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Yesterday our new appliances arrived but we had to send the fridge back.  It came damaged.  It will take about 2 weeks for the new one to arrive now and hopefully there will not be any added issues with that one.  We aren't in a bind because we were still intending to use our old appliances till then anyway.  It is actually quite funny how this all happened.  We had asked for the dishwasher and microwave to arrive early but they couldn't split the shipment so they were all to arrive at once even though, technically, we didn't have the room for them all.  Of course, we moved things around and stacked things differently to make room.  It actually is a nice thing that we didn't have to find the room for the fridge though it's really too bad that the fridge was damaged.  However, we choose to see this as God's provision for our needs.  We didn't really have the room right away to store the fridge and yet the order couldn't be split, so God took care of it.  ;) 

Today was a long day.  It started out with packing the last of the kitchen cabinets.  Pots and pans, plastics, cutlery, etc all got boxed up today.  Along with that I cleaned my good pots and pans. Then it started...  Well, actually it started before the packing, as my daughter decided to make the packing easier on me before she headed to work.  She ripped off a door from the cabinet to make it easier to get things out.  Then my son needed to rip one off, too.  After the packing and lunch were done with, the plumbing was disconnected from the sink and the demolition was begun in earnest.  It didn't take long, really... and most of the wood these cabinets were made of was particle board and quite brittle so it didn't take a lot of effort either, honestly.  The toughest part was making sure the plumbing was relatively undisturbed and then using the reciprocating saw to cut the counter into 3 pieces that will be used on the new counter until our custom counters arrive in about a month.  The plumber said he'd see if he could rig up the sink portion for us, as well. 

Once the last of the demolition was done, I spent the rest of the day washing that last wall of wallpaper paste in the master bedroom.  The wallpaper is officially ALL gone now... paste and all!!!  I'm so GLAD!  What a gruelling job to spend 5-6 hours per wall scrubbing it all off... 

So, now tomorrow we're supposed to have the subfloor start to go in so it might be quite exciting if there is also new flooring going in with it.  There are two bedrooms that will be ready for it... and the kitchen will be ready for the subfloor.  Friday our bathroom will be torn out and the new items for that will be arriving.  Hopefully it won't take too long for that part of this project to be done.  With only one bathroom in the house, it could make for interesting days if we're without for any amount of time.  I'm grateful for good neighbours who have agreed to allow us to use theirs if need be! ;) 

Dee..