Color Full

We were out of school and work all this past week. I usually worry about how horribly the children will behave and how horribly I will react but this week, I tried something different. My goal was a house full of color. I'm tired of the old doom and gloom. I want to drown all of the nastiness and negativity and soul siphoning drab of the world with a river of color.

So this time, I didn't sit around on my tush and fret. I began to hoard supplies. A busy beaver behaves better. By the end of the week, we'd made blue cookies because "Cookie Monster is blue" and mint green homemade playdough. We painted sun catching window clings and many, many portraits of Spiderman.This was one of our projects. It's a little foam board house that comes with markers for coloring and handy-dandy Tab A's that slide easily into Slot B's. Here is the finished product before the kids broke it in. By that, I mean, broke it.




While our men golfed, Leah came over and helped me make this snazzy vinyl table cloth. By "helped", I mean, she cut out the pattern, sewed the elastic on the back and placed it on my table while I drank wine and praised her.


We even managed to do some literal and figurative spring cleaning. Mattresses were aired and ceiling fans were dusted. Picture files were organized and backed up. Too small clothing was washed and taken to Goodwill. Bad attitudes and bad business were banished. Zoe even did her part by using the potty fairly consistently for a couple of days! And we all seemed to turn a corner of sorts.

I'm ready for change! I'm ready for color! I'm ready for Spring!