There is something so good about spending the day ripping out a wardrobe. Mr B has taken Misses E and M to see Grandma, but I stayed home to destroy stuff.
Clearing out Miss M’s top cupboards of the built in wardrobe in her little room yesterday I noticed mould and lots of it. So I made a decision and luckily Mr B agreed. As I’m the kind of girl who doesn’t like to wait around when I’m feeling inspired, I headed off to B&Q and came back not only with four sacks of bark, mould cleaner, goggles, gloves, a curtain rail and some fabulous ‘Pink Splash’ paint, but I also found a bargain wardrobe and chest of drawers for just £50 which Mr B went back to buy as I couldn’t lift them.
Last night I did a tiny bit, emptying Miss M’s cupboards, ripping her baby border from her room and clearing stuff away, but today has been THE day.
I love physical work like this. When your mind is just on the job in hand, and the only other thoughts are visualizations of what you will create, and your tiny girls face as she explores her big girl room for the first time.
It’s also been really good having the quiet of an empty house. Sometimes when everyone is out I need noise, distraction, company, but today the silence – broken by the occasional mutterings of a woman on a mission working out that it would be better to start at the top box rather than take away all its support thereby allowing it to fall on her head – the silence has been calming and numbing and restful.
As I sit here having a break and a bowl of muesli, I have this real sense of achievement, and I know I will go to bed tonight really truly tired, and hopefully therefore will sleep. And if I dream, it will be of new fairy curtains, a soft pink rug and my little girl fast asleep in her full size bed which will fit in the space I have created;
..and not of having extremely hairy knees that make me look like I’m wearing ugg boots, which was last night’s nocturnal offering from the sandman.
NB. My actual knees are hair free and not yeti like in any way.
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September 21st, 2008 at 7:56 am
There’s nothing like building your child’s dream for them. I did it with DS-Kid with the story starting here and the finished product blogged here and this post shows some of the process and upheaval. It took days. Ten days. Never. Again. It is done now – and will remain so for the next 10 years!
September 21st, 2008 at 7:58 am
I’ve had days just like that… Demo and all. Though not with the hairy knee dream.
September 21st, 2008 at 8:38 am
I have to act on an idea straight away too. I love that bed and so will your little one. I hope you get it.
September 21st, 2008 at 8:43 am
Oh yeah – seriously, nothing makes me feel better and more accomplished than working my butt off and getting something done!
Good for you! I think she’s going to LOVE her room! Will we get pictures?!
September 21st, 2008 at 9:03 am
I used to be just like that when my kids were little. I got a vision and had to fulfill it. One hard day’s labor would see it done and everybody very satisfied. It is good to feel that tired afterwards, with sore muscles and a drained mind. Good for you, Jo, I’m glad to see you’re that kind of woman.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:50 am
Oh what a cute bed!!
September 21st, 2008 at 1:38 pm
When its all done could you come over here and help Husband reconfigure his editing bay? Its apparently what is keeping him from painting the f’ing apartment
September 21st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Gorgeous bed! I need a mission. You’ve inspired me.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Can you come over to my house now and do some work?
September 21st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
absolutely nothing like knocking crap down and building crap up. yessireee. my whole house could do with a bit of both. but not today…
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:42 am
I’m pretty sure you can get a bed like that at IKEA.
Is it wrong that I sometimes take the kids to ikea so they can jump on the beds?
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:28 am
That room sounds wonderful, and the bed is gorgeous. Hope you win!
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:32 am
My sister tells me SHE feels the same when she does this kind of physical work. Alas … I didn’t get that gene, but I do aspire to ‘cultivate’ it … one small step at a time. Miss M’s a lucky gal ;–)
Hugs and blessings,
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
What a lovely project! I want to do the same for Emma. But she’s only four.
Slow down Kim…slooooow doooownnn….