Haha, yeah right! So here's how the day has been spent...
Mommy is awakened by what she first to be hellish demonic screams. Upon fully awakening I realise it is Kaevuh (2, almost 3) collapsed in a pile near the door squealing. She can't get out. You see, my daughter is the fearless independent sort. She wakes up, rarely if ever wakes me up with her, and carries on about her business until I wake up. That is why our bedroom door locks.
I kind of grumble, and turn over. I refuse to aknowledge her when she behaves this way, so I lay and wait for her to calm down and ask me like a big girl to get up for breakfast. It takes a good 15 minutes, which daddy spends with a pillow pressed over his head. Believe it or not, that is a relatively uneventful morning.
Afterwards we decide to tear down the pool. We bought an Intex Quikset pool last week. It sucks. After first spending the afternoon digging in the yard to level the pool, we fill it up partially and run out of time. We head to bed to fill it the rest of the way the next day. It gets filled, no time to swim. The next morning we awaken to a collapsed, empty pool.
I assume it is unlevel, and the water shifted in the night. We debate all week on wether to tear it down, or dig it level and fill it up again. We decide to tear it down and return it. An $89 pool is NOT worth that much work. After dismantling it to return, we check the ground to learn that it is level. What the heck made the pool collapse? We speculate a disgruntled neighbor may have messed with it in the night (one seemed more than mildly irritated by it's presence for only God knows why) or possibly the neighbors dogs that run free may have tried to jump in. There is no leash law in out county, so a neighbors 4 large dogs run rampant in our yard frequently, and one is not even remotely friendly.
Either way we decide if the pool is that easy to collapse, it is not safe for the kids. What if it collapsed with the kids in it because they got a little rambunctious? Unacceptable in my opinion. The pool goes back to Toys-R-Us. Maybe we'll buy a real pool next year.
So... aside from the redneck pool in our back yard, as I am tearing down the pool my husband decides this is really a one person job and starts the mowing. My oldest daughter decides to ride with him. I expected fear shock, and much to my surprise she loved it. She sat in daddy's lap for a long time and mowed the yard.
This is my life living in a rural county..... Maybe I'll post a picture of that.
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