Note: This is a retroactive post I pieced together in December 2011 so I could create monthly recaps for the whole year—our first year in our new house. I’m a little type A. Here’s what we tackled in June, presented yearbook-style.
Most Improved: Finally painting our kitchen paneling
Most Annoying: Priming the paneling, which took more than a few tries
Most Destructive: Removing a few cabinets and patching the floor to prepare for the paneling makeover
Most Goal Oriented: Announcing a nightly habit to clear the kitchen table of clutter (we’re still hit or miss)
Most Snow White-esque: Planting fast-growing evergreens and befriending a frog and a duck to add privacy to the side of the house
Most Gifted: Commissioning a sketch of our first house as a Father’s Day gift and adding it to the hallway frame wall
Most Organized: Relocating and organizing the junk drawer
Most Likely To Get Dirt Under Our Nails: Weeding, installing landscape fabric, planting, mulching, and moving a few signs at our overgrown mailbox
Most Edible: Building a small container garden for farmer’s market herbs using a galvanized tin and a drill
Most Desperate: Making eight curtain panels for the living room by halving and hemming discontinued Ikea panels
Biggest Hearth: Painting the fireplace to refresh the living space
Class Hothead: Removing an old wood stove that our toddler found dangerously fascinating
Most Circus-esque: Sharing a really weird elephant-related dream
Most Incoherent: Going thrifting in Georgia with Katie B and getting way too hyper, as usual
Most Colorful: Sewing dining room curtains from discounted, imperfect fabric
Class Nomad: Moving a dresser and mirror into the guest room
Most Superstitious: Crafting “lucky seven” art with painters tape and a scrap of wood
Most Likely To (Not) Succeed (On The First Try): Dyeing inexpensive slipcovers for the dining chairs—several attempts required
