Kitchen, Day 1

6am: Ingrid wakes up, and Knut brings her to our bed and she snuggles in between us, eventually pushing us away so the 3 of us look like the letter “H” laying down.

7am: Ingrid tickles Knut and I awake. (literally: tickletickletickletickle)

8am: everyone eating breakfast in dining room.

8:30am: Knut leaves for work.

8:33am: I call Knut because I can’t figure out how his drill works.  He tries to explain over the phone, but speaks a foreign language.  He turns around about 20 feet from the farm’s workshop and drives home to show me how to use the drill.  I fall in love with this first power tool.

9am: chores finished and David and Silje help me remove all cupboards, and sort/count all screw and hinges.  Ingrid takes a nap.  Elias and Solveig are watching PBS kids.

10am: All cupboards removed.  We take a break for brownies.

11am: start bubble machine outside, all 5 kids play, with the older ones keeping an eye on the little ones while I bring all the cupboards out to the garage.  The kids watch me from a distance, and chase bubbles.

11:45: kids go inside to watch some “Frozen” and I stay working in garage, sanding and using liquid sander/de-greaser for all the little crevices.  They’re over this project now.

12 noon: I ask David to make some peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches and ask Silje to set the dining room table.

12:30pm: break for lunch

1:00pm: catch up with Knut for a few minutes on his lunch break.

2pm: put Ingrid and Solveig down for naps.

2:15pm: I move from the liquid sander to power sand a few areas.  Get addicted to how awesome my new power sander is and end up sanding basically everything possible.  Name my new sander “Walter.”

3:00pm: Silje makes mud pies.

3:30pm: Solveig and Ingrid wake up from their nap.  I put some sandals on Ingrid and she enjoys her first jaunt outside ever.  Walking outside by herself, I mean.  That’s what happens when you learn to walk during the longest winter ever.  First on her agenda is chasing cats.  Second on her agenda is chasing chickens.  Third on her agenda is sneaking dog food to Missy, who is several inches taller than her.  Silje chases her for me as I keep on hanging out with Walter.  I snap pictures here and there.  Ingrid’s sandals used to be Silje’s and then Solveig’s, and I try not to get sentimental.  I feel like I bought them just last year.

3:45pm: Solveig makes mud soup.

4:00pm: Knut gets home early to change quick and head out to his elder board meeting.  First, though, he checks over my work and says nothing but unconsciously nods his head as he looks things over.  I know him long enough to know this means he approves of my work.  Disapproving would have been lots of sighs, and his eyes would shift like he’s frantically thinking.

5:00pm: stick frozen lasagna in oven.  Use liquid sander for the lower half of the interior of the kitchen that needs work while supper cooks.  “Frozen” is put on yet another time.  The kids are beat from playing outside all afternoon.  They’re not used to all that fresh air.  It’s 73 degrees at this point.  It’s the hottest we’ve felt outside since last November, maybe early October.  It’s the hottest day in half a year probably.  Therefore the kids want to watch a show about an endless winter.

6:25pm: eat supper with the kids.

7:00pm: kids pick up their toys in the yard.

7:10pm: kids melt down crying in the yard.

7:30pm: start bedtime routine.

8:00pm: Planned to be reading our story, The Horse and His Boy but David totally fell apart because of the outside toy pick up saga so he had to go to bed.  So I finish some touching up of the sanding in the upper part of the kitchen.

8:07pm: Knut gets home from his meeting.

9:00pm: Silje heads off to bed.  I have a cup of tea, do some blogging, then some knitting in front of the little t.v.

11:00pm: bed.