Hour-a-Day April: Days 26-29

These past four days have been a busy blur. I'm not going to even try to split them up and give them each their own paragraph. Suffice it to say that I put in my four hours, and then some, between these four days.

In semi-chronological order:

• came down with a nasty cold
• spent the morning holding a clingy baby
• took Valerie to a birthday party
• looked at a van we wanted to buy
• dug up the side garden for planting
• held a clingy baby some more
• worked on the kitchen
• cleaned off some of the cluttered surfaces in the kitchen
• planted some seeds
• cleaned up the porch
• made ice cream
• worked on the kitchen
• held a clingy baby
• went to a play date
• went to the bank
• spent over an hour on the phone figuring out new car insurance
• bought a van
• re-did the bathroom window privacy art with some cool new window markers
• re-re-did the bathroom window privacy art with regular window crayons when a hot shower completely erased the new markers
• cleaned and organized the craft corner (and threw out a whole trash bag full of old artwork and ruined supplies)
• cleaned the appliance island
• washed some more dishes
• held a clingy baby a bit more when he fell and split his lip
• (still feeling sick, by the way - just about coughed up a lung)
• finished cleaning the kitchen! (just one shelf left to de-clutter)
• fed the family a tasty dinner
• washed every single dish as soon as we were done eating dinner
• took a doorknob off our bedroom door to rescue Dorothy, who had locked herself in there
• when that didn't work, climbed out onto the roof from the peaceful room window, and climbed across the roof in the rain to our bedroom window so that I could unlock it from the inside

Phew.

But my kitchen is actually clean right now! Woohoo! I didn't really take a "before" picture, since it's been an ongoing project, but I might have an older photo somewhere that will give you a general idea of the pre-April state of the kitchen.

Ah, here we go, this is pretty close:

Table set for dinner tonight:

Craft corner (notice how the craft table is *not* covered in towering piles of dirty dishes?):

I can't believe there's only one day left in April! My HADA list has barely been touched, although I am really really happy to have at least crossed the kitchen off. Losing basically a whole week to Passover and Easter really hurt. Maybe I'll pretend April has a few extra days in it again this year...

Bonus Feature:

This is my "bathroom window privacy art." Which is really just a fancy way of saying, "I'm too cheap to buy fancy window treatments for my bathroom so I just draw on the window myself." And I use the word "art" very, very loosely.