It has been a long time since I updated you all with our comings and goings. While it has been silent on this blogosphere, trust me when I say, it has been anything but quiet here at the homestead. Call it preparation for the noisy screams of the baby echoing throughout the house, but we call it just more settling in for the baby's arrival - whenever that may be. So we have been trying to make the baby a little more, how do you say, appealing. We have been doing a lot of work on the cosmetics of the house since we moved in. Exhausting work, I must say. Again, probably preparing us for the exhaustion we will feel with many sleepless nights with the baby. But we have redone the kitchen and painted walls in nearly every room and prepared the nursery. Despite what appears to be the perfectly completed house, there was still the dreaded floors. The carpet in our house has been absolutely horrendous. It was the original carpet from when the house was built about 20 years ago. Yeah, you can imagine. It was hideous. It was a light grey color that had so many stains it was beginning to look like some sort of a war zone, or worse yet, a murder scene. How could we ever let our child crawl around on that kind of a floor. While science cannot prove this, I would venture to guess that there was a few bed bugs or hornets growing inside of the carpet fibers. It had to go.
Before we could actually recarpet the house, we needed to do something with the mid 90s hardwood floors that had clearly passed their prime. Rather than spending a ton of money paying someone else to screw us over, but get a decent product, we decided it would be a great DIY project. Probably lunacy, yes. I have never involved myself in a lot of manual labor type activities, so this was going to be very interesting. We rented a lovely drum sander and edger to start the project. Despite my profound lack of knowledge of anything construction related, I figured I could get everything done in just a short day. Yeah probably not. I worked ridiculously hard and it just didn't happen. I was covered in sweat, covered in fine dust, and probably inhaling some sort of product "known to the state of California to cause cancer". It was great. Or it wasn't at all. But after 4 days of hard core working, it is done. Check that off the list. A week later, the carpet went in and it is like we have a new home. Perfect for the baby.
It is crazy how some anxiety surrounding bringing a baby into the home can cause you to change it up completely. We want this home to be perfect for the baby and in the mean time, it is really nice to have a house that is becoming more of our own home. I am sure that the first thing the baby is going to do when he/she comes home is judge us on the padding underneath the carpet, so we sprang for the upgraded stuff. I am fairly certain we will get some thank yous from the little one...
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