Painting our son's new house, family

My mother died when I was fourteen so I missed her and she never was that healthy so we had to do a lot of the work ourselves. It must be nice to have family to help, my family was not that helpful, but most of my husband's family was. Only he married late, and we had to move the stuff into our house ourselves, and when we moved to Winnipeg, all or most of the family was all over Canada and none happened to be in Manitoba, so we still had boxes in the basement.

This will be the first time for me with our son and it would be exciting to see what the place looks like. We only saw it from outside and from the photos on the real estate paper and on the web. It is wonderful that they will be out of that quadruplex of theirs. The house was a bit expensive because Winnipeg is a seller's market, but at least they will have a yard so Katey can play in.

I did not do any painting. I tend to get more of it on myself. I spent a lot of time looking over things, putting the paint sheets down, and when my daughter-in=law and Katie came over, we talked a bit and watched Katie trying to get into mischief. She is at the learning to walk stage. We will have to leave the living and kitchen until later as my son and daughter-in-law want to get the wall to match the furniture.

We are fixing up our basement. But now that our son is moving to their first house, they decided to change the color in the bedrooms, and I think that they are hoping the next baby is a boy because my husband and my daughter-in-law's stepfather painted the room blue. He is a house contractor and a painter so he knows all about it. and my husband knows a bit about electricity, so he knows that part too. The other bedroom is a lilac color. The living room wall will have to be changed, but my son and daughter-in=law will be buying furniture first and paint the wall to match. I did not do much -more likely to paint myself --but I played with my granddaugher. She has this funny way of getting around almost like a crab.

well you will be helping to keep the baby out of the way of the painters and I am sure you like to do that best!

Yes she was always trying to get into things.

oh they all do the older they are the more they try to get into

When we went down the last time, my daughter-in-law had put locks on all the cupboards and she had one of the pots out in the kitchen floor for the baby to bang on. So I guess she is at that making a lot of noise, but boy my daughter-in-law told me that she was mad when she could not get into the cupboards. She was asleep at the time, and I did not want to disturb going into the baby's room.

oh yes they dont like ya to lock up anything my grand daughter gets the wooden spoons and plays drums on any thing she can find to hit

I hope my daughter-in=law has ear plugs, my granddaughter makes lots of noise. If not, my husband has some. He used to work for the railroad and it got very noisy. Anyway Katie has plenty of toys tokeep her from going into the cupboards.

lol yup ear plugs will work but good she has her toys to play with

She has this favorite animal toy that makes a squeaking sound when you press her tummy. And she has this nursery book with sounds. She really enjoys those.

So does my grand d aughter she has so many toys we should give some away but sooner or later she gets them out to play with . we now have her doing her letters writting on paper does good with O's,y,x,t,w,m,and c,h, and some times b

How old is she?

she is 3

And I bet she is the cutest little thing.

She is you can see some of her pics in my profile!

She is so cute!

thanks so much!

Us Grandmothers were looking after the baby and seeing that she did not cruise into mischief. We had to keep the door to the hallway closed - they had a sliding door that was handy, and she would go behind the curtains that were in the kitchen and play hide and seek. I did not do that much helping with the painting except helping put down the drop sheet. None of the furniture was over there and my son will be moving it in before the official move in date which will be at the end of this week.

That is why I leave the painting to the men. I get paint all over me. I just moved the drop cloth, held the curtain rods, and when they brought Katie over from the old place, us grandmothers looked after her and saw that she did not get into any mischief. Now all that is left is for them to paint the living room. They have already bought the new furniture so it should be done by now.
Anyway Tuesday is July First, I do not know what is going on, but I hope we can see them then.

My daughter-in-law is allergic to carrots and celery and oregano, parsley and the like. And after the house was painted, we had an open house and a barbeque. I do not like cooking in someone else's kitchen and I am a plain cook, not a fancy one. Then my younger son decided to fix up his house and sell it, because he and his girlfriend are moving into her house - i did not like it that much, I mean I wanted them to be married first - so now tonight we are going to his house and see if it has had any offers on it. They plan to save for a house because hers is just a small one.

Wow, I would hate to be allergic to those foods your daughter-in-law is allergic to. I used to have allergies but in the last couple years I have outgrown them, at least that is what my doctor says. I never used to be able to eat very many fruits without breaking out in hives and my throat and gums in my mouth, swell up and bleed. But after all these years I can now eat some of them that I couldn't before without allergy reactions, like apples and oranges. But I still can't eat peaches or cherries.

Now a days people don't get married before living together. In some ways it is good because if they break up they don't have to go through a divorce. My son and his wife, now, lived together for 3 years before they got married. They wanted to make sure it was going to work and since they now want to have kids, they got married first. I am happy about that since the child can now have my son's last name, when they have one. They are working on it and hoping to get pregnant before the year is over.

It must look wonderful now. My dad bought a fixer upper and he was not that good at fixing it, health issues- a bad heart, thrombisis, ulcers in his leg and after he did improvements, he bought another house, and finally got a good house in the suburbs, but he died and my stepmother got that one. So it must be wonderful to have parents that will help.

What was really fun, we were going through some old slides from 35 or so years ago from when my parents bought their first house. In those pictures, mom was painting the trims and dad was on a ladder painting the walls. I had taken a picture of him doing the samething 35 years later with my house. It's amazing...they were so young and skinny back then.*lol*

I am far from skinny, and I was normal then, but when I helped to paint the basement and the walls in our house back in British Columbia, I got most of the paint on myself.

I am not that good at painting. I get most of it on myself, but I am good at looking after my granddaughter and that is what I did. Oh and I helped hold up the curtain rods while my husband unscrewed them from the wall, and straightened out the drop sheet.