Home renovation

One of my all-time favorite things we’ve ever done with the kids came about thanks to This Old House. You know, the home renovation show. We’ve watched it on and off for years. I even met Norm at a woodworking convention once.

But, I digress…

In an episode many moons ago, the interior design of a home for a young family included a wall painted with this special paint so the kids could use it as an erasable canvas. We didn’t have a wall to spare for muralizing but we did have a kitchen wall we intended to rip out in the course of our own home remodel.

The day before demo, we assembled every marker, pen, pencil and paint stick in the house, a step ladder for Daughter One and a stool for Daughter Two. We stacked all the supplies in close proximity to the soon-to-be-ex-wall.

I wish you all could have seen the faces on our daughters when it sunk in that they had a whole day and carte blanche to deface that wall in any way they considered artistic.

That was a good day.