Finally

Today is an amazing day in my life.  The carpet installer is downstairs putting the carpet in our downstairs family room.  YEA!  It’s done.  This project has loomed over me for 18 years, well not really loomed all that time.  In the beginning it was fine to just have space.

I’ll never forget the spaceships built out of cardboard and the weapons made from legos as the starship enterprise battled the aleins

The many many indoor basketball games which elicited at one point an orange cage cover over the light bulb so it wouldn’t be shatered again.

Halloween parties,  curtains made in the storage room and a couch and TV kind of set up so it could be used as a TV room and the many Mario party parties.  We won’t mention the time it got referred  to as the “make out room” (hey I got son’s in law and cute granddaughters from that part)

The furniture painted, the science projects built; the swords shields and castles made for medieval units in sixth grade.  Furniture stored for people now and again.

The project itself started many years ago with the sheet rock being nailed to the wall, then one daughter thought it would be fun to learn to start mudding and taping, more years passed, then a new son-in-law saw a good project he could do and commenced with more mudding and taping, and the dreadful sanding, I remember him coming up covered head to toe in white dust.  Then another year passed and my son decided to take his hand at texturing, another year passed and a different daughter decided that she would be foreman of this project and get it done.  Thanks to all this great help and inspiration we made it.

Now a new generation of family members will be able to use the space and little more comfortably,  but you know maybe all those cement walls and lack of structure led to some imagination and fun that never would have been otherwise.

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