we sat on the porch planning we watched our kids ride the dirt bike and the feeling that gave me is unexplainable.

Things are going good here at my moms. I am enjoying the time I get to spend with them. Two nights in the last week my sister and I have sat down and watched a movie after the kids were in bed and asleep. That was wonderful because we haven't been able to do that in a long time.

I am going to have to make a trip to the library soon so that I can read everyones blog. Some of them are taking too long to load and I feel like I am neglecting them by not reading them, maybe not neglecting but more like ignoring and I am really not, I just don't want to wait ten plus minutes for a page to load.

I have lots of new pics and when I have a lot of time one day I am going to upload some of them so you can see our progress. I also have a couple of pics of some hardwood floors that Mr. B has done in the last week. One of the floors is brazilian cherry and it is beautiful. The other floor is the re-finish of the floors in the house we just moved out of. If you remember when we lived there I mentioned a couple of times that the floors were so dark they were almost black, well not anymore. You can actually see wood grain now and it is beautiful!

Mr. B is trying to talk me into sand and finish floors in our house but I kind of want to go with pre-finish because they are less messy. The problem is that my sinuses and allergies bother me and when you sand a floor there is a lot of dust and it makes my sinuses and allergies go haywire on me. I have to go in and clean the house from top to bottom when everything is complete so I am thinking about buying a better face mask and letting Mr. B do the sand and finish. It isn't like I will be cleaning the house alone either , my cousin does the new home clean up for a living and I have hired her to help me. She has all of these neat little tools and tricks to make sure that every nook and cranny is spotless when the cleaning is done.

What plans do you all have for tonight? Mr. B and I don't really celebrate it , we make it special for the kids instead because we both feel that Valentines Day is highly over rated and that we can show love and affection to each other any of the other 364 days of the year. All we will probably do is go out for a nice lunch and maybe buy each other a card. He never buys me flowers because I will just kill them with my black thumb and he knows not to ever bring home or send me roses because the smell of them remind of funerals,they are beautiful but the smell brings back to many sad memories. I am not big on getting flowers anyways, I prefer him to tell me or show me how he feels instead of buying flowers. In my opinion, the flowers will just wither away but his words and actions will be burned in my mind and heart forever. It has taken Mr. B several years to be comfortable with not buying me flowers and chocolates on Valentines or my birthday. Now let me get something straight before I go any farther , if he wants to buy me chocolates I will be more than happy to accept those and he knows this.

I hope each and every one of you have a beautiful day!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!