Well darnit, it’s already 5:15 pm, and I’ve done exactly nothing on my bathroom makeover project. I got up early this morning, if you consider 8:30 am early, ran out for coffee, then decided that since Chris was still sleeping, I would work on cleaning up our dining room area, which in our ranch-style house means “the one-third of the living room that is on the other side of the cut-through in the wall that leads to the hallway”. Right. That made sense, I hope.
The dining room area has my desk on one wall, otherwise known as the place where I dump everything into huge piles and immediately forget about it’s very existence, plus our sideboard, which currently holds Kaitlyn’s collection of Plan Toys dollhouse furniture, a basket full of miscellaneous junk, and the base for our cordless phone, plus a bunch of other junk spread around it. The floor in front of the sideboard houses her play kitchen, various Fedex boxes full of product review stuff, coats, shoes, crayons, toys, and possibly the lost treasure of Atlantis.
So, I decided to clean it. I got started about 9:30 am. I vacuumed, I sorted, I filled a kitchen trash bag with papers and empty packing envelopes and assorted bits of flotsam (and jetsam!), organized the desk, organized the sideboard, vacuumed some more, and by that time, I was in the groove. I dusted the entertainment center, the knickknack shelf where Chris keeps his little Wizards of the Coast figures, straightened the cubbyhole where Kaitlyn keeps books and puzzles and a basket full of tiny things, straightened up the bookshelf, made a pile of library books, a pile for a garage sale, and a pile of product review stuff.
I looked up at the clock at that point, and it was ONE THIRTY in the afternoon. It had taken me FOUR HOURS to clean one and a half rooms of the house. Ryan had completely cleaned the playroom by himself, while Nathan helped Chris put a final coat of paint on the front of the house, a project that has taken him three consecutive weekends to finish.
Kaitlyn wanted to go outside and “see Dada”, and wear her favorite dress which is like a long polo shirt with a little ruffled skirt, pink, with a Care Bear on the upper left corner. She then stuck her hand into the paint tray, splashing her face, arms, and chest with white paint. The Care Bear dress is no more. Anyone know where I can get another one?
I made lunch, put Kaitlyn down for a nap, got the boys in the car, and set out to return the pile of library books.
Did you know libraries are closed on Memorial Day Weekend? You’d think I would know that, but I didn’t. We left the books in the book return bins and went for ice cream instead. Mmmmm, soft serve chocolate ice cream, really hits the spot after a day of cleaning! After a quick trip into Payless to get Ryan some sandals, I came home to find Chris asleep on the couch and Kaitlyn STILL napping, it’s now almost three hours since I laid her down.
So, with Chris and Kaitlyn sleeping, Ryan playing “Oblivion”, and Nathan at a friend’s house, I’m surfing the web getting ideas for my bathroom. Becky from Chocolate Party suggested decorative tiles for one of the walls, which is GENIUS, thank you Becky! Martha Stewart’s website suggests painting bathrooms in pale greyish-blue or green, I’m thinking blue. I’m also thinking about wall paper for the bottom half of the walls, maybe stripes, with a decorative piece for a horizontal border. That could work, yes.
I also found, while doing Google searches for some things I need to get my flower garden going, that the U.K. version of Shopping.com carries most of the same products that we have here in America. Apparently the Brits also like things like AeroGardens and Weed Wizards and those pouches you hang from a hook that grow tomatoes. Who knew? Shopping.com is a helpful site, by the way, you can search for things by price range, type, brand name, and store. You can look for jewelry, clothes, furniture, it’s one-stop shopping!
So, today was a bust as far as the bathroom makeover goes, but I plan to start out early tomorrow morning with a trip to Home Depot to look at paint and tile and wallpaper and hopefully not drive myself nuts in the process. After all, if I don’t like it, I can always paint over it, right? Stay tuned for another episode of “Elizabeth attempts to makeover her bathroom AND clean her entire house in one long weekend without going insane”!
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Way to go on the cleaning. Have fun picking out things for the bathroom. I’m sure it will be very pretty.
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Bathroom makeover? Come to think about it, I don’t have anything in the bathroom to change about..
Here baby is very cute .Wants to play outdoor with toys and flower. She wants to get snapped outside her home.
be very pretty. hehehe nice way of cleaning it..