You've met Murphy, right?

Well I've definately met him, and I'm darn sure he (and his "law") is just around the corner.
You see we've decided to do a little renovating in our very old, very much loved, very humble abode. We've talked about doing it for, oh-I-don't-know, maybe 7 or 8 years, but it's only been lip service, really. I like to blame it on my "frugal" husband, but the actual reason is that when this property sells, the house will be torn down and be replaced by townhouses (of course, that's after it's been rented out to grow-op dirtbags - trust me, it's been happening in our neighborhood for about 3 years now!). So doing anything always seemed like a big fat waste of money. Don't get me wrong, we have done some minor decorating (painting) and we did design the nursery (exit, stage-left the pink paint and doves/hearts/flowers wallpaper that adorned the walls since 1965), so we're not living in swill or anything! Ha Ha!

The roof needs to be replaced (also circa 1965) which costs a bloody fortune these days, but for the last couple of years Greg has been able to take care of any minor leaks that have happened. So we decided that instead of putting money into the roof, we're going to be gutting the bathroom as well as turning Ben's room into an actual "big boy" room!!! I am sooooo excited to get this show on the road!!! Mostly about doing Ben's room, the bathroom; not so much. There will be much arguing, complaining, bickering (on my part mostly) about it, but I'm so glad it's going to finally get done that I'm going to do my best to be happy and smiley all the live-long day! By gutting I literally mean gutting - the rotten window frame and ledge are already out and has revealed (surprise, surprise) rotten gyprock (is that how you spell it?) underneath. I can only imagine what's behind the bath and shower stall considering that there are cracks all through the entire enclosure!!, the flooring is going (along with the probably some-what rotten floorboards), the vanity is going, the horrid institutional beige paint (the original owners painted over hair and dust- eeeww!!) is going, the ceiling is being fixed, the list goes on forever, really. Thank god our own personal handy-man (Greg) can do all of it himself or we might be reconsidering replacing the roof instead! It would probably be cheaper! Oooooh, it's gonna be gooooood!

We bought a captain's bed for Ben and I'm going to paint it blue to match his new blue planes, trains & trucks themed room. I actually went out today and bought all the supplies to get started! The whole room is being built around this awesome border I bought from an online store (yes, eBay, I still dabble a little!) and I'm totally pshyched!

But - I know as soon as we're smack-dab in the middle of reno's, when we can see a light at the end of the tunnel, as soon as I'm dreaming of long bubble baths in my new bathtub, (*POP* my bubble just burst) a realtor is going to present us the offer of a lifetime for our property, and all of our hard work will be for nothing.

Honestly, a very small part of me hopes this will happen, but the rest of me truly hopes we'll be staying here for a few more years so Ben can go to the new school, continue to enjoy the yard, play in his new room and clean up in the new bathroom. Is this too much to ask? Is it too good to be true?

Seriously, though, I can't help but wonder if Murphy might have other plans...........