“Half-assed but happy: Interior design for the broke and impatient.”

Jenn at breed ’em and weep has learned an important lesson about interior design for the busy mother:  Lower your standards.

I know my limits now. Wallpaper removal is not for me. I don’t care what the guys on This Old House say. I don’t have the resources, I don’t have a handyman or a nice Shaker man to seduce. Even if I did seduce a skilled handyman, I wouldn’t have the stamina to keep him entertained for as long as it would take to do my kitchen the right way. And it seems pointless to seduce a half-assed handyman when I can just seduce myself and get the same results.

Read the rest, it’s funny.  I’d sympathize, except that the handyman-seduction strategy* has been going well for me.

*Or is that tactics?  I can’t remember.