Yes, its about 1:15 am and I am still up. I leave for the Sony Mommy Blogger event in about 9ish hours. I am almost completely packed. I am still debating if I should grab my leather coat and put it in the suitcase or not. Depending on which website you look at, its either going to be 60-70 degrees or 70-80 degrees. I agree, there is a bit of a difference there. I am packing my swimsuits even though I think I need to take Alli before I put them on.

I am glad yesterday ended up being such a good day with Madison.  I am super proud of her and can’t wait to tell the other moms of her accomplishments.  Well, I think I need to head off to bed, since tomorrow is going to be a long day.

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Well, we got them majority of stuff out of the basement over the weekend.  Now, we just have a pile of trash and a few boxes that need to go out.  I am calling for the dumpster this week.  We are planning to demo the one room that is down there this weekend.  Once we do that, we are going to work on our floor plan (I want to add another bathroom down there and Bill wants to add a home office).  I want the basement finished by Will’s 1st birthday (June 7th).  Besides the above rooms, Bill needs to rerun the electric, we need to rerun the venting, and we need to add drywall.  We have a lot of work ahead of us.

We also bought a new stove, but that’s for a post a little later (so I can get a picture).

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Well, not quite now. I am calling to see how much it is to rent a dumpster, so we can start demoing the room in the basement. However, I don’t know how long we need it for or how big of one we need, so I sound like a moron when I am talking to these people. I know Bill would rather be playing golf than messing around with the basement, but that room needs to be taken down before we can do anything.  We have a field supervisor coming out on Friday to inspect the basement, and then we will get the date of when they will install the drainage tile.  Once that is done, it is a mad dash to finish finishing off the basement before Will’s birthday.

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While on vacation, we made some big decisions about the house. Bill is pretty sure we can’t afford to go up (that and we don’t want to go into a ton of debt trying to just get the shell and then there isn’t enough cash left over to actually finish the thing). We do need the extra space (Will’s bedroom is only 9×11 without a closet). However, we have an unfinished basement that would really give us the extra space we need. We really just want a toy room and a living room down there. Bill would eventually like a bar and maybe a pool table with some billiards supplies. I wouldn’t mind being able to put our dartboard back up too. I am pretty sure Bill wouldn’t mind if I tell him to put up a game room like that. (My grandma had a pool table in her basement, and as kids, we always played with it. Not that it actually made be a better pool player – lol. She actually still has it too. She also still has a foosball (sp?) table that we enjoy playing with too.) We have almost 600 square feet that we are working with, so we really can do almost anything we want. We have gotten several quotes in the last three years about fixing our leaky basement floor, and I think this year we are going to make this a reality. We are setting up talking to my hubby’s friend Tony about putting a bathroom in the basement first and then calling US Waterproofing to come out and give us an estimate next. My goal is to have a finished basement by Will’s birthday. Now, whether that is really going to happen is another story.

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My parents just got back from a week’s vacation in Las Vegas yesterday afternoon. While calling me to tell me there were home, they happened to see that the Monte Carlo was on fire there. It was kinda one of the those weird things. They had a great vacation and came home a little ahead (woo hoo). My mom said her biggest win was $250 on a nickel slot machine. I was hoping they would win a big jackpot and share with her kids. lol I wonder though — if you had Las Vegas hotel reservations at the Monte Carlo on one of those top floors that are now burnt out, what do you do? Does the hotel find you another place to stay?

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