While Carter, Aliya & Mercia visit grandparents in Washington, it's work work WORK for Mom & Dad!
Everything except for the downstairs bath, the girls bedroom and our bedroom is in complete disarray (and most of those rooms are too!)
Tami spent most of the weekend caulking (till her fingers bled!), priming and painting the closet shelving upstairs. Today we tackled the kitchen subfloor. Before hardwood can be installed Thursday, the plywood under the old kitchen vinyl has to come up! Talk about dirty work. All the staples have to come out and although we're glad the floor didn't squeak for the past eight years, this is tedious yucky work. Fortunately, our friend KarenCheever came over and spent a couple hours talking and pulling with us. We think it's more sweat than equity.
The painters were also working today, and showing Tami how the trim should have been painted when we first built the house in 1999. She's trying her hand at their technique, repainting the mantel and windowsills. And tomorrow, the unevitable: repaint the great room.
And the list goes on and on. Countdown to July 8th, when the kids fly back from Seatac with Tim & Kim.
Everything except for the downstairs bath, the girls bedroom and our bedroom is in complete disarray (and most of those rooms are too!)
Tami spent most of the weekend caulking (till her fingers bled!), priming and painting the closet shelving upstairs. Today we tackled the kitchen subfloor. Before hardwood can be installed Thursday, the plywood under the old kitchen vinyl has to come up! Talk about dirty work. All the staples have to come out and although we're glad the floor didn't squeak for the past eight years, this is tedious yucky work. Fortunately, our friend KarenCheever came over and spent a couple hours talking and pulling with us. We think it's more sweat than equity.
The painters were also working today, and showing Tami how the trim should have been painted when we first built the house in 1999. She's trying her hand at their technique, repainting the mantel and windowsills. And tomorrow, the unevitable: repaint the great room.
And the list goes on and on. Countdown to July 8th, when the kids fly back from Seatac with Tim & Kim.
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