Keeping Up With a Dallas Mom........: My Distraction....

Like I said in yesterday's post, the new house build has been a great distraction for me while the wait for Baby R approaches. I drive to my new house everyday and love to see all the new things that have gone on the day before. I seriously go over there EVERY.SINGLE.DAY!!! Most days I have to go there to check on things or meet Contractors, but there are days that I am just going by to check things out. It is pretty amazing to see the floor plan come to "life" with each passing day. I look at some things and think, WOW, that looks a lot smaller than I thought it would or that looks a lot bigger than I thought. I have made some changes to the floor plans which is great to be able to do when you are the Builder. Once you see things how they will be in the house verses on paper, you see stuff that can be altered for the better. Obviously, nothing structurally can be changed, but there are little things here and there can be made. I know the Framers are really glad to be done with all my "little" changes I made. They were SO good to me through everything they had to do though!!

So, as of today, there is only one thing that the Framers have left to do that was misses, but it is really not a big deal at all. The roof needs to go on now. That has been a little challenging to get the concrete tile roof guy to get what I want for the color of the roof. I am really not sure why it is SO hard to get what I want. It isn't like I am asking for something that doesn't exist. Hopefully, they finally understood the colors I want for the concrete tiles and we can move on with ordering it and getting them one the roof. Too be honest, I really don't know why I am SO focused on getting the EXACT colors I want since the roof is 28 feet in the sky and really not too noticeable, but in true ME fashion, it must be perfect!!!

We are about another week and a half out from getting the windows installed and all the exterior doors put on in order to have the house totally enclosed. This will make me SO happy for a couple reasons. The first is that it will keep the nosey people that go in the house to "check" things out and for the second and most important reason, we will be able to put the "guts" of the house in. Until the house is enclosed and able to be secured, we have to wait for the AC, foam insulation, flooring and drywall to be done thus holding up the progress on the house.