I’ve heard a few analogies comparing renovation projects to pregnancy. And I’m starting to completely understand why. I remember well the anticipation, and impatience, especially in the last few weeks of pregnancy. It’s a strange conflicting feeling of wanting to ensure that things take their healthy natural due course and utter antsy-ness from anticipation. A baby needs 38-40 weeks to develop fully and yet around week 34 every mother is waiting with baited breath in anticipation of baby’s arrival. Same for a house project. Our project was scheduled to take 8 month to complete and even though our GC is confident about having us moved back in by that time, I am starting to get super antsy about it wrapping up but know that the house can’t really function without a finished kitchen, living room, hvac, and all its other critical organs and body parts. You want it all to be over, but alas a premature delivery for neither baby nor house is a good thing. Yet inevitably there are times during those weeks before the due date when one daydreams and just so wishes your precious will come! So you can finally fulfill your greatest dreams and realize what you’ve been devoted to nurturing and finally be rid of all the discomfort and bills! Well, likewise with a baby.
So like I did with both my human babies, I’m counting down to the day we get to meet our house baby. Our GC has indicted that we can begin move back in the week before Christmas. That’s 4 full weeks from today.
In the meantime, here are some recent sonograms of our house baby:
We are getting there, slowly but surely. We can’t wait to meet our fully baked house baby. Hope to see you soonish.
From House to Home 