Swim lessons and stripping

Get your minds out of the gutter. I am talking about stripping wallpaper. We have done lots of swimming lessons lately and some wallpaper work at mom and dad's.
Emma is doing pretty well at lessons. She has only had 7 half hour lessons and is going all the way under water and sometimes jumping in without holding the teacher's hand. At first she was so nervous about the lessons and didn't even want to go, but the last few days she has told me that she wants 100 lessons. So I have signed her up for another 8 day session. I hate to lose all the progress we have made up until this point.
As for the remodeling job, Dad has been busy trying to get as much done at the house before mom gets home on Saturday. I have taken tomorrow and Friday off of work...darn....so I can help paint. I love to paint, especially when it is a new "fun" color. Dad has everything ready to go tomorrow, so I will probably leave here at 6:30 or so before Emma gets up. I want her to think that I went to work, so she doesn't wonder bother Dave about why she can't help paint too. We should have the wainscoting done tomorrow and the "fun" wall color done Friday. I have already started stripping the wallpaper in the kitchen and it is not going as well as the other room. Then, when I stripped the ceiling....(who papers their ceilings anyway) I noticed that there is another "really pretty" layer under that one. So anyway, the kitchen will be more of a challenge. I had Brian helping pick up all the scraps, but he was good for about a half an hour, then made some dumb excuse that he had something else to do....:)
Anyway, both girls are in bed already and that is where I will be in 5 minutes. How exciting to think that I can not only look scummy tomorrow, but I can dress scummy too. Wow, the little joys in life are so exciting.
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