It's snowing. Zoe is sick again with a head cold that boasts a bonus fever and the constant need to blow one's nose. She doesn't want to eat, but she's arguing with the television from her blanket covered post on the couch. Sesame Street is annoying when you are sick, I guess.
Her sister woke up in a foul mood and we had to have a brief conversation about being a mean girl. She hates it when I tell her she's behaving like a mean girl.
Also, my kitchen is kind of a wreck. I painted the insides of the built in cabinets on either end of the dining room this weekend. It only took me five hours on Saturday and another three yesterday. Glossy terra cotta colored paint is hard to cover up. So my arms hurt. And it's snowing.
I put a roast in the crock pot and poured the rest of last nights two buck chuck over it. It looked naked, so I chopped up an onion and threw that in there too. The plan is to have tomato soup tonight, but something needs to be cooking in the kitchen, and the drywall is getting its tape and mud treatment today, so I'm banned from the area. If I wasn't, I'd bake brownies for Zoe.
Happy Winter.
Here's what's going on in the kitchen.
So, that was the view from my station in the kitchen. I stood there for five years. Seriously. There's a big worn spot in the wood to prove it.
There's a lot of extra room, now. Hooray. It's still a mess, because I can't figure out where all my stuff goes yet. But we'll get there.
These are the lovely built-ins that are partially responsible for the love at first sight situation I fell into the first time we walked through the house. Someone painted their insides the color of baby poo. Shiny Baby Poo. Ew.
So I repainted them the color of the inside of a lemon. The opposite of Ew. It's more like, Hooray.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
Organic Food is Not Too Expensive.
Shannon Hays is the author of one of my favorite books.
Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture
And she has this to say in answer to the argument that local farmers "charge too much" for their food.
And I have a sick six year old on the couch who is coming to the end of her movie. Which means she'll be on me like white on rice. I have to switch the laundry around, put another coat of poly on my new table(s) and drink another cup of coffee before I'm ready for the second wave of philosophical interrogation from Madame Zoe.
Happy Monday!
Thursday, February 2, 2012
The kitchen remodel has officially begun.
So I had this architectural tumor hanging from my kitchen ceiling until this morning, when my brother in law came in with a ladder and some hammers and stuff and took it down. Good day. Turns out I have a decent sized kitchen, after all.
A little rerouting of the duct work and a patch here and there and we'll be on to phase 2; ripping out the ginormous peninsula that exists only to collect all the crap that my family is too lazy to put away. Hey! That's cool! Just lay all your stuff out on this massive slab of cheap counter top and Mom will Totally Handle It!
Ha. Life's about to change.
Winning!
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