10:09 PM

After months of no progress, I can finally check off another room from my to-paint list. And it was a doozy - our bookroom. I did one wall last weekend to test out the color (“Candlebark”) so Merrystar and I could decide we actually liked it. My father-in-law came up this weekend and we polished off the remaining walls - unfortunately, those were the ones with all the bookcases against them. (Ow, my back, by the way.) Why couldn’t we collect feathers or something a little lighter?

Remaining on the list - master suite (cathedral ceiling, ick), two bathrooms, my office, and some closets. Oh, and optionally the garage. Not so long a list as we had a year ago, and a good thing too. Going to have to start making up the nursery soon enough…