Last year at this time we were busily getting ready for trick-or-treat, as well as, e-mailing our offer to purchase to the real estate agent for the land we are building a house on now. Secretly, I did take it as a good "sign" that we made the offer on the same day that my husband closed on the house we currently live-in 14 years prior. In fact, when we heard from the agent early Monday morning that we got the land, I was in a state of happiness and great disbelief. It hardly seemed possible that this "thing" that we had talked about doing practically since the moment we knew one another was actually coming to fruition. Yes, it has been a lot of work in that last year; clearing the land, finalizing the plans, getting everything ready to submit for the permit, and all the other things that have been documented in this blog since we broke ground, but already it has totally been worth it.
So, what were we doing one-year later this weekend, you might be asking yourselves? Keith was busily working on the completing a good portion of the backfill and setting-up the sill plate. He and Ronnie moved an extraordinary amount of soil by hand, in addition to the large amounts Keith was able to move with the tractor for the backfill. Tomorrow we are having the basement slab poured, which will make him one happy man. He is excited to be able to finally work on concrete, rather than be in the dirt all the time. My parents are coming in from MN on Friday to stay with us for a couple of weeks. We hope with my dad, Ron and Keith on site that a good portion of the framing and trusses will be up by Thanksgiving. I look forward to seeing that amazing transformation!
We also purchased all the windows for the house this week, and the glider door for the screened-in porch. They won't go up for a while yet, but it is nice knowing that one more major task is completed. We also purchased the linoleum flooring that will be used in all the bathrooms, the kitchen, the foyers and the laundry room. While the rest of the house (great room and bedrooms) will be wood, we were looking for another low-allergen flooring option that would be fairly low maintenance and would hold-up to kids over the years. Linoleum often is confused with vinyl floor covering because at one point, they were both manufactured by the same company and they were both a sheet product. However, true linoleum is a completely natural product made from linseed oil (linoxyn), pine rosin, ground cork dust, wood flour, and mineral fillers such as calcium carbonate, most commonly on a burlap or canvas backing. I am very excited about using this in our home, especially because I was able to find a great deal on a color that has tones very similar to limestone. Since we are building a craftsman/arts and crafts type of home, I wanted to stay as true to that style, which often dictates wood and stone floor covering, as possible. Not to say that I am trying to fool anyone that we have limestone, but I do like the fact that the color tones will mimic those of limestone in our house. A picture of our "Caribbean" Marmoleum is in this week's slide show.
Of course, I couldn't post our blog on Halloween without pictures of the kiddos, so those are in the slide show this week as well. Andrew made a great dinosaur (roar is his favorite word, after all) and Julia was a fabulous cheerleader. It helped that she had a great coach, her daddy, who taught her a very inspiring cheer, "2, 4, 6, 8 what do we appreciate? CANDY!"
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