TCoB

That is, "Taking Care of Business".  There's nothing Dan loves more than getting stuff done.  It's a quality that has rubbed off on me during our marriage, which is definitely a good thing because pre-Dan I was more of a LJDIT ("Let's Just Do It Tomorrow") type.  So this weekend, thanks to Noah's sports class (if you can call a dozen boys between 2 and 3 attempting to play indoor football, hockey, and basketball either "sports" or a "class") being cancelled for the long weekend, we have decided to get some of our backed-up house projects taken care of.

1) Cleaning out all the random boxes of stuff in our room.  Our master bedroom is big, something we really like about our house.  At the same time, its size means that it tends to become the repository of crap.  So we finally went through that this morning -- boxes of my non-maternity clothes, boxes of cloth diapers, boxes of random junk I threw in a box before having people over, etc, and can actually walk comfortably around our entire room again!  Good thing because before long we will need to set up a co-sleeper and changing area in there!

2) A trip to Ikea! Eliza and her good friend A are both fighting colds, which means that we cancelled their swimming lesson this afternoon. So what could be more fun than driving an hour and wading through huge crowds, in order to procure this lamp?  I really want this lamp for the top of our piano and haven't found anything similar elsewhere.  I hope it's worth it!  We may also check out some new bedding for Noah's toddler bed, given that one upcoming TCoB project is moving him into Eliza's bedroom, in anticipation of the twins needing the smaller bedroom.

3) Finishing up our overdue house updating projects.  If you've glanced at our Flickr account recently, you might notice shots of some new light fixtures (or the horrendously ugly ones they replaced) or some particularly lovely monogrammed cabinet pulls (the previous owners' last name started with S, which ours does not, which is actually not even the most compelling reason to change those babies). We haven't taken a picture of the new cabinet pulls yet but here is a link, for those who are still reading! I'm having a little buyer's remorse about those but they're still a heck of a lot better than what they replaced.  Still left to do: spray paint the white painted hardware on this kitchen light and the cabinet hinges with Rustoleum "oil rubbed bronze spray paint" (really works well, I used it on some 1980s bright-brass lamps with great results!) and paint that annoying circle of off-white ceiling paint above the kitchen light, white.

4) If I have time/energy, I ordered some really pretty modern-ish blue-paisley upholstery fabric when it was on sale at Joann last month, and I want to replace the ugly red-geometric pattern on our dining room chairs (also purchased from the previous owners of our house, who apparently really really liked dark red) with that.  I'll post a picture once the chairs are done -- the picture of the fabric on the Joann website doesn't do it justice.