More of a journal entry than...

Hello :)

We decided awhile back (like, a year and a half) that we wanted to have a baby. I now want to get properly pregnant. I think that prior to this, I just wanted a baby... have been frustrated with ectopic (tubal) pregnancies, emergency surgeries and the general frustration of last year... but now i actually WANT to get properly pregnant and have a successful pregnancy and healthy baby. For some reason, "girl" keeps coming to mind when I think about this. Is that because I have 2 girls? Or is it the universe telling me that it will be another girl? Odd, this - especially considering that I have always wanted to have a boy.

Another thing that has been on my mind lately is travelling. A LOT. I need a vacation... preferably somewhere warm - or if not, then somewhere I speak the language: Chris has been dreaming of Montmartre, which would be amazing this time of year. Still, an all inclusive with a flying trapeze and water sports and laying on the beach with a trashy vacation novel would be nice. Time will be an issue until the girls are out of school...

And finishing the house.

There are so many things on my mind these days that writing them down becomes difficult, which is probably why I haven't been here since February.

We need to find the time and money to:

Vacation (NOT stay-cation)
Fence and landscape the back yard
Install hardwood so that the dog/cat/kid grossness is easier to clean
FINISH THE DAMN BASEMENT so that we can get the office out of the bedroom (SO important)

... but there needs to be an order to it all - and of course a budget for each project.

Baby steps, right? First up: fence... it's the least expensive and most practical for the $ right now. Also? It would be really nice to be able to let the dog run free :).

I have to be honest here - I've thought about building all of this stuff one 2x4 at a time - no kidding! $3/day, one 2x4 closer to finishing the framing. It would be kinda cool (and i'm only saying this 'cause I'm pretty sure he doesn't read this blog) to build the basement on the sly... to one day have him come home to me moving the girl's rooms and laugh at the query on his brow. It'd be pretty fun - and I could probably pull it off. He leaves for work at 8am and rarely gets home before 8pm - that gives me at LEAST 2 hours a day in which to do it. *hmm*. The tricky bit would be getting the drywall downstairs without attracting attention, 'cause that would definitely be something I would need help lifting. Oh, and the bathroom. I'm not a plumber and he may notice the big chunk of $ gone... but other than that, he rarely goes downstairs. Teehee.

I *may* just do this.