“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Tebow
The best way to teach hard work is by showing how hard you are willing to work.
A dear friend has gotten her first house. She was going to pay someone to paint the walls for her but DH and I told her we would love to help her with that.
We thought we would do a room a weekend and be done in a month.
We thought we would do a room a weekend and be done in a month.
So she had us over and we got to work. However there was a misunderstanding and she wanted the whole first floor done in a weekend. So that is what we did!
Oh the pain…. the pain.
Our 4 children played and keep busy and made a heck of a lot of noise in the big house while we painted. The best time though was when they asked us if they could help and we let them. I wish we had let them do more actually as they did great, but I think our friend was worried that they would mess things up. They didn’t thankfully!
The very best part was the day we took off the paint tape, they ran around getting the little pieces and then started to take the tape off themselves and it was a great game to them and it made it much faster and I just could not stop smiling at them and how much fun they where having.
The paint job looks great, evil orange walls that took forever to prime over and all!
I love working on things like this, Fibromyalgia gets in my way so often and some days makes basic things near impossible. It will not stop me though, not when I have little one pulling me along and helping me smile through the pain.
