A Laborious Labor Day Weekend

Well, we did just what the weekend says...we labored. We hosted the party on Friday through Saturday morning and spent the rest of Saturday recovering and cleaning up.

Sunday we discussed some serious house issues and then got an invitation to take the family to a drive-in movie about an hour away. We had a great time but the movie didn't even start until 8:30 p.m. so it was almost midnight by the time we returned.

Monday was the hardest, BIGGEST day of all. We met with the lead guy of the crews we hired to frame and sheetrock the house. He showed us the trim work in a million dollar house he was building (no, ours is nowhere near that size or price!). We then met with the trim guys, the sheetrock crew and...drum roll please, a professional painter who made us such a fantastic offer that we couldn't refuse.

We then took the kids out to lunch. Nelson took them from there to his sister's to help install a dishwasher, while I stayed behind to iron school uniforms, pack up the book bag and get everything ready for Mackenzie's first day.

When he returned, we put the kids to bed and then went back out to pick out the remaining paint colors and measure for all the doors in the house.

Whew! I didn't get to bed until 1 a.m. and was back up at 7 to get everyone ready for the first day of school. And I wondered why I was so tired today.

The good news is that today we picked out every bit of trim for the house, as well as the doors and stairway. The trim crew starts tomorrow and will be finished before Saturday! That's when the painters come in. They promised to be finished with the house in 10 days....TEN DAYS!!! While they're painting, the tile workers will get started. After almost 3 years, I can actually see the finish line.

It was a hard Labor Day weekend for sure, but one that will pay off greatly in the days ahead.