more progress

First, I want to thank everyone for their comments after my last post. I was truly feeling sorry for myself that day and you all made me feel so loved and remembered that I felt ashamed that I thought you weren't there. Even Tomoko wrote from Japan to say she reads the blog and even though she wasn't sure what I was talking about, she thought I was sad and wanted to make sure I was okay. I love you all. Thank you again.

For those who are keeping track, I've posted a couple more pictures of the house project. We're getting pretty excited. The next step is countertops and tile. The carpet has been ordered, the appliances are sitting in the garage and Scott is out of school after Wednesday, so he'll be able to help more. (Although he's already lined up a job starting the end of the week).

And for those of you who thought Scott was always going to be the "baby" of the grandchildren - he's going for his driver's permit this week! Do you feel old, like us? We'll let you know if he gets it.

One other thing to mention: Bruce and Scott are on a crusade together and won't cut their hair until we move into the new house. They both can almost get their hair into a proper ponytail. It's quite the contest. Pictures will be posted as "before" and "after" when the big day finally comes.

The last picture is of the afternoon rainbow yesterday. I love rainbows and, of course, this is the land of rainbows. The thing I love about this one is the blue sky in the background. Normally, there is a dark cloud behind the colors, but here we see rainbows even with a blue sky. Sorry, just one of the things I love about Hawaii...

Confused, but trying...

"Hello, hello! Are you there? Hello!" Do you remember that from Dr. Seuss?

I think I don't understand the purpose of a blog. I guess it's supposed to be a place to voice your opinion, speak out, and show off. The part that throws me is the comments section. I keep expecting people to react to what I put on the blog. But I guess there's Facebook for that. I have such a short amount of time to communicate this way, communicate at all with anyone outside my circle of activity. I don't follow Facebook and I rely on the blog for little bits of someone's thoughts about what I've decided to share. I know there are those of you out there who read it. I like to read your blogs, too. I will try to post my comments to you more often as well.

I think I wouldn't feel so neglected if they didn't offer the 'comments' option...are you out there?

Progress - making time for the new house among all the other things we do...

Scott's room

Looking down the hall from the garage door

Master Bedroom

The "Blue Room" (office/spare room)

view of the Great Room from the hall

View of the Great Room from the dining area (boxes are cabinets yet to be assembled)

Main bath vanity

Master bath vanity

Tile to be used in Master bath - Bruce is planning something creative

Tile in Main bath - sorry it's so fuzzy

Carpet for the bedrooms - the one we chose is in the second column from the left, 4th up from the bottom.

We've put in some long days and long evenings getting this far. For all our intentions to have Bruce working on only the house, he started his Dive Master program and is diving several times each week and took a part time temporary job at the Nut Factory (where I work) taking care of the office remodel. It's turned out to be a bigger job than they originally said, so it is taking more of his time than we planned on. This week the electrician and his wife and baby arrive to do the finish work on all the electrical. It will be exciting to have lights in the house. Then there's the rest of the cabinets to be assembled, the tile floors, the carpet to be installed, the tile in the bathrooms, the countertops, the nailing of the lanai decking, the rest of the baseboard to be put in and painted, the driveway to be poured, the landscaping to be started, and the finish plumbing...well, we've got a ways to go, but we are making progress!