paint!

M was watching HGTV this morning, and he left it on while I was putting E down for her nap. Suddenly, we worked up the inspiration to actually paint something in our house! Woohoo! When we moved in, we said that the absolute first thing to go would be the pink walls in the living room, dining room and hallway. We have now lived here three years and haven't touched any of those rooms, but have redone all three bedrooms and gutted the little bathroom and redid it, but have not done a single significant home renovation project since... well. Since Evelyn was born. (When we had this conversation earlier, M paused for dramatic effect and said, "we haven't done anything to the house since... oh, how long? Evie, how old are you?" And she said, "TWO!!" And M said, "ahh, right. In two years."

Two notes. One, we've been teaching her to say that she's two so we don't have to re-teach her how old she is in May. Second, our little bathroom is so darned nice and not a single person has ever commented on it. We did more work in there than anywhere else... ripping out the vanity, refinishing the hardwood floors, putting in new cabinets and lights and mirrors and painting it all a coordinating cream color to the bedroom itself. (We. HA! I was pregnant and M did it all.) I still walk in there and think, "wow, this room looks good." When we show people around our house, hardly anyone even really looks at that bathroom. It's nice, dammit, but no one cares. Maybe we should hand out little fliers when they enter the house. "Hi and welcome to our home, please rave over our little bathroom, we're needy." I guess the after means more when you know what it looked like before. (Bad pictures but you get the idea.)

Anyway, the dining room is now drying from its first coat. There was a metric assload of masking tape to do, but we got most of it done with a tiny assistant running around with us. Then she completely refused to fall asleep. It took me an hour longer than normal, and it ain't speedy most of the time. We didn't get to start painting until ten, but it went by pretty fast. I'm pretty excited about it. I really hate the pink. This will hopefully motivate us to do the living room and hallway, too. I sure hope so. It's difficult to do these things with a kid but other people seem to get stuff done occasionally so surely we can too.

For the first time in weeks, she has started waking up in the middle of the night again, so I guess I should get myself to bed while I still have the chance.