{"id":838,"date":"2011-03-11T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=838"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:36","slug":"a-family-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"A Family Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Posted<\/a>Last Saturday, spurred on by DIL Kelley’s offer to help, I invited all the family to join me in a painting party, painting our living room, stairwell, & second floor landing:) <\/div>\n
A great idea because it felt pretty daunting to do such an undertaking on my own:)<\/div>\n
After the family pitched in to help me paint our bedroom for Mother’s Day 2 years ago, & it turned out looking super fine, I figured I was in good hands:)<\/div>\n
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I asked Kelley what day suited her & she answered immediately that March 5th was good for her. Good for extra “womanpower” too, since Skye would be home:)<\/div>\n
So, the previous Tuesday & Thursday I stripped the border off the living room walls (took 2 hours to put up & 6 hours to remove!) & taped off the trim work.<\/div>\n
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Saturday morning Cameron, Seth, Kelley, & Three arrived about 9am. Cameron had picked up Bojangles’ biscuits to “fortify” us for our day’s work–a bit heavy cholesterol-wise, but oh so good:)! Armed with coffee and a sausage & egg biscuit, I was ready to tackle the project:)<\/div>\n
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Kelley, Skye, & I grabbed our brushes & rollers & began painting the living room walls gray–Evening Twilight by Velspar. Went on like cream:) It has primer in it & covered in one coat like a dream:) <\/div>\n
I do recommend it!<\/div>\n
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While we painted, the guys were discussing how to rig up the ladder to reach the stairwell ceiling, a real bugaboo:( That discussion & figuring out the solution lasted about as long as it took us girls to finish painting the living room!<\/div>\n
But, the logistics were ironed out, a trip to Lowe’s was involved, & Skye volunteered to “scale the heights” of the tall ladder to do the trim brush work along the ceiling while Cameron held the ladder. <\/div>\n
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Cameron rolled part of the stairwell, Seth rolled the last wall of the living room while Kelley zipped out the landing (with a little help from me), & finished rolling the stairwell with Seth’s help.<\/div>\n
And Keith did the dirty job of cleaning the brushes & pans & rollers:)!<\/div>\n
Great teamwork:)<\/div>\n
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Kelley, I so appreciate your offer to help. It wouldn’t have happened without you!<\/div>\n
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PS. Seth looked after Three-Three & Wyatt during all this commotion:) Plus ordered pizza for lunch:)<\/div>\n
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By 3, all was FINISHED:)!! The walls looked clean & fabulous!!<\/div>\n
We were all TIRED!<\/div>\n
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But I must say there’s no better way to get a project done:)<\/div>\n
Thank you, Kelley, Seth, Cameron, Skye & Keith:)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, spurred on by DIL Kelley’s offer to help, I invited all the family to join me in a painting party, painting our living room, stairwell, & second floor landing:) A great idea because it felt pretty daunting to do such an undertaking on my own:) After the family pitched in to help me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}