Happy Father's Day John!

I am a little late on the Father's Day post. This weekend was a very busy one for us! The mudding/sanding phase on the bonus room was complete last Thursday. Friday we headed to Home Depot to get all the paint supplies. We planned on cleaning the room up, John hooking up the electrical outlets, and getting the first coat of paint on Friday night after Will went to sleep. We got Will in bed at 8:15 and got busy. Did I mention without the air on up there it is about 872 degrees. I did not know how John had done all that work up there with no air!! I was miserable after sweeping for 5 minutes. We had a little technical difficulty hooking up the outlets and could not get the electricity to work (we have a light, but the outlets are on a different fuse or something). Then we noticed that the thermostat/air would not work either. It was working when they installed it last July, John just didn't want to turn it on while he was sanding. Needless to say John became extremely frustrated and we just had to quit for the night with the room semi-clean with no power in the outlets, hot hot hot, and no paint on the walls. Saturday morning did not ease John's frustration. He thought endlessly on what he might have done wrong. When Will went down for his morning nap, he went up there and basically acted like a circus performer. He had to climb back into the walls and across several ledges, army crawl at times to reach the original wire box. Everything checked out okay so he knew that was not the problem. He called the man that installed our cooling/heating unit and he happened to be in our area so he stopped by. He took one look at the outlets and had that problem fixed. Poor John had hooked them up wrong. It was just a matter of moving a few wires and they were working. He also got the AC unit cooling but discovered there was something wrong with a switch (there is a much more detailed and lengthier explanation that Iwould have no idea how to tell you about) so he is coming back to fix that this week. So that right there made the weekend much better for John. He is going to finish cleaning it up today (sand was everywhere) and we hope to start painting tomorrow. The carpet should be installed by the weekend. THERE IS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL :)

On another note...We had a wonderful Father's Day. We have come a long way since Day 2 of Parenting!

John told Will it was the best Father's day he had ever had :) Will and I gave John an Auburn print for his bonus room-"Bo Over the Top." Much different than last year's gift... It has been a most fun adventure through parenting with John. He provides endless comic relief when I am ready to pull my hair out. It is precious how excited and smiley Will gets when John walks in a room. He is an awesome daddy and will be a perfect role model for our son. I do not know how single parents do it. Not only is John my perfect help mate but he also makes life so fun and keeps me grounded, especially now that we have a baby. Being a daddy definitely suits John!!