I'm very glad we took Thursday night off because it was an exhausting weekend.

FRIDAY night we went over to the house right after work, no dilly dawdling. I tackled the kitchen and Rob spent a lot of time in the bathroom measuring, standing with his hands on his hips and saying hmmmmmmmmmm and 'what do you think…'

After taking it easy for the past few days I jumped on the do it yourself wagon with both feet. I got the kitchen ready for the big paint. Currently all the cabinets are dark wood. Ick, so I decided to lighten it up and add some color.

I took all the cabinet faces off and pulled all the drawers out, then I took the sander and started scuffing. It was a little frustrating because some of the cabinets still had grease on them and it made sanding difficult. I had a little hand sander and Mr. Guitar Sander kept telling me I did a damn fine job of sanding. When we were heading home my finger tips felt like they were still vibrating!!

SATURDAY morning we went to pick up the kitchen flooring and then straight to Home Depot to spend more $$$. Rob went to the 2x4's and I went to the painting supplies. We left with drywall, a ton of 2x4's, primer, drain spouts, bathroom fixtures AND a bathroom sink!

When we got to the house I finished sanding the cabinet fronts and faces, then wiped everything down with acetone to prep the kitchen for the primer/sealer. Mom showed up to help with the sanding and acetoneing later on that day. Her help made it go by much faster and we got a lot accomplished. By the time Saturday was over, all the cabinet faces were sealed/primed and the cabinet bases were ready for primer/sealer.

The part of the bathroom that bumps out into the spare bedroom is framed. The separator between the closet and the vanity space was not framed, nor was the space for the ductwork ... and now that I think about it the space to the left of the vanity was not finished so Rob went to work on that. Sounds of hammering, sawing and mumbling wafted from the bathroom into the kitchen where I was hard at work.

Mom left at a civilized hour but we wrapped up about 9ish, on the way home we decided to give the Shooks a call and go out to dinner and maybe have a few drinks…… Once we got home reality kicked in (actually, exhaustion kicked in) and I fell asleep on the couch before 11:00 on a Saturday night, again. Boy, am I lame.

SUNDAY we took our time getting to the house. There was no food in the house so I went to the grocery store and re-stocked. When I got to the house I had an "Ah ha!" moment with the framing. Rob took the first piece of drywall, cut it, put it in place and screwed it in. Once the wall was in I understood all the framing he was doing was to support the house and to give the drywall something to hold on to. I don’t know why that didn't hit me before but it made so much sense. Rob cut plywood to fit in the floor that we pulled up, he moved the vanity in there, placed the toilet in the approximate space, put the sink and faucet on the vanity and I could actually visualize the bathroom. Expanding that bathroom was such a good idea.

My mother came over again to help with the painting. We finished up the sanding, acetoning and priming of the cabinet backs then started to paint!!!! The cabinet faces are sage and the cabinet base is the color of vanilla ice cream. We got 1 layer of paint on everything and set it down to dry.

We got home around 7:30 ish and convinced ourselves that since we have the truck for the weekend we SHOULD go to the hardware store and pickup the door for the bathroom and the lawn mower. We dragggged ourselves out the door to the hardware store. We got there and were excited that it didn't look crowded only to realize they close at 8:00!!! At first, we were mad because we have to give the truck back on Monday morning and now we have no way to get the door and that holds up finishing the bathroom and then it struck me…..
We have no business working after 8:00 on a Sunday night so we went home and had a lovely dinner, just the 2 of us.