Kitchen Disasters

We unexpectedly started redoing our kitchen this weekend. We were going to visit my sister in Pueblo, but the week turned out to be very long for Joe at work and he was disappointed that his buds were going duck hunting on Saturday and that he would miss it. I felt sorry for the guy so, nice wife that I am, I cancelled our visit and said he could go shooting. I didn't get so much as a "thank you!" which I very much deserved, I thought - any time your wife offers you 6-8 hours of personal recreation time on a Saturday while she stays home with the kids you should grovel. Much to my annoyance, not only did he NOT grovel, he said he thought it was a sketchy idea to go to Pueblo anyway because it's a long drive (2 hours? Not long!) to only stay one day (most of TWO days, thank you) with three kids (whom we will have for the rest of our lives, so you'd better get used to travelling with them) and it might be a rough night (this part is true, but that's why we would only stay for ONE night, hence the short trip). Now I know he just didn't want to travel and be out of his element after a long week at work, he just wanted to relax, but did he SAY that? No, he came up with some (in my opinion) pretty lame excuses, especially since they're coming from a guy (a guy that I love very much, don't get me wrong) who took his two boys to the store to purchase a gun that I did NOT pre-approve of him purchasing... and... during the 2-hours-plus transaction he did not have diapers, toys, or snacks - and it was even dinner time! Who is the one with sketchy ideas here?!?

Well, even though I'm not angry anymore you can tell that I WAS upset, so when he got up early to hunt I got up early to remove the doors off our kitchen cabinets and go to Home Depot to make some un-pre-approved purchases of my own. Now don't get me wrong about myself; we had talked about redoing our kitchen ever since we moved in! So it's been a long time coming and we had even decided on the finish, but it was a big surprise when he got home and found that the kitchen had turned from this: into this: and our kitchen table looked like this: Based on this very limited experience I don't know HOW the crazies who show up on the show "Hoarders" can stand it! It is insanity-inducing to not have a place to set things... like your dinner. We've been eating on the couches. It's been a few days of hard work now, though, so we have the insides of the cabinets and the doors primed. Joe has helped right along even though I thrust this project on him so unexpectedly. Unless he reads this post he doesn't even know I was mad at him! He shot a few ducks and had a good time Saturday morning, but this is the price you pay when you forget to say "thanks," I guess! We'll see what projects get done when he wants to go golfing this summer...