more remodel

This picture really is worth a thousand words to me, I really hesitated taking it because it makes me remember something that I would really rather forget. But, here it is.

It is pretty hard to see but what happened here made me very upset, I'm going to make a long story short, I hope.

We started our remodel adventure almost 2 years ago with our kitchen and bathroom, and at the same time the siding on our house was redone. I was pregnant with our 4th child and was homeschooling our oldest 2. It was a very busy time , but Travis and I learned a lot and had some fun together . We were without our kitchen for, I think, about 3 months, and the bathroom for a few weeks.

Around the same time we started also working on our garage and a small room that was behind it. I had big hopes of making a "bonus" room out of it. As we've stuffed more kids into our house it has become smaller and smaller, and add our school stuff, well, we're a little cramped.

I have , very patiently, been waiting for my room and for the last few weeks it has been the object of Travis' attention when he isn't at work. The room has a dirt floor and the roof needed to be raised about a foot and a half, Travis was doing this himself , very very slowly. I'm not complaining that he was working slowly, I just thought that raising a roof by yourself wasn't the best way to do it. Travis had the roof raised so close to where it needed to be when I heard a bang outside, the whole roof almost fell , it was hanging sideways, after all that time and work, well, I was really upset.

Then we(I) called for help, finally! Travis' brother , my brother and our brother-in-law came and helped get things put right. Not only that but they started making it look like a real room!

So, I'm not upset any more, but very excited, we even went out today and bought a door and window.

Moral of the story: ask for help when you need it.