We have a pool!!

Well a pool contract anyway. Now the fun part begins. First there is securing financing. We have one loan approved but it's not really the way we want to finance it. I would prefer to refinance the mortgage with the improvements included. We just applied today and should find out tomorrow if they are OK with the amount of improvements we want to do.

Then there is permits and HOA approvals. The pool builder mostly handles that. However if the HOA decides to sit on the approval then that could hold us up indefinitely. Or however long they can stand hearing from the hubby on a twice daily basis (and that's if they are lucky)

After we get everyone's blessing to move forward, my backyard will suddenly look like a bomb exploded with wall to wall workers there for at least a month. I'm told that's if I'm lucky! This guy claims to do all of them in 4 weeks so here's hoping.

My main concern beyond the normal ones involving whether the pool will be built correctly is my stepdaughter. She is now living with us and gets home from school very early. I'm not so comfortable with her walking into the middle of all of those workers. She's a really cute teenager and we worry about her dating as it is. I'm sure that 99.9% of these people are just good hardworking men. It's the 0.1% who might not be that I'm worried about. So I have to find somewhere else for her to go after school for 4 to 6 weeks to ease my mind.