Saturday, 03 November 2012
Earlier this week, I wrote out a list of projects Jennifer and I have around the house that are half done. I’m kind of sick of so many partially completed projects languishing in our basement, garage, and (frustratingly) on the shelves in our dining room. So I made a list of all of them.
Now, these aren’t lists that have anything to do with the house…they’re just side projects that we began, and never finished. After making the list, I started asking Jennifer what was stopping us from moving forward with each of these projects. The reasons varied. Soemtimes, we were missing a certain tool or supply. In other cases, we need several hours to dedicate to the project, and that just doesn’t readily happen with kids around.
Anyway, today we made headway on a few of the projects. Jennifer ran to a couple stores and acquired a few supplies. I took our little rocking chair – the one I’ve had since I was a wee thing – and brought it out to the garage and sanded away.
Sunday, 04 November 2012
More progress today.
Jennifer made headway on an art project concernign our kids’ table, and she worked on her whittling for a spell, too.
We have a couple of videos we are working on that are both being held up for want of appropriate music, so I made a thorough search and selected a couple of tunes.
We ventured to Michael’s this evening in search of both a piece of glass (to replace the broken on in one frame) and some clay.
They didn’t have the right kind of clay…just an empty box where the clay should be.
The glass, meanwhile, was available for $26. Yikes! That’s an insane price for a piece of glass to insert into a 3×5 frame. Has anyone ever paid that? How do they justify that? Instead, I’m gonna go to the Goodwill one day soon and buy any old stupid 3×5 frame, then throw away the frame and keep the glass. That should set me back about 89 cents.
We left Michael’s empty-handed. Sadly, this is typical.
Monday, 05 November 2012
Jennifer completed work on the kids’ table today. Sort of. She discovered things didn’t work quite according to plan and now she’s contemplating various work arounds.
That’s always frustrating. Just when you think a project is done…it turns out not to be.
We had far more luck with our project concerning the Rubbermaid totes. We had seven of them in the garage. Most are filled with clothes from when our kids were littler, but there’s also one for camping supplies, and another for Jennifer’s doll collection.
For the past several months, the totes have been full. Overfull, actually.
So, several weeks ago, Jennifer bought two new totes. And here’s why I wanted to finish the project: I don’t like two large, empty totes taking up space in our kitchen.
This weekend, I brought all the totes (except for the camping supply one) into the house and Jennifer reorganized them all, dispersing the contents amongst the nine totes. I brought some of them back out to the garage, but we needed better labels for a few of them, so four of them are still sitting in our living room.
And that’s the fun part: I draped a huge blanket over the two double-stacked sets of totes, and now Isla has a little hiding spot. She brought some toy dinosaurs in their with her today. She sat in there quietly for about a half hour, which makes this count as a “win” in my books.
Also, if you want more details on Owen’s broken bone, HERE YOU GO.