renovations (oh my god)

Pretty soon, on Sunday night, I will be back in Richmond, getting ready to continue on with my second semester of my first year of college. However, right this moment, I am sitting in the bedroom I have slept in since the end of the summer before the seventh grade. Pretty much everything about those two sentences blows my mind & I can't even fathom how time is moving so quickly. But things around my house are getting insane, because of the fact that there are some pretty bit renovations going on that began the Monday after I got home. 

What's happening:

• Moving our kitchen to where our back porch/mudroom used to be & making it bigger
• Making a new entrance from the back of the house
• Adding a larger back porch & stairs (which means extending the roof out a little) up to the back door
• Making the 1st floor bathroom into two bathrooms-- one connected to my parents' room, so they can have a private bathroom, & a powder room for guests
• Making the coat closet currently next to the 1st floor bathroom into what will hold our washer & dryer

Now, there used to be even more things that were going to happen, like moving the front entrance, making a bay window, creating a new hallway, ripping out another wall, creating more open space, etc., but that was crazy expensive, so my parents decided against those changes. Something that doesn't make sense to anyone, though, including myself, is that I was disappointed in those above changes getting cut out. I am not the biggest fan of change. In fact, it pretty much terrifies me. However, I really liked what was going to happen to the front of the house! I was all for moving the entrance, because it made it so that we could build a bay window (and let it be known that I LOVE bay windows). I mean, a BAY WINDOW! (I don't know when I'll get over that that isn't going to happen...) 

Anyhow, we are still in the first week of construction, which there is said to be three months of. Even so, I feel like a lot has happened! On just the second day, our back porch/mudroom was gone. Like, all that was left was a platform. Insanity! Then, on Thursday, there wasn't even a platform; just some dirt where everything used to be. Today, they dug a trench, kind of, to get ready to prepare a new foundation (I feel like I'm just making this up, but some of it makes sense in my head) for the new kitchen. 

Okay. Now. We've been focusing on what's going on on the outside of the house for a while, so let's talk about how the inside is doing. The day after I got home (last Saturday), was pretty much moving day. Me and my dad moved three bookshelves out into a mobile storage unit called a PackRat to be stored while everything was going on. And let me tell you, that was no easy task; one of them was metal & also being brought up from the basement! So that day was a lot of moving things around and me not wanting to move anything just out of pure laziness. But either way, this is how things ended up: Refrigerator in the living room, pantry cabinet in the dining room, kitchen in the laundry room which is in the basement, and computers moved to the upstairs hallway (they previously were in the mudroom). There was a lot of the removing and moving kitchen cabinets and drawers. Writing it all out like that makes it seem somewhat organized, but I swear to you that it isn't. Whenever we are looking for something, it is almost certain that we can't find it, even if we just set it down. In addition, however, there is also a lot of finding. In moving one of the kitchen drawer/shelf unit thingies, were a lot of papers that were thought to be long gone. 

But...yeah. Things are hectic here, but don't worry! We can expect that they get a lot worse when the renovations start moving inside to my parents' room & they have to move into the spare room upstairs. All of us sharing a bathroom, what joys! 

Well, I hope things are less crazy wherever you guys are. And I hope that you're happy and stuff.