Spooky

The Halloween decorations have been taken down from the attic and our house is officially ready for Halloween. Just getting the decorations into the house is a major feat since it involves the husband and he just doesn't really see the point of decorating for holidays - not even really for Christmas. Although, to be fair, he did tell me the morning after we had decorated how nice everything looked and that he was enjoying the house this way. Wow - who are you and what have you done with my husband!! Perhaps it is just wishful thinking but he may even want to get in on the action for Christmas. The house is coming along though and the holiday decorations are helping to make it feel like our home again. The painters are almost done and think after today they may finally be done. They are just going to come this evening and finish up the front door. We're going red and I am a little nervous about that. Red can be tricky. It can be great or it can be garish. I am hoping for great! We are still in the process of putting in crown moulding and the husband is doing it himself. It is definitely a work in progress and it is taking infinitely longer than he anticipated. These projects always do. He thought the upstairs would take about a weekend and the downstairs may take two weekends. That would mean we would be done by now. The reality is that each room is taking about a weekend so at this point we have three rooms upstairs completed. At this rate I am hoping he will be able to complete it by the end of the year. He is saving us a lot of money and he is doing a wonderful job. I think for him part of wanting to do this has nothing to do with saving money and everything with proving to himself that he can do it. Really I believe he can do anything. He has done irrigation systems, french drains, wainscoting, drywall work, installed tile floor, baseboards and the list goes on. Last fall he took two of our smaller bedrooms and took out walls and installed new ones to make it into a bonus/game room that we now actually use. I thought I knew him very well before we married but this was a talent he kept hidden until after we were married. Mostly I love this about him but when we are in the throes of a project it starts to get old. Every project always takes months longer than he estimates and I get impatient. Right now I am tired of having my curtains off the windows, furniture moved all over and dust constantly in my house. Talk to me when this project is complete and I will be singing my praises of him and his work. At least the downstairs is orderly and now spooky and we can all enjoy that.