Vacuuming

We have only one room in our home with carpet now. Erin spent a week painting that room a gold color before we get new carpet at the end of this week. And before painting, we had a couple guys come over to retexture the entire room and patch cracks and holes in the walls. After all this, you can imagine that the current carpet is not all that clean. For those of you who know Erin, we thought we'd share this small breakthrough.

After all the retexturing and painting had been finished, John put the current carpet that we had pulled away from the walls back down in its original position. Erin, of course, thought of vacuuming the carpet last week as she was cleaning the house. Could she really live with dirty, disgusting carpet for a whole week before the new carpet came in? Most of you who know her already know the answer: absolutely not. In a surprising turn of events, Erin decided it was a waste of time to vacuum the carpet that would be gone in a week. So she didn't. Maybe all the unexpected circumstances and stress of this year are forging changes in Erin's anxious, compulsive personality. Maybe.