January 17, 2025 - Friday

We did school again today, even though we're all a little burnt out from the week, because I wanted us to get next week's curriculum done, but still take off Wednesday so I can finish prepping for the trip without feeling overwhelmed (which, let's face it, I'll probably feel anyway). Ruby had quite a few tantrums, but pulled it together by the end, thankfully. 

After school, I finally painted the dang trim! It's done!! It took a couple of hours, but it looks great. We got Clemi's new nightstand and rug in place and moved her furniture in from her sister's room, finally, and much to Ruby's relief! She has been very annoyed at her flow being thrown off this last month and a half. I am really proud of myself for getting this room done, from start to finish. I packed it up, moved out the furniture, filled all the nail holes in the walls and then sanded, pulled off all the trim, ripped up the carpet and padding, cut it into strips, and prepped it for bulk pick-up. I prepped the sub-floor for flooring by pulling up the carpet strips and all stray nails and staples, painted the room, installed the new ceiling fan, installed a new curtain rod, laid the new floor (such a small part of the sentence for such a big part of the job!), removed the closet door, replaced the bedroom door, installed trim, and painted trim! I made countless cuts and countless trips up and down the stairs. It was a lot! And I have to do the same thing over again several more times. Yikes. 

I'm a little annoyed with Ben because he went up to bed at like 7pm and never came back down and he's going to be gone almost all of tomorrow playing MtG. I feel like he missed a lot of family time today and he's going to miss a lot tomorrow. It's fine though. We all have our days. I'm honestly just dreading going up there for bed in a few minutes, waking him up, and then hearing him gripe about how he didn't want to fall asleep so early and how it's going to ruin his sleep for the night. *sigh*