the next six weeks or so will bring a pretty steady delivery schedule of all the miscellaneous fun things we're buying for the kids ministry wing at the new campus. amused by the variety and randomness of it all, i think i'll keep track here.
yesterday brought the delivery of:
*one VBS "paul and the underground church" starter kit, a free gift because of our membership to a new background screening service.
*five wall-mounted hand sanitizer dispensers
*an eight-pack of refills for the above dispensers
*five first-aid kits
today, we received:
*four handheld 2-way radios, complete with charging bases, etc for our security team.
i'm just waiting for the eight ladies dancing and the partridge in the pear tree.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
more house stuff
stuff is happening so often and so fast, i feel like i can't blog it fast enough to stay on top.
friday, we got our keys and began cleaning right away. matt began a few little odd jobs to get us ready for painting and some other misc tasks that needed to be done. late in the evening, we made a home depot trip to beat all home depot trips - $377 on "small stuff" (and a crapload of paint).
saturday, a ton of our very-good-sport friends and family showed to help with various painting tasks. accomplished much, but not all, as i'd expected. yeah, i was ambitious. and nobody told me you had to prime with grey or pink before painting with red. i will never paint with red again. went home feeling exhausted and overwhelmed, and quite teary.
sunday, knowing how much needed to done, michael, lani, allie and sam took our house key and left church right after service to get started. what amazing friends we have. they started with pulling carpet, having removed carpet and pad from the living room by the time we got home - and they were well on their way to removing all the staples and tack strips. we also figured out why the previous owners had laid the carpet: a big patch of water or burn damage on the living room floor that had been sloppily covered with the same paint they'd used on the walls. matt needed some stress relief, so he pulled the rest of the carpet and pad from the hall and other rooms. mike & lani ended up staying late into the evening, as did matt's mom - bless their hearts. we finished painting the kitchen, and made progress on other various tasks. part of pulling up the carpet was the revealing of the suspicious corner of our bedroom, which had a bubble under the wood flooring, and a big square patch where there was no wood flooring - just an extra layer of plywood. lameness. note to selves: bring home carpenter buddy to have a look.
monday, clarice came over and focused on painting the edges in the kitchen. so glad i didn't have to do it. added knobs and outlet covers/switchplates in the kitchen. feeling like it's looking sharp.
tuesday, today, matt brought our friend don home after church for a look at the floors. suspecting rot, they begin pulling up the floor to reveal the subfloor having rotted through. don uses the words "the worst i've ever seen". he tests the edges of the house and finds rot in the other bedrooms as well, though to a much lesser degree. we're upset, but i'm taking it surprisingly well. matt's beside himself and in serious buyer's remorse. contacted our inspector, who is coming to have a look tomorrow, and feeling terrible about the situation, because he wasn't able to navigate our crawlspace due to snow run-off that had caused standing water in the crawlspace at the time of the inspection. i keep telling myself "it is what it is", and as i pray nearly the whole way home in the car, i find myself just wanting matt's heart to be soothed, because when he is confident, i can be confident too.
friday, we got our keys and began cleaning right away. matt began a few little odd jobs to get us ready for painting and some other misc tasks that needed to be done. late in the evening, we made a home depot trip to beat all home depot trips - $377 on "small stuff" (and a crapload of paint).
saturday, a ton of our very-good-sport friends and family showed to help with various painting tasks. accomplished much, but not all, as i'd expected. yeah, i was ambitious. and nobody told me you had to prime with grey or pink before painting with red. i will never paint with red again. went home feeling exhausted and overwhelmed, and quite teary.
sunday, knowing how much needed to done, michael, lani, allie and sam took our house key and left church right after service to get started. what amazing friends we have. they started with pulling carpet, having removed carpet and pad from the living room by the time we got home - and they were well on their way to removing all the staples and tack strips. we also figured out why the previous owners had laid the carpet: a big patch of water or burn damage on the living room floor that had been sloppily covered with the same paint they'd used on the walls. matt needed some stress relief, so he pulled the rest of the carpet and pad from the hall and other rooms. mike & lani ended up staying late into the evening, as did matt's mom - bless their hearts. we finished painting the kitchen, and made progress on other various tasks. part of pulling up the carpet was the revealing of the suspicious corner of our bedroom, which had a bubble under the wood flooring, and a big square patch where there was no wood flooring - just an extra layer of plywood. lameness. note to selves: bring home carpenter buddy to have a look.
monday, clarice came over and focused on painting the edges in the kitchen. so glad i didn't have to do it. added knobs and outlet covers/switchplates in the kitchen. feeling like it's looking sharp.
tuesday, today, matt brought our friend don home after church for a look at the floors. suspecting rot, they begin pulling up the floor to reveal the subfloor having rotted through. don uses the words "the worst i've ever seen". he tests the edges of the house and finds rot in the other bedrooms as well, though to a much lesser degree. we're upset, but i'm taking it surprisingly well. matt's beside himself and in serious buyer's remorse. contacted our inspector, who is coming to have a look tomorrow, and feeling terrible about the situation, because he wasn't able to navigate our crawlspace due to snow run-off that had caused standing water in the crawlspace at the time of the inspection. i keep telling myself "it is what it is", and as i pray nearly the whole way home in the car, i find myself just wanting matt's heart to be soothed, because when he is confident, i can be confident too.
Monday, February 09, 2009
the key handoff
the key hand-off was messy. a call right around 5pm on thursday told us that our file had been flagged by the county clerk, because the sale looked suspicious - like someone was trying to get out of paying excise tax. apparently, we were getting too good of a deal. the county expected that the house should sell at $76,000 higher than we paid for it... which left me asking - are they even watching the market??
so, after some tears, matt and i decided to go ahead with the dedication, which we'd planned to do right after we got our keys. i messaged everyone and told them to dress warm and bring an umbrella. as we stood in the driveway, chatting before we began the dedication, i noticed that bob disappeared... and then the garage opened. he always was a rule-breaker. he'd found entry via the door that had been kicked in the week prior.
after some back and forth, we decided that the house was as good as ours, so we walked the perimeter, then gathered undercover (a cover which i'm now blowing) in the living room to pray.
our friend mel led the prayer, and did a beautiful job. we were very thankful for his spiritual maturity and the beauty of his words. most of all, there was an air of excitement. maybe it was from (almost) getting our new house... maybe it was from the rule-breaking.
friday, after a little waiting, megan called us and told us we had the keys. we met up with her at the church, collected our key and i headed off to start cleaning... and the rest of the story comes later.
so, after some tears, matt and i decided to go ahead with the dedication, which we'd planned to do right after we got our keys. i messaged everyone and told them to dress warm and bring an umbrella. as we stood in the driveway, chatting before we began the dedication, i noticed that bob disappeared... and then the garage opened. he always was a rule-breaker. he'd found entry via the door that had been kicked in the week prior.
after some back and forth, we decided that the house was as good as ours, so we walked the perimeter, then gathered undercover (a cover which i'm now blowing) in the living room to pray.
our friend mel led the prayer, and did a beautiful job. we were very thankful for his spiritual maturity and the beauty of his words. most of all, there was an air of excitement. maybe it was from (almost) getting our new house... maybe it was from the rule-breaking.
friday, after a little waiting, megan called us and told us we had the keys. we met up with her at the church, collected our key and i headed off to start cleaning... and the rest of the story comes later.
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
almost there...
signed papers yesterday. heard from agent today - sellers have signed too. now we wait for the lender to give it all a once-over and release funds, then the whole thing goes to the courthouse and we get our keys. tomorrow, in theory.
hooray!
hooray!
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