The Gilsons: Workin' on the House

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Workin' on the House

We've been steadily working on our new home before we move in. I finished the garage on Wednesday as well as the living room and the closet in the MB. Yesterday we got the family room mostly painted and headed into the hallway before running out of paint. Today we finished the hallway, found out we don't like the paint color we were going to use for an accent wall in the family room (though it will be lovely in the laundry room), and got Andrew's room mostly painted. We've picked out a different color for the family room and a color for the accent walls in Andrew's room and we'll get some samples of those on Monday and see how they look.

We're getting really close to being done and ready to move in. The carpet cleaner is coming on Wednesday. Hopefully we'll have all the painting completed by then and we will definitely have the house cleaned up. It's been a busy couple of weeks and it looks like it's not going to stop anytime soon.

1 comments:

Crystyne said...: I'd love to see pictures of the new place. Or better yet, are you going to have a house warming party?; June 1, 2010 11:06 AM

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Kid funnies

--Alex said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a star and hang it in my bedroom.

Calvin said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a cloud and use if for my pillow.

Izzy said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd go to the Milky Way and sell milk.

--While boiling apples for making applesauce Calvin said, "Look at all the hot going up. ... I smell BBQ." Alex said, "No, that's applesauce."

--While cleaning the basement and seeing Calvin not participating I said, "Calvin, do you know how to pick everything in here up?" Calvin said, "NO, I don't have big hands. I only have 2 hands." All I could do was laugh.

--Izzy said, "When I'm bored, I squish people's heads at church."

--Alex said, "I really want to take swimming lessons. I already know how to drown."

--Calvin after using the little potty. "Mommy, come get Henry quick or he's going to snitch my pee."

Favorite Homeschooling Quotes

"Schoolhouses are made wrong. If they must be, they should be built in a woods pasture beside a stream, where you could wade, swim, and be comfortable in summer, and slide and skate in winter. The windows should be cut to the floor, and stand wide open, so the birds and butterflies could pass through. You ought to learn your geography by climbing a hill, walking through a valley, wading creeks, making islands in them, and promontories, capes, and peninsulas along the bank. You should do your arithmetic sitting under trees adding hickorynuts, subtracting walnuts, multiplying butternuts, and dividing hazelnuts. You could use apples for fractions, and tin cups for liquid measure. You could spell everything in sight and this would teach you the words that are really used in the world. Every single one of us could spell incompatibility, but I never heard father, or the judge, or even the Bishop, put it in a speech.

"If you simply can't have school that way, then you should be shut in black cells, deep under the ground, where you couldn't see, or hear a sound, and then if they'd give you a book and a candle and Miss Amelia, and her right-hand man, Mister Ruler, why you might learn something."--from Laddie; a true blue story by Gene Stratton-Porter