If you give a mouse a cookie....

You've read those books right? Where one little thing leads to another and then there's a snowball effect and you are right back where you started? MMMhmmm...

Well, we had left our ladder in Virginia with intentions of buying a new ladder right away. Many months and many projects passed and we've seen super safe stuff like this happening...

so since we are about 1/2 a second away from painting our super high walls in our entry we decide to look for ladders. The first time we go to look for ladders we end up finding no good ladders but we do find some new lighting fixtures.... which are definitely gonna require a ladder (or some scaffolding).

So if you buy a new lighting fixture...you may need to look for a ladder...

while you are out, you may need to stop by Costco for some croissants....

while you are at Costco your husband may see this.....

and fall in love...yes a grown man in love with a 26 foot ladder...you may have to order it and wait to have it delivered (cause evidently they are out of stock, since every other man who saw it also fell in love with it)...which means you may be forced to check the FedEx tracking on it EVERY DAY so you can update your husband on where "his ladder" is....

When he gets his ladder delivered he may be so excited to use it that he doesn't even fully read the instructions before he does this....

Which means you may be on your way to Walmart to get light bulbs...and Depends (because seeing your husband at the top of a 26 foot ladder tends to make you want to tinkle on yourself)

Yeah...scary....and crazy....and great new lighting in my entryway....and still no paint!

PS Please don't ask me to explain the beard....it's not my choice, I'm not a facial hair person...at all....at all...at all....the "on leave beard" can only be outdone by this, "the retirement beard"...please let my husband come to his senses and shave his face soon....PLEASE, I want my handsome clean shaven husband back...I know he's in there somewhere!!!