A little paint can do the trick!

So during Spring Break I spent time in MD with family and here in NC at my house. I was not quite as productive as I had hoped to be but I did get the other wall of our kitchen painted! Now it finally matches the rest of it!
Here is the before:

  Here it is after primer:

Here is the after:
 It actually makes the kitchen look bigger and brighter!

 
Now all we have to do is paint the ceiling, paint the cabinets, and get new flooring!

Spring Break?!?

So spring break began yesterday at approximately 3pm. Since 3 yesterday, I worked at school until about 5pm, when I left and headed "home" to MD. I arrived at Debbie's house at about 11pm which marked bedtime! This morning I went to work at CRG with her to help screen phone calls. It is never a dull moment in that office. There are some great people there, especially the bosses! I will go back and work more with her on Monday before returning to NC.
The reason I came "home" was for the Easter holiday. I have not made it home since Christmas. It should be interesting to see how my parents have changed the house I grew up in. They finally decided (I believe) to move to NC and have been busy painting and cleaning up the old house. Chris was unable to come with me. (Boy do I dislike the scheduling where he works) Don't get me wrong, I am extremely grateful that he has a job I just think his work schedule could be better. He had off today for Good Friday, but he has to work tomorrow. Yup, it stinks!
As much as I want to relax over Spring Break, I just don't see that happening. My "to do" list continues to get bigger! I wonder what would happen if I decided to just go back to NC and do nothing but cook and scrapbook?! Too bad I did bring some school work home that I have to get done. Oh well! Maybe next year I can do that. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are all workdays though, so technically I should be working, however our principal is wonderful and understanding that we have other lives and need a break. She is allowing us to take time off or make up the time! I think I may still go in for a few hours Wednesday to clean.
When I do get back home (NC) we are going to finally plant our garden! We bought pepper plants, tomato plants, cucumber, broccoli, cabbage, and squash plants from the farmers market. I have a few more tomato plants to buy as well as green beans and corn seeds. It should be fun this year to see how we amend our garden and learn from last year. I will definitely post more consistently (I hope) this summer. (Only 38 more school days until summer!!!!)
Well it is 11:30 at night on a Friday and I am beat. It is time to go to bed so I don't spend the whole day tomorrow in bed! Hopefully I will write more while we have the week off!