Make The Devil Sing The Blues

Today was declared a home improvement day....actually, almost the whole sabbatical has involved some kind of project that we just haven't quite had time to get around to.  We've had scheduled breaks in between projects for silliness, but we have still been quite productive.

Do I want to build or paint more shelves anytime soon?

Today, some things were delivered to our house that we have been waiting on.....a cabinet surround for our fridge.....a built-in desk (I won't have to remove three laptops from the dining room table to get ready for meals :)  UNLESS, I fail at the behavior modification part with my family.....maybe I should put a bowl of candy on the new desk.....yep.....that was Pavlov, right?....give the person a piece of candy immediately after they sit in the correct location :) That should work!....either that or zap them when they sit in the wrong place....that could be more fun.  AND, we got some cabinets delivered for the basement...so, Brad and two guys from the cabinet place installed them today.

We also stopped by the Bat Cave....aka Parma church for a while and worked on the two classrooms....we painted stars and blue sky and outlined everything because I was not satisfied with the way it all looked on a wall with so much texture.....it looked too messy to me (I know, I am sooooo picky)....it is much better now.

I want to publicly THANK my husband for coming to help me...even when it takes a while for me to be satisfied with the stars!....and for making sure we had tobyMac with us.....

I can paint better to his music :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0boTYx-yA

Here's a peek at the wall in the nursery.....I still have some work to do in the toddler room.

I am happy with the way the artwork turned out....it reminds me of a storybook....maybe, "I Love You To The Moon".....or something.  I wanted whimsy and I loved that I could make it look like the sky was a mobile in the nursery....especially using the verse, Every good and perfect gift....(comes from above).

Somewhere in the middle of it all....we were listening to some jazz music we picked up at the Indiana Fair and I thought some Christian band (Brad thought Third Day could do it right) should record a really great blues song about making the devil sing the blues....maybe that sounds cheesy, but this guy, Brian Wallen, has some great blues/jazz songs and one of them is called Devil Blues (it's about the devil chasing him)...BUT, I think someone should change it up a little bit and make the devil sing those blues :)  I WOULD LOVE THAT!

Driving home after all our errands, the SKY was magnificent! PAINT THAT SKY?.....yeah, right!  That's the type of sunset that proves there's a GOD....makes the devil practice his 1-4-5 chords :)