A memorial wall

We have decided that in addition to any pictures randomly displayed in our house, that we would have two memorial walls for Paige.  The first is up in the main hallway upstairs with the bedroom.  The other will eventually be in the girls room.  They won't remember her when they are older, but we hope that they will know they had another sister.

Today, I finished the first one.  Now when anyone comes up the stairs to go to bed, they will see our Paige.

Bathroom remodel

Since Pigaloo's passing, I've been keeping myself busy working on home projects.

It's surprising to me just how much I've gotten done lately.  Both in terms of home repairs and running errands or playing with the girls.  Turns out, I've spent a very big part of my days next to pigaloo.

An unexpected but suddenly needed task was to renovate the basement bathroom.  The basement was to be last, but we are having lots of company for Pigaloo's memorial.  We will be using the basement and its bathroom and the bathroom failed the "would I want to use it test".  So the basement bathroom moved to the top of the list.

First up, Nathan had to rip into the ceiling, because the bathroom kept getting mold and dirt all over it.  He figured out the bathroom was a sloppy add on and that the fan vent was hooked onto the dryer vent.  All the lint was up ping into the bathroom.  Talk about a fire hazard.

So we paid someone to mud it.  Then we looked at a few other things, such as lots, fixed a few of those fire hazards and I got to painting and decorating.

Before:

Minus some wallpaper.  I hate wall paper.  Mainly because I hate removing wall paper.

After:

I'm down to paint touch up, putting in a small shelf, putting away stuff and buying linens.

The good thing about renovating?  It's a good distraction and is nice to have goals.