Christmas in Sept....almost

It was the night before our kitchen was to be complete and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even The Mouse (yes....we have a fury little visitor). Seriously though Wes and I were both so excited Wednesday night as our granite was arriving on Thursday which meant we would have a sink, tile backsplash and we could finally unpack our kitchen and dining room! Well things don't always turn out they way we want them. They ordered the wrong size sink, so had to find it to fed ex it and they put a seam in our island which to me was not acceptable. So that turned Christmas into Christmas Eve. Luckily we were able to have the tile guys come later on Friday. But that meant no running water.

Friday came around, the granite showed up and so did the sink! However the new granite for the island was now double the size of what we wanted. We asked for 26" and got 42". The guy was like "free granite!" Unfortunately our dining room is narrow we wouldn't have room for our table. Needless to say the guys who carried in the huge piece of granite were not happy their boss screwed up the size as now they had to wrestle it back out our not so wide entry way.

So again we were excited as we could paint (see pictures for Christmas themed painting). Once we were done we realized our vision while fitting our festive mood, didn't quite turn out as we would have liked. I'll post the final versions later.

So it's Monday, our second piece of granite is supposed to be here at 9:00. Our contractor who didn't come this weekend was here at 7:15 am to install our sink. I laid the guilt into him last night around 8:30 when he called and said he couldn't make it. He's new at the game and has overbooked himself due to scheduling pushback. I totally understand but in the business world I say "Not my problem". As I explained to him, my problem is that I'm tired of doing dishes in the tub and getting all our water from the bathroom sink. Oh and the fact we invited friends over tonight for a party to celebrate it being done. Ok, that's a half truth. We really invited them over for the Eagles vs Cowboys Monday Night Football game, but wouldn't have if we didn't have a finished kitchen:)

So in the spirit of tonight I'll sign off with a little pep cheer "E-A-G-L-E-S....Eagles!"