Just Floored

Today the linoleum (or was it vinyl?) in our kitchen and dining area, and trashed, stained, worn Berber carpet in our family room, was replaced by wood. Well, that fake wood, but it looks as real as the hardwood floor in our entrance.

It is gorgeous. It, of course, makes our walls and furniture look shabby. (Too bad we don't have the money for new furniture.)

What I like best about it, though, is what our sock wearing children did as soon as they saw a large, open expanse of wood floor: they slid/surfed/skated around and around. The two that weren't wearing socks immediately put some on and slid into the new family skating rink.

For a few moments they left the digital, screen laden world, and were the same kid I was decades ago.

It was heart warming. And it saved my wife, at least for the moment, from having to buy a dust mop. That floor is now the cleanest it will probably ever be.

Unless we don't move any furniture back in.