We Have A.D.D.

Today, I let James "relax" with the kids while I did a couple things around the house. I finished pulling up all the carpeting on the stairs and upstairs hallway. The floors are pretty decent. Obviously they all need sanding and refinishing (a project that I'm not looking forward to!) but all in all, pretty nice.

A couple days ago, I planted grape tomatoes, regular tomatoes, green peppers, orange peppers & cucumbers. Hopefully they will grow and we will live off the land! I'm also going to grow some pumpkins. I just have to till some more land (I kind of sound like Pa Ingals from Little House on the Prairie). Pictures to come!

I've also started scraping paint off the front porch. I really want to paint it to spruce it up a bit. Unfortunately, I have to scrape off the old, peeling paint that is currently on it. It's actually a very relaxing activity. It doesn't have to be perfect because once I win the lottery, I'm just going to pay someone to rebuild it. Again, pictures to come!

While scraping today and thinking of everything from potty training to wishing I was a TV superstar, I realized that James and I both have Adult onset A.D.D. We cannot finish one project if we try. It's impossible. We'll get 65% of the way done with something and something comes over us, and we cannot finish the project - we must start a new one! I'm much worse than this than James is. I'm glad I don't pay a Psychologist for this information - all I need is a 3" paint scraper and about an hour to work and think of these things. Maybe next week, I'll realize that I have OCD or am Bi-Polar.

The Month of Kitchen in Review!

The month of May was spent mostly in the kitchen. James finished up the new basement stairs (we still need the rail and some other little things, but it's good for now!). We ripped down the walls that were the bathroom and realized that we would have one huge kitchen if we opted for no bathroom in the downstairs. We're going to do the 1/2 bath anyways.

We replaced the subfloor that was rotting away. We built the frames for the new walls. We got rid of all the flooring (hardwoods included!) and started laying the foundation for tiles. We started to wall off the old basement door. We knocked out the built-in in the dining room to make more room in the kitchen. There are two blue tarps that are acting as walls in the dining room. We have cabinets (17 boxes in total) scattered around the house because we "thought" we'd be ready for them mid-May. Hopefully if we have a good couple weekends, we'll be ready mid-June!

Hopefully I'll get a new camera soon and can take more pictures. Taking pictures inside with no flash proves to be a failure everytime.