With a little help

This week the bedrooms that have been frozen in time since the girls and I (and Leah, Grandpa, and Adam) landed at the airport, have finally gotten a great big push forward.

Someone we know through my parents offered to make the five hour drive and stay here for a few days to get work done! She loves to paint, and loves kids, and we had plenty of things that fit those categories to fill every moment of her time here.

Sheetrock dust on the landing. This means something is happening down in the basement!!

Coming down the stairs you can see the newly installed door to Owen and Krassi's room.

Matt and Owen working on cleaning the room up - getting the dust out so we can PAINT.

It begins!!! Blue paint on the walls. This is the "light" color that Owen chose when we told him he couldn't do the whole room black.

Reuben and Krassi had President's Day off school, and Reuben spent much of his morning watching Lindsay paint while sitting in this old chair with his Bible.

Owen's nifty bed cubby is a darker color - still not the black he really wanted, but still an awfully cool color - even the name, Underground, has a neat sound to it.

One day and the room is almost completely painted! The ceilings (and the closet), have been painted with our left over ceiling color from the addition, the Underground, the blue...

The purple is a remnant of the one wall that was sheet-rocked and painted when this was still my basement sewing room. Owen wanted to keep it, so we did. It needs a fresh coat of paint to cover the places where the new was meshed into the old. Lindsay was able to finish that before she went home, too!

So then it was on to Bogomila's room! We had told her that once she was home she would have the chance to choose the color of her bedroom. She wanted DARK blue. (What's with these kids of mine and dark paint colors???) We compromised with dark blue on two walls and a lighter (but still very vivid) blue on the other two. This is the "light" color Owen decided to go with down in his room. Bogomila got to help throw some of the first color on the walls!

Trimming out the end wall.

And rolling on the color, with a helper. Always with a helper!

Late night photos don't do it full justice, but it gives you something of an idea! Matt and I had left the walls of her room empty on purpose so she could choose her own artwork. She picked out this neat aluminum panel with the New York City skyline when she and I were out a few nights ago.

Wednesday's task was to work on painting trim for the boys' room - with all of this ready to go, it won't take long to get the room ready for moving in! The boxes at the back of the room are the carpet squares Matt picked up when he was out on one of his Home Depot trips. Once we're done using the sub floor as a drop cloth, we can lay the carpet!

We are always delighted by the unexpected ways God takes care of us - the big things, the little things - so many resources that are at his disposal. What a good gift it was to get this big push forward on our current projects!