Justin and Michael went to the house today to start framing the inside which I thought was going to be so exciting, (I'll get to see what its going to look like inside). So about 3:30 or so Justin calls me, "I think you need to come to the house some things are going to have to change from our original plan" WHAT was all I could think. I got there and they had decked the whole floor and framed in the one bedroom on the main floor and the closets in it. And then justin starts to EXPLAIN. " The table isn't going to fit where it was originally gonna go, the kitchen wont be big enought" NO, UGH, dont tell me that!!!! There goes the amazing view from the table :( And there goes the sitting room to make way for the dining room, OH and not to mention the fireplace which there is now not room for. MORE DISSAPPOINTMENT!!!!! Then we start to talk about where we are going to put the stairs then Justin informs me that the stairs cant go where they were gonna go otherwise they would go right up into the middle of our bedroom. UGH, and you didn't see this before? was all I could think. By this time I was getting ticked why was I getting ticked. Then he tells me that door to down stairs is going to have to go in the one bedroom on this floor. Now I let my opinion known. " You cant put it there! I dont want everyone that comes over to have to go through that room to get down stairs to the family room" Which is apparently where everyone will now be going to watch TV. And he tells me
"what do you want me to do about it the stairs have to meet code and thats the only way to do it" Then I start bawling, lol. I wasn't funny at the time. "I just yelled everything is so screwed up!" So now Justin feels bad which is proof that he's changing cause before he wouldn't have let those feelings govern what he would do. And he says ok I'll try to make it work so your happy and he proceeds for the next hour to go over every possible scenario with Micheal. During this time I'm telling myself why are you so upset, and then I realize this is going to be a HOME , a HOME, our HOME, my childrens HOME. We have been married for almost seven years now and sometimes I thought that it would be forever before Justin would be able to build our home. And now here we are our dreams of having a home for our children to grow up in are here! And I guess I maybe have a right to want it to be perfect, and then I realize that Justin may get flustrated cause I want everything to be a certain way but he has been really great at working to make things perfect for me and I'm so grateful for his patience, thats right folks my husband has developed some PATIENCE!!!! I'm proud of you J. And I'm very grateful. So long, long, long, story short. Then only thing they could come up with is flip the stairs and move the bathroom over to the otherside so that we could move the door to our master room into the bedroom and everyone wont have to walk through that room to go downstairs. Thanks for trying to make it work honey! So we will probly end up putting the boys in that room for a couple more years and then move them down stairs, and make that room our office so that it will kinda work. I'm not joyously happy but I guess you have to "make it work" as Tim Gunn would say. (yes I'm quoting project runway lol). The one bright spot in all this is my kitchen is now going to be alot bigger which is a silver lining :)