The Project Begins!

Hello Blog world!! Welp, another day and I am making another post! Anywho!! My mom works really hard...All the time. One of the things that erks her nerves the most is that our house is kinda falling apart :/ four kids and no true updates in roughly 30 years and it leads to a rouch looking place. I love my house. But ya know it needs some work. So she is always talking about what she wants to do to it to clean it up. However, she never has the time to do it. So I am about to make a plan of "gettin er done!". What I mean is the next time I will be home will be for Christmas. My goal is to get AT LEAST 3 of the rooms that piss her off the most at least decent again. Mind you I have no real money to even do this but I am hell bent and determined to see her smile. BTW what brought this on is I wanted to be nice so I did the dishes for her. Anywho the rooms I plan to take on are as follows: My Bathroom: Aka the bathroom all guests use. Its just really out of date. It had Mickey Mouse wall paper from when I was like 7...and I'm 21. So over the summer I stripped the wall paper but I still need to wash it to get all of the paper off, paint it, and give it a tiny face lift. I'm gonna bunget $75 and with any lucky I can get dad to help me pay for that $75 The Living Room: Its just....It's bad. We never really use it except for Christmas HOWEVER it needs a lot of work. Carpet needs to be cleaned, dusting, and maybe a few little face lifts...I think this room will need the most money. We'll say $100 (PRAYING that the carpet cleaner I'll have to rent isn't an arm and a leg). Again lets pray dad helps pay for it!! The Formal Dining Room: We haven't used this room since I was a kid! Mostly because all my dads teaching bull shit is in there. SO the plan is to get dad to sort all the papers, clean the carpet, and dust. I really think this will fit right in with the $100 for the living room, since it is just off of the living room. Other rooms to tackle: - Kitchen: It mostly just needs a face lift. I'll look into new floors for it, decent computer desk, refinish the cabinets, and get new hardwear for them. Also clean out the pantry and the closet in there. And it could really use an update from wallpaper to paint! - My Brothers room: Overall cleaning and organizing - My Room: Carpet clean, paint, organizing/toss shit I don't need, and MAYBE furnature - Mom & Dads Room: carpet cleaning, organizing, face lift (maybe some new odds and ends to fancy it up for them) - Basement: MAJOR organizing, carpet cleaning, face lift (new odds and ends), - Garage: MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR organizing!!!! Mostly an over all keep or toss session!! - Front & Back Yard: Weeding, get some grass seed planted, spruce up the flower beds (four main ones), and possibly new railroad board things to rebuild one of the beds. Honestly if all goes well I would LOVE to work on the yard during CHristmas as well! I feel like since its not typical gardening season then a lot of what I might need will be on sale. Thanks to pintrest I will just use news paper to keep weeds at bay but I will need some mulch. And even more so I am PRAYING that I won't run into any snakes :/ I HATE snakes!!!! Bugs I can deal with....Snakes...Not just no HELL NO!! Well that's all for now! Gonna investigate pintrest and make my calander for what I'm gonna do on which day :) xoxo Mary