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My wife and I have been discussing a new floor in our son’s room.  Replacing the carpet has become a pet project of my wife’s so consequently it is first on my list as well.(That  is worth at least two good husband points…don’t you think?)  Kellen, our son, has been particularly hard on the carpet in his room.  It didn’t stand a chance with Kellen.  He lives to destroy.  I cannot get him to read his Boy’s Life magazine but if it says destroyed or devastated on the cover of a book or magazine,  he is all over it.  As he was with the carpet….  All over it.  He has stains where  a person should not expect to find stains.  There was one stain that I took a stick with me because I was not sure if it was dead or alive.  I know it is horrible.  Listen I am not the best house keeper in the world.  Anyone who knows me will attest to that.  But with Kellen he has a tendency to make a show look good yet in the mean time he is creating a whopper of a stain that is covered up by his cleaning.  Ok…. so shoot me!!!  I missed a couple of things… a few times.  My only excuse/reason is…I had other things pressing. (Ok, it is my blog … I can change the subject… next subject.)

It is unfortunate that I am not good enough carpenter to put in a real wood floor.  It is also going to be set on concrete so I am even less inclined to use natural wood flooring.  Since I constantly am thinking about saving money that I do not have it was brought to my attention that manufactured floors these days have almost a foolproof system of installation that lends itself to being a pleasant experience for  a rookie installer such as myself.  I am hot to find the proper product to use as the replacement for Kellen’s bedroom.

There is only one problem with this scenario? (Remember the two good husband points I mentioned earlier..?) No matter what product I put down on the floor… it will not be right.  There seems to be something in the DNA of my wife that requires her to not like what ever she chooses.  Each time she has very good reasons for her change of heart.  I understand how things can change.  I even understand how easy blame could be switched to me.  What I don’t understand is how all my good husband points do not make a difference.  No matter how many I seem to remember giving myself(of course these records are my unofficial tally not the wife’s official list) it really never seems to make a difference.  Go figure…?

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