All in a Freundel Day . . .
Posted in Personal on July 20, 2008 by Kathy Freundel
It’ the kind of day that I love. A lazy summer house project day . . . everyone home, working and playing together. This day, it was a project whose time I have been begging to arrive. Refinishing our dining table. It was sticky, sticky. Like don’t use a paper plate or it will become part of the table sticky. My thought was that it was the sun’s rays shining constantly through the sunroom down onto our wood table top that was causing it to be sticky and gooey. However, when I googled the problem, I learned that it was because I have been wiping the table down with water, which disintegrates the finish. And as the finish got stickier, I thought I should use a degreaser to clean it all off. Guess what? Carl just bought me my first bottle of Murphy’s Oil Soap. I am recovered.
Carl is becoming good at so many of these projects. Like our church pew seating? With eight little ones, we needed to fit lots of little bottoms in as little space as possible. We tried benches, but we had some casualties . . . little ones reaching for a roll and taking a tumble! We found these antique wood church pews on Craigslist, borrowed our neighbor’s pickup, drove down to Park Heights one December night . . . (yea, we were a little nervous!), and picked up seven of them for ten bucks a pop! We have them all over our house. We use them for family devotions, family puppet shows, jungle gym equipment, . . . a favorite is when the kids spray them with furniture polish, put on socks, and slide away!
One of the best parts of project day is tearing a room down, and cleaning it the “mom and dad” way. That makes me love my home. The other great part of project day is three squares out on the deck. Carl makes stacks and stacks of pancakes and sausage to get project days off and running. In some ways, these days are most precious of all. Working together. Playing together. And a nice smooth table. Makes me think we should refinish those church pews. I’ll keep that one to myself.
The day was also full of myriad home adventures. Spring cleaning of the playhouse, roller skating down the cul de sac, playing doctor with Caroline’s new doctor kit that Gram bought her for earning beads at “gram school.”
Nice work, huh?
Freundel life. The sweet life.
P.S. When Carl read this blog, he said, “Wow. I don’t remember the day being all that fun!”
That’s the beauty of journaling and blogging . . . I’m able to focus on the good parts, forget the hard parts, and build a great memory!
