The plan for Day 5 was to prime and then paint the ceiling.  Then catch up on laundry and dishes and cook a real meal.

The wrencher:  the fresh mud from the night before still needed sanding.  I got up early and went after it.  Oh man…this was serious work.  My whole body was sore from the efforts of the last 3 days.

My new goal was to be done with sanding by noon then clean up all the dust and be ready for priming.   But the boys were running crazy–chasing, fighting, screaming.  Leaving piles of tiny toys in their wake.  I called Mom who came and took them home to her house, whew!  Just the help I needed.

Darren came home for lunch–which was perfect timing, I needed his eye to see the spots I missed.  Since I had my heart set on a perfectly smooth ceiling, the sanding needed to be perfect too.  He found several spots I needed to fix….it was a good thing I had him look.

I could see my dream of catching up on laundry in a pile on the dusty floor.  I went downstairs to get a drink of water and found my 13 year old daughter on the sofa, watching D.C. Cupcakes on Netflix and surrounded with beautiful piles of clean folded laundry.  Both machines were humming and she had a fresh basket of clothes in front of her that she was working on.  I love that girl!  Now why didn’t I take a picture?!!!

I created the red wine chicken recipe on the fly during my water break. I wasn’t sure it would turn out, but  I could smell it cooking towards the evening, Even though I didn’t get done working in time for the meal I had hoped for, that chicken was AMAZING!  We ate it without any side dishes, lol.

By evening, I had the first coat of primer on the ceiling.  And had pulled the baseboards and primed them too. Mom and Dad brought the boys home and came in to see my work.  Dad said, “Now that you have the primer on, you’ll be able to see better the spots you need to mud and sand again.”  Um, Dad, those are fighting words.  I am DONE mudding and sanding ceilings, maybe forever.