We had a couple "oops" at the house a few weeks back. Both were my fault, gotta love that.
My poor husband has been working so hard on the outside of the house. He had just put new topsoil down and planted the grass seed. We had had days of much rain. I was away doing some errands and as I was pulling into the driveway I decided to back in. I usually pride myself in being a pretty good "backer", I grew up always backing into the garage at home. Not sure what happened this day, I think I was thinking about which flavor of Starburst jelly beans I liked best. (I had just bought the bag for the kids Easter baskets and had the make sure they were ok first.) Crazy me ran the Aspire right through the new dirt and grass seed.
The second oops was not so much my fault as my "lack of paying attention." It was the first day of our spring break and the kids were playing very contentedly upstairs and I was not giving them much attention. After a long time, Claudia came running down telling me that Aaron had spilled blue paint on the floor. She was being a bit dramatic and I thought for sure she had to be exaggerating. Well, she certainly was not. Crazy kid had dumped a whole bottle of blue tempera paint on the carpet (thank goodness it was not the new carpet, I think I would have lost it). I spent hours scrubbing and wiping it. It is now a lovely shade of baby blue, but it looks much better. My cousin is coming tomorrow with her carpet cleaner so we will see what that will do. This is the "before" picture. I almost didn't take it and I thought to myself that someday this would be funny and I want to remember it. If you look carefully, you can see the 2 perfect little hand prints at the back, on either side of the orange bottle.
A Sunday afternoon soccer game...
I'm not exactly sure how they ended up on the roof of the shed
I usually have a ton of tulips but I'm not sure what happened to them. I think something ate them last year. Just a few came up this year and they are one of my faves...
I only have one tulip blooming. Ugh. I guess I'll be planting some more this fall. I'm told that if you put daffodil bulbs above the tulip bulbs they won't get eaten because critters hate daffodil bulbs. I've never tried it, though.
ReplyDeleteThat is definitely a good thing that the paint wasn't poured out on new carpet (I had to clean up a mess like that at someone else's house once.....Teya was the culprit....and it was on NEW carpet)! That is why I don't have that sort of craft stuff in my house....my kids would have made a much bigger mess than what Aaron did. All the crafty messy stuff is at Grandma's house. ;)
You'll have to post an after pic of the carpet.