The Blues

A certain son of mine has been begging to have his room redone in our house for a while.  I am definitely not the most creative person when it comes to redecorating and what not and Jeff is so darn busy at the farm all the time that if there is anything that needs to be done at our house, yep, you guessed it, I'm the one doing it!  So, the idea of repainting the boy's room has been put off by me on numerous occasions for the simple reason that I just didn't have the time or patience to tackle it over the weekend with everything else I have going on.

Well last weekend I started feeling real guilty for having not done it and I had already purchased new matching comforter sets for their beds and figured it was way overdue.  So, full spead ahead, and with the help of Sam, Zach and Luke (I had hoped he would go down for a nap but that wasn't the case), we proceeded to paint their room.

Zach working on the first wall of his room

Well, I will admit I was extremely optimistic and positive going into the whole ordeal and figured this isn't going to take too long, it's a small room, but by the time we were done I was overly thrilled and relieved.

If there is anything I have learned since becoming a Mom it is that kids often going into "projects" like these with high expectations and good attitudes, but not long into the process they "get tired" or they "get frustrated" and before long you are left to finish the project on your own.  Reminds me a lot of each individual pet we have gotten for our family over the years really.  Thankfully this "pet" only stuck around for the weekend.

Okay, Zach was right, he had a room for the longest time with a girly flower stencil around the top of the walls and he deserved to have a more manly room.

Original walls in their room

I made the mistake however of being too nice to my kids again and let him pick out the color.  I knew when he picked it that it was going to be awful bright when the entire room was painted this color but I thought "What the hell?!  It's a kids's room!!!"  And it does match one of the stripes on their comforter exactly so it works.

It didn't matter if it didn't work really.  Zach had his heart set on this color so I agreed.

For the most part we started off great!  Sam was working on some of the more detailed areas, I was doing edging and Zach was using the extended roller and painting like a crazy man.  We were making good ground.  But then, Zach would drop here, and there, and I would have to stop and wipe it up, and then he would drip again and I would say something, in a polite fashion, asking him to be more careful and to not put too much paint on the roller, and before you knew it he was ticked off and needed to take a break because he couldn't do it good enough for me.  Constructive criticism has never been one of his strong suits.

So, between his attitude problems and Luke trying to get a live and paint loaded device of any kind in his hand when we weren't watching, I was stressing a tad.  Oh yeah and add the dog into the picture.  See she sleeps in that room with the boys at night and seemed to be a bit concerned about what was happening in there.  So on occasion she would walk in, with wet paint on the walls, and I had to kindly turn her ass around and head her back out the door as to not get her happily wagging tail upon the walls.

Luke was instructed on many occasions to stay in this bed.  He didn't always listen.

So, what I thought wasn't going to take us too long, what was going to be a fun and family bonding event, turned somewhat sour.  Oh sure, Zach did come back in and help again, but then Sam would leave to make "very important" text messages to her friends, and then I had to stop and go help at the farm for a while, and then I had to make supper and well, it wasn't a ton of fun.  Not like I had hoped.

One plus to this all, it is complete.  It may not be perfect but overall I think it looks a ton better than it had.  I have one 10 year old son who is more than thrilled and maybe next week we'll actually attempt to put the second bunk up so that Luke and Zach can sleep in bunk beds, up until now Luke has been sleeping on a toddler bed and I think he's ready to move up.

Parenthood...gotta love it!!!