Something New

 I spoke to a friend about writing a book... think I may have set my sights a little high so thought I would give this whole blogging thing a bit of a go, it's time to do something new.  The most topical thing in my life at the moment is the building of our extension, you may think "that's nothing unusual" but let me introduce you to my world.....

I married my wonderful husband in 1998 little did I know what lay ahead of me being married to an architect and wanna be car mechanic!  We renovated our pet poop infested first house by knocking down walls, re-plumbing with only one electric shock and a little tumble out of the loft.  This was followed by the purchase of a car...nothing unusual??  It didn't have an engine..well not one that worked!  So the process of dismantling pretty much everything under the bonnet took place, I was not aware that it would happen in my kitchen.  The smell of petrol and oil when you make a cup of tea in the morning just didn't do it for me.  But I was supportive and helped, I thought it might be fun.  We put the car back together with a new engine and off we went..we made it round the block...eventually we had a fully running car with only me nearly taking my father in laws hand off when I lowered the engine in, a Peugeot 205 GTi I loved it!

We moved on to another house, knocked down a few more walls, created a few floods, built an extension.  I didn't even electrocute myself but Scott took a few cuts...nothing a piece of masking tape wouldn't fix. 

So after the birth of our second child we moved house, Koen was 9 months so of course we brought a house with little heating that was a total wreck.  My daughters response was " I don't really like the walls, it's a bit stinky, shall we just stay at Nanna's"  Nearly two years have passed and we still have a very odd green bathroom, with random carpet tiles that were sent to Scott's office as samples..at least if Koen wees on one we can just throw it out and replace it with another random sample.

So when many of my friends are getting their nails done, having their hair coloured, sampling lovely lunches or enjoying a romantic evening I am otherwise engaged. 
Bashing, drilling, wheel barrowing, digging, sawing...I sometimes crave that carefree time of relaxation but I wouldn't change my life for a minute.