Weekend Project. Day 10!

Day 10 was a Sunday. 

We've not had home church in quite some time and this Sunday we had ourselves a little home church. We have been home churching with 2 or 3 other couples but have sort of disbanded at the moment.  Papa played his guitar for the 1st time since Baby J was born.. did I mention we've been busy! We sang some songs and listened to a short 30 minute sermon Papa found online about The Holiness of Jesus. I don't remember who it was by but it was very good and even the kids learned something. Here they are singing in their PJ's. on the trunk in the living room. (One of the nice things about doing our own church at home is that we can do it in our PJ's :) Another is we can sing as many songs as we want. LOL. I remember the first time J was at a 'conventional church' after we'd been home churching for awhile.. he wanted to sing more songs (and he had a few picked out!) and couldn't understand that he couldn't just ask them to sing his songs! He was only about 2.5. 

Doing the actions for My God is SO Big! R is NOT happy.. she can't keep up with the songs actions at all so her and I did them together. The totes in the back ground are part of a never ending search for more space. These were filled with books, and out grown kids clothes,  that eventually made it outside on the big floor for storage. I put about 18 of these totes out recently! 

 Being a Sunday we didn't do too much on the addition but we did clean up the area and move a bunch of stuff out for ease of working and got a look at what it would look like done.

Papa did get all the insulation in and the plastic up that afternoon while I was out stocking the larder with easy to prepare foods. My mom did bring us a couple of meals while we were building which was awesome!! 

Weekend Project. Day 9!

Well as it turns out we had to get the ceiling up before we could finish off the walls. So day 9 was spent insulating the ceiling and tacking up these 4 by 4 sheets of underlay we found at Home Depot. They are marked on the other side for installing lino but the underside is beautiful wood. I just asked Papa what kind and he doesn't know. The only problem was that because the side we wanted to use was the BOTTOM (unseen side) of the side everyone else uses they had placed 2 stickers on opposite corners on each piece! One in each of our national languages. What a pain! We did hit on a system that worked to remove the stickers and once we figured it out they came off very nicely without much time lost. Here is Papa placing a 4x4 sheet on the ceiling. Papa made a jig to cut the panels which made life a lot easier. I had to help hold a panel 3 or 4 times but other then that he did it all himself. He also tied a 2x4 to the back side of the step ladder and used it to hold the top of the panel in place while he fitted and nailed up the other side. Very neat! 

Papa also got that last back window in. So here is what I worked on that day! The bales in that end wall. They are sitting in the corner there under the window but very hard to see. All made to fit and ready to be put in after the ceiling was finished. I also got 6 bales for the last row of bales on the long trailer side wall up on the trailer roof so they could just be fitted in. I also did some laundry but the rest of the day is a bit of a blur. I remember we were BUSY all day but don't remember what else we did :( Sorry. Oh RIGHT I just remembered I took that wall on the left side of the door down and Papa made sure it the wood beside the door was not causing the door to shut hard. It still shuts hard but that board isn't causing it. Then I rebuilt the wall. I also took down the bales on top of the window and door next to the trailer and Papa added another board on top of the door jig so the bales would sit even. He also screwed the window box to the trailer as we had some trouble with it moving! 

Before we went to bed that night we had ONE FINISHED WALL!!!! Beautiful isn't it! Papa finished it while I sat on a lawn chair and watched! I was very tired and a tiny bit cranky.. I look on my blog and I see, as do you Day 9. But what I, or you, don't see is the days in between the days. Yes it's day 9 of working on the addition.. but it's been since Sept 9 that we've been working on this addition. Almost every day Papa has had off since Sept 9th has been, in some way, working on this addition!! That's 3 months!! Not 9 days! 9 days sounds fast. 3 months is SLOW!!! Anyway it was late and seeing a finished wall lifted BOTH our spirits and all of a sudden it felt like maybe we'd have an addition after all!! 

A view of the part of the ceiling that got finished that night!

That night we had Pizza and Root beer floats for supper.. sort of a celebration for the, at that point, almost finished wall..