Julia Thompson wrote:
...
I think in both cases, it's sort of a deferred maintenance problem. When
you finally have time, there's a BIG backlog to deal with.
...
Yes. And in our case, it was compounded by our daughter refusing to sleep
in the room she shared with her twin brother, starting about 5 weeks before
school started. The project to get the "spare" room fixed up to be a
bedroom for a 6-year-old took a big chunk of time, and that wasn't quite
finished until about 4 weeks later, partly because there were some hard
deadlines for 2 other projects in the meantime. :P
I don't know if that counts as deferred maintenance or not.
But I guess it did from your daughter's point of view. : )
We are in the process of finishing a room move too, actually
a swap, which added the difficulty that neither room was
empty for long. Our older daughter is only here some weekends,
so it was time for her to give up her big room, and let the
younger daughter move into it. And of course we painted, and
fixed furniture, and so on... I guess that was deferred
maintenance, but we weren't the ones who deferred it.
I'm thinking about what has to be done in the breakfast nook at this point,
and figuring that maybe I'll work on it for an hour tomorrow, or maybe I
won't. (I think that 2-3 hours will have it *done*, but the first hour is
going to be a bear.)
Julia
Or maybe you deserve a break, who knows?
---David
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