We’ve been enjoying our new marble table, but more importantly, we’ve enjoyed having family meals where conversation flows seemingly endlessly. In our old home, the table was very long and hard to sit around since half of it required scooting down a bench to sit at. Also, with the counter island in our last home, we often just served the kids there. In our new home, with two smaller, more accessible tables, and with all the kids at great conversation ages, we are finding family meals to be our new heaven on earth. I’ve prioritized them more and now I rarely miss a family dinner when I’m in town. These meals are one of the most special things in my life right now and I actively look forward to them. Also, it turns out marble is very finnicky and stains easily. Lily picked out some table setting pieces to help protect the table, and we also love how they look.Enjoying the daybed!This was a hard day for us, the cat owners, but it was surely a harder day for Stilton. In the middle of the night, he walked into Lydia and Mary’s room, where Basil was sleeping. Basil lost his mind, barked his head off and [I am sure] tried to chase Stilton. Stilton could have run away, but he bravely stayed right put in the room, hiding under a piece of furniture, for the rest of the night. We found him in the morning in a giant puddle of his own (very stinky) pee. We had to bathe him twice, and work to get the smell out of the room, but eventually we did. We then tried to get Stilton to get used to using his litter-box (so he doesn’t have future accidents when Basil scares him), but it has been a work in process. Here he seems to think he has found his new bed, not his new potty!
