{"id":2162,"date":"2010-11-09T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/09\/fixing-maison-mason"},"modified":"2010-11-09T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T23:53:00","slug":"fixing-maison-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2010\/11\/09\/fixing-maison-mason\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Maison Mason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fc494-photo-740977.jpg\" style=\"clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537702523229694178\" src=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fc494-photo-740977.jpg?w=225\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>We are so stoked about the latest improvement to our home.\u00a0 I would have liked to put in new flooring first.\u00a0 But with Jack&#8217;s mobility around the corner, our first priority was ditching the tacky, old metal rod railing and putting in a real banister.\u00a0 Ben found a local handyman for the job.\u00a0 Clay and his son Luke have been working hard to make our stairs safer and more beautiful!\u00a0 Later Ben and I will stain and finish it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Ben is so nerdy proud of the railing.\u00a0 He called me up from the basement &#8220;Come look at this!\u00a0 It&#8217;s so great!&#8221;\u00a0 What did he want me to look at?\u00a0 That wooden plank they had just laid down where the carpet is peeled.\u00a0 Uh, cool?\u00a0 Ben has been pausing and admiring the stairs all day.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I feel so awkward when people are working in my home.\u00a0 Should I help them hold nails?\u00a0 Make them cookies?\u00a0 Put on music for them?\u00a0 Leave?\u00a0 I chose to hole-up a floor away from them for most of the day.<\/p>\n<p>This improvement has me itching for more!\u00a0 Blinds in the front window?\u00a0 Yes, please.\u00a0 New carpeting\/wood floors?\u00a0 Oh, yes!\u00a0 If only we had a couple more savings accounts to dip into.\u00a0 For now, I&#8217;m happy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>(PS: I&#8217;m really happy.\u00a0 Honestly.\u00a0 Jack is darling.\u00a0 My job is great.\u00a0 Ben quitting his job has made him happier than I&#8217;ve seen in years.\u00a0 Life is good.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are so stoked about the latest improvement to our home.\u00a0 I would have liked to put in new flooring first.\u00a0 But with Jack&#8217;s mobility around the corner, our first priority was ditching the tacky, old metal rod railing and putting in a real banister.\u00a0 Ben found a local handyman for the job.\u00a0 Clay and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}