If you were to come to our house you would quickly see all the projects that we have going on – at once.  Our usual MO is start on a project, get it about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way done, and then stall out.  For instance, the stairs are installed and look great.  But we still have yet to caulk and touch-up paint.  Even the hardwood floors that we installed almost 2 years ago still need trim around the fireplace and the closet trim needs to be done.  We simply do not stay on task and our mind wanders …

So we finally are getting somewhere on our loooonngg awaited stairway project.  Remember WAY back when I posted that we wanted out stairs to look like this {I really like the numbers – haven’t convinced Mike yet}: Mike did most of the work so he gets a lot of the credit.  All I did was a bit of sanding and taping – and of course, supervising.  🙂  Mike got the banister stained {after a good bit of prep work} on Sunday afternoon during Levi’s nap and it looks great!  He/we still needs to poly it, take the tape down, and …

This is what Mommy has been doing during naptime {she probably should be sleeping too but oh well!}…… I hate our carpeted stairs but putting in hardwoods on a staircase is way to expensive.  I may have found an alternative!  Stained treads with white risers – beautiful!  The banister needs to be stained darker anyways….  🙂 We got the idea to stain our banister from this blog – Centsational Girl.  She recently redid her laundry room too and I love it!  Since our laundry room shares a home with the downstairs bathroom ours won’t look exactly like this but I …

I am slowly getting used to the new routine with a newborn but it is definitely different being on Levi’s schedule and not my own!  Even checking email and Facebook has become much harder to do!  I’m sure that we will get into a groove over the next few weeks.  This afternoon we actually had a little bit of downtime while Levi napped (he hasn’t been doing this all the much – surprising for a 1 week old) so I quickly used the opportunity to catch up on some things.  Of course, I decided a little bit of online shopping …