Today was B-E-A-U-tiful day.......HOT but beautiful.

 

I have come to a very important conclusion this weekend.  If you REALLY need to clean your house, but just cant get motivated...have company.  NOTHING will light a fire under my butt faster than knowing that my friends (or worse...people who DONT know me) are going to be coming over.  All those things that I have been able to overlook for days...weeks....even months now become glaringly obvious.

 

Case in point, we had friends over for dinner tonight.  We havent seem them in a while as they live in Williams Lake.  Actually they hadnt been to our house in over 2 years....we had visited with them, just not HERE. 

 

SO.....I know they are coming and everywhere I turn, I see stuff that I want to have done.  My cupboard doors, I took them down with the idea that I would take off the handles, hinges, sand,clean repaint them and the cupboards, repaint the handles and hinges and then put them all back up in the space of a week.  I must have been HIGH to think I could do all that!! 

 

Needless to say I had the cupboards painted, the hinges and handles were all clean and ready to paint.  The doors were in varying states of done-ness (is that a word?) and it had been this way for ummmmm ......a few weeks?     Last week I started the process of cleaning up my messes, I got all the hinges and handles painted and prepped the remaining doors.  

 

Yesterday I worked  530 - 130 yesterday, met Dillon at the mall after work, shopped some, picked up the other 3 at 430 - came home and started painting.  I even got so far as to put some hinges on finished doors.  I did the remaining painting and did some strategic planning for today.  I didnt get to bed till 1am - fun since I had been up since 4am!!

 

I was up and working by 9am this morning.  I got all the hinges on - cleaned up the messes on the sundeck - did a run to the bottle depot, went shopping for dinner, scrubbed the sundeck floor, (with help) rehung all 18 cupboard doors, and put the handles on.  I had the kids clean up the back yard last night because it looked like we were running a redneck junk yard!!  The crap-to-grass ratio was startlingly high!!   Darin was working on the inside of the house, and the kids were helping, so by the time the company got here around 5 it was almost tolerable. ..........................

 

Whew - now Im good till the next time we have company - Hopefully it wont be TOO SOON !!!

Aw thanks!!! It's pretty exciting although we have both said it doesn't feel too real yet. I think when we go for the first u/s it will really sink in. My parents ARE super excited...although they are hoping for a girl now with both the grandkids being boys so there's a bit of pressure
I soooooo know what you mean about company suddenly inspiring a cleaning/working frenzy in people!! That's about the only time my house gets a good cleaning. We actually have a house full this weekend so the house was in tiptop shape...until we had about 20 people over for a BBQ last night Anyway, good to hear from you and hope you're having a great week! Any big plans for the long weekend? We have a wedding and the aforementioned house full of company. Should be fun!

lmao, kel you crack me right up!

so how do the cupboard doors look?

Jelly Bean!!

Hope you have a great b-day! Miss ya, please post soon and share your summer with us!! 's Suna