Projects

We’re never without a project around here. After Ryan cut a hole in the wall of the mudroom, he put up some cabinets in there. You know, to “cover up the hole”. But really, he patched up the hole and painted the wall, so you can’t even tell there was a hole there. But I got some new cabinets anyway. Hooray!

In honor of the cabinets, I cleaned and dejunked that tiny room so that it looked like this.

Notice I said “looked” like this, because we’ve since piled some stuff on those counters, as we usually do. My favorite is that there’s a spot for my big buckets of wheat, sugar and flour, instead of those being on the floor somewhere.

My son,when he saw the cleanliness of the room, said, “We have a sink in there?” Yes, dear, there IS a sink. And we’ve lived in this house for how many years? Almost 9?

Another project that I’m glad to be done with is Natalie’s 5th grade science fair project. I won’t go into a whole bunch of boring details, but what started out like this

ended up like this

And it’s turned in. *Sigh of relief*

Last weekend I also spend many frustrating hours in John and Jenna’s room. I asked them repeatedly to clean it, and they basically ignored me for weeks and weeks (what? Is someone talking to me? I didn’t hear anything!), and when the kids had the day off of school on Friday and began the day by fighting, I sent them up to their room. Let’s just sum up the morning by saying that there was quite a bit of yelling, some crying, some nasty looks, and at lunch time I told them they could leave the room and I would continue on without them. Seven or eight bags of trash and a few to DI, and the room was finally clean. Well, not completely clean, as I hadn’t even started on the clothes closet, but I was tired by then. After rearranging and vacuuming and washing sheets and throwing away and organizing it, I let them back into their room, where they said, WOW! Unfortunately, I did not get a picture in the 30 seconds that it was clean.

I also got some new chairs for my living room. They look kind of like this:

Oh, wait, it’s this chair below, only there are two of them.

I got a SCREAMING deal on them, with both chair delivered to my door for under $300. Anyway, I can now get rid of the silly rocking chair that I spray painted, but then whenever it bumps on the wall, it leaves black marks, and a white wicker chair. The chairs came this week, and I’m thrilled with them. Except that they smell like new leather. Don’t like that. But the kids were thrilled with the boxes, and John has one up in his room and wants to sleep in it. Um, no.

And, Ryan got a whole bunch of parts delivered yesterday from a certain bathroom company, and they are sitting in the garage. If that doesn’t have the word project written all over it, I don’t know what does. We’ll expound on this later.

So, what are YOU working on, Hmmmm?