Dear Mr. Stanley Steemer,

Seven weeks ago we had you over to our home to give us a quote on your dustless sanding, staining, and refinishing of our kitchen and foyer hardwood. You were so nice and helpful and excited to help us in our kitchen remodel.
Fast forward to our scheduled appointment last Tuesday. You called the day before and said you wouldn't be able to come until Thursday since your truck was in the shop. No problem.
On Wednesday, after working 9-5 and then being a leader at Vacation Bible School from 5:30-8:40, I drove myself (exhausted) to our house 2 hours away so that I could be there to meet you bright and early on Thursday at 8AM.
At 9:15 I called your office and got hung up on by your extremely rude front desk girl when all I wanted was to know when you would be at my house!
9:45 I finally got a call back from Charlie, your floor manager. He said the truck wasn't fixed yet. So I took a half day off work for no reason. Great. Don't worry though, "I will be there first thing Monday morning, without fail," says Charlie. Okay, this sucks, but whatever I can deal with it.
Saturday morning... get a call from Charlie again. Truck won't be fixed until who knows when. Maybe August. I feel like I'm getting lied to at this point, right?? They also cashed our check for $536.00 on Friday, before even showing up for any of the work!
Floor refinishing - cancelled. Now I'm looking for someone in the St. Louis area who can actually get the job done. UGH

Sincerely,

A disgruntled "Mrs. Bailey" (as they liked to call me because they couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that I'm Meghan Holtschlag and we are engaged, not married yet!!)

Our Wedding Website

I have created our Wedding Website, where family and friends can go to check out important information about our wedding! Plus it's cute and fun!

www.theknot.com/ourwedding/MeghanHoltschlag&JonathanBailey

Mom will be in town tomorrow!! I'm so excited, we are going to have so much fun. I'm glad she's flying this time so that she doesn't have to spend so much time driving alone. Friday we are going to go looking at wedding dresses. Hopefully I can get a better idea of what I want after this weekend!

New Kitchen

We have been working very hard deciding everything we are going to do for our kitchen remodel. Below you can see the door style for our new cabinets (oak, arched panels), the stain on our cabinets (chocolate with a mocha glaze), our Quartz counter tops (in a blue/grey/white color), and an example of the stone back splash we purchased on clearance (I can't find the exact stone because it's not on the website anymore). Seeing it all together makes me very excited and I can't wait to see what the finished product looks like!

On one hand it's great that we are able to do this while we aren't living in the house, but on the other hand it's going to be a lot of decision making on my own without having Jonathan in town. Luckily I will have the expertise of Marc and Annette to help guide through this stressful, expensive project. Marc is a great builder/carpenter and I know it will all turn out beautiful. I just wish Jonathan were here with us! To finish the remodel we are doing some heavy duty work. We have to replace the kitchen window to accommodate for our new cabinet design, install a pocket door leading to our laundry room to give us some more floor space, knock out our current pantry to make room for the new built in pantry, refinish the floors, install new lighting throughout the kitchen and dining room, paint the ceiling and two walls, and buy a new microwave and dishwasher. PHEW! I'm sure there's even more that I'm just not thinking of right now... it's just so overwhelming. Remodeling is like a second full time job! Too bad I can't devote as much time as I would like to... work is starting to pick up again and I need to be here throughout the week. I'll definitely be devoting all of my summer weekends to this huge project though. Poor Adam is going to have to live without a kitchen for at least a couple of months!