After a few days off I’m back to working on the bedrooms again. The first two are as done as I can get them for now. The third one is the one that probably needed the most work, and was the bedroom that flooded earlier in the year but never quite got the full needed attention, or rather, deep cleaning. The kids and I went to the paint store today. I felt embarrassed again remembering the ungodly number of paint gallons I’ve bought over the years.

I’ve been thinking here and there about all the money I’ve spent. I am positive that had I been operating with a sense of frugalness and thriftiness even fifty percent more of the time than I did, we could easily have had enough money to pay for at least the first two years of college. They say when you’re going through the process of getting rid of things you can’t let the money you spent on something be the reason you decide to keep it.

The paint I bought I was not happy with. The boys wanted a color on one of their walls, so I tried to honor their request of not having something too plain. But I am currently past the accent wall paint phase. I actually went back to Sherwin-Williams a second time today to have them try to add to the color to darken it up. The first gallon worked, and is the neutral I’m painting most of the room with. The current accent wall with “coastal plain” I still don’t like.

So I took a break from painting and did some more book sorting. It’s happening in three different rooms right now. The living room, my bedroom, and the schoolroom. These are just my books and have nothing to do with the back office where my husband keeps his own whole collection of books upon books. This evening I was indecisive over a group of 4th and 6th grade science and social studies textbooks. I still think it would be fun to read them.

Those went back on the shelf. There were several others I was able to get rid of which went to the goodwill pile. I’m currently trying to organize them by subject, but a few subjects, like science, have more books that fit in one square shelf cubby space. It’s funny because science wasn’t even a subject we did that much of. I counted our nature walks and being in the woods as science. It was one of my favorite subjects though, just like they all were.