We finally ordered the kitchen cabinets at the end of last week. Twenty-eight thousand dollars. It's an amazing amount of money, but we know the results of not paying real cabinet money:

We had to sign or inital 42 pages of contract designs and fax them back before the builder escaped for the Labor Day weekend. Things have been delayed long enough.

There was a lot of this over the weekend:

I think we're satisfied with maple floors and one of those two granite selections. Melanie visited R. Bratti in Crystal City on Friday and it looks like we'll find a slab we can work with. That's a big relief.