Carpet

The carpet guys arrived at 9:30am...and I was as awkward as ever. But they were really nice and did a great job! Best of all, Wm was an AMAZING helper and spent 2 hours helping me put everything back to rights. We carried bag after bag of "smalls" from the basement and put them back on shelves and into closets. The carpet guys moved all the big furniture, but we were supposed to remove lamps and tchotchkes and the like. Thanks to my intense minimizing, that wasn't really bad. But we had to take everything out of the closets since they are carpeted. And we have weirdly large closets for an old house that we have them stuffed with things like off season clothes and toiletries. So after we spent all the afternoon marching and up down stairs with heavy bags of books and clothes and shoes, Wm says, "I don't know about you...but I am BEAT." Haha!!

BEFORE

AFTER

The biggest difference is actually in the bedrooms - the carpet in there was older than me, I swear. But, of course, no one really sees them or cares besides us. Steve is in hog heaven. He loves him some soft carpet. 

We also took this opportunity to "big kid-ify" Wm's room. He is super pleased with how it turned out!   Since he spends 99% of his life in there either clacking away on his computer or playing with his "guys," he is delighted with the updates. His favorite thing is a night stand to keep his book and "reading lantern" on next to his bed. (Now that he's big, he is allowed to read in his bed until he's sleepy and makes the "time to go to sleep" call himself. He's never been awake past 9:30 in there, so he's handling the responsibility well.) He can also set his glasses right there so they are easily accessible in the morning. 

We are going to sleep well tonight!