Sunday, January 30, 2011

It's time...

Yes, it's time for a new post.  Hmmm.  Nothing to say...and I usually can ramble on quite well.  I guess I could post on the weather.  Utah weather this year is all over the map.  We have frigid cold one minute, sun the next, rain, rain, rain and then ice, snow and what do you know, sunshine again.  It's actually been a bit entertaining.  I am weary of the winter however.  I would like spring to peak it's little head up and decide to arrive even if it is a bit premature.

Come spring we plan on wreaking havoc in our yard (and I mean bonified, genuine havoc!!!) by bringing in a back hoe and digging up dump truckloads of dirt for an addition onto our home.  Strange as it seems, we are enlarging our house even though 8 of our 11 children are wending their way in the world (the 9th one will soon follow.)  The problem is that they are not necessarily wending their way alone therefore the principle of multiplication is in force and when everyone is at home one can barely find space to sit with their meal laden tray and eat.  Watching my son-in-law standing in the corner while eating his Christmas pie clenched the deal.  We need more space.  So we are taking out our lovely 23 year old honey locust tree in the back yard, pulling down the front section of fence we just installed last fall, ripping out cement patios and stairs and digging a humongous hole in our back yard.  The plan is to extend the kitchen, add a master bedroom out back so we can knock down the wall between our current bedroom and the family gathering area to make it larger.  While we are at it we might as well extend the basement also (cheap square footage the builder says).

Our builder has informed us that we will need to learn how to live without a kitchen, a bathroom, two of the bedrooms,the family room and part of the basement and the garage.  Hmmmmmmmmm....  Oh yes, and without much of the yard.  Sprinklers, lawn and landscaping all in upheaval.  Maybe this would be a good time for the earthquake (yes, we do live close to a fault line) and we can kill all the birds with one stone.   Natalie will be returning home from Brazil in May, Nathanael from BYUI and there are five of us here now.  So all seven of us will squeeze into the remaining space.  It's possible I will very quickly want to be one of those birds.  For some odd reason I am warily looking forward to it all.