This weekend was very productive. Frankie finally made it home to sleep in our bed for 3 consecutive nights and that in itself would have made for a successful weekend as far as I was concerned.
Instead of spending the weekend relaxing though we opted to tackle our very first REAL home improvement project......replacing our living room flooring. I was very intimidated by the idea of our project but very ready for the end result. So early Saturday we began ripping up our old flooring, which took much less time than I had anticipated. A couple hours later we were in route to Home Depot to rent a miter saw and go home and start putting in the new floor. THIS is where my anxiety started to kick in........ I love, love, my husband BUT he is just not a do-it-yourself handyman type of a guy by nature and neither of us had ever used this type of equipment before and it was huge and intimidating. That said....maybe it's that we are finally learning how to communicate, maybe it’s that we hadn't been around each other in a couple weeks and had missed each other, maybe it's that we felt we couldn't/shouldn't try to throw the hammer at the other one because I am with child and the baby might have known........whatever the reason, it doesn't matter.....because we actually worked as a team!! (and a damn good one I must say), and we finished the entire floor, furniture moved back in, house clean and beautiful, equipment returned and a dump run by 8pm on Sunday. We might have been a little saw dust covered and battered but we did it. It was actually a huge feeling of accomplishment and it turned out so beautiful! I am pretty proud of us.
This picture isn't the best because it came from my phone and I didn’t think to take a "before” picture but let me assure you it is a huge improvement!
