Life on a building site: TAKING SHAPE

we are sort of a week behind (kitchen wise) but things are starting to take shape now. I can almost envision where things are going to be and what shape the house is going to be.

This week I had my old kitchen gutted, my husband installed the most practical temporary kitchen ever (and it didn't cost us a penny). I even have my dishwasher running in there. I don't have to bother the kids about laying the table, as everything is in the same place.

We even went to Wren, Wickes and B&Q to look at kitchens but I did not find what I wanted (any suggestions welcome here on where to find cool stuff). I a now surfing the net to find the best assets.

My bedroom is also coming up and the builders are already asking about tiles and what nots for the en-suite.nso instead of taking the children out to play, we are going tile shopping just see if there is anything that will catch my eye. I am happy I did not become a wet sissy and demand on moving out because I would be missing out on the development (I would also be without a husband because there is no way he would have left the site).

The next time my husband says the word "micro-manage", I will scream for he has said it a gazzillion times now (he has decided to trust the builders and plumbers to doing the job without him glued to their back but just there to oversee things). Woppeee, because it means that work can now actually be done without him interfering too much.

Guess what, I am still eating cooked food from scratch, I have deviced even more easy to make dinners to suit my tiny living space and I'm making pastries on my temporary work tops (my husband and his friend had prophesied to us having dinners from packets; over my dead body I say).

So here are snap shots of things are now, they may not make sense but it is a much bigger improvement as I am saying my goodbyes to the old stuff which includes throwing away most of the bric-a-bracs leaving myself with sparce utensils making way for new purchases.