Moving Day and House Renovations

With just 27 days to go until the wedding, yesterday and today have been more pre-moving moving days.  A week from today, I will officially be moved in to Mr Fix It's home with my daughter.  Though technically, we won't be staying there until after the wedding day, all of our furniture will be moved in just a week from now.*

So tonight is my bachelorette party.  I am looking forward to just hanging out and having some fun socializing, food and laughs with my closest girlfriends.  But before the night begins, I am taking advantage of the fact that Mr Fix It is on his bachelor party in Vegas and moving in a bunch of stuff I can tackle on my own into his house. 

I also hired a maid service to come out this morning and clean the house from top to bottom since we're getting so close to being finished with all the house renovations.  There's a lot going on as usual...but this was a productive week.  Now, by next Saturday, I should (totally praying the Lord helps me out on this one) be able to completely done with all the 'work' that needs to be handled before the wedding.  I will be almost completely finished with all the DIY assembling and I won't be doing any more physical labor type work leading up to the big day for those last 20 days.  I'll be relaxing, getting massages, packing for the honeymoon and getting all our gear together that has been packed in the 'wedding storehouse**' for the past year!

So cool...totally almost there now!

*  I currently rent a condo from my mother.  She is moving back into the condo the same weekend that we are moving all of our furniture into Mr Fix It's place.  So I won't be homeless.  I'll just be living with my mom in my same house for the last two weeks leading up to the wedding.  Only it will technically be her home now and not mine anymore :)
**  aka the secret water heater storage area behind my daughter's closet.

I will never be Mrs Fix It :(

Don't freak out...this doesn't mean the wedding is off.  Far worse, it is on more than ever and now only about 44 days away!

My original goal was to have everything wedding related except for the final seating charts done by March 31st.  Everything assembled, everything bought and packed up ready for wedding day delivery, everything planned and ready to go.  This included moving me and my daughter out of our two bedroom condo into Mr Fix It's 3 bedroom home about 25 minutes from where we currently live.  Since I know that I hate moving and since we also have been working on major house renovations on Mr Fix It's house for about 6 months now, I knew this was going to be a slow - over time process.  But now we're in the month of March!  Which means this is *THE* month I have to get everything done!  Good Lord, please pray for me!

Mr Fix It is finally moving full steam on the house...but he is doing it in the midst of working his long regular jobs during the day/week.  So he is exhausted and spent and sore and I need to start pitching in if we are going to have this house move in ready any time soon.  This past weekend he worked on grouting the shower and floor of our new master bathroom and I cleaned out his entire office (which is now going to be converted into our office / tv room / guest bedroom) and emptied every single kitchen cabinet to clean and paint them.  Mr Fix It's house is in major disarray and that drives me nuts!  But at least we're making progress.

His office being clean is huge because it means I can begin to move my office stuff over (books, gadgets, etc).  And yesterday I took almost my entire kitchen over to his house and gave all his old stuff to the Goodwill to make room for all my newer stuff (and the wedding gifts we've already received).  That's good news, right?  Well, it would have been except for the fact that he's crazy stubborn and has an opinion about everything!  Where most guys would have just walked out and let me 'do my thing,' he had to be there telling me why he wanted things left a certain way and why he didn't like where I put the baking pans and why he didn't want my mixer on the counter and why he thinks I have too much 'crap.'  UGH!  

But back to last weekend...I had to paint the kitchen cabinets myself.  And I am definitely *NOT* a fix it kinda gal.  Crafting, projects, DIY things....*SO* not me!  I not only don't enjoy it, but I'm not that great at it.  However, it was kind of cool to have him tell me that I did a great job on the painting.  We did get into a couple small tiffs over the weekend as we are both perfectionists and pretty stubborn.  But we also got a lot done and were very appreciative of each other, too.  I was pretty upset about all the paint in my hair and under my nails from having to climb into cabinets under the stove and such.  It took me a good long hot shower and a scouring pad (gentle of course) to get all the paint off of me!

So while I have a new found respect for all of the fix it stuff that Mr Fix It does, I am glad that I will not have to do much more of it once this month is over and we can comfortably move into his *CLEAN* place that has been entirely reorganized and renovated to make room for me and Little Miss (my daughter).

Living with a construction guy is not going to be easy!  There is always dirt, dust and tools everywhere!  UGH!  Thankfully, I don't have to be Mrs Fix It - I'll just be Mrs Beever :)

This whole process (right before the wedding) is really making me wish we would have moved in together well in advance of the wedding.  But I always remember that I want to honor God by keeping the first time we share a house together special as husband and wife. 

PS  I can't wait to hear what all his family thinks of his (our) home once they get in town for the wedding and see all of my stuff moved in and the renovations we've made!  :)

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