I was thrilled to have new carpet when I moved into my home several years ago. My previous home had ugly, charcoal-gray, commercial grade carpet, but with more kids coming along and messing it up, my husband and I decided to wait to replace it until they were older. We never did replace that carpet. We found ourselves fixing up that house as best as we could to sell it while my husband's company transferred us to Houston. When we found the house we wanted to buy, I was excited for the bright new floors that would come with the bright new house. I was excited about it all being new! New appliances, new floors, new walls with no nail holes, new counter-tops, new everything! Oh my! I had never lived in a brand-new house and I had grandiose ideas of how to keep it all "perfectly" clean! Enter children. And children's friends. And pets. And a husband. Six months after moving into our new house with all of its newness, I found myself dis...