congratulations!

Congratulations are in order to Rose and Mark, who recently found out they're pregnant with their first child. Hurrah! Can't wait to meet the little peanut, guys.

I stopped at Home Depot and picked up paint chips this afternoon, then when Jason got home from work we went over to the house and I wandered around holding the chips up in various rooms to see how the colors worked. That's hard stuff, folks. How can you possibly know what your room will look like in a particular color based on a 1x2" bit of paint on a piece of cardstock? Sure the color looks ok in the ambient light, and sure I like it well enough, but what mood will the color set? What will it do to the feel of the room? What will it look like once we get our furniture in there and things on the walls? Is the color too dark? Too light? Could I go darker without making the room look like a cave? You just don't know till you do it and then if you hate it it's too late.