photo by Kalee Renee Photography
I grew up in a home that was all about reading. I remember a drawer in the hallway that was jam packed with books. I would pull that drawer open and sit there reading my favorite stories (or at least looking at the pictures). I remember my mom spending hours and hours reading with us. Sometimes we would do dishes while she would read. She read us chapter books and my three sisters and I loved getting swept away in the story. I still have some favorite books that I love to read and re-read that were first read to me by my mom. I love reading because I was raised to read. Because of that, I want Don to also love reading!
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Some of my most popular posts on this blog have been my budget blogs. If you are new here, a few years ago I went on a radical budget and we paid off $40k in debt! (
Today’s post is about painting my stairs. It’s also about doing hard things. I have been avoiding painting my stairs because it is hard work. And painful. If you have a project like this (since we all do, right?!) my advice is to break it into small steps, don’t over think it and just dive in. Sometimes your brain is awesome and sometimes it holds you back thinking about what a pain every step will be. So get started with an open heart (and listening to a good podcast) and just do it. If you came here for tips of painting a stairwell without a ladder of scaffolding, here’s where those tips begin. Let’s begin with how things were looking:
Every night, in the middle of the night, this really fun thing happens when my dogs need to go outside, but we don’t want to turn on all of the lights in our house because we don’t want to fully wake up or wake up baby Don. We’ve used our phone flash lights, but it’s not as effective at keeping the dogs from crashing into things as they run ahead- haha 
