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A few years ago when we decided to remodel our bathroom we started pulling things out, but kept putting it all back in.

I guess in my head, the new bathroom would show up one day.

Just out of the blue.

So I'd pull some knobs, faucet, etc. out.

We did this for over a year.

I knew that we'd never, ever have the "fun" that people had - to start over and go to Target or Home Depot and get new stuff.

Nope, not ever in my entire lifetime was I ever going to have a clean and nice bathroom.

I was pretty content with the ratty towels we'd been using for years (the extra five I could carry in my arms for all of my children) and the toilet paper that would probably still have dates on it.

I felt as though we were home owners - we lived in our home - but not like the people that actually worked on it everyday.

I did feel like I was on a treasure hunt.

My daughter at the time was three.

She went with me on all of these shopping trips with me looking for the "new" bathroom items.

You know, something I wouldn't have bought for myself.

The new toilet seat (oh what fun), new faucets, new towel bars, new shower curtain (which we put on a whim one day), the thing to hang toilet paper.

I was going to spend a small fortune - all on my own money!

I am pretty sure that my daughter spent the first six months in that room with her mouth hanging open.

She'd often come in and say "Mommy, I am so tired of this bathroom!

Can I go back to my old room?

That's the one with the rats.

And the big roll of toilet paper that falls all over the floor.

And it's warm in there.

But I would really like to go back there for awhile.

Not until it's finished."

As if I wouldn't do it - just to annoy her.

LOL!

Guess that was a valid excuse!

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get the bathroom finished.

At least not before we moved to the new house.

I was even trying to wrap everything to make it look more "new" but it wasn't turning out.

My husband kept complaining that we needed new tile and that we had to get rid of the ratty towels that I wouldn't "settle" for.

My son kept telling me how nasty the "old bathroom" was and how it was all going to be horrible - even the tile!

In some ways, he was right.

Although, I had spent hours scrubbing and cleaning every inch of that bathroom for three years, that tile had never been washed in all of those three years.

In some ways, it was a mess.

But in other ways, I could be pretty happy in that bathroom