Through Another's Eyes

A couple weekends ago, some awesome neighbors of ours, stopped by to pick up the keys to the church. She and her husband stood in our entry way with Trav and Me for over 30 mins. As we stood and talked, I noticed her eyes wandering. She looked in the front room, then up the stairway, into the study, back towards the kitchen, etc. As she looked, my eyes happened to follow hers. I felt ok about what she was seeing for the most part. The house was in fairly good order. Infact, I was quite pleased. Heaven knows on any other given day, if you stop by unannounced, it could be tragic to your health to enter these doors! Just as I was starting to feel ok about those wandering eyes......the UNTHINKABLE happened!!

She just had to look down!

Down, Down, Down!

My eyes met the spot hers did at the same time and I was horrified!
She just had to go and look at the baseboards!
Dang.

I was amazed when I stopped long enough to see how destroyed they were. How does that happen? When you find out, let me know! There wasn't an inch that looked semi decent! Within a day, the blue tape went up, a phone call was made to my dear Father (whom I mooch off of way too much, but knew he'd have a half used can of paint he would be dying to share with me!), seams were calked and the paint went on! It's crazy that you live with things like that,thinking one day you'd like to take care of them, only to realize in less than 2 hours, you can have the problem solved. It has done wonders to my soul to have those baseboards white as white again! My entry way finally feels clean, and hopefully now, those will be the distraction from the damage the dog has made of the once nice-looking wood floors! Oh how I hope they need to borrow our keys this weekend!