Godsent!

Our friend, Peter Tower has been amazing. He has a lot of construction experience and yesterday in 5 hours, Mike and him finished all the small cosmetic stuff in the house. They put in the under cabinet strip in the kitchen, finished the kitchen door and window moulding and installed the baseboard moulding in the kitchen. In one fell swoop they halved my to-do list in the house.

Now all we have left to do is paint the moulding and seal the moulding where the contractor stripped the paint off the old wood and I can do that whenever on my own.

The living room & dining room are pretty empty now in preparation for the floor guy coming tomorrow. I'm a little nervous about this guy even though he came highly recommended but Peter will be with me if anything goes wrong (Mike is going back to work tomorrow after a week off) I also have to go to Sunset Park next week (the Brooklyn Chinatown) to see if I can get some leads on Chinese nannies.

If all goes well, I get to put all the furniture back Wednesday and maybe get the cleaning lady in Thursday or Friday to do the entire house. We plan to primer the baby's room Saturday and my in-laws are coming on Sunday to help set up the baby room and move all the baby stuff in from the basement where it's been sitting in boxes and bags from the showers.

Then I have 4 days to potter around and tie up some loose ends like go to Babies R Us to get some last minute items.