This week the roof started taking shape in the new house as the trusses went up. We have a very different roof line because we have a loft type house. The boys rooms are upstairs and when they walk out of their rooms, they will be on a balcony that overlooks the kitchen and living area. Our ceiling in the kitchen and living room will be a slope starting at 9 foot and go up to waaaay higher than that by the time it reaches the top of the stairs.
If you are in the Texarkana area and are considering building, I highly recommend using Mark Hannible as your framer. He does not limit himself to do only what the plan says. He has very good ideas and just lays out options you may want to consider. Just this week he found a place for another room in our house, and it was already an area that was going to be heated and cooled. I mean, really, an extra room?! Yes, please!
Austin is standing in the entrance to his room, and the extra room that Mark added this week is just to the left of him. It is the area that covers the hall and pantry, but it ended up being a pretty big space. I'm so excited about this space. We are making part of it a closet (because you just can't have too many of those) and the rest will be a play area that will overlook the kitchen and living room. We are just putting railing around most of it so it will be open. It will either look very cool when it's done, or it will be really weird. Either way, it's different. And I like different.
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| This is the front of the house. |
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| This is the view of the living room from the stairs. |
I am so excited about the way the house is coming together. It is even better than I thought it would be. It is very time consuming because there seems to be big decisions to make almost daily. This week I had to decide on which stone I wanted to use on the fireplace, along with what design I wanted it to be. That sentence took 2 seconds to type. The thought process took a good 2 hours of standing out there looking at it, along with at least an hour of looking at stone fireplace pictures online. We also had to pick out our living room TV this week because there will be a place built in for that and we had to know that to know how much stone to order. I also had to decide what type of columns I wanted around the porches. It's so hard to pick out random things and try to picture how it will all work together. Hopefully I'm not screwing up too much.
The week was going really well until yesterday morning when Austin woke up with a pretty high fever and body ache. He laid in my lap and let me rock him for a long time, which is very unusual for him. He just kept saying "momma, I've got the fever". It was pitiful. After a meltdown in the lab about getting blood taken, a chest x-ray, and a 50 minute wait for lab results, we found out that his left lung has pneumonia in it.
Which is bad for several reasons.
The first one is that I hate to see my kids sick. I just wish I could take it from them. Not that I'm any better at being sick than they are (because I'm not), but at least they wouldn't be hurting and miserable.
Also, we had a big week planned next week that this pneumonia put a stop to. Right now, I should be in Dallas shopping with my birth mom and my kids should be in DeKalb ready to spend the week with my mom. Instead, right now I'm sitting at home, blogging and cleaning. Tomorrow I should've been on a plane headed to Washington. But instead, I will be home with a sick child. Oh the sacrifices we make sometimes for our kids...
My friend, Brandi, moved to Washington in June (was that just last month, really?) and I had my trip planned to go hang out with her for a week. I have lived in Italy. Traveled all over Europe. Swam in the Mediterranean Sea. Rode the chunnel from Paris to London. Vacationed in New York, Florida, Tennessee, New Mexico, and well, all over the United States. Except for the Northwest corner. And I was finally getting to go. Brandi and I had plans to go to Seattle, Spokane, Portland, and everywhere in between over this next week. Also, it is 70 degrees there right now. It is 95 here. So it's quite possible I was going to be shopping for a summer home there also.
Anyway, this trip has been planned for a month and Brandi has been texting me a countdown every morning since then. Needless to say, we were both REALLY looking forward to this. And we are both so disappointed that it all had to be cancelled. Maybe if he starts feeling better later on in the week I could still go up for a few days. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I'm determined to make it up there someday. And I would love for it to be sooner rather than later.
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