Once every summer we clear out all furniture from our living room and thoroughly scrub the floor. It’s an untreated pine floor: wonderfully pleasant to walk on, but takes an effort to keep clean.

Today was scrubbing day.

Once the floor was more or less dry, but not dry enough for the carpet (and therefore the furniture), the kids realized they had a large empty room to play in.

Their choice of toy – marbles – was probably the one thing I myself would never choose in a large room with no carpet. But it worked.