Beautiful Floors!

Anthony putting in Floors (I’m helping but the picture taker!)

Hello my friends! I am still figuring out all of this computer stuff! One day this won’t be so hard for me! Luckily, my Katelynn is a computer scientist and all my girls are good at this, so I do have help! One day this will all look and work great!

My family moved to Nampa, Idaho in 2011 when Anthony finished his RN. Luckily, the housing market was great for a little family stating over and in need of a house! We were able to buy a big, five bedroom house that was in perfect shape, All of the flooring and fixtures were pretty cheap, but I didn’t care. I had just gotten out of the hospital, having been diagnosed with MS, pretty traumatized and not up for physical labor. Anthony and I still owned a house in Las Vegas that couldn’t be sold due to the economy, and we still had a lot of schooling left. I was so grateful to not have to work on the house! That being said, Anthony and I have replaced floors, kitchens, bedrooms, and bathrooms in several properties we owned in Las Vegas . We have a long history of hard work and sweat equity! I always told Anthony, “Trophy wife! Not worker girl!” I seem to be too cheap to pay for labor! I’d rather have nicer quality versus someone else doing the labor!

Well, ten years later and three teenagers grown, the house could use some love. I always say that a house is a money pit. We need a place to live, but living wears on a place! Things wear out and need to be replaced. We have started on the floors and walls. I have slowly been painting the house a neutral gray and white instead of the old beige, and we have been working on the floors! We ordered three thousand square feet of flooring delivered, and it has been taking up half of our garage for over a year- and a half

During the Covid quarantine, I had three college students living with me. We decided to put the kids to work, and got most of the downstairs done. All that’s left downstairs is the laundry room and the Harry Potter closet (under the stairs). We ordered some new bedroom furniture for one one of the girls, and decided that since it would take time to get here, we would try and finish the upstairs flooring before it came.

Anthony finished his nurse practitioner a couple years ago and has been working all the time, especially since the pandemic. He worked at the prison for a year as a provider, in order to get some good experience, and now he works part-time in the local emergency room and full-time at a quick care. He has always been such a hard worker, but I have been waiting for 27 years for him to have more time for me! We need a change, that’s for sure! I can’t do the floors without him, and he has been very busy! He’s such a good man!

All that being said, this past week was our time to work on floors. Anthony had five days in a row off (we were hoping for a trip, but that didn’t work out), so we started working on the upstairs.

My Dad retired as a school administrator four years ago, and he and my Mom moved here to be around us! They have been a huge help, and worked tirelessly to remove floors, take furniture to be donated, take loads to the dump and put in flooring! There help was invaluable! They also came over and helped me paint on Friday! My room doesn’t look like the same place! I am so grateful for good parents!

To end this post, I have to acknowledge that the good in my life has always come through hard work! I don’t love hard work, but I know it’s good. It’s good for the mind, body and spirit! I love the good relationships that come from working hard together, and I love to the the good outcomes! Life is good, and our labors are good!