how a project escalates

K colors on the walls with a marker.  Marker is washable but is on flat paint.  Hubby tries to be helpful and scrub it off and ends up taking paint off the wall with his scrubbing. Mom decides that the wall will just have to be painted.  Mom and Dad are talking about changes they would like to make in the house other than the paint.  Mom decides the kitchen counter is way too small.  Mom goes to pick out paint color for the hallway and prices cabinets and realizes they are more affordable than she thought.  Mom does some measuring and realizes it would not be too hard and adding a center island would be awesome.  Mom goes and gets cabinets.  Mom starts painting hallway and steps down on a stair, realizes stair is broken and rips up the carpet to find 4 broken stairs.  Mom and Dad decide that the wooden stairs look so much nicer than the carpet anyway.  Mom and Dad pull up all the carpeting.  Mom finally finishes the main color of the hallway, only to realize now the trim looks like crap with the new paint.  Mom starts painting trim and realizes the trim in the kitchen looks nasty as well so mom starts painting that trim as well.  Mom has leftover paint from the main hallway color and paints the bathroom as well.  Mom is tired and the new cabinets are not in yet.  The stairs are all tore up and only primed, and only half the kitchen trim is painted.  Mom needs to stop looking around her house and seeing projects...or mom needs a new hobby and it all started because K wanted to color.  Sigh.


So anyway I started this project on Saturday.  It is Tuesday. 

What I have accomplished
bathroom walls and trim completely done
hallway walls done
kids bedroom doors started
hallway closet door done
all stairs but 1 (and the broken ones) primed
stairway trim primed
bathroom door and trim painted
kitchen trim and door started

What I need to finish
hallway trim
kids bedroom doors
stairway trim
stairs fixed
stairs painted
5 boards to stain for cabinets (by Saturday)
cabinets installed (on Saturday)
kitchen trim (by Saturday)
kitchen door (by Saturday)

yikes...tommorrow is Wednesday already.  Where is the week going?



~Jess~