Kiersten’s Blog

We’re kid-less, at least for the next couple of days.  Taylor’s mom has been wanting to take them and we’ve been really needing a break from them.  They probably need a break from us too.  So yesterday after church, we packed up, drove to Hemet and dropped them off.  We’ll see them again on Wednesday.  On the way home last night, I made a list.  A list of painting.  When we first moved into this place and had to paint EVERYTHING (okay, we didn’t do the doors) including the ceilings in four days, I promised Taylor I would never paint again.  Now that we’ve been here six months, It was high time I did some touch ups.  I made a list of each color of paint we have and where I need to paint it.  The list got to be quite long.  There was quite a bit of cutting in to do between the walls and the ceilings that just looked bad.  Plus, for some reason in our haste to paint in the beginning, we were sloppy around the outlets, so the outlet covers (almost all of them) need to be taken off and the outlets need to be painted around.  Then, of course, there are spots where we accidentally hit a different wall in a spot with the wrong color, or spots that needed another coat, or other spots that need some touching up because there are crayon marks or dirty handprints or any number of other markings.  I spent my whole day today, or at least six hours of it, painting, but instead of getting mad and swearing never to paint again, I felt great!  I can see a difference and it’s nice to see all of my hard work paying off.  The problem is, once I get started, I can’t stop!  I keep finding spots that need fixing and I figure I might as well just do it while I have the paint out.  I was cutting in on the ceiling in the kids’ bathroom and noticed that half of the ceiling had never been painted!  I can’t believe I’ve never noticed that before.  So things like that would come up and I would have to fix them.  Consequently, I only got the ceilings and the bathrooms done.  I didn’t finish the kids bathroom, but I did get part of the kitchen done.  Tomorrow I hope to finish the kitchen, the kids bathroom, and paint around all of the wall plates and touch up all of those other spots that I mentioned earlier.  I keep thinking that it shouldn’t take me as long tomorrow.  After all, I don’t have as much time.  That probably means I just won’t finish.  Maybe in another six months I’ll get around to it again.