Wordless Wednesday

Along with today's edition of WW, I had to make a little comment. We recently went to South Carolina to watch my youngest cousin graduate high school. Scary because it only made me realize that will be me dealing with a graduate next year. But along with that, I had a new appriciation for my grandparents. They are both in their 80's and when I was younger, I had them around me all the time. Grandma watched me after school, I would help Grandpa in the garden, he'd yell at me when I'd pick the cherry tomatoes and eat them right then and there and I'd help shuck the corn sitting on the back porch.

J doesn't have that with his great-grandparents. Because of schedules, life, school and everything else that gets thrown at you, he has only met then 4 times in his short time here. I treasure these moments that my grandparents have with him.

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Yes child...I will let you color on the walls

When we moved into this house, what would be J's room was purple. A deep lovely shade of purple. This is the color purple that would of taken 5 coats of primer to cover. I really don't have that kind of energy...really.

See...and that picture gives it no justice. Really it doesn't.



So for 8 months now, I've been trying to figure out what in the world I'm going to do with his room. He's getting into coloring. His MagnaDoodle is his best friend. Damn! That's it. Chalkboard paint!

So off to Home Depot we go this morning. All at the same time, Mother Nature decides that she's going to make this the rainiest weekend we've had in a year. Thanks! Find the paint and realize that you can now tint it. I'm in my glory. Sitting there with an antsy toddler trying to figure out what is going to go with purple. Ummm blue? Sure it will.

So here we are.....we now have one wall as a giant easel for him to create his masterpiece. Excuse the crappy paint job...I will say the only thing that I was disappointed in was the can says it will cover 90-130 sq ft....NO! This wall is about 40+/- sq ft and it needed 2 coats. You can tell where it needs to be touched up.





If the chalk doesn't come off with just a swipe of a rag...damp it a bit and bam! All clean.

Next weekends project....figuring out if I want to do the rest of the walls or leave it. I am going to add a chair rail between the purple and blue. I'm thinking about a primary green as the color of that.