ROFLMFAO......

And so with everything going on right now, it would only be fitting that I find out that I am also pregnant...ROFLMFAO One has to wonder, just how many kids does it take to lose your mind. Maybe it's just been gone so long that I hadn't realized I lost it. Well whatever the case is number 7 is on the way. My son has put in a request that it be a boy, I think it is way to late to have that talk now ROFL.

Preperation....

So the In-Laws are coming next week so that means I need to kick the cleaning into high. Not really feeling like cleaning to the depth that I will be doing. Ok on the agenda for the morning tomorrow is the fireplace. Al & my husband are going to be putting the fireplace together, while I am making shelves & cleaning. I will also be tossing in some laundry in there while taking care of the kids too. My youngest daughter will be turning 1 on Tuesday, so I have the cake ordered already, have to remember to pick that up Tuesday morning. I think in the middle of the week Al & my husband are taking my truck to have new rotors & brakes put on, then off to Bangor to pic up some more insulation & plywood. Then the rest of the week when the In-Laws are not her visiting we can insulate & put the new ceiling in the foyer. Note to self clean the foyer. That about does it I think for the week. We will see how close we stay to that line of thinking, I don't have high hopes on that LOL

Easy Sunday Afternoon

Yeah right!!!!! It is only 9:33 am and my husband is out in the hallway ripping apart the celing. There is junk falling all over the stuff that is left in the hallway, pretty much our coats. So we can add to the list of things for me to do today wash the coats. Currently I am baking apple pies, the grand total will be 3 of those. Bake them now, give the family 1 and freeze the other 2, then I have 1 pie pan open when they eat it to bake another & freeze it. We have a apple tree that is dripping with apples for the first time, so i'm baking and making apple sauce. I have taken a childs bench that was in the hallway and repainted it and have it ready for the 2 little ones bedroom. I have done some accent gold painting so it is ready to go once it dries. I am also making ham fried rice, crab angels, egg rolls & sweet & sour chicken for dinner. All of which is being made from scratch, and Al aka Virgil & his wife are comming over for dinner at 6 pm tonight. Oh and I need to clean up the hallway once my husband is done busting out the section of the celing that he is working on. As I sit here I now type to the sound of a sledge hammer from the 3rd floor into the hallway. Oh the joys of reconstruction & a easy Sunday.

Here I am

Bet you thought you lost me...nope i'm right here hahaha.
I last left you with the mouse in madison Square Garden. She has been bust things up on the third floor, along with my husband now. They are almost done ripping up the floor which is good but I came up with a great idea while standing in the hallway having really old dirt & small wood chucks fall on my head. Well you see the tin tiles on the cieling have to come down. Behind those is som plaster her, slat boards there & some sheetrock. So I'm thinking how long will it take to rip down the tin? Then go upstairs and use gravity to help knock out the other stuff from between the rafters..right good thinking huh. We figure a day to take down the tin..then back on track with the upstairs with putting in the insulation. While they are doing that upstairs I can be downstairs (while the babies are sleeping) pulling the nails out of the cieling. Then when they are up we can take all the paneling off the walls and move it to the cieling. See for the new tin tiles you need a flat surface and since the walls are being tore down for new drywall. Why not just take the paneling and put it on the cieling? I'm really thinking now everyone look the hell out.
Did I mention that my in laws are comming on the 26th of this month. Yep right in the middle of all of this massive gutting/construction of the house, I have to try to clean it. Well ok try to get it clean and keep it up everyday before they get here. Now doesn't that sound like a ton of fun? So pretty much everyday I am already sweeping the hallway so we can all walk down it. I get to add a full house cleaning to that because you always try to have a clean house when your in-laws come to visit. So I will have a gutted hallway that I can see my roof from or the lovely yellow of rows of insulation, but it will be clean along with the rest of the house. What a vision right LOLOLOLOLOL

Busting Stuff Up

Above the hallway on the third floor, when this was a school the 3rd floor was never insulated. so in ripping up the hallway, that also means that we have to rip up the floor on the 3rd floor to lay insulation. Mind you the 3rd floor at one time was a basketball court, don't ask. So in reality upstairs the floor is 3 layers deep. The base is ship planks that were brought up from the coast way way back in the day, the house was built in 1846. The second layer is 2 in. thick, 3 in. wide wood flooring. Then we have for the last layer the wooden basketball floor, so all together your ripping up about 5 inches of wood flooring. All of this so you can lay insulation then put down a wood sub floor, seems like a vicious circle doesn't it.
So with DH hurting himself he hasn't been able to go back up there for a few day. Me well I'm busy with the kids, cleaning & sanding furniture and refinishing it, I haven't had time to go up there either. So our friend Al, better known as Virgil, said the other day he knew someone that would come and do it for us. The price decided upon was rip up the floor for $100, keep in mind that half of the 3rd floor is already done but still it is 4900sq. ft.. My husband says OK find send them over. There was this little hobbit knock on the front door this morning and there is a woman in jeans, a long sleeve shirt and steel toed boots. She maybe, I mean really pushing it is 4'11 & with enough rocks in her pockets while being socking wet, might weigh 100 lbs.. Now you have to understand that my husband is old school when it comes to stuff like this, he knows that women are independent because he is already dealing with the queen of that kingdom. He however doesn't like women doing hard labor, he would rather know they can do the work but be pampered instead. This is not the first time you will here me say this...My husband is strange. So after turning his head toward me while performing the ocular rotation perfected by teenagers across the world, he takes her upstairs. The next thing I hear is "Honey find me the pick ax", this translates into it is the same height as her, so she wont have to bend over and kill her back. I get the ax and take it up to her, which in itself was extremely weird. The 3rd floor is a open 4900 sq. ft. with a ceiling that is 36 ft. high, so in short she looks like a mouse in Madison Square Garden.

And The Beat Goes On

So last I left you with frogs in my house, right? well since then the frogs have been aprehended, they were hiding out on the bug zapper. The irony just cracks me up! With the house in shambles the bug zapper is sitting in the hallway waiting to go to the basement for the fall. There they were sitting on top of it, as if waiting for it to go on to catch some tastey flies.
Now I have big black grasshopper/crickets in my house. They are huge, they are noisy and they are all over. Yes it has something to do with "The Boy", just don't ask.
So my husband was upstair ripping up the floor so we can insulate over the hallway, before winter hits. So he is using a crobar and uses the curved end to wedge under the wood and them grabs the straight end and pulls back toward him, thus ripping up the wood. So he is up there ripping away and then all of a sudden between the yells of some country song on the raido up there....I hear some moans & groans. So I throw some toys at the babys and lock them in the room & fly up the stairs. There he is laying on the floor holding his knee moaning. Now you have to understand that I call him my six million dollar man. He was in the military and has been patched, rebuild, graphed back together & bullets plucked out of him. Mind you not because he was a clutz but because he has seen about every form of action in the field you can. So anyway the six million dollar man is rolling on the floor and I ask what the hell happened. Between groans & moans I got that when he pulled back the edge of a board broke off and the straight sharp end hit him in the knee and lifted his knee cap. So off to the hospital he went with our friend Al. Al is a whole different story that I will get to at a later date, so if you see me refer to Virgil & Wyatt Erap...I am really talking about Al - aka Virgil & Wyatt - aka my husband. Anyway it would seem that he has fractured 2 bones in his knee. He came home with crutches and this sock looking thing on his knee. Are we having fun yet?

Boys Will Be Boys

Out of 6 kids I have only 1 boy, now if your feeling bad for him STOP IT! Tonight the boy went out to our pond and caught himself some frogs to take to school. His teacher was kind enough to let me know she would enjoy him bringing in a frog for the kids to see. So here it is Friday night and All I can say is that he brought them in the house & have escaped. Yes I know have frogs loose in my house and what is worse is that I have searched for them everywhere and nothing. These are also Silent frogs because they are not making a single sound. So I have a few questions running through my mind.....
How high can a frog the size of your palm jump?
Will I be waking up to a frog in my bed or on my face?
What are the chances that when I get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night that I will have a frog land on my lap?
Will I put my foot down to take a step and step on a frog?
Just how long can a frog live in the house?
Will my dogs eat the frog?

Nature is Nasty!!!

Just for the record I'm a outdoor type of person, with that said the stuff I have seen just has to be written about!!
I live in Maine right, well there are a ton of moose & bears up here, also other critters but these 2 breeds are more interesting than you might think. In the state of Maine the end of August is bear hunting season, it is also the time of year that the bears are loading up their bellies for the winter. I can not tell you or express the suprise that hits me every time I see a pile of bear crap in the road. Better yet is the first time that you see a bear crap in the road! You can't help but think to yourself "what in the hell is that"! Imagine if you will your driving along the road and it is dusk, the end to a nice warm early fall day (cause your in Maine there really is no summer). The sun has sunk behind the tree tops, the breeze is blowing but you can still feel the warmth of the day. You come around a corner on a paved road and before you is a big Ole bear hunkered down dropping a turd pile the size of both of your feet in the middle of the road. Now you might be wondering, why is a bear coming out of the woods to crap in the road. Let me tell ya why....LOL They do this because the warm pavement or blacktop feels good on their butt. Then again if you were dropping the size pile they are you'd want something warm massaging your butt too.
Let's move on to the moose, which sort of majestic creatures in their own right, with the huge set of horns & the sheer size of them WOW right? Let me enlighten you on a few facts here about the moose, they are not the sharpest tools in the shed. They are more like the rusted rake at the edge of the yard by the tall weeds, far away from the shed ;) They have been known to ram into a train when they feel threatened, now just let that sink in & marinate for a minute. It feels fear and rams into a TRAIN!!! So you get my point about the rusted rake now...good. With that in mind seeing them mate is no different that ramming into a train. Now that I have seen a moose mate, I'm going to have to say that they are tied in my mind with a chicken mating. Have you ever seen a chicken...oh my good so violent! They climb up on the back of the hen and move their feet and stab her with their claws at the same time and attacking her neck, there by ripping out all of her feathers at the back of her neck!!! If you ever see a bunch of hens walking around with a huge patch of feathers missing on the back of her neck & back, you'll now know what happened to her. Damn man a moose ramming is just as bad and the females almost scream this hideous moan sound. I just, I don't know this time of year up here is nothing I have seen anywhere else. The moose is a nasty freak & the bear well he's just plain nasty...LOL

Why, why oh why?

Sierra my now 2 year old has discovered while learning her body parts that not only does she have holes in her ears but low & behold she has 2 more holes in her nose. What a find I mean really do you have any concept of the stuff you can pack & carry in all those holes...WOWZA!
I sit Sierra down at the table for her lunch, cubes of ham with crackers and some diced cheese. Can't forget the cup of milk chilled to perfection, ok right out of the refridgerator but still. Not 5 minutes later here she comes down off her chair and over to my desk, which is in the same room since my dinning room is nolonger a eating room it is more of a grand opening to a toy store. Anywho she is standing next to me and I look down at here and she is smileing the sweetest smile while cheese dangels from out of her nose. I am still not sure why kids think that if they find a hole they need to fill it with something. Better yet what was she thinking? Hmm I could walk around and play or look at my books, but I want to eat my lunch...hey wait I have these holes here that are doing nothing, we can put my lunch up them and go about my buisness. That is what is really meant by snacking on the go...LOL

Amethyst my almost 1 year old has a big issue. She is a COOKIE MONSTER!!! I do alot of baking and I seem to be always baking some type of cookie all the time. Well she just got her first tooth yesterday, which I thought she would never get, although she is still as bald as Elmer Fudd. I hadn't given her cookies up to this point becuase I worried about the cookie cooling and getting to hard for her to eat, you know toothless and all. Anyway I was baking chocolate chip cookies and I gave one to Sierra, who by the way is the original Cookie Monster in my house. There stands Sierra looking at a book and looking out the window watching the trees, COMPLETELY DEFENSELESS. Amethyst silently makes her way across the room grabs Sierra's legs and pulls them out from under her. Once Cookie Monster A is flat on her back crying, Cookie Monster B mountian climbs up over her belly and eats the cookie out of Cookie Monster A's hand.

Where is Summer?

Ok I understand the whole global warming stuff but it must be happening everywhere else. We are on the cusp of a ice age here I swear man. The last time I saw snow was a mere 3.5 months ago and here we are the start of September and it is 58 degrees with 30 miles an hour winds. So far I think here in Maine we have had 1 week of summer like weather and I use the term "summer like" extremely loosely. I have woke up to countless mornings of frost and the damn leaves are almost half changed in color already. So here's the thing maybe I should start a pool to see when the first snowfall will be, I mean we had the last of the snow this past winter in mid May!!!! I think I am slowly turning into a Polar Bear ;)

So the house well well, my husband has so many projects going on at one time that need to get done before winter. They are kind of critical projects, for example the heating in our bedroom is tore apart, so yeah no heat for us in there. I know what your thinking just snuggle up, let me remind you WE HAVE 6 KIDS ALREADY, I know what happens when you "snuggle up". His plan for the heating for our room is a good one, we have these old water radiators that he wants to put in our room. They will look beautiful because they are very ornate and we are going to paint them all silver, so hey perfect for this house & the age of days gone by. Here's the thing though, each one of those buggers is over 1,000 pounds in weight and we have to wrestle them out of the basement & up the back porch steps. Then drag them down the hallway witch is another 70 feet and place them in our bedroom. Can you say HERNIA!!!! So we are currently trying to come up with a game plan for the least amount of pain for us to get them in our room. Should be fun to move all 4 of them...ROFL

Here is a picture of just one of them, can you feel the pain? To think this is the smallest of the 4 of them yeahaaa!

Another Birthday

I have 6 kids, 4 girls & 1 boy and let me tell you that the month of August & September are rough around here. Isabelle turned 6 August 22Nd, I turned 36 August 25Th, Sierra just turned 2 yesterday & Amethyst turns 1 on September 25Th. From about the beginning of August there are presents hidden all over the house. Well when cake time hit yesterday Sierra didn't want anything to do with it, she was not happy the frosting was sticky and would not eat the cake. We did give Amethyst a test drive of cake to see how she would react when her Birthday comes. Happy to report she dove right in there and made a complete mess, it was great!
as normal my son, who is 7, tried stealing Sierra's toys once she tore open the wrapping paper. It started to sound like negotiations between me & a kidnapper, but he soon realized that I was not letting him take her toys and gave in.

Today is the day that I make a valid attempt to conquer dirty clothes mountain. I am making great time, but I think I'm getting folding elbow. If I see one more towel come through that laundry room to be washed today I will scream.

The Before Hallway Contruction

I found a pic of the hallway before the start of construction...LOL Kind of looks like a huge fish tank with no light what so ever. Have to say that you also feel like you were trapped in a fish tank being watched by lord knows what. Don't you love that brown indoor/outdoor carpet sweet stuff I tell ya. Come on though what else would you expect from a old school?
The plan is tare it all down, insulate it, rip down that horrid drop cieling and expose the old victorian tin hiding another 5 feet up...lol 18 foot high cielings so awesome, have pity on my husband dragging in the Christmas trees. Have the tin in silver, put up a huge chandalier in the middle point of the hallway, then 2 fans at each end with lights also. Put in new carpet and paint those massive walls either a pale butter cream yellow or a very pale green to get some freakin light in there!!!!

Well Well Here We Are Again

So I have switched from Bulgaria Bound to this new place, where I will stay. The change of name comes after the fact that I don't really see my house selling so we can move to Bulgaria. I would absolutely love to move there and still have a glimmer of hope but I don't see it happening.

Here I am to start to document what it is like trying to handle life with all these kids & fix up the house. When I say fix up the house what i should really be saying is rebuild it from the studs up, that is really what is going on. We have started in the hallway, which I will post pics at the end of my blog here of the current condition. Mind you once I dig up a pic of what it looked like prior to us ripping stuff down I will do a short blog & toss up a pic of that.

Anywho I can tell you reading my blog your not ever going to know what is really going to happen next. I frankly have gotten over that shock that is my life of non stop Murphy's Laws, so now I just roll with it. Without furthur ado the hallway ;)

Stats: 70 feet long, 16 feet wide & in horrible shape! This is almost the halfway point of the tare down.