What a Week

Sadie went to the vet yesterday for a shot (actually a nasal mist- who knew they make those for dogs too?). The vet weighed her and in the 6 weeks since her last appointment she gained 20 pounds!! She is 4 1/2 months old and now weighs 44.4 pounds. She's a big girl. My nephews are spending a few days with us, so the two youngest went with me -- ugggh, the complaining "why can't we stay here and the other boys watch us?" Yeah, right, 4 boys alone in the house - not gonna happen. We had an early dinner (Mike had an errand to run) and then took the boys to Yups for ice cream.

We've had a busy time, working on the house:

I have painted: ceiling in the kitchen and hall way
walls in the hall and half the living room (other half goes today)
the front door, inside and out
and spray painted the kitchen register

I have put up or on:
two registers in the living room
replaced the register in the bathroom
the toe kick around the kitchen cabinets and the kitchen register
Mike "helped me" put a handle on the front door (I just wanted help with one part, he ended up doing it all)

Mike has:
taken off the double doors in the living room to the office
framed up a wall to replace them
put on drywall, mudded, taped, and sanded and a coat of primer on that
tried to work on the crown molding over the kitchen cupboards - kept splitting and the angles on part of it had to be looked up since the cupboards come together on a 45 degree angle, then to cut for the molding angle, well you get the idea....
Cut the toe kick for me (He has a fancy, smancy new saw courtesy of the one ruined in the apartment vandalism)
fixed the door between the kitchen and dining room (it is now functional instead of stuck open) and put a coat of polyurethane on it
Tried to fix the new handle we put on the front door, but it broke again (actually was the original handle he had on, but he took it off several years ago)

There are still tons of things that need to be done. Where does the time go? When we went to bed last night my feet ached from painting barefoot all day (got to remember to wear those orthotics for stuff like that) and my back ached from all the painting ( bending over, stretching, ladder climbing). I'm getting old - I could not move from the bed, even when I decided some Motrin would be a good thing.