Mr. Wonderful and I have a convenient capacity to live in, not quite ignorance, but a certain willful blindness, to the slow inevitable deterioration of our home. We've been known to not change dead light bulbs for weeks, let broken furniture stay broken if it holds our weight, and walk around the pail catching the leak in the ceiling for too long. We are not the kind of people who spend the weekend rearranging the shrubbery or reroofing the house or building decks or adding bathrooms. Occasionally we'll rouse ourselves and start talking about what needs to be done but then we decide to go out to eat and get home too late to start so there it sits.
BUT, another child is graduating and the pre-party fix up is in progress. The yard and "garden" got an overhaul, a new kitchen floor, some painting, carpets cleaned, light bulbs replaced--we're going all out.
The problem is that this is our last child so once this is done, what will ever get us to get stuff done again. Some of you are probably saying helpful things like just make a list and do one or two things a week but I know how we operate here. We'll look at the list and agree and go to the hardware store to get the supplies and then decide that as long as we're out and about we might as well get a bite to eat and then by the time we get home it will be too late to start....
