Almost done!

As of late this afternoon, each and every kitchen cabinet and door has been painted! Tonight, Stan and I hung all but 9 of the doors. I'll take a real close look at them tomorrow. If I see something that I do not like, I will re-do it. Once everything is just like I want it, I will do the final step--applying a few coats of polyurethane. After that, the knobs and drawer pulls will be put into place.

I am at that point that I hate--the point where I become painfully aware that I have absolutely NO patience--NONE!!! I feel so sorry for Stan when that happens! Why is it that when I watch my shows on HGTV that it only takes 30 minutes to re-do a kitchen, 2 bathrooms and a bedroom??? If they can do it, why can't we??? Ha! Ha!

One week ago this morning, Monday, I began my 7-day adventure of "Tuscanizing" our kitchen cabinets. For the most part, I am very pleased with the results. The bad result of all of the work that I did was the fact that I neglected laundry and other cleaning around home. That is par for the course of renovating at our home. I always promise myself and everyone else that this time will be different. Alas, everyone knows that I will get absorbed by whatever project I am working on and forget everything else. That is one of my many faults. I would like to find someone else to pin this responsibility on but no one taught me this behavior.

My parents were never people who could only concentrate on one thing at a time. They were both able to work on a variety of things at the same time and all turned out well. Shoot! Mama could teach full-time, take weekend educational workshops and still managed to take care of her family.

My sister, Lori, is a stay-at-home mom who home schools her son, is on the Leoti City Council, serves on two major state and national mental health boards and donates time to helping animals find forever homes in a local association. Wow!!! Wish I could do things like that instead of having tunnel vision! LOL!!!

Oh, well... This is the way that I have always been and probably always will be. I just need to learn to accept me for who I am and to really, REALLY practice a little bit of patience here and there...

VLE-B