Well my "project" has gone well thus far. Per usual it is moving faster than I thought it would. The upstairs storage room is painted , touched up, and the blinds are up. We have emptied the downstairs closet and reorganized that - which means moving my daughter's things to the storage room. We shall see if I can get more done tomorrow (despite it being Sunday - with general conference it feels like "Sunday" during the 8 hours of sessions over 2 days) with my sweetheart's strong back to help out. Monday I am hoping to get the curtains done for the storage room, Tuesday I need to move the Lane chest downstairs and set up the tv & exercise bike in the master bedroom, and Wednesday I am hoping we will finish moving the storage upstairs!
It's LDS General conference this weekend- so I have been working between "sessions" (2 hour sessions watched on tv) and getting a lot done. The talks by our leadership have been very inspiring. Elder Holland (former BYU pres) had me sobbing with his talk about a mother's love. I could think of Mom and not have any bitterness in my heart over what I perceived as her shortcomings. Nothing like a temple sealing (done last weekend) to draw us closer to those we love. I am grateful for Mom. She always sang "you are my sunshine to me" and I know she meant that. She loved me and tried to be supportive even when she didn't understand me. I am so different from her and my sisters, I often think she wondered if I was a changeling. We weren't alike, had very different interests, and made life choices the other one couldn't understand. But still she was my Mom and I love her and miss her.
I think Mom would have gotten a kick out of my redecorating. Many of my earliest memories of Mom was her planning her next repainting binge. Between the wood stoves and Dad's smoking, we had to paint the ceilings every year, so Mom would repaint or re-paper various rooms. Furniture in my folks home was fluid-- most items were "family" - didn't belong to one kid or in one room. I can remember taking a table from one room, a lamp from anther, and the dresser from a third to "redecorate" my room. I do that in my home too. Some furniture stays in one place- especially in Hubby's office. But recently a set of shelves have been moved into the foyer as a shoe rack, a closet has been re-purposed from long-term storage to hold the vacuums (yes I have two - one a Kirby and one a shop vac), and a Lane chest will become entryway decor. So despite insisting I am not like Mom at all, I do have some of her best traits.
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