Remodel

So we decided to finish the house with a RE-MODEL!! When we built this home 7 years ago, we wanted hardwoods in the living room and dining room only. We went with carpet every where else!! So recently during one of my "I NEED A CHANGE" periods, I decide that i want hardwoods in the hall to. I want new carpet in the bedrooms and tile around my 6 jet tub in the master bath. It is time to finish this place, and I am already finding things that I want to change. So we go to the place in Oklahoma where we got our hard woods the first time, only to find out that they no longer carry it. Darn, what do we do now?? So we run to Ft. Smith hoping that Lowes can help us out!! Well they have it but you have to special order it. Well, ok I will now have to wait 2 weeks to get it in. By then I will be out of the mood to change anything. We did get the tile to the bathtub, and am pleased to announce that Sam finally agreed with me. I can't believe that when we first bought this hardwood, we paid 25.00 a box for them. When we got them yesterday we had to pay 65.00 a box. Well it don't take alot of math to figure out that it cost more that what we would have liked!!!!

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It doesn't seem like the cost of anything is going down. Oh yes gas is going down but the cost of everything else is the same. Or higher in some cases. We have stopped the look for a couch for the time being. Wanting to work on things in the house for a change. The new car hunt is out the window to. Sometimes there are things more important..and that is living in a finished house!!

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The next few month will be time consuming on me. I have a wedding to photograph, basketball teams to photograph and a house that I am remodeling. WHEW!!! How will I get it all done? The same way that I get everything else done, slow, easy and right.

I will take my time and loose my patience and mind. Will want to stop and then start it again later. I will fight with my husband and threaten to hurt someone the next time they run off with the hammer. In the end though, it will be done. There will be another chore waiting in its shadow.....