Passing on Today's Pinterest Project

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I didn't do a project today.  I logged onto Pinterest, looked at all the projects I have pinned for my 365 days of Pinterest projects challenge, and realized with a sigh that I have done all the 'easy' projects that I've pinned.  Can I be honest with you?  I depend on my husband too much.  The remaining projects I had pinned were all with the thought in mind that HE would be doing the majority of the work.  Going to Lowe's for me and buying some wood.  Sawing it to size for me.  Staining it for me.  Nailing the pieces together for me, hanging it on the wall for me, and so on.

So I have these two end tables in the garage.  They need to be wiped off really good, painted white, and then stenciled on top with one of those sayings to live by.   I want them to be nightstands in our bedroom.  But they are still in the garage, and I keep putting the project off, because I keep thinking my husband should do the first part of washing them off and painting them, and I can do the stenciling part.  When I should just get up and do it myself!

In so many ways, I have shut down and stopped living.  With regards to this 365 days of Pinterest projects challenge, it is MY challenge, not my husband's.  I should be the one doing all of the work on all of the projects.  That thought alone frightens me.  Growing pains.

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