There is sooo much to do around this god forsaken house. It's falling apart, completely cluttered, and very ugly. So, NOW is the time that I am going to start to put this house back into order, put it back together, and make it beautiful.

The first room that I am going to do is AJ's. He is in desperate need of a little boy room. Right now it's just... blah. He's got his crib, stuffed animals, a clothing organizer, and nothing else that really is his own in there. The rest of the stuff is just stuff that takes up space: a piano, boxes of his old clothes, stuffed animals (hehehe), and odds and ends.
My goal for tomorrow is to clean up the room. I want to run a wet rag over the walls, and pull out the numerous nails in the walls. For some reason, and I am not sure I will ever figure this out, there are a ton of nails in the walls. It doesn't seem to have any rhyme or reason, some are really close together, some are really far apart, and they are like zig zagged all over the place. I'm also going to plug up the nail holes.
I think then for next week, hopefully I can get Aaron to move the piano out of the room. Then I'm going to prime the walls. Since we can't really affort to get rid of the horrendous panneling, I've learned from my step-mother that it can be painted over, but you have to get the right kind of primer first. I do know that this method works, because she did it in her new house, and her walls look wonderful.
After that I'm going to paint the walls. I'm leaning toward a darker shade of blue. The theme that I'm going to go with his based on his favorite movie, Cars. I don't want to paint his room red because if I change his theme later and don't feel like painting I don't want him stuck with red. Plus, most of the decor has a lot of red in it. I don't want the room overwhelmed with red.
So, obviously, the next step after painting is decorating, which might take some time. I have to save and buy pieces bit by bit because if I bought everything out right it would be soo expensive and I couldn't afford that right now.
I also want to put down those big rubber puzzle pieces for flooring. I'm a little on the fence about it though. I don't like the carpet we have. It's gross, the people who lived here before us were gross. So, if I put down the rubber puzzle pieces, the floor would be more baby comfortable to crawl around on, not so dirty. BUT... I would have to wash those puzzle pieces a lot because we would be walking on them. I think it would be hard to keep them clean, and if I wasn't careful the water would drip in the cracks and form yucky stuff. It's something I'll have to keep thinking about.

Anyway, I told Heather that I would also help her redo Thomas' room. I'm not too sure she'll actually go through with it though. We talked about it today. The plan so far is to do a Spongebob Theme. She already has some things up that go with that theme. I actually wish that I was better at drawing and such. I love planning little kids bedrooms. It's something I get excited about, and I have a ton of really good ideas.
I actually got into this when I was dating my first long term boyfriend. His parents were getting ready to become foster parents, and they had a ton of rooms in their house. So, I started to help her with getting the rooms ready. I helped turn an ordinary room into the most beautiful room a little girl could hope for. It was awesome. The top half of the wall had light and dark yellow stripes, and a green canopy like design. The bottom half was peach, with dark peach waves. The middle that seperated the two had light and dark pink checkerboard. We made an ant trail all around the room. She decorated with glass birdhouse that looked like hats. We also sponged on different shapes: ladybugs, flowers, little girls. It was gorgeous when it was done.
I hope my next child is a little girl. I would love to decorate a little girls room again. For now, though, I'm decorating my little boys room. AND, instead of being beautiful and gorgeous.. it's going to be awesome. All the other little baby boys are going to be jealous... that is if he knew any other ones around here... but still my point was made.