Renos the good the bad....and the really really ugly!!!

Well after a long hiadius from blogging, I have decided to return.
The last few weeks have been very action packed. Nick was in yet another weddng, his eighth to be exact. ( he's a popular boy, or just a really good friend...who knows! : ) Our friends Ian and Melissa got married after 14 years dating....and if you do the math.....(they are 27 too)..they have been dating since grade eight....crazy!!! So the wedding was amazing....and everything went off without a hitch!!

Then I have been in a report card induced coma, between denial, distraction and avoidance needless to say the reports are not going well!!!

Another reason for my lack of blogging has just been laziness!! I mean wow, it's amazing how tired a teacher can get about this time of year!! I could sleep for a year...if given the oppertunity!! I mean I can't get out of my own way, and everyday with the kids is exhausting caues they too are ready for summer break, and they think I am crazy to even thing about squeezing one more fact into their brains!!

My final reason for not blogging is my house.....oh my little diamond in the rough of a house.....
well Nick and I have finally broken down and bought some appliances. We got them yesterday and let me tell you they are beauitful!! They are white, and I got a fridge and a stove with convection. ahhh soo exciting.
I told the delivery man that he had made my weekend......he made my month, he made my year...I think he might have though he should run....cause I was going to attack him......I was sooo super excited!! After he left...I danced around....doing of course my HAPPY DANCE!!!
I know a fridge and a stove are not that exciting....but seriously.....to be they are the bestest thign ever!! My kitchen is not that nice...and I have delt with sooo many thigns during the reno of this house that those appliances mean the word. I mean for the first 6 months of living here, we didn't have a stove cause we were rewiring the entire house and there wasn't an outlet for the stove. I finally told nIck that if he didn't get me a stove by January, he was going to suffer the consequences and the rath of STEPH...i got the stove Jan14.....hahaha.
We have also had orange carpet, cords running everywhere inorder to plug things in while they were rewiring hte house, we have had random holes in our walls, we have had gyproc everywhere, dust, dirt, dirty wrok men......oh we have had it all. And although it is not finished....the fridge and stove help to make me feel as thoguh the end is in sight.
In two years were will sell our little gem to pay off those lovely little things I call F*&%ing student loans, and I think I might actually be sad about it. I mean over the last three years yes I have asked Nick repeatly to burn the damn house down, but I guess it's kind of growing on me a little!!! Bizarre how things happen when you least expect it!!!
I am posting some pics of my house......it's still not done but it's getting there!! Slow and steady wins the race!!!