Let's Talk Front Doors-

So, because of my little porch project I have now delayed our house by one week. Who knew? Well, I can probably answer my own question. I knew. Don't tell Casey. I knew it would take longer and I knew it would cost more yet, I did it anyway. Hmmm, maybe that's why men don't always like women so much? Ya think? Nah.

But here's the beautiful thing about that. They say God works in mysterious ways and I now believe that to be true because- I have an extra week to pick out my windows and doors AND I get extra pretty porches!!! All for the low, low price of.......no, we won't go there.

And I need that extra week, actually if anyone has extra hours in their day they don't need could you send them to me? Pretty please? We went to McCoy's after watching our concrete being poured - and let me just say $17,000 worth of concrete- do you know what I could buy with that much money? Well, it turns out I could buy about 4000 sq ft of concrete.

So, we go to McCoy's to pick out our windows and doors which I knew was going to be a trying process but a house must have windows and doors, right? So we went. We went there with both of our lovely, well-behaved children after picking them up from the last day of school. Dang, sometimes I am D-U-M-B.

So we're there and we finally find the person whom Casey has already spoken with and is supposed to know we're coming. After asking if wanted the popular Lone Star etched in glass on my front door- Umm, no I do not- I explain that want something with no glass at all. Yes, I know it won't let light in. I understand it might look plain to some people (not this people, by the way). Unusual, yeah I get it. I want to be able to go to my front door in my PJ's, look through the peephole, see the person bearing news about the "important meeting" at the Jehovah's Witness hall and simply walk away. NO glass! Great, McCoy's has 2 choices. I am building a custom home. I spent three days discussing which water heater to get- of which I will inform you about later simply to make sure you are all as bored as I was. I have more than 2 stinkin' doors to choose from! Everything we chose was only available in solid wood and we wanted fiberglass that could be stained to appear to be wood. Because at the Cumby house a real wood door would appear to need maintenance. All the while my children have become completely hostile to one another- the whole "stop looking at me" "don't touch me" "she pushed me" bit. This became too much to bear. So we move on to windows and this is when they explain that they'll order them. "You'll order what?" "Your windows, we know the sizes from your plans." "I haven't picked them??" "No, need to."

I'll save you some time. The 2 choices for doors, turns out that was twice the amount of choices they had for windows. I was near tears, my lovely, well-behaved children were bickering and whining and I think my dear husband was afraid of what was going to happen next. We left and went to Chili's to eat. And we have no doors or windows. But, thanks to those "mysterious ways" we have some extra time to find some.