Lately
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Posted by Jessica | Posted in Noticing Life, Whatever Else | Posted on 24-10-2008
Tags: birthday, decorating, do it yourself, dresser, floor, flooring, kids, kitchen, living room, remodeling progress
Do-It-Yourself
We are deep in the midst of giving our main level a face lift. Thanks to my father-in-law (fil) Phil our new flooring is installed! It is so much better than the previous dirty carpet. [That will be his new blog name, Fil Phil.] It is so fun to see plans spring into realities.
We are over time, over budget and overwhelmed. We’ll manage but I can tell that I have some heart work to do as I seem to be fumbling a bit with my patience and grace during this challenge.
Kids
Meanwhile, my little guy just turned 4! We had a doughnut breakfast around a patio table in the middle of the living room to celebrate. His Super Hero party will be coming when I can have a tool-free floor again.
Kitchen
This morning I botched a double batch of apple oatmeal cookies I was going to send to Texas. What? Who knew that 1 cup of baking soda is not the same as 1 tsp.? Yikes!
Yes, that is my refrigerator in the living room. So technically this is a picture of my kitchiving room.
Decorating
I moved my dresser into the kids room and made a mock diaper station on the top. Nice move. No pictures yet because it’s “nap” time which really is more like WW 3 this afternoon. We are going on 45 minutes of battle…still no quietness from either of them. Geesh!
Things I want to do but it might be too late (too cold):
- Paint a rehab dresser and place it in my room.
- Re-purpose a office hutch topper into a toy storage unit for the new living room.
- Fix up a $5 (garage sale find) bookcase for all the littering kids books reproducing in my home!
Sneak peek at my dresser rehab.
Bin-a-Week is making a cameo in the background.
That’s us lately. Have a good weekend.
