The House – Paintin’

When we bought our new house, there were some changes that mar and I knew we wanted/needed to do. Much of that was painting of rooms. Some of them we just wanted to paint. Some of them we needed to paint (because the colors just didn't go with anything we had). But – we figured we could do it a little bit at a time. That was the plan.

The reality was that our children wanted to help, and so the time frame moved very quickly. Three days after we moved in, Erica came for a visit. Because I was working and mar was in school, Erica needed something to do, so she primed the walls on two bedrooms. They were in the "wanted" to change category, mainly because they were both dark blue, and different shades of blue. So over the next week, we got those two rooms done.

That was two projects done in quick time.

Another day, Brea and Ben were not working, but I was and mar was at school, so Brea and Ben came over and painted the office, mainly because it was a dark green, and it didn't match any of our stuff.

That was three projects done in quick time.

And this last weekend, they all decided a "painting party" was in order, so Mat and his family, and Erica and her family, and Brea and her family (that would be Ben), descended on the house. In one day we painted the living room walls (one wall is about 20 feet tall) because it just didn't match anything we had, and the laundry room because it was dark rust orange – and we want to put up some cabinets in there, and some of the walls in the kitchen that were just a different color from the rest of the walls.

So that is six projects done in quick time.

My family is wonderful. Notice that none of those projects were just Lar and Mar doing them. We had great help. (And I am sure that if Michael and Andrea and families were closer, they would have helped, too – if not, they wouldn't have gotten to eat any pizza.)

(I really wanted to take before/after pictures of all of the projects in the new house. Alas, not all of them were done – but I do have some – and I may post them – someday – keep checking.)