A Weekend Project

How was your Presidents Day weekend? We enjoyed Chet's extra time off, and even though we had  a few commitments we needed to fit in over the course of the holiday, Chet was also able to complete a garage shelf building project.

Saturday morning I went to a baby shower, then came home and went on a run (did I mention I'm training for a marathon? more on that another day...), so Chet held down the fort for the better part of the day. Our next-door-neighbors had a birthday in the afternoon, which lasted until the kids' bedtime, so it was an afternoon/evening of food and fellowship.

The next day, Sunday, we missed church, because 4-5 of us have been slightly under the weather for the past few days. Nothing too serious, but kind of lingering, and definitely something we don't want to pass on to anyone else. So we stayed home from church, Chet decided to tackle building garage shelves, and he and Sydney went to Home Depot for the supplies.

They ate at Five Guys (burgers) beforehand, which is probably why Syd looks a little sleepy in this picture, ha!

Chet went right to work when he got home, and finished the majority of the project by that evening. While he was building, I was puttering around the house, still in my pajamas, setting out our Easter decorations and washing the never-ending dishes (and keeping an eye on the kids, of course).

Monday morning Chet went right back to work on finishing the shelves and was done by 10 a.m. Now, to be clear, we already had garage shelves...but they were very eclectic. Too eclectic. All different sizes and shapes and materials, because we just acquired them as needed over the years, and they didn't work well together all lined up together on a single garage wall. The eclectic shelves had been bothering both of us for a few years, so it was nice to finally change them.

We also have an eclectic array of storage bins sitting on said eclectic shelves. In the past year or so, we settled on the exact plastic bin Chet and I both like, and if we need one we buy it. But I can't bring myself to get rid of perfectly good (older) storage bins just because don't match our new ones. So the garage doesn't look like it's out of a magazine, but what REAL garage does actually look like that? Anyway, since he was finished by 10 a.m., we decided to run to Target for a few more of our beloved storage bins (to hold some things we still had in cardboard boxes), and for a change of scenery.

We had another birthday party to attend at the park behind our house at 4 p.m., after which I went to the gym to run on the treadmill (because it turned COLD and WINDY midday yesterday, and why run outdoors in such weather if you don't have to?).

You're probably wondering where the finished garage shelving picture is...? I'm not going to share it yet. Mostly because it's 6:30 a.m. and freezing outside, and I don't wish to freeze this early in the day. I'll take one later, when it's slightly warmer and the lighting is better.

Oh, the shelves also have built-in bike/scooter parking. Fingers crossed this solves the problem of our garage constantly looking like the gathering place for a tiny biker gang.

The whole (garage organization) project is still a work in progress, but we feel really good about the progress made this weekend! And it's always nice to have accomplished something so visual, that you can smile lovingly at like a lunatic (am I the only one who does this?).

Happy Tuesday, friends!