Yes – today is Monday and it started, appropriately, with a car that wouldn’t start – when I was already running late. I think we may have left an interior light on or something because the battery was nearly flat. It had just enough juice to make me think it was going to start but not enough to actually get going. Thankfully the AAA guy was able to give me a jump start and I was on my way – about an hour late but I did squeeze in a work call to London before I left so all was not lost. I think the fact that I felt like crying when the car wouldn’t start had more to do with hormones and less to do with the gravity of the situation.

We had our weekly house renovation project meeting this morning and everything is moving along swimmingly. The best news is that we won’t have to move my Mum out of the house as soon as she arrives. The timeline was indicating that we may need to move out for a couple of days while they seal the hardwoods but it now looks like we can move that up a week so it will be done just before she gets here.

More progress:

• Plumbing, electrical and heating vents are almost all complete. Just have to put in the new hot water heater and hook everything up. In the process, absolutely every room in our house has been affected in some way except the living room. We have holes in walls and vents running through closets all over the place. It will all be nicely hidden when we are done but Kei and I are a little tired of moving things in and out of our very packed closets.
• Kei fixed the leaky sink in the kitchen (after two years of complaining that I haven’t been able to use the sprayer). Just waiting on couple of parts and my sink will be living up to its full potential. 🙂
• Speaking of sinks, I have a brand new Laundry sink in the basement. It replaced the original concrete monstrosity that has been here since the house was built in 1923. I can also use hot water to wash clothes for the very first time since we moved in (long story).
• We have windows – well most of them. I think they will wait to put the last couple of windows in until the very last moment as they are currently using the windows as a doorway to the second floor. The best part is that it is so much lighter upstairs now. Oh, and now that the upstairs heating is connected we are heating the inside more, and the outside less.

The best news of all is that we are right on schedule so we should have most of the really noisy/dusty work done by the time this baby comes… IN THREE WEEKS!

Here is a new picture of the house. Not much has changed from the outside except the addition of two window. The one on the right is Thomas’ room, the boarded window in the middle is the baby’s room and the little one on the left is the bathroom. We also have new windows on either side of the house. The best thing – we will be able to open them without needing super-human strength!

TTFN

Nicole