One Sixteenth

Partly Cloudy

It's a given: if there's an astronomical event happening, North Texas will be cloudy.

For the first time in a very long time, we are not decorated for Halloween. We have a few spiderwebs up outside. That's it. Nothing inside. I just can't seem to get into it this year. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's consistently 80 degrees? Or maybe it's because no one else in the neighborhood has decorated. Either way, I need a big dose of Halloween spirit.

The days are flying by because they are filled with work. School all morning. Chores and house fixin' the rest of the day. And then, the kids have to play with other kids. Sometime. Somehow. I am not exercising.

Two bags of clothes and half a bag of toys have gone to charity this week. The schoolroom has been revamped and streamlined. The kids' playroom has had Kilz slapped all over it. The Plan is to paint it blue, with clouds, kind of like this. The floor will be green foam tiles. The only remaining question is whether to paint the whole thing blue, or to do just the top half of the wall, stick on a chair rail and paint the bottom half something else.

For their bedroom, the boys want this for their bedroom decor. (Hmmm, that doesn't work quite right. When the page comes up, click on Buzz Lightyear.) They have a cathedral ceiling like that, though I don't know if we want to paint the ceiling. (It's got that texture stuff all over it.) I'm waffling about whether to paint the walls with that bold of a color, and Jeff is afraid it will make the room too dark. How can we use that wall color, have a cool looking room, but not have it be too dark? And why don't any of them want a LOTR theme?

Posted by Steph at October 27, 2004 09:02 AM