Signs of Spring…

 

(note big brothers snow boots)

 

 

 

 

(chalk on the face…)

 

 

 

(escape?…)

How to paint a house in 1 week…

 

1)     First and most importantly, find someone gracious (and crazy) enough to take your 7 children for 7 days so you and your husband can paint like maniacs.

 

(Thank you, thank you, thank you….Aunty M., Aunty J.,  nieces – L. and A.,  Papa and Nana S.  You guys are incredible!!!) 

 

 

2)   Analyze dozens of colors and buy way too many sample quarts of yellow.  Paint sample spots all over the house trying to decide what colors look good.  Finally, make a desperate phone call to your neighbor who you think might  know colors.  She does. 

 

 

3)   Buy paint and start painting!   Paint rooms as follows:  kitchen and dining room – Endless rain (blue) ; hallway to garage – Delightful Daffodil (yellow) ; laundry room – Tiffany Light (yellow) and Endless Rain;  bathroom – Northern Pear Tree (green) ;  living room, foyer, and upstairs hallway – Mesa Tan.     Gotta love all the paint color names!  

 

(above picture of lee is actual re-enactment)

 

 

4)   Be good friends with an amazing  professional painter who offers to come one evening and paint your entire 20+ feet high foyer!    (saves us from swinging from the chandelier to reach high spots or falling and breaking bones!)  Thank you Mark!!!

 

5)   Work like dogs the first 4 days so you can spend the last 3 days… sleeping in, eating out, taking walks, looking at magazines,  hanging pictures and lights, drinking lots of coffee and eating lots of ice cream, reading, shopping at IKEA and thrift stores, shopping for tile for kitchen backsplash, cleaning off your desk, cleaning out your 9 year olds room.  But, most of all, enjoy each others company and a few days of peace and quiet!

 

Stay tuned for a future blog post featuring,  “How to spend a week at your cousins without your parents around…”