If my walls could talk they’d tell you I can’t pick a color.

If my molding could talk, they’d tell you to get the paint brush away from me ’cause blue is not their color. (I managed to get blue paint in all the wrong places while trying to trim last week…or is it ‘cut-in’? I don’t even know all the right lingo that comes with painting)

And if the paint guy could talk…wait he can…well, lets just hope you don’t talk to him. Because he’d tell you that I clearly don’t have it together. At all.

Okay, here is the story:
I needed to paint, but dreaded it. So I kept putting it off. Finally we purchased laminate floors that look like hardwood to replace the carpet in our living room and hallway. So it would only make sense to get the painting done before putting in the new floors. I loved the green color I had but wanted something different. Gray. I LOVE gray. (or is it grey?) either way, I love it. But after trying a few samples I knew gray was not the color for these rooms. (I might add here that I was painting the kitchen, living room and hallway) It didn’t go with my cabinets at all and in general was just not working. So I moved on to blues and greens. (different shades of green than what I had) I finally settled on a blue that looked very pretty on the swatch.
Now, I’d like to add that I have never, ever had a problem picking paint colors before. Ever. I pick a color, I buy it, I paint, I love it.
Oh boy. Not this time.
So Monday morning I get started. I really think I like it at first. My Mom’s first reaction when she saw it was “Wow!” in a this-is-bright kinda way. But I was all like “Oh, I think I am going to love it!” So she helps me and the more we paint the more I get that Wow!this-is-bright! feeling. But I kept painting even when she warned me that if I didn’t like it I should stop and go get the color darkened or something…
We finish and it is just obnoxious. I kept thinking “oh it’s not so bad…” only to walk out of a bedroom and that Wow!this-is-bright! feeling hit again. And again.
Now, this color was not exactly ugly. It was just not ‘me’. And you kinda want your home to feel like ‘you’… right? So after begging my friend to come over and tell me what to do she suggested that I take the one gallon that I had not used and ask if they could change the color, then re-paint. More painting. Not exactly what I wanted to do, but at this point, I needed a color I could live with! So, off to the paint store I went. I drove to my local store, where the guy was simply NO help. So I left and drove to another location.
I walked in and gave the guy a run-down of what I had done, how I didn’t like it, and could he possibly help me get the leftover gallon of paint to a color that I could actually live with?  I am sounding dramatic now. Meanwhile I have a one-year-old screaming, no matter what I tried (candy, keys, paci, phone) she still screamed. And my two-year-old had an ‘accident’ of the #2 kind. Oh yes. Now, my kid is not perfect by any means. But that was a first. It was a true “Mommy Moment”. And when the guy didn’t seem to feel my urgency to save myself money by not buying more paint but still getting something that I liked (even though that meant going home and painting all over again for hours!) and he told me that there really was not anything he could do; that is when I felt the tears well up in my eyes. I was mortified. Why was I falling apart?! Thankfully I didn’t start bawling on him or anything, but he suddenly felt my urgency. He offered to add some black, twice, and I came home with a color that I could live with. And I actually like it a lot. Even though it is not what I was going for, I love it compared to what I did have!
Sigh. Mommy Moment of the week… hope it is the last ‘big’ one for awhile!

I’ll try post a picture soon… but truth is, we are not finished. Close, but not done yet! So once the room is put back together I will share it with you…

Meanwhile, I’ll share a few pictures of a trip we took to Imaginon several weeks ago… We had told Kennedy the night before we had a “surprise” for her, that girl loves a surprise, so she was thrilled!
I tried to take a picture of the two of them in the parking deck when we got there… I love it because it is so real!

when we walked in Kennedy literally squealed when she saw all the random stuff hanging from the ceiling – she loved it!

They quickly got busy trying out everything

Kennedy loved the market where she could ‘buy’ veggies…

Bristol just thought it was all balls… she would grab two at a time and throw them yelling “BALL!” Which was funny even though we had to make her stop!

Finally, we headed home…

 Happy Monday everyone!