How I am Assisting in the Bathroom Remodel

(written on Monday) I hope you don't mind that this post is out of chronological order.  We are living in chaos over here, you know! 

Today they need to get into my closet where they removed pieces of the drywall in the back of the closet to add additional pieces of wood as support for the shower grab bars and other items we needed to screw into walls.  This meant I had to take every single item in my closet and pile it on the bed. 

Yes, I know I am a clothes hoarder. Time is meaningless to me and I find it shocking that clothing that I paid good money for in 1985 is now FORTY years old. That is impossible.  I worked in offices when people in offices wore professional clothing. I took good care of my clothes . . . Forty years? Of course my 90's clothes are only, gulp 30 years old, and my millenial wardrobe . . .  

But it was hidden in the closet! Out of sight, out of mind. In addition to too many clothes, I carry several size ranges of clothes.  Someday I might be able to wear a smaller size. And I guess instead of buying new clothes I will choose to wear ancient clothing in out of date styles? 

I did sort an entire garbage bag of dresses (dresses, lol) that I will never wear again.  I found the plastic shoe boxes with my high heels - like I could balance in heels - like new, barely worn. 

All of that is going to the clothing bank tomorrow. I barely made a dent.  AND to make it more fun, they just re-drywalled the back of the closet and I can't put any clothes back until tomorrow. So I had to carry this mess to another room to sleep tonight. 

The first day of demolition I went out of town to a craft store.  Halloween was 70-80% off on clearance and I guess I felt the need for another doll house.  

I am slowly painting the house and have decided it will stay as is for now as I move to another dollhouse.  

I bought this one last year and was thinking of doing it as a second Christmas doll house. Please ignore the wrong furniture in the wrong house.

The problem is that this material just drinks paint.  I am running out of paint after two coats and I am not sure if it will be safe to enter another craft store. 

And, one of the dishes I am taking to our families Thanksgiving is my grandmother's and my mother's oyster dressing.  The best part of this recipe is that a woman I never heard of published my grandmother's recipe in this cookbook in 1999. This way I can find my recipe every year.  My guess is that her grandmother and my grandmother found the recipe in the same magazine or newspaper. 

Thank you Alice King of Nevada, Ohio. 

I got my shelf stable whipping cream on my field trip to Trader Joe's along with six boxes of the Trader Joe's Chocolate Peppermint bread mix.  I need to make a return trip, we already had one loaf this morning with the grandkids. 

And I found petit fours! I did not check the date and they expire tomorrow so we ate one box as after school snack today and I guess we will have another tea party after school tomorrow.  That was not my original plan, lol.