Stories in Blue Paint

How many of you, by show of hands, have painted walls while carrying a baby in a sling? That's what I thought. I win the Multi-Tasking Mother of the Year Award! (And for those of you worried about Rebecca's safety, it was only one coat of paint on a two inch stripe running at waist height around the room--not a big deal, but enough to lull her to sleep.)

Note to self: next time, start painting when the baby is already asleep, not still trying to fall asleep. You just drive each other crazy and it turned a half-hour project into a two hour project.

Also note to self: next time, don't even try painting unless the boys are unconscious or out of the house because they will beg and beg and beg and beg you to help until finally you cave in and let them take the wet tape off the walls and they will inevitably get dark blue paint on the wall and just make it worse by trying to scrub it off with a cloth already covered in blue paint and then trip on the giant pile of wet tape they had created and probably you will find blue paint on their clothes and tracked on the carpet but you're too afraid to look very closely right now and pretty much the boys just end up endangering their lives. Just say no!