I hate this construction project, and I just wanted you to know. I am trying to learn French, a new city, how to drive like an insane person, and where to buy things while parenting two non-stop-action-packed boys… and then I come home to the banging pounding mess that is our house. Scratch that, we don’t come home, we often ARE home. Trying to work, parent, be, love inside a complete mess. Our house, where I am constantly dodging nails in tiny feet and where I am never ever hardly ever ALONE. You know that classic line, “Someone’s always watching”? Well, it’s totally true.
The thing is, if I could appreciate the aesthetic of the project, that would be one thing. I would be able to hold on to the thought of the finished product, but I do not. I don’t like it, at all. Each day something uglier appears. A toilet set skew (REALLY skew) into the cement, brand new (ugly) light fixtures with paint all over them, a crooked window, a rain gutter that runs in 20 directions along the ground, a newly installed sink that is about really to fall off the wall and almost does every time you touch it, cement detailing that is indescribably ugly, varnished bricks with dripping white paint in between them… at this point I just want them out. Out. Out. Instead of SITTING AROUND all day long doing two hours of work in ten.
I realize I am now officially the downer of the blogging world.
The end.
Kristy
Oh Kristy! Although you are having a hard time with all of this change, your blogging is great! It helps keeping us praying for you four over there.
My mind is telling me that you should fire those people fixing your house and do it yourself. But that’s me coming from MN and watching a bunch of DIY Network and home improvement shows (and having a Menards and Home Depot within 30 minutes of my house). I’ve never been to Africa but I imagine that where you are, you aren’t able to just up and do that sort of thing for yourself. But I know if you could, that you would.
Thoughts and prayers are with you guys! You are making a difference and helping those boys of yours see how amazing of a mother you are! God Bless!
I think we need to send some people over there and get that project down in a week:)
Praying for grace to see it through.
Love your stories. It is amazing how brand new construction in Burundi looks 20-years old. Even the paint job that was completed the day before. UGH!