Day 359 - Exhausted, Sick and Pleased

 

We did it, can you believe it? I can't! So it turns out that being stubborn achieves not only a sub floor being complete and certified but a cranky Nathan too. He did tell me at no stage of this did he want to be rushing the work as he wanted to enjoy the process. Well at no point this weekend did he enjoy the extension process. This morning we were out in the yard at 6.30am, Yes 6.30, I was up THAT early, and we started lining up what we could to start hammering at 7.

 

At 8.30 we had maybe 6 joists down and it wasn't looking good so I called council to see if we could have the last appointment for certifying or cancel the appointment. Amazingly not only did they change their appointments to come later, they actually came after appointments finished which probably meant that the lady finished late on Christmas eve. How nice is that! Amazingly we finished and packed up the tools with about 2 minutes to spare before the certifier arrived. It took her about 10 minutes to check the ant caps were on which are actually built into the Uni-piers, that the spaces between the piers were OK and that it all looked OK. She seemed a little puzzled that we actually went with bigger bits of wood but that was the only note taken, then it was a quick tick and sign and we are OK to proceed with the next steps. Check out the sunburn I got while working like a crazy woman trying to get it all done.

Thank you Dad, Amy and Simon for helping us to get it done in time. We couldn't have done it without your help.
 

 

 

So Christmas Eve is here, and we have been so sick and busy that it feels like it is here all of a sudden. Talking to Maddie about it this year has been awesome, we asked her what Santa would bring and she told us a doll and then asked if he was going to knock on the door. I said yes, and before I could get out that it was while she was asleep Maddie was at the door knocking saying Santa was bringing her a doll. Bed time went pretty well tonight, Maddie put on her special Christmas Pj's and sat by the tree for a photo then knocked on the door again and told Santa to come before she went to bed and actually went straight to sleep. I cant wait to see the look on her face in the morning when she sees all of her presents from us and Santa.