Trying to regroup...

We would be lying if we said things are back to normal building our “dream home.” They are not. No question some of the wind has been taken from our sails when we go down to the house to work. We were so hoping to have my Mom there for her birthday in November and for Christmas in December…..it is not to be. We are trying to regroup... or whatever this is called.
We are trying to move on, but with heavy hearts and the belief that Mom would have wanted us to continue and Live our Life. We have some special plans for when we move in but will talk about them later. Currently we are trying to put it all together with a combination of contractor's work, and our work. We hired a “finish carpenter” to do work that we have no clue how to do such as finishing our stairwell and installing some tongue and groove boards that we stained and finished. We had planned to do this but when Chris made some suggestions on how to “do it right,” we decided to let him run with it…. Glad we did! He is fantastic, honest, and really helpful giving us tips and guidance for us to do our final tasks…. We laid the hallway tile, which was a whole lot of work! In progress photo here, will have finished look on next post. Enough rambling for now… Here are some of our latest pics of the progress. More to follow.