The Never Ending Home Improvement Project

I've already broken my blog a day commitment. Yes, I admit it, I am a procrastinator! In my defense, I had a week-long head ache, so looking at the screen for prolonged periods of time hurt.

Being down for the week came at an inopportune time for me. You see, I am suffering from a bad case of Spring Fever and the weather was nice enough to get some tasks accomplished.

You see, while I am not a neat freak, over the years I have at least become semi-adept at organizing a household. However, about this time last year I became pretty ill due to pregnancy and the house just kinda fell apart around me. As I said, I am not a neat freak, but the clutter has become even more than I can stand!

On top of the pregnancy and new baby neglect, we have the construction mess. We are in the process of remodeling the basement to provide my oldest a bedroom of her own. The project was already taking longer than we had anticipated when last week's rain and snow melt showed us that all the money we had spent sealing the cinder block walls had been for naught, we flooded AGAIN! This was the main issue we had been trying to fix! Granted, the flooding was not to the extent it was before we applied a million coats of sealant, but still, there was WATER seeping in my HOUSE! Sigh.

We did find some place where there appeared to be cracks in the sealant, so those are now painted also. My husband also did quite a bit of digging and finished off some drainage piping under the house. We are now waiting to see if the dam holds, so to speak, before we can continue with the bedroom project. We're ready to hang sheet rock as soon as we know we'll be dry for a while.

I just realized I need to get down there and snap some work in progress pictures. I had some "before" shots, but I think I accidentally deleted them, oops!

I suppose that's enough on the never ending home improvement project for now, lol.

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