Our Projects

For some reason, I've had a hard time getting the color of our kitchen right. We started with beige wallpaper. But I wanted a cheery kitchen. So we spent DAYS stripping wallpaper and painting the kitchen red. Even though I tried, I never did like it. But I kept quiet. At least for a while. After all that trouble, I was hoping I'd warm up to the red.

Didn't happen.

So.....We once again tackled the kitchen walls. This time going with green. But the dining room was already green. And I didn't want them both to be green. So we decided to repaint the dining room as well. The color we chose? None other than red. Yep. We changed the kitchen from red to green and the dining room from green to red. Sounds crazy. But I'm happy with the results. For now.

Isaac's redecorating project was not so desirable.

I'm constantly reminding the girls not to leave their markers or crayons within his reach. But all of my constant reminding wasn't enough.

I had gotten a babysitter to watch the kids for the morning while I ran some errands. Something I do very rarely. Like maybe once a year.

I arrived home to chaos. The kids were running wild. And the babysitter wasted no time in letting me know that Katherine had run away from her. Then she had locked herself in the sunroom, refusing to open the door until the sitter promised not to tell me what she had done.

As I was dealing with Katherine upstairs in her room, Isaac found that one black marker. Starting at the door of the sunroom, he proceeded to mark on the door, the wall, the tile floor, the rug, the couch, the pillows on the couch, the rocking horse, his wagon, a ball, a dog toy, the white cabinet, and the sofa table. When he had marked every spot in the room, he turned it on himself.

When I found him, he looked like one of those blackfaced vaudeville performers with white around his mouth and eyes. He gave me a big grin and said, "Isaac draw a kitty kitty."