Refinished Table

On Monday Dwight and I refinished our kitchen table.  This is a table we bought with money that my grandparents gave to us, when we first bought our townhouse.  We bought it from a furniture store where they actually made the furniture.  In fact, we paid a deposit and THEN they made it.  So it's a great, solid, well-constructed table.  But it has certainly taken some abuse over the years.  The first major blow was after a night of playing games with Dwight's family.  We had played late into the night and then just went straight to bed, with plans to clean up in the morning.  Well, during the night our cats decided to play with the cups of water we left sitting on the table.  As it turns out, water on top of a score sheet, left sitting overnight, is not the best for a table.  And then I'm sure our attempt to clean it up afterward wasn't great for the table either.  Then throw four messy children at said table.  Not only are they messy eaters, they're messy painters, messy glue-ers, heck, they're even messy with their stickers.  So yeah, that table has had a rough decade (after a few easy years in the very beginning). But now it's back to it's original glory.  Yay!  It looks beautiful.  I wish we'd done it ages ago.