We got new carpet! Our house came with some really awful off-white berber. It looked fairly nice when we moved in, but 4 kids, 3 cats, 2 adults and 1 dog quickly took a toll on it. Any sort of spot was really hard to clean - most of my cleaning efforts just left a bigger ring, that was impossible to get rid of. Our new carpet is soft and fluffy, and made of
DuPont Smart Strand. It is supposedly very stain resistant, and can be cleaned with diluted bleach if necessary. So far we've had one pet accident, and one kid vomiting Valentine's day candy on it, and everything's come out.
Getting the carpet was a fun exercise. We had to remove all the junk from the upstairs and family room. My kids have a lot of junk. We stacked most of it in the dining room, and some in our bedroom , where we left the old carpet for now. The following weekend I forced myself to put it all away, otherwise we'd probably still have fiftyleven boxes stacked up in our dining room. So as a bonus with the new carpet, the kids got cleaner rooms.
Sammy got a new bike for Christmas. That day, we tried to convince him to give a spin, but he was reluctant. After about three minutes outside, Dave was yelling "Ride that bike!" and Sammy was screaming "I can't! It's cold! I want to go inside!" It was quite a scene - I'm hoping that our neighbors were all still inside unwrapping presents, so they didn't see any of it. About a week later he decided it was time to ride the bike and happily rode around the cul-de-sac for 45 minutes.
