Decorating of a bathroom

We’re working hard on the girls bathroom this weekend. I don’t like the paint, or the tile, or the counters LOL but I don’t have budget currently to gut a bathroom or even repaint fully …. my best idea is to work with what’s there are add things I DO like until the parts I do NOT like work for me. It’s actually coming out pretty nice and pretty little money spent. No large difficult projects to pull it all off.

We have placed fun quotes on the mirror, added lovely sea shells to the counter…

Even the drawers have been labeled, You should know where the Whosits, Whatsits, Gadgets, Ghizmos and Thingamabobs go! (the last is in the jar on the counter.. also labeled.

I painted this fun board that will soon have a quote and added a towel hook. that HUGE empty frame will have art that I will soon share. The three girls as MERMAIDS!

A nice chair for sitting while i help with hair ect. way to many girls to stand there that long!

Art we painted and added letting to ourselves. Just some fun going on with Little Mermaid quotes here and there.

There is a bit more to do. I will for certain share the mermaid painting/digital art when it’s completed.

No panic Pandemic

To say this year has been hard is the biggest understatement one could ever make. The amount of change inflicted on everyone globally is simply astounding. People have been placed out of work, children were barred from their school buildings, everything shifted to online ordering and pickup. But, the biggest change to hit us personally aside from doing teletherapy times SEVENTEEN appointments per week between all of the children, is WORK FROM HOME….

Now I have always worked from home. And schooled my children from home. But as much as I love my husband learning to incorporate HIM working from home too fulltime while still doing all of our other needed daily activities (school, therapy, cooking, cleaning, editing, sewing….) this has been interesting.

For a time we threw him out on the porch to work. Because these children are impossible to keep on schedule with added distraction and seeing him and his stuff was a distraction of epic proportion here. Oh the joy the toddlers have had any time they have managed to “work’ some of his work. They want to touch his shit so bad they can’t even see strait.

Then the weather turned on us. the lovely breezes parted to make way for sweltering heat and repetitive storms. So alas we moved him and his work into the basement game room. This room doubles as Kolby’s bedroom. This has been complicated. Kolby likes his space. He shares it during family gaming times like playing pool or air hockey or doing a Lego build on the Lego wall without issue because we are all actively engaging. He is fine with that…. But he is NOT fine with hanging out upstairs during a whole work day so his dad can quietly do meetings and paperwork.

Oh the times he has yelled, “Is He done YET!” “Can I just go downstairs?” “Why is he in my room?” And he’s super great about having these yelling moments specifically during the baby’s nap time.

SOLUTION?

Not truly sure I have one. But currently one thing I am trying to work towards is a space for him that protects his things and gives him a quiet spot in the day without taking anyone else’s space. Well not not ANYONE else’s I am giving up my one quiet spot to ever escape to. The crib is coming down today. the baby and Kel will now be roomies. We setup a lovely low loft with a mattress under it to keep the baby safely floor level. He isn’t currently using it, he’s still refusing but efforts will continue.

As for the desk space. I found this on marketplace and offered $50 (a bit under asking) and some paint, some ingenuity and such and this is going to match my shabby chic bedroom, hold all his shit in perfect organization (that I will have to setup myself cause this MF can’t organize a drawer to save his fucking life) My OCD simply can’t handle an unorganized mess inside my room so I will make it very very “SET”

I will show photos as it’s completed. It’s going to be fantastic. And I will attempt to cope with this long term situation. His work basically has no plans to be face to face again anytime soon and these children are losing their shit. Cross your fingers that

As I typed this up I had to stop and walk away to break up a fight over literally nothing that unreasonably escalated to to a screaming match between Kel and Kwyn during one of Jason’s important meetings and the baby’s nap. I truly must get things ready to do some home reno this next year. if work from home becomes permanent we MUST have a dedicated sound proofed office. We gonna lock that MF and never let a child see inside and never ever tell them it exists. Out of sight out of mind and all that. If they THINK he’s gone maybe my children will stop acting like feral beasts during business hours.

To mask or not to mask - there is no question.

To many people all over the country asking “Why should I wear a mask?”

The question is really why would you not? I see a few saying that breathing in a mask will make them sick. Yet not ONE study has shown this to actually be true. Oh sure plenty of YouTube idiots claim it. And we all know that’s some legitimate fucking research right there. I mean Surgeons wear them for hours on end and have for several decades with zero ill effects. Other countries have utilized them in public settings during flu season for many years. Not one of those countries and has residents falling ill from mask use.

“But I have rights”

“Its my freedom to choose not to…”

Most of the people spouting these arguments are the same assholes who have a fit if they see the side of a damn tit while a baby is trying to eat. Because for decency sake lets cover the tiny infants head with a cloth. (Which actually isn’t really safe because infants actually don’t have solid enough breathing capacity to be covered for long periods) But no… their own adult asses it will practically kill. Yet all over the country to appease the masses poor little newborns are being covered while attempting to eat and that’s perfectly acceptable. I guess they don’t have freedom though.

My take is, so what if it might not help. You dumbasses can’t prove it won’t. Its definitely not harming you. Evidence in other countries shows it is helping there, so WHY THE HELL would I NOT try to help do my part? WHY THE HELL AREN”T YOU??!!??

I’ve already been hit with - but your opinion doesn’t count because you sell masks… I also provide links to the free pattern and will be adding more resource information and provide as I can get the information put together links for sourcing materials and tutorials for the modifications I have made. WHY?? Because I know not everyone can buy one and many need to utilize items they can upcycle at home to make what they need and I want to see EVERY FACE COVERED! I offer them for sale because some people would rather have someone else make them for them. The service was requested by people who choose to buy not make. Please if you can and want to make your own utilize the resources!

Don’t be an asshole. Don’t be that person who puts your own convenience and your own personal need to push back at anything you think is trying to control you in some way ahead of someone’s LIFE.

FYI your freedom ends where it imposes on someone else’s right to life. A mask is a simple easy way to help respect others around you.

#JUSTWEARTHEFUCKINGMASK