When we bought our house two years ago, we planned to do some updating. But when we moved from a motorhome and had no furniture, we had plenty of things to buy and plenty of decisions to make without worrying about the walls and floors. But it was finally time to update both of those things. After looking at the eleven-foot ceilings rising even higher over the basement staircase, and some interestingly difficult ceilings in our bathroom, we decided we needed professional help. So we hired painters instead of trying to do it ourselves (and then needing professional medical or psychiatric help). We didn't realize how thoroughly professional painters wrap everything in the house. Who knew they would shrink wrap EVERYTHING!?!?
We planned to stay at home during the painting, but then we found out that all of the floors and furniture were wrapped up. We decided to live in our unfinished basement to stay out of their way, but we hadn't packed bedding or clothes or food or . . . anything! We literally had to go buy underwear and toothbrushes because we couldn't get to anything in our drawers. Our kitchen was out of commission for the entire time. So we ate out for six days, trying all those new-to-us restaurants that we had been driving by for the last two years.
We just survived the painting project, when the new flooring arrived. While we had hardwood floors in some areas of the house, we decided to change out the carpeting in the living room for oak floors as well
That meant that ALL of the hardwood in the house had to be sanded down so they could lace the new wood pieces into the existing floors to make a seamless surface. Since they were sanding everything down, we could also pick a new color of stain for the floor. They gave us several choices of stain.
But then we saw the natural wood, and we had second thoughts about that dark stain. We thought the natural color lightened up the room and was so lovely that we changed our minds. At the last moment, we decided to go with the lighter natural color. Denisa was living in the basement again during this project, but Mark was taking care of his Mother 400 miles away. We had to make some long distance calls to work up the courage to go with the newer natural color. This was before they applied the finish. What do you think?
After surviving another six days with our home in complete chaos and the holidays quickly approaching, we didn't have much time or energy to do much Christmas decorating. But we still went to two different Christmas light displays.
We celebrated Christmas early in Tulsa with our youngest son and his wife. The grinch also made an appearance.
Then we had the traditional Christmas Eve fondue meal at our oldest son's house in Kansas City. We've been blessed to share this holiday with our daughter-in-law's family for many years.
They have another tradition of hiking to a high spot to sing "Go Tell It On the Mountain." We had a lovely Christmas afternoon for a hike near Kansas City. We wish you a VERY belated Merry Christmas as we all hum along to "Go tell it on the mountain . . . that Jesus Christ is born."
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