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I know I know...I said a few years ago I was going to write more... then I didn't.   Well things have changed. I mean really really changed.  The mr and I had a baby! The little man is going to be 1 in a few days.  So that really changes life.  I was very lucky that I was able to take 6 months maternity leave from my job! Then when I went back to work mom and dad put their life on hold and came out from the east coast for 6 months.  I also got lucky that my first day back ( as a retail manager) was the day after the day after Christmas! I missed all of the holidays, so that was an extra bonus.  The next step was trying to find a day care that could work with my schedule, which is different every week and I find it out 2 weeks in advance. This proved to be extremely difficult.My work has a life assistance program and I called them several times to try to source day cares. They came back with a list of about 4 each time that didn't 100% meet our ...

oh so before i head out to the garden for some garden time, i owe anyone who may actually read this a little hello... hi! ok, i'm going now jk..... but seriously, the past few months have been a little busy for me. got a promotion at work!! which meant the training process and a whole new location, oh and lots more responsibility which of course means less time. and then there's the house... you saw we started the kitchen (i swear i'll put up after pics for the kitchen and maybe even someday the bathroom..its just a matter of remembering to take pictures after i've cleaned the house bc generally after i've finished cleaning taking pictures is not the first thing on my mind..) and you saw the no-longer-there front porch. we'll in between that i've been cleaning up the house and mess, mowing the lawn, and generally doing the yard work. i figure if the mister can build i can garden... i've got to have my dad's and grandfather's green thumb...

so much has been going on in the house since the mister brought home the kitchen cabinets! he decided to rewire the kitchen outlets while he could rip up the walls and discovered some electrical issues and random wires. so there are a few less outlets including where i used to plug my laptop in. he discovered the back of the house was completely termite damaged (not active but in the past) when he went to hang an upper kitchen cabinet. he found the stud but the screw wasn't catching anything. so he ripped up the siding and the back of the house is covered in plastic. then we got a letter from our home owner's insurance reminding us that we had to "fix" the roof on our front porch. upon further inspection by the mister it was decided to replace rather than fix and i came home from work to this: oh and i forgot to mention he took down the cypress trees in the front one day too. so the permit process and the rain delayed stuff and here we are a few months later.....

so i don't know if i mentioned it, but something my husband is a very well connected man... well not really but that sounds better than right place, right time! so he was able to get us some fancy smancy kitchen cabinets! i don't know if i ha mentioned that our current cabinets are kinda crappy? the one set of uppers is falling apart and i can't put more than kitchen towels in there..so essentially they are empty. wasted space so i don't want to say where he got them for fear of getting in trouble- not  its not illegal!! they didn't "fall off a truck" and if they did they probably would have fallen apart or at the very least gotten severely dinged up. anyways... we are not re- doing the kitchen....kinda i had already painted so the pyramid gold is staying. sadly we might loose the avocado...like i had sad the paint didn't come out right- its sticky and how long ago did we paint it??? so..wanna see the cabinets? this is in the dining room go...

so yes its been almost a month since i've shared the house with anyone we were supposed to get keys on may 4 originally so my parents booked a flight to come out and help us fix and move!  so dad was coming on may 4 to knock out some big stuff like the bathroom and mom was coming on may 8 since my vacation didn't start until may 9 (which was also mother's day so i thought it would be nice to give my mom a paint brush for mother's day-jk). so nice of them until we got the call the there was a court issue and we would not get keys until may 7. so mom looked into changing dad's to may 8 to fly with her and it just didn't make sense money-wise. so dad was going to get some quality time with rob that did not involve working on a house. so dad comes in and on may 5 he goes with me to sign the escrow paperwork!! then we find out that we are not getting keys on may 7- that is the final day for the court confirmation! we are not going to get the keys until probably may...