Fricken' CRAZY Woman.

(This is like my fifth post of the day)

Ok, this time it's me. Let me preface this. We are in the final stretch of our adoption application. We have the home visit, interviews, and profile to finish. We are actually procrastinating on writing the Birth Parent Letter. It's going to be hard. So, our home visit is this coming Wednesday, April 1. Our interviews are on Friday, April 3. Yeah, happy anniversary. I know. But I'm looking forward to it.

I have heard that every woman who applies for adoption cleans house down to the floor boards before the home visit. I desperately want my house to look it's best.

Daniel left me home alone on Friday. This happens at least once a week. This time I got a bug. Generally I do something sedate or harmless. Not this time. Which is not good.

I started cleaning on Friday morning. Turned on the classical music. It actually gets me going like nothing else. Then did the dishes. Cleaned my kitchen pretty well.

I knew our pantry/laundry room needed to be cleaned. There was flour, sugar, and dog food on the floor. Our shelves also need to be re-arranged and cleaned up. We're kinda messy. So I started to get everything out and off the floor. But things were under my shelves. So I took everything off the shelves. Here is what it looked like before.

Here is where the stuff ended up (my living room). This is only a portion of it. Then as I looked at the floor boards there was one that looked like it was rotting. From the inside. So I called Daniel and asked if I could pull off the base boards. He asked why. I told him. And then I told him he better come home before I went too far. He said I had and he couldn't. I got going. Emptied the room, moved our freezer and pulled out the base boards. No rot. Just a stain.

Well now I have a small mess. But, since the room is empty, we should take this opportunity to up date it. Let's paint. We know that we are going to do our kitchen this fall and whatever we use in one room we will use in the other, since they are connected. We picked a tile out the other day. So we went to the paint store and got a color that pulled the reds/browns out of the tile. So here is before. Gross wall, if you can see.

And here is after. It's kind of a red/orange sand color. I really like it. I think it will look great in the kitchen and with the new tile. I just hope it isn't too dark. We should be okay.

Now here's the problem. I have some one coming on Wednesday afternoon and my house is a bigger mess than it was on Friday morning, before this all started. Let's just say this was not a smart thing to do right now.

The sad thing is, as I go crazy while waiting to adopt, this room won't be the only victim. I have a savings goal for the kitchen. Then we want to repaint and re-carpet the two bedrooms. I just hope I can have the patience necessary to save the money and not go crazy. Maybe we can sell the house before we get a baby. We'll see.

Crazy woman.