Archive for the 'Operation Renovation' Category

Dreaming of hot chocolate

Do you remember the wonderful artwork we had on the wall in our bedroom and the multi-colored [read stained] carpet we used to walk on with bare feet. Yeah, I’m trying to forget it too. And now I can.
The final room of our three room carpet redo project is complete. That would be the master [...]

Moving along with Operation Renovation

Remember Operation Renovation? It’s kind of been at a stand still. We’ve been really busy. Just ask the census lady that keeps trying to get a hold of me for a mandatory census that I may be fined for if I don’t fill our the survey. [Don't even get me started on this census controversy!]
Just [...]

And then there was one

In the beginning, there were three rolls of carpet lazying around our house. They made a home for themselves in the living room where the kids sat on them while they watched TV.
Then one day, a fine prince named Matt [one of Lee's friends] came over. He unwrapped the blue carpet and set it free. [...]

Things said tonight that sound dirty, but aren’t

“There! Put it in quick.”
That was said while Lee and I were trying to put together a new dorm couch we got for Justis’ room. We had to line up the holes in the two pieces to get the screw in.
“Can you screw it in for me?”
Me asking Lee to screw in the longer handle [...]