There's nothing so frustrating as having a great idea and then not having the time to implement it, is there? Soon after we started our unschooling blog the "outside world" intruded on our little unschooling bubble and demanded to be answered. We received what amounted to an ultimatum from the local planning commission concerning the house that we've been re-habbing for the last few years. Basically, they said "get it done or else". They didn't specify what the "or else" part entailed, but we didn't really want to find out, so we - meaning mostly my husband - have been busting our butts trying to get it done on their schedule instead of our own.
I can't complain too much though. Afterall, before the Planning Commission imposed a deadline *I* was the one saying "get it done or else". (Again, the "or else" part being rather foggy, even in my own mind.) The difference, however, was that my husband could live with *me* being frustrated because *I* don't have the right to take away his permit! lol
While dh has been doing work inside the house, I've been playing in the dirt! I love to garden and plan on growing most of our own food once we move. I put in a large garden this year - about twice the size of the gardens I've had in the past - and I'm at the house planting, weeding, watering, and tending that garden pretty much every day. I'm taking a short break at the moment, but I'll be heading over in a few hours.
Every other week or so I just HAVE to take a break and spend a little time here at the apartment though or it starts to look like a tornado hit the place. It's tough trying to live in two places at once! We seem to be at the apartment just long enough to make messes but not long enough to clean them up. We get up in the morning, get dressed, eat and then leave. Then we come back - often between 10 and midnight - to eat (if we didn't eat at the house), take baths and get some sleep. The next day we will start all over again. It's exhausting and makes me feel very disconnected. It's impossible to feel settled when you can't really call any one place "home".
So, anyway...here we are a few months later and we're still not ready to move in, but we're a whole lot closer to moving in than we were in January! Dh is over at the house today waiting on the inspector to come out and okay the insulation phase of the project. After this we're on to drywall and flooring - the final phase! Woohoo!! I'm still hesitant to set a definite move in date, but I can finally say with certainty that it will be *this* year.
Of all the things we feel we've been missing out on, it has been this blog that we've talked about the most. At least once a day either Cameron or I will say "we should put *that* on our blog!", but then we never seem to find the time to even turn on the computer let alone make any entries on the blog we started with such good intentions. We were talking about what we want to do over the next few weeks though and both of us agree that making time for this blog is high on our priority list. So here we are, back again after a long absence. I'm sure we'll have several more silent periods before we finally get settled in our "new" home, but hopefully not too many. (Cameron's taking a break from drumming for the summer, so we've actually put "blogging" on our calendar in the place where "drumming" would usually be.)
