Oh, like everyone isn’t insanely busy lately, right? But seriously? This was the longest, craziest, busiest week ever. I haven’t had a free moment to think and I just keep moving to-dos from one day of my calendar to the next day and hope that, well…maybe tomorrow it will get done?
In the middle of the mountains of stuff I had to do for both Em’s school and Ad’s school this past week, I started a house redesign project or two. Or three. I started to clean out the play/craft room so I could paint it. I want to do this to one of the walls. How cool is that? And I started shopping for new fabric for the living room because that room needs some serious help. And then, because I am schizophrenic and can’t stop myself, I was sitting in the bathroom while the girls were taking a bath and thought, “I wonder what this wallpaper is like to get off? I wonder if I just pull that little corner where it is coming up…”
Yeah, within 10 minutes I had all of the paper off all the way up to the bathtub. “Mama!” Emma shrieked, “Don’t peel the wallpaper over the bathtub, you’ll get us all papery!” So after they got out of the tub, I pulled off the rest of the paper. It is seriously cathartic to pull down ugly 40-year old wallpaper, let me tell you. But now tomorrow I really need to get that room painted. It would be nice to start the week with at least one project completed.
Emma said to me, “Every time Daddy comes back we have some new project to show him! I don’t think he likes it when we do that all the time.”
But I think he does like it – it means less stuff on my list for him to do!
J. was gone the whole week to New York and usually that makes for a long lonely-ish kind of week, but our week was so packed that I only had time to miss him when I was crawling up the stairs each night to climb into bed and I only then would I remember that he wouldn’t be home. Thankfully he returned yesterday safe and sound and we had a super sweet date night last night.
We celebrated J’s brother’s engagement. Oh? Haven’t I mentioned that he proposed to JB, she said yes, and they are getting married?? THEY ARE! And we couldn’t be more excited. We adore JB, obviously love Jeff with all our hearts, and seeing the two of them together and happy is, well, it is just perfect. So we celebrated last night. A lot. And I needed a whole bunch of coffee this morning, apparently I am too old for this partying stuff any more.
Other things that I may be too old for…Em’s little ant hill. Come to find out the ants, once they started crawling around and building their tunnels, are HUGE! And crawly…ick. The good news is they only live 2-4 weeks and I’ve already prepped Em on their eventual death.
Someone asked about their care – you feed them a popcorn-sized bit of carrot, apple or celery every 3 days or so and that is the ONLY time you open the little top (and ONLY Mommies can open the top – ha!). And the ant, um…poo? I guess it just gets swept out with the dead ants in the end.
If you want to try something with kids, I highly suggest the Butterfly habitat first. It is very easy and much more exciting. That was my favorite habitat so far. Growing the ladybugs was kind of labor intensive, with the always needing drops of water and bits of soaked raisins and such…shesh. It was too much like having 20 little kids!
Just trying to get through this post has made me so very sleepy. I think I need to get some zzzz’s while I still can. Hopefully we’ll jump into next week all nice and fresh and will have a much calmer week.
The bathroom story reminds of my mother. Every time my dad went/goes somewhere a new project is started..
I love the chalk board, I am trying to decide where that would work for me.
We have our pantry door painted with the chalk board paint and we LOVE it! It goes on really easily and the kids are always using it when I am cooking.
Sounds like a very busy week- you know when you are finished with your house,you have to do mine right? we are close-ish to Michigan!
When there was no message from you for a couple of days, my first thought was: “Oh, oh — I wonder what project she is buried in now!” Little did I realize the projects are numerous and very ambitious. What is a woman to do when she is left alone all week, right? I am so happy that all that busyness, work, redecorating, etc., is going on at your house. At our house, a tiny part of our bedroom woodwork has been painted for about 6 weeks now — with just about a daily promise from Uncle Dick that he wants to finish it! So goes retirement! Hope you got some good z-z-z’s so you can be all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for next week!
I wish I had a fraction of your energy.
I hope this week is a little less crazy for you. When I was reading about you peeling the paper off of the kitchen walls, I was laughing to myself. That sounds like something I would do for sure.
Your house projects sounds like our landscaping. We decided to put in two ponds this weekend without really doing any researching or much planning. NOt like we could. Our Internet is down at home (thank goodness for work!). So…no crafty tuesday for me this week. I didn’t have much anyways.
Have fun painting! I’ve heard chalkboard paint is hard to get on the wall, so be warned. It will be cool once it is done, though.
So, it’s “next week” now…hope you are enjoying a slower pace. Goodness but you gals keep busy. The wallpaper story sounds like me, too…except then it would probably sit like that for months before I got my act together to repaint it. You are on the ball! Congrats to Jeff and JB!
The busy… it just never ends!!!
I have to tell you we are currently waiting on the arrival of both a butterfly habitat AND ladybugs. Hopefully I’ll find the time to document our bug projects. I’ve been taking tons of photos of everything but just can’t seem to get around to posting anything. Ugh.