Meg & John vs. The Halls: Painting

Saturday: Paint at least one of the hallways. 

Lucky for me, John took care of this the other night. Here is the hall outside our room:

I taped the other hall in preparation for painting the trim, but that's as far as we managed to get today. I told the hubs to take things easy since it's Father's Day weekend.

Meg vs. The Closet: Clothing control

Friday: Clean out master closet, rotate regular and maternity clothes.

I have a box of maternity clothes. As my pregnancy gets farther along, I start pulling out the smaller things little by little. Then I finally hit a point that I must admit to myself that I cannot wear any of my non-maternity clothes without looking foolish. I hit that point a while ago but didn't do anything about it, which meant that my closet and dresser were a mixed jumble of clothes and I was constantly digging to find something that fit.

No more! All of my maternity clothes are hung up in the closet, and all the clothes that don't fit are folded in the box. It will be a nice day when I can get them out again, but for now I will keep them out of sight and out of mind, since I already feel like a whale and I've still got 3 1/2 months left.

Meg vs. The Garage & Yard: Cleaning up.

Wednesday: Take at least one box of junk from the garage to the thrift store.

Did not happen. Ended up babysitting and having other stuff going on. But hopefully I can catch up by the end of the week!

Thursday: Fill the green waste bin (weeding, de-tree-ing, raking leaves, etc.)

John took care of this; pulled out the chainsaw and cut up all the branches we had sitting around, took down most of the dead tree, pulled weeds, etc. etc. I went out and raked leaves after the boys headed to bed, and we babysat and got a bit of cleaning done, too. Go us.

Meg vs. Cleanliness and Polish: Fridge and more dresser (of course)

Tuesday: Spray finish on the dresser. Clean out the fridge.

Three coats on the dresser, and now it's in the garage curing for a few days before its final move into the nursery.

I have needed to clean out our fridge since before our vacation. I'll spare you any pictures--suffice it to say that it was gross. But no longer! I would reward myself with a treat, but the hubs made me sign up for LiveStrong with him (he wants to lose a few pounds, I want to avoid achieving blimp status), and I was forced to view how many calories I have already consumed today. Time for a glass of water and a lot of sleep!

*Bonus: We got paint this afternoon, and the hubs decided to paint one hallway tonight! Yay for getting ahead!

Meg vs. Organization: Dresser and what to fill it with

Monday: Paint last coat on the dresser. Work on organizing/rotating kids' clothes.

Check!

Here's my version of Goldilocks:

 Too big, too small, just right.

More dresser pictures to come after it is done. For now it looks essentially the same as the last pictures I took. Bo-ring.

Meg vs. Very Little: Weekly Goals June 11-16

As you can probably tell by the complete lack of posts, this week did not go as planned. Here are my excuses very valid reasons:

It was very hot, and the hubs decided he wanted to clean out our room instead of cleaning out the backyard. That is what I get for setting goals for both of us... Our room looks awesome though.

We had a couple of family dinners and our boys had lots of cousin time. This required a lot of prep and recovery work.

We locked ourselves out of our house, which destroyed an entire morning. Had to go pick up the key from my sister in Napa.

I am pregnant. This trumps all other excuses.

Anyhoo, here's the report:

June 7-9

Thursday: Do some serious weeding/clearing in the back yard. Make a plan for the yard with the hubs.

I realize this is nearly impossible to see, but it's my only proof. This took longer than I expected, because we had to go through each tree and plant and decide which would go and which would stay. My default position is that things should go, John's default is that they should stay. But we finally came to an agreement. Let's hope it looks better than my drawing in real life!
 
Friday: Paint one last coat on the dresser. Start stripping the old interior doors.

Saturday: More door stripping. Spray finish on the dresser.

June 11-16
Monday: Paint last coat on the dresser. Work on organizing/rotating kids' clothes.

Tuesday: Spray finish on the dresser. Clean out the fridge.

Wednesday: Take at least one box of junk from the garage to the thrift store.

Thursday: Fill the green waste bin (weeding, de-tree-ing, raking leaves, etc.)

Friday: Clean out master closet, rotate regular and maternity clothes.

Saturday: Paint at least one of the hallways.

Meg vs. Myself: Back at it! June 7-9

I had a lovely week and a half off, and now it's time to get crackin'! We have just under two months before the hubs is back in school and I am going to be mostly out of commission, and, well, you've seen my to-do list.

Here's my report for the week before we left:

May 21-26
Monday: Prime the dresser! Do a quick sanding.

Tuesday: Paint the first coat on the dresser!

Wednesday: Paint the second coat on the dresser

Thursday: Pick up new furniture from our friend? Start packing for our vacation.

Friday: Help my big sis move into her new place. Take them any of our food that will go bad while we are away along with some additional groceries.

Saturday:  Drive to Anaheim. Vacation time!

June 7-9

Thursday: Do some serious weeding/clearing in the back yard. Make a plan for the yard with the hubs.

Friday: Paint one last coat on the dresser. Start stripping the old interior doors.

Saturday: More door stripping. Spray finish on the dresser.