Ok let me clarify.......

It has come to my attention that I might just be sitting on my tush watching Todd and Delaney put floors down in my house!  As much as that sounds rather lovely watching my husband work and child labor, maybe even a secret dream come true, I just want to correct that thought.

(1st let me stop laughing and wipe my funny tears away cause you just crack me up Doreen!)

So, just in case someone else happens to be thinking the same thoughts, let's talk about how a typical floor laying weekend goes...........

I work till 5:30pm.  But Delaney and Todd have soccer that starts at 6pm.  So,while I am still working, I help Todd move everything out of a room.  Which is REALLY a fun job having to climb over things like a king sized mattress to answer a door for pick up time in the daycare.  I do many headcounts to make sure no little person gets lost under a pile of clothes or stuck behind a dresser! 

They go out to soccer and I (usually Michele too cause she made the mistake to stopping by the house at the wrong time) pull the carpet and padding up.  If I am lucky Todd might get the carpet cut and pulled up before he leaves for soccer.  Then Michele and I spend the soccer time pulling thousands of little stables up out of the floor and sweeping up piles of sawdust that a bunch of carpenters decided to leave under the rugs before they layed it down!  Oh yes, then there is the fun task of prying up the carpet tacks along the walls!  Todd usually returns in the middle of this task.  Which is good cause I am beginning to hate carpet tacks at the moment!  Esp when the contractors place the wall 1/2 way on top of the strip and you have to figure out how to dig it out!  Always a fun job!  I believe that this part is the WORSE part of the whole job and completely dread it!!!

Then we place down the floor covering.  I help do this too!  This doesn't take too long....unless you don't calculate it right or assume you have enough and then have to run to the store at 9pm to grab another roll! Then it means a midnight completion!

We roll into bed and don't move positions till the next morning!

Saturday is a soccer game and back home to finish the job!  Todd doesn't have much patience and likes to do things to the floor like call it names and throw a hammer at it so, after a hard lesson learned, we have a system going.  I lay the floor and hook the pieces together and Todd cuts the ends and works the hard spots like doorways and closets.  If we are lucky we have the floor done by dinner.  If we aren't, due to kids, activities, trips to the store or painting....we might get done by 11pm!

We roll into bed and don't move positions till the next morning!

Sunday we head to church (if we are working on time)  or skip church (if we are running completely on Europe time!!)  Todd finishes the trim while I sweep and clean behind him.  We paint as needed.  Then we roll everything back into place.

And so completes a typical weekend.  Everything in between soccer, dinner, trips the store, running so and so to a friends house, etc etc etc.   If I did not do this beside Todd, he would still be sitting on the sofa wishing the flooring in and nothing would be completed OR there would be holes in the floor from the hammer and cuss words written in marker along the wall!  There is no sitting my tush taking cute pics of the them doing the work for me while I sip iced tea and post on my blog!  I AM the one with the camera and it makes it a little hard to take a pic of myself doing things but....for you Doreen I shall try it next time!

Let it be officially known Kim does not, in any way, get to sit and observe at any point during this fun and exciting time!  Although, it might be a nice idea and I could try it.  I shall just tell Todd, " BUT DOREEN TOLD ME TO!"