Again three months have passed by and I didn't post anything new here - mostly because I didn't have time for a lot.......
David and I just started to enjoy living in our house alone for the very first time, we enjoyed that we had so much room now, we loved the evenings in the living room, watched the babies playing and chased them away from our Christmas tree :-)
Well, this didn't last very long...............
Two weeks before Christmas Robert, our former contractor who had built us our master suite downstairs, stopped by asking us if we had some work for him or knew somebody he could possibly work for. To help him out we decided that we should take care of the front door and the storm door, replacing both as they turned out to become some trouble. We also told Robert to look at some funny bumps in the wall next to the door. To make the long story short - we ended up building the whole two story part of the house completely new from the inside out. When Robert started to remove the drywall next and above the door it turned out that the previous owners covered all the structural damages in the house behind the drywall. We had to go a step further and removed also the ceiling in the living room and found even more bad news. 
The house was absolutely not safe and we still wonder that it didn't collapse or somebody didn't fall through the floors! Since then the whole house, except for the new addition (and even part of that has to be redone) is a complete workzone, the basement, the laundry room, the bathroom in the main floor and of course also our bedroom downstairs are packed with all the things and furniture we have, the kitchen had to be removed into the basement as well ...... it is a complete mess!
The house was absolutely not safe and we still wonder that it didn't collapse or somebody didn't fall through the floors! Since then the whole house, except for the new addition (and even part of that has to be redone) is a complete workzone, the basement, the laundry room, the bathroom in the main floor and of course also our bedroom downstairs are packed with all the things and furniture we have, the kitchen had to be removed into the basement as well ...... it is a complete mess!What really drives us crazy is, that we will not have much chance to get any of the money back that we have to put into that house in order to make it safe and liveable. Although the structural issues are clear and documented (despite the fact that the previous owners didn't disclose all that when we closed on the house and the housing inspector ignored signs of these issues), nobody got hurt - so a lawsuit would have taken a loooooooong time, cost us a lot of money and in the best scenario we probably only would have gotten a portion of the whole remodeling and construction costs back. Considering that we would have had to also pay the attorney, we wouldn't have gained a lot..... Life can be so unfair and cruel!
David meanwhile established a new website for us, where he posts pictures, comments and also videos about the remodeling. Here is the link: http://dsread.dyndns.org/ Since this website is looking way more professional and has a lot more options than this blog, I will most likely also post some things there and less here.
We are trying to keep ourselves in good mood, it's hard at times - but I also have to admit, that we are very proud of what we have already accomplished in these last three months.
I really hope some day we will have a quiet and pieceful life...........