J and C and Me

Yeah, I kinda let my ‘40 weeks to a better home’ things crash.  I am still working on it….it just isn’t necessarily an every week thing. Home Improvement Fail??

Anyway, Chris has a ton a vacation that he needs to take before the end of the year, so he was off last week.  As you well know, he’s not really into the home improvement thing.  So I let him play Mr. Mom all week while I got some stuff done.

I managed to get the upper part of the family room painted, and the lower part of Celia’s room.  It’s going to look really nice…but I still need to pick a color for the lower part of the family room/upper part of the bathroom.  Basically, the bathroom has crappy textured walls 5 ft up.  I hate them.  We all hate them.  The kids are always scrathing their elbows on the wall.  So my plan is to put up white beadboard in there.  The paneling in the kid’s rooms will be painted white from 5′ down (papered flat and painted above that) and a little chair rail/ledge will go up in all rooms up there.

The family room is the exception.  Since it’s got the sloped ceiling on one side, it’s hard to know where to stop painting wall, and start painting ceiling.  So I painted 5′ and above white (ceiling too) and the bottom part of the wall will be a color up there.  I just don’t know WHAT color.  Probably a shade of blue.  I don’t know yet.

I also got the dining room table painted.  After a small varnish snafu (and resanding) it looks pretty good.  Not great.  But better than before.

Chris really got a dose of my life on Thursday and Friday.  Thursday I had a MOPS steering team meeting in the morning….and since Jordan had to be picked up at 3, I just stayed in Morgantown.  So we got home around 3:30…then I left AGAIN to go to Mom’s Night Out.  I did feel a little bad about that..especially seeing as how he looked totally wiped out and braindead after a day as me (it was like looking into a mirror).  And he goes out golfing many Thursdays after having worked all day, so I’m trying not to let the guilt get to me too much.  He did put on a happy face and not complain, so that was nice.  And I had a fabulous time (we went to a Japanese Teahouse that puts ‘bubbles’ in their teas.  I was too scared to try the bubbles, but my Coconut Milk Tea was very good).  Friday I was gone all day with Jordan’s class field trip (and Celia was home all day….no preschool on Fridays!) so….it was a long day.  Hopefully he’s not regretting his ‘vacation at home’ too much.  He does have some top secret computer project he’s working on (and took over my new dining room table with…space that I *need* to get started on my backlog of craft stuff this week!!)

So this week:

Paint the upper part of Celia’s room.

Pick a color for the familyroom/bathroom.

TONS of yummy fall baking.

A wedding guestbook/scrapbook for one of my mom’s friends.

Start my pillow project.  I have an idea for these pillow to make for Celia for Christmas.  They are throw pillows….but kinda look like they are wearing little vests.  Four of them, one will zip, one with snap, one will button up, and one will be laced and tied like a shoe.  So she can practice those skills (she really wants to learn them…weird kid).  I’ll take lots of pictures to share of that project because a few people have asked about it.

Paint the table leaves (forgot those last week!!)

Bathe the dog.  Again.  He stinks.  Can someone please tell me WHY he currently stinks??  We just had him at the groomers on Tuesday.  I should have at least a few weeks before he starts smelling like stinkin’ dog again….but here he is, reeking up my house.