rat-tat-tat. build a little house.

I got a kitchen ceiling this weekend. Whoo-hoo! Right now it's just drywall screwed to joists, but already it is a million times brighter in there. Progress is good.

I had no part in making the pretty little cookie above. It's my daughter's creation. She made it at her friend's house, and it was the good idea of her friend's mom, my friend. All my child's cookie decorating is done at friends' houses. I always really like the idea, but i seldom get around to actually doing it. Maybe that's something we'll do when the kitchen is done and the kitchen is a place of beauty where I want to spend all my free time. I can see it now, March 2009--the Schwarz family decorates cookies in the kitchen! No miscellaneous ceiling crud fell in the icing!

Here's a short list of things I can't wait for in the new kitchen:

• a ceiling--got that!
• a floor that doesn't have a stamped-in mottled look that "hides the dirt", because if it hides the dirt, it never looks clean.
• lighting that does not match that of your average classroom
• white cabinets
• a pantry
• little baskets for potatoes and garlic and onions to go in the pantry
• a row of pegs for my aprons

Elie wants to paint the inside of the pantry the color green of jadeite glassware. I think that's a good idea.