What a Crock: One Year, One Crockpot and One Reno Wreck

Reno Ridiculouso: Tiling Battle Troll Style Food Mood; Chili, cause that’s the troll’s favourite food It’s March Break and the Battle Troll (name for my brother in law, see last post) arrives to lay our tile.   Everything is set.   The Hubby has worked his butt off to make sure that we have everything needed and are ready to go.   The Troll will be with us for two days to lay all the dining room, back entry and bathroom tile.   Oh, and my sister comes too.   But mostly she and I and the Kiddo get out of the way while the boys go to town on tile. They come and we order in food and have a great night of drinking and playing card games and generally just enjoying being together.   The next day The Sister (otherwise known as Sissy) and I and the Kiddo head out to the ROM while the boys start. We’re enjoying the ROM when about two hours in I get a call from the Hubby. I’m expecting to hear how much he loves working with the Battle Troll and how awesome the room looks

Reno Ridiculouso: Puttin' It Together Food Mood: confused, but pulling off an awesome quinoa bowl that only I like Handy Neighbour and the Hubby go to it one afternoon and start laying the kitchen floor.   We’ve settled on a grey, taupe, reddish brown laminate because we need to connect the reddish brown wood of the older section of the house, with the soon to be espresso cupboards and to the black/copper/grey dining room.   I (and pretty much everyone) looooove the look of it but we’ll see how the laminate holds up…. Anyways, on this day ‘tis being laid. Handy Neighbour and Hubby are madly laying out the pieces trying to get the right flow and finish to the floor and they keep stepping over each other and moving things.   Finally Handy Neighbour says to Hubby “You know, you could reopen the wall so that we could use the living room to stage this floor…”   What?   Hubby actually laughs out loud.   He and I have fully forgotten that there’s a whole house beyond the