Goodbye Faux

Yesterday started out just like any other normal day...  get up, make Captain's lunch, read Bible, snuggle Benjamin on the swing, make kid's breakfast, manage the chores, write a blog, clean the kitchen, organize a few kitchen cupboards.  And then it happened.  For some reason I decided to pull out the stove...

And this is what I found.
Gasp. Oh the shame!

17 years worth of built up disgustingness. (Only one of those years is mine.)

And Ben's favorite hot wheels car.

So, I rescued the car and cleaned the rest up.  And went on to describe the reason why motherhood should be featured on "Dirty Jobs."  No explanation needed, really.



Then it happened.  For real.  I decided to see just how attached that terrible looking fake brick paneling was.  And it turns out that it wasn't really all that attached.  So, instead of waiting until the lunch rush was over, like most normal people would do, I just started tearing it off.

And then Noah joined in... he's earning money for church camp.

And in a couple of hours it was a thing of the past.  The very dark, bricky past.

So, now I'm trying to decide if I should do stucco or just sand and paint or if I should go ahead and tile the back splash, while I'm at it.  This will be my only window of opportunity.  I just got the garden in the day before, and pretty soon I'll be in canning mode and my kitchen will be overrun with work.  Not to mention school starting back up.

So, there you have it.

A day in the life of a crazy, artsy-fartsy, homesteading mother of seven.

(that should probably be the header to my blog)

But I'm happy to say that I prefer liquid nails and drywall to faux brick any day!

Yeah, so what do ya think?  Any color suggestions?  I might just leave it like this for a while until I decide.  It looks sortof rustic.  : )

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