The battle ground has been drawn

AFTER years of planning, unplanning, sketching, scribbling, cutting, pasting, dreaming, scaling back, and eventually committing, today we finally began to build our house.
My husband Jeremy is the builder (let's call him the General from now on) so most of the work will fall to him. My skills, as an ex-journo and full time mum, don't lend themselves entirely to building a house, especially when it's up to the General's standards. But as we all know from watching the Mecca of all shows about houses, Grand Designs (schwing), there is a lot that goes on in the background, so I'm sure I'll be sucked into the vortex that is 'our build' more than enough.
So .... it's begun.

DAY ONE: Scraping back the scrub. The Norfolk is now gone.

Day one we scraped the block clean to reveal what we have to work with. Looks good. Sorry to see the trees go, but happy to see the 'creepy crawly factor' reduced to a safe standard. Snakes, spiders, lizards, bitey bitey ants, mossies..catch you later. I'll put up a few before photos to show you what was.
But from now, what was is gone, and what will be is a long way off. We know it'll be hard, but it's so exciting to think we'll one day see our ideas come to life and hopefully there won't be too many things that annoy me once it's completed.
In fact I know there will be things I will love, love, love. I hope, hope, hope.
See the doubt and nerves creeping in already.
Over the next 'hopefully' six months, we'll build the house to raise our two daughters, Pippi and Sailor, in. I'll post the plans, progress notes, milestones, lots of pics etc but I don't want to bore you all with the day to day details. Hopefully just the juicy bits.
Plus, as this is our second build together, I'm writing this blog with an ulterior motive. I want help making decisions. Build By Numbers is about just that. Every time we have to make a decision about something, I'll post the final two choices and see what you all think out there.

HANDS UP: Pippi wants in.

As much as Id love to say the most votes win, the General has requested final say, so these are the rules. You vote, we take that input and the General makes the final call. Obviously we all know as the wife, I really have the final say, but as wife, I'll let the General think he does.
But I can assure you, majority has a big sway so come on....get involved and help us build this house.
So sit back and let's build this sucker. Hands up if you want in.