The boys room needed to be painted and I thought it would be nice if they had some input into the color of their room. Well, Andrew wanted red and Geoffrey wanted blue and there was no compromise to be made. So the wise mother that I am suggested we use both colors (am I out of my mind!!). The window wall (3 big windows) that are trimmed in white got painted red and the remaining three walls I painted blue.
While the boys were at school I got the red wall competely finished with Sara’s “help”….luckly it was latex paint and the little red footprints wiped off the wood floors! I had the edges all taped off and started the blue by the time the bus dropped them off. There was no cutting around windows, just straight rolling so I figured it would go pretty fast. I was also really hoping I would have had it all done by the time they came home but the ferrier had come to do the horses and I had several other interruptions so it was not to be. Needless to say they wanted desparately to help me paint. Let me just say that I will NEVER do that again. If it means I stay up all night to paint while the kids are sleeping that is what I will do. There was more paint on us, the floor, etc. than the walls. Paint containers got knocked over more times than I can count. A whole bookcase of books and the hamster cage got knocked over…lets not even go there. But by the time they went to bed that night the room was painted and put back to rights and looked quite wonderful. I can look back at the situation now and laugh but at the time I was not having fun. Oh well, I have two very happy little boys who are thrilled with their room so in the end it was all worth it.
