Thanks.  It's funny - I'm not really excited about the bathroom itself.  Probably because I'm not really doing a lot of redecorating.  Same shower curtain and curtains and colors as before.  But I am excited because once I get the bathroom done then I won't feel guilty about wanting to do other projects.  The last two years, every time I want to start something else I think of the bathroom and go "oh yeah."  Not that it's totally stopped me from other projects but I don't feel right about redecorating anything else when there's a valuable room in our house we can't even use!  I've decided that, even though before it was all of our bathroom and I used it to bathe the kids and they brushed their teeth in there at night (we have another upstairs bathroom but it has a floor that I'm afraid they'll flood and damage plus it's my "always clean" bathroom), this time it will be a bathroom only for Scott and me.  MAYBE they can bathe in there in winter - MAYBE- when their bathroom is cold but it will not be their bathroom.  The stuff I put in there - vanity, floor, etc - are all cheap and can be easily damaged so to keep it looking nice it will need extra care like water cleaned up right away and no little monkeys climbing up on the sink to reach their toothbrushes in the med cabinet (as I see Chane do just about every day and no, a stool won't help because he ignores it!).  No toothpaste on the wall from spinning electric toothbrushes, no pee around the toilet!  I may even give up my addiction to baby powder since it's really hard to keep a bathroom clean when you use powder - I have the grout so clogged with powder in the boys' bathroom I can't even get it clean anymore!

 

it was funny, Chane asked the other day if he could use our bathroom.  We are not using it yet but I did caulk around the toilet so I allowed Scott to use it and Chane knew - he said "Can I use your toilet Mommy?  I'll pee in the center of the toilet - I know how to do that." LOL  I was like, "um, if you KNOW how to do that, why DON'T YOU?!!!!!"