Nesting Instinct Insanity

So, I felt this burst of energy yesterday. I wasn't sure if it was just the feeling of freedom because this is Labor Day weekend, or... something more sinister.

I spent the day cleaning everything in site. I scrubbed the kitchen down to the bones and swept the entire house -- including moving all the furniture and sweeping underneath it all. Along with some help from my sisters, we cleaned out the living room by moving boxes and the poker table into storage, and the wine fridge and Riley's cage out of the room. Now, the only things left in the living room are the things relevant to putting down the new floor! YES!

Suzi and I worked a little more on the nursery. And, I was able to figure out what else we're going to need for baby girl.

It was a very good day. I felt productive, and only slightly insane -- that poker table is heavy!

AND! I wasn't the only one being productive!

Thrifty Man and my little brother got the very last of the roof project materials returned to Lowe's and the last pile of wood shingles into the dumpster!

(It gets even better!)

While my wonderful husband was at Lowe's, he decided to look at baseboards and trim for our bedroom!! So, he bought it and stained it all yesterday! I'M SO EXCITED!

Today, we'll be finishing up the last few projects in the nursery and maybe even get some of the trim up! It's going to be a great weekend :)

Oh. And, hopefully, I'll be laboring on Labor day. Really hoping baby girl gets here soon. I'm becoming extremely impatient.

:)

Thirty-Two weeks down...

Only eight or so more to go. (Which equates to about 53 days now. YES!!!)

I can't wait.

I'm really over this whole pregnancy thing. I just want our baby girl to be here, in the flesh, and not inside my belly anymore. I'm ready to have my body back.

These past few weeks have been extremely busy. I've been working on her nursery, getting that all painted and preparing it for the new carpet. There's still a lot of little things that need to be worked on. I feel like this list just never ends...

I need to take some pictures of the roof project's progress this weekend. It's still pretty overwhelming.

But, excitingly enough, we have electricity in our bathroom! YES!!!! Now, we just need to get a plumber in here and the floor put down. Maybe I can do some "encouraging" this weekend since it's supposed to rain and Thrifty Man won't be able to work on the roof.

I'll post the updates after the weekend!

Roof Update and a Question

So, the entire second floor roof is shingled! Now, it just needs to be capped.

Oh, and the skylight needs to be sealed -- preferably before it rains again, because I'm really not excited about the puddles that accumulated on the floor a couple of nights ago when it stormed. I'm just saying...

I guess that's really all the progress that I have to report. It always sounds so much more monumental in my head than it seems to me on here. Maybe I'm just being to analytical. Who knows.

Now, for my question:

Does anyone know anything about couch and love seat slipcovers? See, my sister-in-law and I went garage sale shopping last weekend, and I bought a couch and a love seat. They came with these two slipcovers which I thought was really great... at the time.

Buuuutttttt.... they are a pain in the behind to keep in place. As soon as someone sits down on them, the elastic around the seat cushions comes off. It doesn't matter how I try to put it around the seat cushion, or how far I stuff it down in the cracks, it will come off.

Now, what I need to know is if this is just a problem with all slip covers? Or, particularly with the elastic one-piece slip covers? Would I have this problem with elastic two-piece covers?

Or is it just me? Am I the problem? Do I need to be less anal/perfectionistic? Or, do I need to just suck it up and realize that part of my time every day will now be consumed with making the slip covers right? since Lord knows, I won't be able to live with them all funky for any significant length of time.

My father-in-law just told me that they look like old people's skin. I definitely need to replace them now.

Ew.

Progress on the Roof Interruption? Possible.

So, is there an end in sight? No.

Will our attic get wet tonight when these "terrible storms worthy of a severe thunderstorm warning" blow through? Yes.

Is there progress being made? I think so.

Saturday was a fairly successful day. Thrifty Man and Curtis got the neighbor-side of the house torn off, wooded and papered. AND! They even put some of the garbage dump where it belongs! In the 15 ton dumpster!

Sunday, he conned Jared and Mark into coming over to help him unload the trailer. I, of course, assumed that when you unload a trailer, said trailer would vacate the premises soon-after.

Apparently, that isn't the way it works around here though because it's still sitting in the driveway.

And, since they were already here, Thrifty Man kindly asked if they would help him clean up some of the messy things inside our house as well. Thank goodness! I was not aware that our living room would become the storage area for all sorts of roofing gear/materials during this long, drawn-out process.

So, even though the roof project is only about 48% completed, progress has been made!

New roof!

My loving husband decided a few weeks ago that we needed to put a new roof on our house. This year.

So, he called the insurance company because he was just sure that they would pitch in quite a bit towards having it redone. Buuuuuttttttttt..... they decided they would only pay for the replacement of the garage roof.

Good thing I have a thrifty husband! He figured out a way for us to get all the materials for a little over what the insurance company was willing to pay.

Too bad laborers weren't included in this plan.

Here's the new garage roof. It took a little more than a week for it to get to this point.

The caps still need to be put on and the trash picked up...

I hope he remembered to pick up the neighbor's yard! Yikes!

As much as my husband loves to be a one-man-show, he decided that he might need a little help. So, he conned his dad, brother, brother-in-law and coworker to forgo sleep and come over just after sun up this past Saturday morning. Most of them stayed until 10pm that night.

Here's the front of the house during the tear off. It still looks pretty much like this, except there's no one working on it....

Look at all that tough work! Here's Bradley, Ryan and Curtis on the portion of the roof over the front bedroom.

Oh! Oh! And, here's the MASSIVE TRAILER that has made it's home in my front driveway.

We are not friends.

One thing that was not planned for was the massive amounts of garbage that would accumulate on our property.

Dumpster? What dumpster? That's what a backyard patio and a driveway are for, right?

Fortunately, one of our neighbors took pity on us last night. He runs a dumpster business, and will be bringing over 2 fifteen ton dumpsters sometime this week. Horray!!

Maybe I'll actually be able to park in the driveway? Maybe?

Probably not...