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No member of the McBerkowitz family can play all day every weekend until this house is done, there's too much work to do. Ruth finally got with the program today and completed some key tasks. She learned to measure twice and cut once: After pulling some wire, she helped nail in those cut boards for the recessed bookshelves: She then moved to some finish work, installing the hardware on the window seats in the office: All in all, a pretty productive day for a baby. Next weekend, she'll try her hand at stripping paint and eating applesauce.

I realized after that last post that I hadn't even previously mentioned that we've moved onto the entryway. (There are a few final paint touchups to the office, and then I'll post final pics of those.) We started it at the end of March when Eric and Mom were here for spring break. The lovely paneling (what else!) came down quickly, but the other two layers of wall took a bit longer. Since then, the progress had been embarrassingly slow until we decided to take a day off work and power through this weekend as much as possible. That plan actually worked! Drywallers can start this week. After we finished the insulation, Bill finished roughing out a few areas that needed it. Today, he finished the pre-drywall portions of the two built-ins. The first two pics are of the new recessed bookshelves. We are very lucky that this wall is deeper than normal because there's a pocket door between the living room and entry. Adding shelves didn't occur to us until we opened the wall

Bill and I both took today off work so we could have a day without Ruth to work on the house. Amazing how much you can get done in a day without a baby! I had forgotten. Entry is now fully insulated. Hoping the drywallers can start early next week. Bill has a few things to finish first, so hopefully he can get that done while Ruth and I hit Lowes to order a new front door. One of these years, the house will be DONE and we'll be able to spend our vacations outside the house.