Overwelhming

That is how things feel right now......overwelhming.  The list of everything we can do on the house that we don't need to have money for to do is LONG.  Sometimes I wonder if we will ever get anywhere.  When I think that we've been here 2 1/2 weeks I wonder what we've done for those weeks.  I mean, really I know what we've done, but it makes me feel like its nothing. 

Here is the list:
1. Kitchen cabinets-paint (4 coats to complete each one)
2. Take chair rail off of kitchen walls
3. Strip wall paper in kitchen (it's painted over by the way)
4. Paint kitchen walls
5. Deep clean: entryway, living room, dining room, kitchen, upstairs hallway, office, and Addilece's future room.
6. De-growth yard (this has about a million projects that fall into this category)
7. Remove rocks from around house.
8. Replace missing siding on porch (thankful its also in the garage....we think they might not of known how to finish it)
9. Finish preparing dirt for garden
10. Plant garden
11. Take down ALL lights....clean and paint most of them.
12. Strip wall paper in the dinning room (it's also painted over....fun)
13. Remove falling paint on entryway ceiling and paint.
14.Clean almost every other ceiling in house and see what else needs repainted.

Other Possibles:
1. Paint guest room (and anything else those three gallons will cover)
2. Paint upstairs bathroom (part of those three gallons??? hopefully)

Projects with just a little bit of money:
1. Downstairs bathroom: probably need to buy some drywall....probably have paint for it and found tiles in the garage.....this will only work if the items in there (sink, toilet, bath) are savable.
2. Mud area: If we have paint, then I just need to spray paint some hooks and purchase some totes for shoes.

Like I said...its a LOT!  We've gotten questions of when are we going to tackle a "big" project....but there aren't any "big" projects at this point.  Its just a million little projects.  When you throw in the daily dishes, cleaning, mowing, church and other responsibilities it gets to be a lot.  Then top it off with stuff like part of your ceiling falls in (b/c the roof USED to be leaking...but isn't anymore...thanks to a friend).

So that's life right now.  And that's why posts will be sparse for a while.