Where do i begin?

ok, I know, its been some time since my last attempt to get things up and running again with my blog and trying to update it a bit mroe often than a few months at a time.  SO much for that ..

Well, some updates at least with the apartement and home front:

We start work hopefully next week in Helsinki in renovation work.  Depending on where the remodeling guys are at with the new bathroom..  We cannot start work until the bathroom is finished.

The home front in Kouvola is moving nicely, we finally have cement floor in the wash room, Sauna, shower area.. but we have to wait one full week per cm of cement before we can start work work on putting down tiles on the floor.  (its 10cm deep, so 10 weeks.. so hopefully by the time we come back from holiday in July we can start the work then.  but that wont stop the work in getting the new ceiling up and installed and of course the walls as well.  All the bedrooms are done minus the floor board molding and the radiators installed Robert’s room and my office is done minus the window and radiator.

Work is work, busy as ever, but looking forward to my two weeks off starting next week and then again when we go to the states in June with the family!!

Hanna and Robert are doing great!! Robert is growing like crazy, just look at the latest pictures at www.kemars.net —

Well, got diaper duty, so gotta run.. more to come soon!!

Renovations for December

Well, its been some time since my last post regarding renovation work at the house.  Its been going rather slow as we have had other things ongoing (e.g. work related trips, other projects that need work, etc, plus taking a few days off here and there to give our rather aching bodys a rest.)

What has been done up till now:

the bedrooms are about 75% done with all the dry wall up and “paste” being applied and sanded and applied and sanded.

Kitchen area is ongoing, and at least the door that went into the walkin refridgerator is now gone and covered.  were about 20% done

All walls in the living room, hallway and den area are about 60% done with some more dry wall needed to be placed up and pasted the joints and sanded and then painted.

The Sauna, WashRoom, and Shower Room — were about 50% done as i have now removed a lot of sand — about 1 cubic meter of it to be almost exact.. (thats a lot of sand) to make room for the new styrofoam flooring and then the new warming pipes to be laid out and then the cement to be poured (hopefully later this month if all goes well.. I might actually have a floor to walk on before the end of the year.. but lets see what happens).

Placing new beams up on the support bars for the ceiling and roof : we have the steel plates now and will be placing them on the support beams this month (hopefully before winter really decides to stick around and stay till April…)

Thats it from our end for now.. all is well.. and oh ya, we bought another apartment in Helsinki… and guess what?  we have to renovate that one too… JOY!!! :)