Weekend? More like Work-End

Weekend? Work-end is more like it!

The princess is crying - she's tired but won't give in. D is rocking her trying to lull her off to dreamland. The prince is watching Higglytown Heros after a two hour nap (please note the time: it's 8PM). We had thought he might sleep through the night given that he didn't have a nap today (for selfish reasons - we wanted him to crash early so that we could have some much needed down time and lately getting him to bed is taking a very long time) and fell asleep on the way home from visiting an aunt and uncle. No such luck. I think we *might* be able to convince him to return to sleep in the next hour or so. It doesn't look promising for finishing the movie we started (Hitch - for those of you who are interested).

The weekend was busy, crazy and hectic. It started Friday afternoon when D arrived home from work. We had decided to clean out the old den, now the princess' room, and get it ready to paint. To make it "easier" for us, D took the prince and princess out to run two errands which took 2 hours....go figure. Who knew it would take that long to get cat food and drop cloths? Turns out it was a very good call (except for the part that it meant I had to do all the work in the room - not so easy alone) - it gave me time to box up the books from the bookshelf and empty out the room (did I mention we don't have A/C and the back of this house heats up like crazy. I was a sweaty mess!). I even had time to start taping it for painting.

They finally arrived home and after D encouraged me to go into the much cooler livingroom to cool down we continued prepping the room (with the little prince pulling off the tape in several areas. *sigh*). D decided to take the kids out to the pool to play for a while which gave me the chance to finish prepping and start painting. I painted two walls before the prince decided he wanted *me* to help him go to sleep...which meant cleaning up and switches places with D, who finished painting the room.

Oh but the work was worth it! The room looks amazing! I have decided to hold off moving the crib in but the guest bed and glider are in there as well as pictures on the wall. It's such a sweet room and I have to say, the princess looks fabulous in there! :)

The prince has decided that instead of a blue color in his room, he wants pink. Oy. Not like we don't have the paint (over bought, don'tcha know?) but pink doesn't really go with his stars and moon theme. Hopefully by next week he will want to go with the blue tones he picked out already - because next Friday we start his room.

So - we painted the room. Big job. But we weren't done yet. There were blinds to hang in there and our bedroom needed new window coverings and a rod for the sliding glass door (note to self: remind D to never let the prince or princess wrap themselves up in the curtain. Doing so may cause the rod to fall off the wall - taking a large chunk of the wall with it. Molly bolts have a way of doing that.) The new curtains/rod look great, by the way - and they really needed to have new ones so all in all, it's good that it happened.....except for that hole in the wall that still needs to be patched before we tackle painting out room.

We had company coming over for dinner Saturday night which meant grocery shopping, cleaning up the back yard, scrubbing out the pool, refilling it and mowing the lawn. Oh - and cleaning off the patio and prepping food. Somehow, we managed to get it all done and we had a great time with our friends.

Today we had a bit of shopping to do so that I could make a meal for one of the moms in my mommy group who just had a baby. It was 94 today and there I was - in the kitchen making a meal, making sweet tea, running the dishwasher and doing laundry. Let me remind you again - we do not have A/C and this house gets HOT!! UGH!!!

Now it's Sunday night. The breakfast dishes are set out. Animal food is ready for morning. Kitchen is cleaned. The princess had her bath and is ready to sleep for a few hours. The mommies are tired and ready to sleep....all night long (Yeah - like *that* will happen). And the prince? well - he's rested and ready to go.

It's going to be a looooooooooong night.