all around exhausted

felt a little down yesterday...

this whole addition and TTC being at the same time is really getting to me. we're constantly between NTNP and just giving up with TTC. the house taking forever to finish isn't helping. we're really getting somewhere with it now at least, but I have many days where I feel quite resentful that we took so much time during the winter to sit on our asses and relax for a good while, which we needed, but it still sucked. it kills me because its all time we could have either been TTC or getting the house finished so we could TTC sooner. I just want our baby back. we both agree that it was bad timing last time I was pregnant, but we were being naïve with how we thought the addition would go. it still sucks ass that we had to lose our baby in the process. I wish it was easier for us to get pregnant on our own, but its still looking like we'll still be trying by the fall and will have to go ahead with testing. god knows how long it will take to get appointments for things we can't just get my doc to do  :/

onto the house. you have no idea how much of a difference just getting drywall up will give you! we had our vapour barrier and insulation inspection and the inspector was very happy with what he saw and gave us the go ahead to continue on and even gave us a pass on getting the garage inspected as long as we do as good a job as we did upstairs. so our next inspection is the FINAL! I built the remaining arches while DH worked on the plumbing and I actually got started on the drywall a week and a half ago in the closet and it actually has 2 coats of mud already. I had help from my uncle and my mom during the long weekend and got the majority of the drywall upstairs done, just a few smaller manageable pieces left for me to do. I was so mentally exhausted by the end of sunday and I still had Monday to go. I don't think I've been so exhausted since we dug the hole, but there wasn't a lot of measuring and thinking involved, so even though digging was a lot of hard labour, lifting and cutting drywall was much harder. coming weekend i'll be working on mudding everything, finally. DH worked on landscaping and built some little planters between or western neighbours to bridge the height difference between our yards after the driveway was done. i'm actually going to have my own little herb garden and a couple other things  : )  hopefully I don't kill everything, ha! once he's done with the landscaping and has grass seed down, he'll move onto the upstairs bedrooms so that we can get carpet done up there sooner. I can't believe we're finally talking about carpet, I never thought i'd see the day. things are slowly coming together and its looking awesome! if only I could remember to bring the memory card to work so I could post some more recent pics of it, lol.

not the clearest pic, but it really shows how much work has been going on