Dream Floors Versus Reality

Although I fear my Pinterest membership being revoked, I have to say it.  Wide Plank Flooring, although beautiful, might have been a bad idea.

I'm trying really hard to hold back judgement until the entire floor is installed, but the past 48-hours have been a killer to morale and my back!

I'll save the details for the full installation post, but here's what we were able to get done in 2 days with 2.5 DIYers. 

It took Cody and I a full day to pick out the 'best' boards for the entry way.  And with a toddler at the house, we were actually lucky to get through half of the boards.   

As you can probably imagine, especially if you know Cody, it took us about an hour to decide where to start the first board and why.   After that, we used the craziest glue we've ever worked with in hopes of creating a moisture barrier between the first floor and the crawl space/basement.  Oh, and did I mention that we also had to nail it down?

After six hours, we high fived to 48 SqFt installed.  

Yep, that's what 48SqFt looks like. 

Thank goodness for Coke-a-Cola or this weekend would have been a DIY disaster. 

2018 New Year's Resolutions

I love making New Year's resolutions.  I'm the type that has a list for everything I do, and every time I cross an item off that list, I. Feel. Good.  I've made hundreds of resolutions throughout the years and I'm a little ashamed to admit that my success rate is in the single digits, like zero (0%).

You would think that I'd learn my lesson and stop making resolutions.  Nope.  Although I keep failing miserably, I still love to make them.   So here goes.  New year, new resolutions. 

• Blog at Least Once a Week: Life is crazy--house, school, move, work, family, volunteering, first baby, commuting on the weekends back home-- but I'm reshuffling a few things to get back to some of the other things that I love to do, and a big part of that is writing.  No worries, the baby isn't going anywhere.
• Quit Coke-a-Cola:  I am an addict.  This is on my list every year and I can't ever kick it.  Drinking water is an alien concept and I just don't like it. 
• Move Into Betty by Summer:  This two year adventure has got to come to an end sometime. Living out of a suitcase and not having our own space is quickly getting old.  Also, when I come home on the weekends, I just want to relax and we can't really do that right now.    

What's on your New Year's resolution list?