Back Home And Trying To Regroup

We’re back home, y’all! I’m so sorry that I wasn’t here yesterday with an update. I know many of you were concerned about Matt based on the comments and emails I got, and while I had very good intentions of writing a brief update just to let y’all know how he was doing, I just couldn’t seem to get it together yesterday to make that happen.

Anyway, Matt is doing very well. He was in the hospital from about midnight on Friday night until about 1:30 yesterday afternoon with a UTI that led to sepsis. It was a difficult and exhausting few days because, as I’m sure all of you know very well, getting good sleep in a hospital is virtually impossible with nurses coming in every couple of hours, flipping on the lights to take vitals, swap out IVs, give meds, etc.

So by the time we left the hospital yesterday, I was so exhausted that I felt like I was walking around in a dream state. I brought Matt home, got him situated and comfortable, and then got us some lunch. By the time we were finished with lunch, I couldn’t hold my eyes open any longer, so I slept. Y’all, I took a 2.5-hour nap. On a Tuesday. I am not a nap kind of person at all, but taking a nap on a weekday is unheard of for me. But after four nights of terrible, interrupted sleep, I had no choice.

Anyway, I woke up this morning hoping to be fully rested and ready to go so that I could get back to work on the foyer. I don’t feel rested at all, and I don’t feel ready to get back to work, but I’m going to do it anyway. I’m so close to being finished with the foyer that I’m hoping my excitement about getting it finished will help me make some progress today.

So picking up where we left off last Friday, here’s the punch list for what needs to happen to get this area completely finished. I need to…

• Move the cable for the router,
• Patch the little hole in the ceiling,
• Add the trim inside the closet doorway to finish off the edge of the wallpaper…

• Paint another coat of white paint on the bathroom/storage closet doors,
• Install doorknobs on the bathroom/storage closet doors,
• Either reframe the chapel picture in a larger and more eye-catching frame or add sconces flanking the picture,
• Sew the bird pillow,
• Add a new pillow insert to the pink pillow.

• Finish repairing the patched ceiling (sand, prime, paint),
• Add doorknobs/handles to the French doors,
• Add privacy film to the glass on the French doors.

And other than giving the area a good cleaning (cleaning the floor, cleaning the air intake vent, etc.), I think that’s it! I decided to leave the walls flanking the bathroom/storage closet doors blank…for now. I really love the view of that wall from inside my closet with just the grasscloth and wainscoting. Once I get the foyer finished and get the closet cleaned up, I’ll show you that view.

Also, I bought some candle sconces to try out with the chapel picture. I’ll try those out and see if I like them better than the sconces that came out of our previous bedroom. And then I’ll see if I can find a nicer, fancier frame and see if I might like that better than the current gold one. I kind of have my heart set on using sconces, but perhaps I’ll feel differently with a larger, fancier frame on the chapel picture.

Anyway, I’m still incredibly tired, and I’m finding it challenging to get back into the swing of things after these last few days with Matt in the hospital. But I’m going to do my very best to get refocused today and make some progress. I might need lots and lots of strong coffee to get me through this day.