Our boys just love helping with tools. We started last night to take off our front deck, it was unsafe and an accident waiting to happen. Carlos was hammering away at the old boards while Levi measured. I think Dee got more done when the boys came in for naptime, though. It looks great! More about naptime later.

While the deck work was being done I was inside cleaning. We are trying to make the place nice for our house concert tomorrow night with Holly. I did some deep, deep cleaning. We got all the carpets steam cleaned and the bedding all washed. The floor swept, the carpets vacuumed….you get the idea. Lots of work to do! Things are looking mighty fine despite the boys trying to undo all that I’ve done.

Back to naptime. Carlos was a nightmare. If anyone has ideas on how to get a 3 year old to sleep then please fill me in. It was more than a battle. We were trying to get the boys all to sleep early because we were going over to Patti’s retirement party at 2. Carlos was in our room singing and laughing and grinning whenever one of us would go into the room. We left the front door open, Dee was working on the deck and I went out to mow the lawn. I came in periodically to check on our non-sleeper and each time, of course, he was still awake. I finished mowing, brought a load of laundry up only to find that my sweet young son had locked the back door. I wasn’t happy but went around to the sliding door and found that he had locked that one, too. I banged on the door and he finally let me in, all the while grinning ear to ear. Turns out he never did take a nap, so he learned a hard lesson and was dropped off and the Fisher’s house while we went onto Patti’s party. Yea, he was pretty shocked to be dropped off, that’s for sure. This boy needs some definite wake up calls. Anyhow, I eventually picked him up from Fishers and joined the party again and he slept in the car and awhile at the party, it was great to see everyone and celebrate Patti’s retirement.

Came home, did some more work to get ready and fought Carlos once again at bedtime. It’s draining!!! Looking forward to tomorrow, time to unwind a little with some mindless tv.

Nathan….I’m watching your favorite movie, 9 to 5! 🙂