Well, we spent a long weekend working hard on the siding project while almost totally neglecting the inside of the house, and it shows! Not only does it show that we put some serious effort into the outside of the house, but it shows that we didn’t do much to keep things clean on the inside of the house. So tomorrow I’m looking forward to staying inside and focusing on the interior needs of the house. That means the kids will need to do their chores more thoroughly, and it means I need to work through the laundry baskets stacked up at the foot of my bed, and it means that hopefully I’ll get a chance to finish working through the nursery and get it all sorted and decluttered. I have promised myself I will not don my paint clothes for at least a whole day. What a relief!

Today was a bit of a frustrating day, since we kept running into snags with our project. Boards would not go into place. We made mistakes with measuring and cutting. It was very hot and muggy. The children were not as helpful as they had been on other days. So at the end of the very long day when we finally quit and I was able to get into the shower, it was such a relief!

After we got some kids into bed, Michael and I headed out to run some errands. We stopped at Meijer first and found lots of beautiful fruit for good prices. Yum, yum!!! Then we went to Bed, Bath and Beyond and got sucked into buying a really cool Kitchenaid coffee grinder.  It was an unnecessary splurge, but I needed a coffee grinder and this looked like the best one there…so now we have it! Wanna stop by for a cup of coffee tomorrow morning?