Mom left today...

I know she wants to spend time with P and I know P wants her to visit, but I really, truly hate it when she goes.  J felt so bad for me, I was crying after she left, he felt so bad he took me out to dinner.

I also cleaned the kitchen, sorted through weeks of junk mail (it all piles up in a basket until we have a chance to go through it - well, everything that doesn't get tossed immediately), changed the sheets on our bed, cleaned the bathroom, started straightening up the computer room (newly painted - photo to come when all's put away), and tomorrow I'll pack for my business trip.  Then I'll clean our room, and straighten and dust the living room.  I'll ask J to work on the dining room while I'm away - a lot in there that needs straightening is paperwork for school so he reallly has to do it.

Picked out a color for the hallway - Behr's Cottage White.  We have it at the lake and it's a bright sort of creamy color that will lighten up our staircase.  I might even put the same color in the dining room - still deciding.  That's a tough room 'cause of the stained glass window.  It's primarily yellow and green, with some blue and purple in the design, but it casts a distinctly yellow tint to the neutral walls now.  If I choose an actual color, it might look AWFUL in the afternoon sunlight.  I'll try to remember to post a photo of that window, too...

Gotta run - it's Harry Potter Weekend on ABC Family...