Updates from the last few days

The last two days have been only mildly productive.  I've had a really nasty cold since Tuesday morning and have been out of work, so I've been less than helpful.  My contribution has been sitting at the house with Mike painting trim, since it doesn't involve much moving, I just needed to get my arm going in a back and forth motion to get the primer on the trim.  Mike had to dig us out both nights since we've gotten a bunch of snow in the last few days, thankfully, our neighbor Mr. O'Connor let us borrow his snowblower last night.  It's nice having Mike's good friend Bill and his parents living across the street from us!  Last night, Mike's mom, Laurie, joined us and brought dinner with her, this stuff called fagoche, which is kind of like a cross between a stomboli and a calzone, she also brought oreo pie.  YUM!  Laurie trimmed and painted our bedroom with the first coat.  It looks awesome, no more institution mint green.  I sanded and primed the linen closet and Mike filled all the holes on the kickboards of the stairs.  After getting our quote from Lowes on the carpet, we decided against putting a runner up the stairs since they were going to charge us almost as much to do the runner as they were to carpet the entire living room.  Instead we've decided that we're going to paint the risers the same as the trim and have the floor refinisher refinish the treads and landings and we'll leave the stairs uncovered for now.  Poor Callie will just have to learn how not to tumble down the stairs. :)  I have a few pictures that I need to put up but I'll probably do that later tonight.