Final (maybe?) checklist

• Final floor coat Saturday
• Carpeting Tuesday
• Power restored directly back to the house (rather than temporary line in our front yard) Tuesday(ish)
• HVAC inspection Tuesday(ish)
• Mirrors, last closet shelf, towel hooks installed Wednesday
• Protective floor covers in main floor bedrooms removed, furniture untarped Wednesday
• Front door hardware installed Wednesday
• Final main floor hallway light installed (when it arrives from being backordered)
• Bath vanity and laundry cabinet hardware installed Wednesday
• Final front step poured Wednesday
• All systems warranties/paperwork delivered to us Thursday
• Master shower floor resealed (it was retiled Wednesday)
• Porch concrete stain maybe sometime next week (or after we're in)
• Final building inspection to get our certificate of occupancy!

It's like the finale fireworks on the Fourth of July around here - things are moving faster and faster! We are preparing to commence to begin to get ready to pack things up. I tell myself it will be easier to use boxes to move things, even though I don't want to have a bunch of boxes laying around for weeks. Then I tell myself we can pack a few boxes, move them, unpack them into exactly the right places (no, 'just put it there for now'), bring back the empty boxes, and do it again. Doesn't that sound nice and orderly, and like none of us have jobs or anything else to do, so that we can devote the three straight weeks it would probably take to do it that way? We'll get back in, we'll have boxes and stuff laying around, and we'll be so happy happy happy to be back home, I expect we won't care too much. Well, right away that is. :)