House update

Well, it has been busy!!! Our new home is awesome, and I love it, but it sure is a lot of work!!! It is keeping me busy, keeping my mind off of Jamie being gone, so that is a plus! :-) I was anxious to get in and start painting. I wanted to start with the kitchen and Ro's room. Two days ago, my amazing friends, Melissa and Autumn, came over to help. We started priming the bottom of the kitchen walls (it was BOLD BLUE!!!) We got one coat on, and had fun doing it. Autumn and I decided to next tackle Ro's room. There was one wall that I knew I would have to prime; it had bright stripes on it...cute, but pink! Well, when I started, I went to check a piece that was peeling...turns out, it peeled ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE CEILING!!! WHOA!!! So, we just started tearing it all off, duh!

The next day, I went over to get the second coat on the kitchen

, and finish peeling off the nursery paint. I started to get really frustrated at the peeling...it was taking forever, trying to use only my fingernails! Well, my BRILLIANT hubby called and told me to go get a paint scraper! God love him! Well, in the meantime, I got the chair railing off the kitchen, in an effort to do a better job painting...OOPS!!! Well, there was wallpaper under it, no biggie...just peel it off! WRONG!!! Off came the paint, wallpaper, and primer I had just applied! OH NO! I was pretty much in tears at this point.

On a good note, it is fixable. I have to plaster it, sand it, then prime it...THEN I can finally paint! For Ro's room, I was told it is not completely hopeless. I need to peel the rest of the paint off the walls and ceilings (they used an OIL based paint, thus the peeling, and he suspected they used outdoor paint too), then sand it, then scrub it down making sure to get all the grit off, then prime it twice, and finally...paint!

My girls came over again tonight. LOVE YOU GIRLS!!! We got ALL the paint off, and sanded it down. We looked like we had been playing in flour or something! Tomorrow I am going to vacuum it up, clean the walls, and start priming! WOOHOO Check out Kayli, covered in paint! LOL