Will we ever have our house back to ourselves????

The electricians were here today and installed the new service but aparantly there is some kind of lovers spat between the 2 teams about whos job it is to actually hook the new circuits to the new service - result we have a new box but none of the new lines are yet working. ARGH! lol. Anyway the stove top is hooked to an old line which means that is now hooked up - woohoo! Though the vent is not hooked up but I didn’t have a vent for the camping element I was using either…

They replaced the door to the oven and the top of the vent today. (Both arrived scratched) But they scratched the other side of the new vent installing it today so I called today and just asked them to send paint (I assume I will need this in the future if it is so easy to scratch) Considering this is not a cheap appliance it is a bit silly but I have the GE cooktop which fits perfectly with the GE vent (they sit together - vent pops out of the countertop, neat technology) so I don’t feel like changing companies. Besides I went with all GE profile to keep it kinda standard incase we do ever end up selling.

The arches in the foyer and library are complete and look like they belong at some kind of parliamentary building. The builder is calling us congressmen lol. They really are beautiful. True to form Mark took something I had envissioned and made it better. I am so thrilled I went with him. I will never consider anyone else. The jobs he has lined up after us are 3 more people that are third and fourth time repeat customers that want him to come in and overhaul pretty much as we have had him do. Says something for his work. He really is old world. Such beautiful carpentry that is so rarely seen in modern times. BQ walked in tonight and said “It is like he is an artist and not a builder.” That pretty much sums it up.

It is so hard to tell that there was ever a wall in the area I look accross at right now. It really is a smarter use of this space and the “formal dining room” is not in the slightest way “missing”. I doubt anyone entering this place for the first time would even guess it wasn’t built like this.

It is REALLY hard to believe that our bathrooms are BIGGER. They are so tiny yet each is a good couple of feet bigger than they used to be. Mark and Jim keep complaining that they are too small but then they said when they see me in there they are just right. lol. They are a little small but very efficient and pretty. I am not sure I would like a huge bathroom so much after all. I was thinking about it when last at the MILs and her guest bathroom is as big as both of ours put together at least. It is really hard to heat up and there is just a bunch of space that is just space with no use. It seems grand to look at sure but I am so small, I just don’t need that much space. I say this all out of fear that BQ is going to make me move in to one of those huge places that would make me as miserable as his mother is in hers. I am just not in love with housework enough to want a place that is huge for the sake of being huge. Now if he wants a few more kids then maybe… lol.

I listened to a special on the radio today about overseas adoptions. I have gotten the bug again. I talked to my Dr a while back about it. He has 3 boys and he and his wife are considering adopting a girl too. I said that I wanted to do domestic (as in a US adoption) as there are many babies here that are hard to adopt (questionable parents or of a race other than white) that need homes just as much as foreign babies. He said that he would not consider a domestic adoption as the risk of the parent suing for the return of the baby years later is too great. Now that he has mentioned that I can see that point. I would like to adopt a girl. What is really important to me though is not to “shop” for a baby like some adoption situations end up like but more to give a home to a child that really would not have much of a great life otherwise. I am at a loss as to how to find this situation though. I guess if it is meant to be I will stumble apon it and most likely sometime after my life settles into some kind of reality one might assume.

So Ema you are on my mind. When does that baby of yours think it might make an appearance? Soon? I can’t wait to see.

The kids are doing well. Starting to settle back down a bit. I think they can sense things will soon be back to normal - well as close to normal as we can get. AQ melts me and drives me bananas all in one. She is a trip. Just so much fun waiting around every corner. You never know what trick she is going to pull next. Funny she is exactly how I thought all kids were. She is always playing tricks on me, loves to make jokes and things like I say “time to go” and she goes and hides and hides WELL, as in I have to look for her. None of which I ever had to teach her. She is so imaginative that when I pretend that she is so delicious I could eat her up when she stops giggling she never forgets to request that I spit out all the bits I knibbled and then thanks me for doing so. She can get totally lost in anything - the boys have figured this out and often shoot pretend arrows at her accross the room which of course to her are just as painful as real ones…

The boys are catching on to her antics and are relaxing a tonne. ZQ is known as quite the funny guy at school, as in the quiet funny guy. The kind that doesn’t say much but when he does you sould listen as it is really good. EQ just melts everyone. There is a girl that just adores him and follows him around non-stop and he won’t give her the time of day. His teacher still adores him and he gets loads of hugs at school but still doesn’t want to leave me each time.

EQ and ZQ are such polar opposites their relationship is so interesting to me. It is like they could not exist without eachother. They are so bound and balance eachother out so well. To watch them play is better than any entertainment I have ever paid for.

We have been talking much lately about the legend of Robin Hood and that seems to really have caught on with both of them. Tonight ZQ had me pretend he was Robin Hood as he was going to bed. As I was kissing EQ goodnight he leaned over with this GORGEOUS twinkle in his eye and says to me “Do you know who I have up here in bed with me??… Maid Marian.” GRIN. The grin was so beautiful. Meanwhile EQ goes on to tell me about how he is Robin Hood too and he has hidden all the gold under his pillow so that when the sherrif comes looking for it he will wake up and start shooting him with arrows till he is too weak to move then he is going to drag him to the roof and throw him off so he lands on the road then he is going to sit there and watch until a car comes and runs him over…. could you imagine what he could come up with if he actually played violent video games or watched tv??? I mean BQ watches tv as in public tv no commercials, very sappy stuff OCCASIONALLY. Well actually a fair ammount when at the inlaws but that is not very often. So it really is kind of scary to think that this comes from inside. If you believe in reincarnation then EQ definetly just came off some battlefield. (and AQ was killed by a lion or tiger. She is insanely scared of cats, all cats for no reason)

BQ is about to make some serious moves at work. He is both excited and nervous. The scenario works out well for us no matter the outcome so there is no loss in the risk he is taking still it is always nerve racking when you stick your neck out and rock the boat. The more I listen to him lately the more I wish he were in politics. If more sensible people like him were in politics then the world would be a much more pleasant place and I am not just saying that because I love him. He is just so sensible. Asks the right questions of every situation can strip everything down to simplicity. Too many people in this world wish to overcomplicate life. (I am not excluding myself entirely from this issue either)

Well I am totally hooked on my book and must get back to it. I think that about updates our lives for y’all. I am very sleep deprived after last night so forgive me for spelling errors and bad thought flow… haha!! I say that like I am typically of professional writing skill!

OMG I just looked out over the kitchen and I just love it. I am starting to wonder whos house this is! lol. Soon I will even put up a picture diary… off to Stephen King for now and perhaps some sleep, oh and don’t forget my favourite radio station Lucy. AQs favourite band - Chilli Peppers (”chillis Muma, chillis” as she totally head bangs), the boys favourite song “Bitchin Camero” or the Ramones “I wanna be sedated”. Haha, if only my waldorf parenting connections knew! eek.

Life is beautiful