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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 258625" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>G'day, folks.</p><p></p><p>Linda, enjoy your shopping with kt. It sounds like a positive thing all round - new underwear, plus redecorating supplies. Exciting stuff.</p><p>A thought on the repainting of the room - with your artistic talent, have you considered doing a mural on one wall? I did this in my girls' room, in acrylic house paint, a bit at a time as I could manage. I bought primary colours plus black and white. I did the sky first beginning at the top, lightening the blue as I worked down the wall. Then I did the green of the ground, then after that I painted a large tree (trunk and branches). Then I would mix up a tablespoon of green (yellow with a touch of blue) and I would use it all up by painting another couple of dozen leaves. That way all the leaves were a little different in shade, like nature. After that it was put in what I wanted, or not. I painted a bird sitting on a nest, then I was going to add some hooks onto the tree to hang toys but we never got that far. Anyway - just an idea.</p><p></p><p>Susie, if you feel a parent-teacher conference would help, the school should be able to fit you in. Anyway, enjoy that carrot cake!</p><p></p><p>I've been busy today, it's still busy (mentally) with difficult child 3 interrupting all the time so I can't get my own paperwork done. I have a meeting tomorrow and some work to do beforehand, but I need chunks of uninterrupted time, and having difficult child 3 still up doesn't help. Then the phone rang (late) and it's a friend who wanted to borrow difficult child 1 as babysitter, for a fairly long job (four days). This friend is always difficult to get off the phone, we have to go over and over what we've discussed and decided on, before she feels free to move on. And it's late, I still have a lot to do and my brain hurts...</p><p></p><p>Today I had to head in to difficult child 3's school for quick meeting, then head home again. No stopping to shop, just home. I still had to pull over to catnap, then I got home to find difficult child 3 still needing to be pushed to work (so most of the school day had gone, no work done). He did actually get a lot of work done after I got home, but I was so tired when it was done! I was only mentally tired, so we headed out to the garden and difficult child 3 helped me pot up some climbing vines, then I went to mother in law's to put one in for her as well. Our mail-order was in, clothes we ordered a few days ago. Some of the order, anyway. So I tried on a dress I'd ordered for easy child's wedding, and it was too small. Another dress (a back-up, or easy child 2/difficult child 2's wedding, whichever way it goes) fits well so one way or another I have something to wear to easy child's wedding as mother of the bride.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 has finally gone to bed. I'm heaving a sigh of relief. He gets upset when I start to get snaky at this time of night, with the interruptions.</p><p></p><p>Oh well, tomorrow is another day... and at least I got a fair bit done today, without getting physically tired anyway.</p><p></p><p>My brain hurts...</p><p></p><p>Enjoy your Friday.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 258625, member: 1991"] G'day, folks. Linda, enjoy your shopping with kt. It sounds like a positive thing all round - new underwear, plus redecorating supplies. Exciting stuff. A thought on the repainting of the room - with your artistic talent, have you considered doing a mural on one wall? I did this in my girls' room, in acrylic house paint, a bit at a time as I could manage. I bought primary colours plus black and white. I did the sky first beginning at the top, lightening the blue as I worked down the wall. Then I did the green of the ground, then after that I painted a large tree (trunk and branches). Then I would mix up a tablespoon of green (yellow with a touch of blue) and I would use it all up by painting another couple of dozen leaves. That way all the leaves were a little different in shade, like nature. After that it was put in what I wanted, or not. I painted a bird sitting on a nest, then I was going to add some hooks onto the tree to hang toys but we never got that far. Anyway - just an idea. Susie, if you feel a parent-teacher conference would help, the school should be able to fit you in. Anyway, enjoy that carrot cake! I've been busy today, it's still busy (mentally) with difficult child 3 interrupting all the time so I can't get my own paperwork done. I have a meeting tomorrow and some work to do beforehand, but I need chunks of uninterrupted time, and having difficult child 3 still up doesn't help. Then the phone rang (late) and it's a friend who wanted to borrow difficult child 1 as babysitter, for a fairly long job (four days). This friend is always difficult to get off the phone, we have to go over and over what we've discussed and decided on, before she feels free to move on. And it's late, I still have a lot to do and my brain hurts... Today I had to head in to difficult child 3's school for quick meeting, then head home again. No stopping to shop, just home. I still had to pull over to catnap, then I got home to find difficult child 3 still needing to be pushed to work (so most of the school day had gone, no work done). He did actually get a lot of work done after I got home, but I was so tired when it was done! I was only mentally tired, so we headed out to the garden and difficult child 3 helped me pot up some climbing vines, then I went to mother in law's to put one in for her as well. Our mail-order was in, clothes we ordered a few days ago. Some of the order, anyway. So I tried on a dress I'd ordered for easy child's wedding, and it was too small. Another dress (a back-up, or easy child 2/difficult child 2's wedding, whichever way it goes) fits well so one way or another I have something to wear to easy child's wedding as mother of the bride. difficult child 3 has finally gone to bed. I'm heaving a sigh of relief. He gets upset when I start to get snaky at this time of night, with the interruptions. Oh well, tomorrow is another day... and at least I got a fair bit done today, without getting physically tired anyway. My brain hurts... Enjoy your Friday. Marg [/QUOTE]
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