Baby
As long as you plan on replacing them...
Hardwood floors are destroyed by kids, so if you do go with hardwood floors, make sure you go cheap and upgrade once they all hit high school.
The other thing is a bump or bruise is far less painful (and potentially bloody) on carpet than on hardwood/linoluium/tile flooring.
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I'm sure the hardwood floors are destroyed by kids, but so are carpet. Spills, throw up, blood etc will look (and smell) worse in carpet than on hardwood. I can't tell you how many times I've had to clean up cat barf while thinking that I was soooo glad it wasn't on carpet, because the cleanup would be a million times harder.
So I guess I'm willing to trade a few bruised knees for ease of clean up. Does that make me a bad person? Or maybe it's a sign that I'm not ready for kids yet, unlike May.
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I wouldn't say I'm ready for kids either. I don't know if anyone is ever really ready. My theory is that one day you think of all the things you'd be giving up (weekend vacation trips, sleep, individualistic goals, etc) and decide it's worth it. And I'm definitely not there yet in my head. But my heart...my heart does crazy things like make me cry at a stranger's baby pictures. It's certainly not something I ever saw myself doing, but *shrug*.
Since this has become a flooring panel, (get it? haahaa!) I personally agree with the hardwood. Maybe cover the heavy baby areas with that soft foamy rubber stuff that you use to keep rugs in place. Or just go True Asian Style and cover the hardwoods with rugs, and plastic over everything.
But seriously? I live in a apt with tile everywhere. I now know how much hair and dust was just sitting on my carpet in the old place, because the vacuum, well, it wasn't a Dyson, so it didn't get used much. And I believe babies should be raised on a minimum level of dirt and bugs and stuff for their immune system, but I won't be raising mine on all the hair I've shed in a day. Because Cousin It? Has nothing on my hairballz.
Must stop reading Amalah.
sadly familiar
I can relate to this woeful tale. Fortunately it doesn't happen very often, but...yuck.
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First, again, are you sure people haven't been commenting about glowing?
Second, am I a bad person that I got bored about 5 seconds into that montage, despite the cuteness of the kid? I have a really hard time reconciling this desire to have grownup kids when I'm old with their families and the actual process of having them. In my head, I think I should be having them now, so that I'm young and can have fun with them and be young when I'm a grandparent. I think I would feel differently if I actually had a "real" life instead of this artificial suspension of being a student, but all I can think of is getting to that point.
Third, occasionally I get choked up over something stupid on tv or little videos, too. Don't worry, it happens to everyone!
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They're cute in photos, but they are terrors all the other time. And they poop and throw up on everything. One thing that I learned from having cats, is that I definitely want to have hardwood floors if I ever have kids.