We have a huge deck out back, and it needs replaced rather desperately. We've been dealing with splinters and other sundry issues.
So we're pulling up the boards and have replaced one section with new cedar boards.
I'm taking a trip down memory lane right now. When we moved into this house, Naomi was 5, Lydia was 3, Isaac was 2, Joseph was under a year, and I was pregnant with Miriam.
Obviously, the kids were too little help, and I was too overwhelmed by child care duties and pregnancy to help Kevin with the truly incredible number of tasks that needed to be done on our house. It was a foreclosure, and the project list was in the dozens, I believe.
So I kept the kids alive and healthy, and Kevin toiled away with some help from a couple of male friends.
This year, we have older kids and they are doing such wonderful work on the deck. Kevin's back is not suffering all that much and the work is going so quickly.
It is truly a blessing having a large family of willing, helpful kids.
(And they are being paid, which makes them even more willing!)
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