“Since I scraped up the front door replacing the jamb and never got around to finishing the back door, I think we just need to repaint the doors. ”

“MMMM, sounds like a good idea”

“A different color…..”

“(huge sigh) Well I guess that’s ok” (secretly thinking YES YES YES This rocks!)

“I don’t mean to insult your paint choice, I’ve just never liked the door color”

“Well, (sniffle) I value your opinion and if you really don’t like it, I’ll look for something else” (teehee!)

I confess, I’ve never liked the front door color. The word loath comes to mind. It was chosen out of spite. I wanted a very specific purple color. I sought out chips high and low from big box stores to tiny specialty shops- apparently this color only exists in my mind. After several weeks I was pissed and had run out of time. It was one of those “FINE, you want me to pick a less then perfect color because you need it now? FINE! This one!” At first I was just happy to have the door painted, even if I was a color I didn’t particularly like. Pretty quickly I came to hate it. Now, I have permission to resume my purple search and I didn’t even have to whine about it. If I can’t find the right one this time, I think I’ll be a little more careful choosing my backup color.

In other home front headlines we went from this:

to (now don’t go fainting on me)

Yes, every time I snapped a picture The Hubster muttered something about me and the damn camera or hollered “Stop taking my picture, you’re distracting me!” YES, that IS flooring. No, it’s not done but it’s started. This is the little room in the front which we are turning into our library/sitting/only-clean-place-in-the-house room. We actually got this started while all three kids were home. Levi decided to bestow upon us the rare gift of a long nap and the girls were not interested in “helping.” They didn’t want to ruin their nails

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