Friday!

Yay! The weekend is here. Man, what a week too. I worked HARD this week and today took forever to get here. I got home this afternoon in time to help Darin finish replacing the front door on our house. Our old door had a small window way at the top and the new one is a 15 lite door with lots of glass. It really brightens up the house with natural light and I love it already. We also removed the trim around the living room windows and put in some foam insulation stuff to cut down some of the draft. Then we replaced the weather stripping on the living room windows and replaced the trim. We put the trim back up around the other door that was replaced last weekend. I am really hoping that we can feel the difference next winter. I HATE having to keep the window blankets closed all the time, not that I enjoy looking at snow day after day, but I NEED light. Maybe we'll be able to open during the day now that we are fixing them.

Darin and I worked well together today. In the past, we have butted heads and argued about how to do things. I have realized that this is because I am bossy and because I thought I had more experience with home projects than he, so I made myself the supervisor. Things work much better if I just let Darin do things the way he wants to unless his way is WAY more expensive or unsafe. He has also cut back on his version of bossiness. He makes me the go-fer...go-fer this, go-fer that...I dont like to have to go to the basement and pretend that the tolls are in some way organized because they are not and I can never find what he sent me to get. I used to get really annoyed...get all your tools together before you need them so I am not always sent to get stuff. I still need to practice saying "Get it yourself" in a nicer way.

We still have a lot of projects coming up this summer but we got a good jump on them. I think de-cluttering the house will help us to get to the areas that need to be fixed, so I think I will tackle another room tomorrow...we'll see if the kids let me get anything done.