06/21/2012

1.  Day two of painters in the house.  It took them until about 6:00 to finish up, but it looks so great!  I love it!  It's always a bit nerve-wracking choosing colors because you can't really tell what it will look like until it is on the walls, but I'm happy with what we chose-- light butter yellow for the master bathroom, and a light grey-blue for the upstairs bathroom.  There is going to be quite a bit of cleanup still because the floors have dried-on plaster stuff from the popcorn ceiling being scraped off.

2.  This was a big clean-up day for me.  The chaos from the past several days reached a level of intolerability so that I couldn't relax until the house was picked up, and the floors were swept and mopped.  Not that it was going to do any good for any significant length of time!  :-)

3.  Ben came home from work early today to help supervise the painting.  I'm way more comfortable with him doing that than I am.  I'm too timid and feel bad asking for anything "extra."  Ben isn't, though, and got the painters also to help him put the big bathroom mirrors back up (the granite people had taken them down, but didn't put them back up).

4.  The boys decided that today was Sandy's birthday.  We don't know her real birthday, but we know she is about 2 years old now.  We wanted it to be on the summer solstice, which I thought was the 21st.  Turns out it was the 20th.  Oh well.  The boys did some special things with her-- taking her on extra walks, giving her treats, and basically babying her all day long.  After lunch I drove the boys and Sandy up to Trailhead park for them to take her on a walk along the trail.  They love that dog!  And so do I.

5.  Later in the afternoon, our art friends came over to swim.  Mosey and Natasha disappeared upstairs where they played legos for a while, and then watched the painters doing their stuff.  They found the big mirror which had been removed from the wall in the bathroom, and started pulling bit of dried glue off the back.  And then, almost simultaneously, they both cut their fingers on the glass!  It was the weirdest thing.  Well, not weird that they cut their fingers-- messing around with a mirror with a raw-edge is not that smart, but so weird how they both got hurt at almost the exact same time!  Natasha's was bleeding more so we had to do some first aid, but then after that they had matching band-aids.  :-)