Well...I just wanted to let you know that Murphy's Law is still valid.
I thought it would be a great day to listen to our Prince Caspian Audiobook to get ready for the movie coming out tomorrow (mainly because I keep falling asleep reading aloud for long periods of time,and also because I told them that they couldn't watch the movie until the read the book..and I am really behind). So I let the kids make castles out of cardboard boxes on the patio. They were done with the "structures" and wanted to paint. I thought this was a great idea. We laid our paint towels down under the castles and they carefully poured out the paint colors they wanted to use into a "contained" tray (which was actually just a box top that we didn't use to build the castles). I thought things were going well...until my 2yo snuck outside while I was in the laundry room and started painting...the patio...which we just had pressure washed yesterday...and my husband hasn't seen it yet...because he's been out of town...and coming home tonight. I had to remember that trials produce patience...which produces character...right? And then...my husband calls as I am trying to figure out why the nozzle won't screw onto the hose properly which makes water squirt...actually spray at a higher pressure than the pressure washer...all over my shorts...that I just put on to go pick up my daughter from dance...at least, they were clean when I went to pick her up.
So I grabbed a scrub brush and started scrubbing the wet patio. Got most of it off. I hope it won't stain, but it goes to show you that if you get your patio pressure washed when your husband is out of town, then before he makes it back to see the beautiful patio...someone will realize that it's just not "comfortable" to have a clean patio. Ahhh....gotta love homeschool crafts.
The best part of the night...My husband was wonderful...He said "It's OK...it's just a patio. I'll just borrow a pressure washer from a friend and take care of it." I think he was trying to encourage me that since I was doing something related to school, it would be fine. What a great guy! (Especially since we hired someone to do it because he "didn't have time." Next time I'll just have to ignore the 23.5 loads of dirty laundry so I can "protect" the clean patio from budding artists.)
Whatever can go wrong...will go wrong...but it's OK because, more than likely, it's something that we can fix or work around. And it's not something that wasn't also planned by our Heavenly Father...so we could produce patience...which produces character.
Welcome to my blog...Why "gidget"? Well...my husband tried to teach me how to surf before we were married. I was lousy at it, but he called me his "gidget" and the name stuck.
Why "Treasure Trove"? I love sharing about my sweet little "treasures"...and God has blessed me beyond measure....and no, I didn't mean that to rhyme.
