We had an asbestos tester out on Friday to see if the trailer had any asbestos. If it did, we would have to do abatement (sp??) and pay tons of $$ to dispose of it.
The super nice guy came and took his samples and said that he thought for sure there was some in the two back rooms! Not good. I'm bummed and Erik is freaking out about the time he put in a new part of the kitchen floor without a mask (bad Erik). Not to mention the Autumn's (and ours) health in general.
The guy sent me an email later that day that said he was surprised but nothing came back with a positive! Talk about a relief!!! If there was asbestos, it might have ended up being about 20-30k more.
Things are busy around here with Christmas. I am off for 6 days. Erik is off all next week. We just got back from the new Cabela's store and are not impressed. Autumn seems to be coming down with something so I need to get her to bed and rest up for the Nutcracker tomorrow! My grandma bought us and my mom tickets for a tomorrow matinée.
I hope all of you have enjoyed your first full day of winter (today) and are enjoying these last few days before Christmas!
Love,
Teresa
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
The house
I had a dream about it last night. It was SO cool. In my dream, we moved all out stuff out, did our thing for the day and came home to the new house. It was all done-in one day. Definitely a dream!
It was also a rambler which is not at all what we are doing.
At the request of wonderful cousin Daniel, I'll describe the picture in my head. It's in Erik's too but he seems to forget major details like if we are having a drop ceiling or a porch. Go figure.
The trailer is about 650 square feet and we are tearing that sucker off!!! It includes our kitchen,living room, porch (for the dog and shoes), half bath with shower,small room for Erik's hunting stuff and a extra room that we used for storage and guest bed. It also has our washer and dryer in the hallway to the guest room.
Our house part is also about 650-700 sq feet. It includes a full bath 2 big rooms and a fair size closet. Oh and steps going upstairs. Pretty much 2 square stacked on top of each other. This is where we will live until we can get things livable in the house which will probably be at least 3-4 months.
We have a camper Jayco J that we can use with a camp stove. We will have water and power most of the time but sometimes won't. For those times, we will stay in a hotel or with my brother John and Amy-if all works out with timing of school, work, dog care etc.
Once the trailer is gone, our house will be raised and put on cinder blocks and foundation poured for it and the new house parts. I think this part will suck the most.
The house will be set back about 5 feet from where it is now so it will be flush with the existing house. That will be kitchen. Nothing fancy except a garden window. High ceilings, cool cupboards/organization and a bar for quick eating times.
Kitchen will be ceramic tile probably or maybe that fake hardwood stuff. The living room and dinging room area will be hardwood. So will the hallways. Laundry room...not sure yet and bathroom is linoleum that Bree didn't need and we are saving in the shed. All high ceilings except the living room. French doors facing the yard that are off the living room and a wood stove near there too. In a few years, a huge deck will be off all this overlooking the yard with a hot tub.
There is a bathroom next to the living room that we will probably splurge on with special tiling for a huge walk in shower area. Then a big bedroom with walk in closet that will be our exercise area and guest room. If this breaks us, it will be a room to rent to someone we love.
There will also be a huge laundry room, storage area and another bedroom that will kind of be an exact duplicate of the house part we have now and will be living in. So, 2 bedrooms upstairs. Downstairs, the current room, bathroom, laundry and storage.
There will be an outside door off the laundry to a little patio that will then have an entrance to the big room/exersize room.
After the house and deck, we will build a big garage and a guest house in the back of the property. That won't be for awhile though.
We will also have a fence around the whole property and call it the Kasprowicz compound! Just kidding.
It really is our dream house. We really are going to do it and we really do need patience but it will happen.
They are building a hospital down the street and have put in a power station near us. All the neighbors think we will all get bought out someday but I really hope we don't. I want to live here forever!
I have plans of coming home from snowboarding and chilling in my hot tub in the snow.
Hopefully you followed me through that but I doubt it.. :)
Oh-still too lazy to post pics but here is a link to how the house looks now and the recent snow.
Love,
Teresa
It was also a rambler which is not at all what we are doing.
At the request of wonderful cousin Daniel, I'll describe the picture in my head. It's in Erik's too but he seems to forget major details like if we are having a drop ceiling or a porch. Go figure.
The trailer is about 650 square feet and we are tearing that sucker off!!! It includes our kitchen,living room, porch (for the dog and shoes), half bath with shower,small room for Erik's hunting stuff and a extra room that we used for storage and guest bed. It also has our washer and dryer in the hallway to the guest room.
Our house part is also about 650-700 sq feet. It includes a full bath 2 big rooms and a fair size closet. Oh and steps going upstairs. Pretty much 2 square stacked on top of each other. This is where we will live until we can get things livable in the house which will probably be at least 3-4 months.
We have a camper Jayco J that we can use with a camp stove. We will have water and power most of the time but sometimes won't. For those times, we will stay in a hotel or with my brother John and Amy-if all works out with timing of school, work, dog care etc.
Once the trailer is gone, our house will be raised and put on cinder blocks and foundation poured for it and the new house parts. I think this part will suck the most.
The house will be set back about 5 feet from where it is now so it will be flush with the existing house. That will be kitchen. Nothing fancy except a garden window. High ceilings, cool cupboards/organization and a bar for quick eating times.
Kitchen will be ceramic tile probably or maybe that fake hardwood stuff. The living room and dinging room area will be hardwood. So will the hallways. Laundry room...not sure yet and bathroom is linoleum that Bree didn't need and we are saving in the shed. All high ceilings except the living room. French doors facing the yard that are off the living room and a wood stove near there too. In a few years, a huge deck will be off all this overlooking the yard with a hot tub.
There is a bathroom next to the living room that we will probably splurge on with special tiling for a huge walk in shower area. Then a big bedroom with walk in closet that will be our exercise area and guest room. If this breaks us, it will be a room to rent to someone we love.
There will also be a huge laundry room, storage area and another bedroom that will kind of be an exact duplicate of the house part we have now and will be living in. So, 2 bedrooms upstairs. Downstairs, the current room, bathroom, laundry and storage.
There will be an outside door off the laundry to a little patio that will then have an entrance to the big room/exersize room.
After the house and deck, we will build a big garage and a guest house in the back of the property. That won't be for awhile though.
We will also have a fence around the whole property and call it the Kasprowicz compound! Just kidding.
It really is our dream house. We really are going to do it and we really do need patience but it will happen.
They are building a hospital down the street and have put in a power station near us. All the neighbors think we will all get bought out someday but I really hope we don't. I want to live here forever!
I have plans of coming home from snowboarding and chilling in my hot tub in the snow.
Hopefully you followed me through that but I doubt it.. :)
Oh-still too lazy to post pics but here is a link to how the house looks now and the recent snow.
share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=9KbOW7No0a4
Love,
Teresa
Friday, December 7, 2007
Good year? Bad year?
As I sit here and listen to my fabulous daughter in the shower singing "Since you've been gone" by Kelly Clarkston and surfing various websites, a question pops up.
Has this past year been a good year, bad year, worst year ever or good with a few bumps? hmmmm....Really? hmmmm..... really.....
Ok, so this year has been pretty much like the last 4 years with a few changes here and there. On the surface, life seems steady and even. Erik and I have our battles. Autumn and I have our battles (although not as much as Erik and I) and Erik and Autumn have their battles but we always-eventually-work them out.
For the last 4 years, life has seemed pretty constant. There have been the few changes of fertility doctors, preschools/schools, surgeries, weather changes and plans for the future but we are, overall, steady and strong.
It makes me a bit sad that this question "how was my year" makes me so sentimental. I do feel thankful that we haven't had troubles but I also yearn for something good to shake things up.
Being a parent always brings something new but somewhere along the way you get used to new stuff I guess and it doesn't really seem new-just seems normal to have things change.
Building the new house with definitely shake things up I suppose.
I think I've fallen back into the desperately wanting to have another child phase. It comes and it goes but, oh how I want to carry a child again, care for a newborn and watch a baby turn into a little person. And to have Autumn be a big sister in all of this and Erik a parent to another child?!? Just the icing on the cake. That'd be some good shaking up.
Thinking back on this year, I miss Jeff more. I miss Ty more and I am sad for my friend Carrie's family. These things are bad shake ups from this year. Terrible and inconsolable things.
This year has been has been moderate in every other aspect so I guess overall it has been an ok year? Has it? I don't even know anymore.
It's been good. It has been good with a few bumps-well roadblocks but we are safe, warm, happy and healthy. Life is good and I look forward to next year.
Love,
Teresa
Has this past year been a good year, bad year, worst year ever or good with a few bumps? hmmmm....Really? hmmmm..... really.....
Ok, so this year has been pretty much like the last 4 years with a few changes here and there. On the surface, life seems steady and even. Erik and I have our battles. Autumn and I have our battles (although not as much as Erik and I) and Erik and Autumn have their battles but we always-eventually-work them out.
For the last 4 years, life has seemed pretty constant. There have been the few changes of fertility doctors, preschools/schools, surgeries, weather changes and plans for the future but we are, overall, steady and strong.
It makes me a bit sad that this question "how was my year" makes me so sentimental. I do feel thankful that we haven't had troubles but I also yearn for something good to shake things up.
Being a parent always brings something new but somewhere along the way you get used to new stuff I guess and it doesn't really seem new-just seems normal to have things change.
Building the new house with definitely shake things up I suppose.
I think I've fallen back into the desperately wanting to have another child phase. It comes and it goes but, oh how I want to carry a child again, care for a newborn and watch a baby turn into a little person. And to have Autumn be a big sister in all of this and Erik a parent to another child?!? Just the icing on the cake. That'd be some good shaking up.
Thinking back on this year, I miss Jeff more. I miss Ty more and I am sad for my friend Carrie's family. These things are bad shake ups from this year. Terrible and inconsolable things.
This year has been has been moderate in every other aspect so I guess overall it has been an ok year? Has it? I don't even know anymore.
It's been good. It has been good with a few bumps-well roadblocks but we are safe, warm, happy and healthy. Life is good and I look forward to next year.
Love,
Teresa
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