You win some, you lose some.

We have had lots of progress lately, as we should since move in date is SUNDAY!

We were so excited to put up ceiling lights in the living room. While most of the wiring is old knob and tube, the wiring in the living room is new. So here is Caleb installing the new light. The excitement is still growing.

And now a break for a picture of Chloe. I know EVERYBODY gets as excited about these as I do. Isn't she cuuuuuuute?!

Anyways, as the story goes, the electrical is a little screwy. We had a grand 'turning on of the lights' flip of the switch, the light flashed and went out. We tried a working 'fixture' (a.k.a. bare bulb) from elsewhere in the house in the living room, and it did not work either. Disappointment ensued.

Not sure if I had taken pictures of the upstairs with all the lovely linoleum (for point of reference, this is the dormer of the house):

The linoleum came up unbelievably easy upstairs. It was a breeze, thank goodness. We were pleasantly surprised. The wood makes the whole upstairs look bigger. Oh also, forgot to include this earlier, we are using a shop light upstairs because I tried to screw in a lightbulb in the other light fixture upstairs and I blew the main light out and now none of the outlets work...and no, flipping the breaker does not make them magically come on.

The floor guy started (and finished) the patching project. It looks very nice. Here, the floors have not all been sanded, only parts, so that's the reason for the various wood colors. The floor guy cannot get in to finish the floors until the bathroom is done, just because of damaging foot traffic on the floor. The floors will have to be finished while we are living there. We are going to attempt to cram everything either in the kitchen or upstairs...hello microwave meals....while the floors are being finished. Caleb is excited, I'm tolerant.

More pink surprise in the bathroom after we took down the mirror!

Cuuuute. Our first picture in the new house.

This was tonight. The bathroom guy gutted the room today and it's creepier than ever, but showing a LOT of potential. Good things.

We have decided, at the suggestion of the bathroom guy to tear out the door to the basement, wall it in and make it a linen closet. There is a crawl space on the side of the house, so we will still have access to the basement. Caleb called to ask me if this was ok. Of course! No uninvited guests sneaking in through the crawl space up the stairs into the bathroom. So, we will have a linen closet, and no surprise bathroom attacks.

These are the stairs leading to the basement.