All our kids are gone! All our kids are gone!
I’ll probably shout the same thing when the third one
finally ships off to:
A) College
B) Boot Camp
C) Taco Bell New Employee Orientation Day
(Complete toss-up at this point)
This happy occasion, however, is the result of church camp. All
three boys are gone for the whole week, so my wife and I are doing what every
healthy, loving, happily married couple does when they finally get the house to
themselves – home improvement.
We dropped the boys off on Monday afternoon and immediately
raced to dinner, followed by a romantic trip to Home Depot to browse the aisles
in peace and quiet.
Then we headed home to get some more ice and Advil. My wife
seems to be doing a little better than me after our week of chiseling off our
old hardwood floors. I’m still nursing a few sore muscles and joints, pretty
much everywhere on my body that I have a muscle and/or a joint. Back when we
were first married, we could renovate all day long, but now we need to take it
a little slower.
Our first full day without kids was spent hanging out with
Jason, Paul, and Larry – the three gentlemen who are installing our beautiful
new fake hardwood floors. Thankfully, the new floors do not get glued down,
because after last week, if anyone ever tries to glue anything else down to my
concrete slab, there is going to be a fight.
The first thing the guys did was remove half the downstairs baseboards,
so we were immediately able to start our kid-free week off right – by sanding
and repainting our old baseboards. They look amazing!
Today we had breakfast with Paul and Larry and then retired
to the pool area to sand and paint. Around noon, we were able to get away for an
intimate lunch at the hotdog shack in front of Home Depot when we made a run
for more paint and rollers.
When we were finally finished with the morning’s allotment
of baseboards, my wife had an amazing idea. She whispered it in my ear. It
seemed like the perfect time, so we snuck off to the guest bedroom.
And started to paint it!
If you need us the rest of the week, we’ll be here, in the
throes of renovation.
We might even paint the living room!
See you soon,
-Smidge
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