Block Party

We had the neighbors over last night. The "new" neighbors. In the neighborhood where none of us live, yet. What? Everyone doesn't do that?

After church we went out to the lot and eventually had an impromptu gathering of neighbors from 4 different households in my "kitchen". It was fun. It was the first time I have ever had a neighbor into my home. Nope, I am not kidding. And the funny thing is I don't even have a whole home yet!! We are very excited to see all of these families with young kids around. People to watch out for each others kids and kids for our kids to play with. Moms to carpool with. Good stuff.

We now have walls- pics will be forth coming. Only half of the house has walls, I would expect the rest to go up today. They work amazingly fast. Everyone last night agreed that our house is big, so I guess I'll have to concede to Casey that he was right. He has insisted all along that it was a big house, I guess it is. It certainly seems bigger with walls. I stood at the kitchen sink (obviously, there's no sink yet) and I don't think Caroline will hear me in her room when I call her for dinner. The kids were both very excited to walk through their rooms and bathrooms. I was concerned we had not made their rooms big enough but they seem to be just fine. Their bathrooms are a nice size- no wasted space but plenty big, still.

We're having window and door issues, again. Seems if I put a transom window above my door that isn't part of an entry unit then the header may show when you open the door. First of all, what the heck does that mean and do I really care? Secondly, no freakin' glass people, no glass. Entry units are generally doors with glass, at least that's all I can find. Unless I can find oh, about $6,000 and then it seems I can get whatever I want for a front door. Oh excuse me, entry unit. And then there's the back doors. Real working french doors, one french door and a fixed door, one working door with 3 fixed doors, and on and on and on. We have decided to go with one working door, one fixed door and sidelights on each side. Which I can only assume is going to piss our framer off since we told him 4 doors just yesterday.