Mom's Letters: Jake's Room

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Jake's Room

I finally did something with Jake's room. Wallpaper! If it wasn't so out, I would probably wallpaper every room in my house. It is so easy and fun!

I used the remaining paint from the kids bathroom to paint the little-boy finger-print-covered bottom half of his room, and then I was going to put up chair-rail but I got impatient.

He loves Jungle Animals and I thought this would be cute for a while, so I went with it. And now the room is done -- $14 and 2 hours later. That is my style.

I also took off his crib skirt and put these big bins under his bed so that I can have him clean his own room in a jiffy. 'Books', 'toys' and 'toys' they are labelled. Easy enough.

I am officially tired of house projects now and need to remember what my friends' phone numbers are (sorry guys). Next week I am checking back in to life!

1 comment:

Blake Hillstead said...: work it. how'd you get that done so fast?? did jake notice the change?? it's dang cute!; October 22, 2008 at 8:52 PM

Mom's Favorite Quotes

I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Jake's Room

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