Mothers and Painting

Yesterday was Mother's Day. We went over to my sister Jackie's house for lunch, along with my parents and my sister Chellie and all of our kids. It was really, really fun. I love coming from a large family, but sometimes, when we have just a smaller portion of the family there, it's really great to be able to all have one conversation together (rather than several conversations going on at once because there are so many of us there that we can't possibly all stay on one topic). We laughed a lot.

Today is a Monday - my day off. And so today i conquered the bathroom.

We re-did it when we moved in - it originally had some kind of horrible vinyl-ish wainscoting on the bottom half, and under that was just ....nothing? Whatever it was, we had to drywall the bottom half of all of the walls. And we painted it yellow, and i loved it. But that was 19 years ago, and i am very ready for a change!

So i emptied the bathroom and washed all of the walls and Juanito and i went shopping and got paint and paint-related stuff, and Katrina and i painted the bathroom. (When they heard that we were going to be painting, both boys disappeared - Houston to do "homework," which is at least a reasonable excuse. Zane just flitted away without a word.) Katrina saw the project happening and immediately and happily threw herself into it with me, doing about half of the work. The two of us painted and painted. At one point Zane came over to ask if he could help, and i was all, "SURE! But you need to change into different clothes first." He declined.

So now the paint is drying, and then we can paint the trim (it was getting late and we decided to wait until tomorrow), and hopefully it'll look cute! Yay! Katrina and i both agreed that we love remodeling, but we don't love painting. So the worst of it is behind us!