Yesterday, hubby and I did some serious work on the camper. We ended up taking out the table and chairs and all the carpet in the main area. As I was ripping out the carpet I was reminded of our first house together.
Right after we got married we ended up renting a 3 bedroom, 1 and a half bath house. We were renting it from my old church so in exchange for a cheap rent we were asked to do some improvements to the house. One of which was to pull up the old carpet (which was hiding beautiful hardwood floors).
Tomorrow we will be putting in Pergo flooring in the areas we took the carpet out. This brings back some memories as well. When I was 8 months pregnant with my first child, I helped hubby put down laminate tile. We ended up having to redo that floor a couple years later and put down Pergo. We spent a couple nights doing that while the kids were asleep.
To be honest, these times when hubby and I are doing "home improvement" types of things are some of my fondest memories. Even though the carpets have been GROSS and laying Pergo is a sweaty job, it's been fun. We've had some interesting conversations and some funny mishaps.
I'm hopeful that we can do more in the future.
Love this! Our renovation of the townhouse, while sweaty and took what seemed like FOREVER (hello, stack of Pergo in the living room that I ended up using as a table for years because it was cheaper to buy as a batch) are some of my fondest "bonding" memories. Learned a lot about each other working on the renovation, even if it meant I couldn't have people over because we lived in a construction zone.
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