celticdragonfly

We've been continuing to work on Jamie's bed. It had been really hot, making progress slow and miserable. It RAINED Sunday and Monday, yay yay yay, and it's briefly cooler. So I spent a lot of the last two days out in the garage, painting the board that's going to be the backstop underneath the loft bed, with one side done in magnetic chalkboard paint. That is some weird paint, sludgy stuff. I've been painting and scrubbing my hands enough that the dermatitis is back, darn it. The pharmacy will call my doctor and see if I can get more of that cream that helped.

Last night selenite and fordprfct completed putting one of the ends together. Then the drill ran out of power. selenite will be getting more of it done in the next few days - maybe we can even get it finished and up in his room over the weekend. It would be nice. I'll probably add the stars later.

I also took down the easel from Maggie's room, which has a chalkboard surface on one side. Brendan had scribbled over the green chalkboard with marker years ago, pretty badly. I put two coats of the magnetic chalkboard paint over it, hopefully that will be a big improvement. I've been using it to start teaching Maggie to write letters - she's got A reasonably, and is starting to learn B.

Okay, Jamie's new glasses were finally ready today. So we went up to Southlake to pick them up.

Later during my errands, looking at them, I'm afraid they're too tight - too narrow for his face. It looks like the temples are pressing in on the sides of his head. GAH. And of course by then they were already closed, they close at noon on Saturdays. So I'm expecting early next week I'm going to need to go back to Southlake and have them checked.

I took the kids to pick up catfood next - Maggie loves that, as she gets to see animals. They were doing an adoption day, so she got to see dogs, cats / kittens, birds, a sleeping hamster, and lotsa fish. The Southlake Petsmart actually has a horse section - probably about 1/6th of the store. Whee.

Then we went to Lowes to get the paint for Jamie's loft bed. Every time I go to Lowes I think I'll be okay - and then I end up miserable again. We really pinned it down when we were getting lumber for his bed - being down at the end where they're cutting all the wood made me miserable, my chest was too heavy and I was practically in a panic attack. The sawdust is awful, and I suspect the paints and other chemicals are just as bad. I had remembered the name of my paint color as "vibrant blue" and couldn't FIND it anywhere - and they looked it up and said it didn't exist. After much angst I found a color sample that had been hidden by some in the wrong slot, that had "vivid blue" and I decided it must have been that one, and got the paint and a few extra brushes. Karl's been finishing the last of the primer painting today. I hope we can get it all FINISHED soon.

I've been thinking, now that I have a whole gallon of that color paint - I do NOT want to do any more building projects, but I could probably handle a couple more painting projects. Maybe find someplace that does unfinished furniture - there's some kids' stuff at Michael's, but I'd like to find better - and do maybe a table and pair of chairs in a kid size, or a small bookcase, or dresser, or something like that, paint it in a matching color to the bed, and get more of the star Wallies and do up a little bedroom set for him. We'll see, I'll go google unfinished furniture in the area.

Then we went to the library, and then we went to chickfila for lunch. The one on Hulen was too crowded and noisy - the Lake Worth one was quiet, so that was okay. Now we're home. Whew.