This and That and The Other

What a week it has been. I've been getting lots done on the kitchen. Ron (and Patty) came down late Sunday evening until Tuesday morning, to work on finishing up some stuff. Ron got the electrical finished along with more sanding, plastering, cutting ceiling moulding and putting in a new door frame. After he left, I continued working on sanding, sanding and more sanding, then a couple coats of primer and then a couple of coats of new paint and pput in the outlet covers. Then I put the new shelves back up and returned things to their fairly normal state - but much prettier now. There is of course, still a whole boatload of stuff to do, the whole rest of the kitchen, but at least there is a part of the kitchen that looks nice.

The most challenging thing was dealing with a major layer of plaster dust all over everything in our house - literally. The curtains will all need to be washed, everything in all the cabinets and drawers will need to be washed. All the spice jars are covered with dust, the tupperware cabinet, the piano in the livingroom, the pictures hanging in the hallway -- EVERYTHING! At least I've got most of it under control, or at least to a semi-livable point.

Last night, Michael and the boys came up for dinner and we got the official word that Lucia and Michael will be moving to Vermont. Lucia got a job as a Senior Pastor at a UCC church there, they are excited, but we are sad. For the past 7? years, they have lived nearby (about a half-hour away) and Ahren and Sean grew up with the boys (Micah - 12 and Asher - 9) being a big part of their lives. Now to have them moving away, it will be hard. They will be about 3 hours away, which will make weekend trips doable. When I told Ahren and Sean today, they took it better than I thought they would. Sean was actually more upset than Ahren was. Ahren kept saying that it will be harder on them, because they will be leaving everyone, we are only losing them. It helped that I told the kids that when we visit we will be able to stay over night, Sean thought that was cool, and wanted me to promise him that we would get a bunk bed for him to sleep at at their house. I told him that I couldn't do that, and he seemed okay with that.

Tomorrow the plan is to get all my plans done for the month of March for school, which would really be a good thing, considering I've been really putting it off all week.