This weekend, in addition to painting, we hung a new cabinet and new microwave. It sounds great until you have to figure out how you are going to add trim to all of it that will hide the flaws and make it look like the rest of the old kitchen.
The weekend was a frenzy of nothing. I have been continuing to catch up on rest and just hang with m’kids. I barely did anything meaningful and it was the best weekend I can remember in a long time.
If I told you to go get a pair of scissor right now, how long would it take you? Or how much time do you think you spend going to the junk drawer for the scissors when you need them from another room?
OK, I am about to show you something gross, I don’t want you to be caught unaware. Pictures and descriptions will follow. I can no longer hide my shame.
I’m guest posting today over at I Love My Five Kids.
I’ve shared more tips over there on how we remodeled our kitchen on a shoestring!
I found these chairs at the flea market.
I absolutely couldn’t resist them. They were calling out to me. “LISA! You NEED us!”
You’ve seen my bedroom, Noah’s room, the front porch and bits of the school room. But I’ve never shown you my kitchen.
I love my kitchen. I redid it two years ago. And now, two years later, there’s nothing I would change. It is cheerful and lovely and functional. It’s just right for us.
Can I share something with you? Something so delicious, so dreamy that it will make your toes curl? Here it is…… My new, clean, white, un-scratched by children’s hands refrigerator. “How,” you ask, “Did you get this lovely creature to agree to come and live with you?” Well I’ll tell you. The fridge in mi…