I am Not Very Helpful...

Once again, I have had a new revelation. I have come to terms with myself. I am really not a helpful type of person. Why you ask? Well, I shall explain. Dan and I or should I just say Dan, is in the process of building a playroom for the girls in our basement. ( I should add that Dan's Dad has also been a big part of the building process too-thanks Greg!) Anyways, Dan has been working hard at the room and this past week has been doing his favorite trade of the many he can do. DRYWALL. Now both him and Greg hate dry walling and I do remember when they were drywalling our house, they both said they would never do it again. Well, I decided that I should really help out with the process. So on Saturday Morning, I headed downstairs to "help out!" Dan was busy trying to cut and hang his own piece so I decided to measure and cut my own piece too. I thought I did okay, and then Dan informed me that I measured the piece wrong and wasn't strong enough to cut the dry wall. Well, it took me at least one hour to measure, cut and hang 2 small pieces of dry wall, but...I did help out! Or at least I thought I did, and then Dan told me to go upstairs and just take care of the girls. I guess that is my specialty.

Then there was last night. At about 9:45 pm Dan decided that we needed to clean the basement out and organize it. Ok, I said to him, I will help you. Well, Abbie was still awake and wanting to eat so I sat down on chair downstairs and watched as Dan brought buckets of stuff into the room and organized. I told him what to toss and what to keep and what to bring upstairs for me to go through. So, Abbie finally fell asleep. I took her upstairs to her bassinet and headed back down to the hair filled basement. Again, those of you who really know me best, know that I hate any kind of animals hair, dirt, cat pee, hairballs,etc... all of which we have in our basement. I really did try to be supportive of Dan as I held the vacuum up while Dan sucked up all the cat hair. (our vac. is broken and it falls over if you don't hold the base part) I thought I was going to die. There was so much cat hair and even pee down in this area we were cleaning out. I pulled my shirt over my head so no spiders would land on my head and covered most of my face the the front part of my shirt to keep any odd smell out of my very sensitive nose. Well, needless to say....I pretty much gave up. I asked Dan if I could go upstairs. I think in one way he wanted me to stay down there and help, but then he came to the realization that I really wasn't helping at all and he would probably get more done faster without me down there. So I went upstairs and went to bed! By then it was a little after 11:00 and I was tired(from all my hard work!). Dan came up sometime after midnight. I must say, he did a very good job of cleaning up. I went down there this morning to put in some laundry and it looks very nice and clean! Good Job, Dan!( I will try to be a bigger help next time)

So I am going to turn over a new leaf! (again, for those of you who know me well, I turn over a new leaf just about every day, but by the end of the day, the leaf has blown away!) I will be a bigger helper to all! If you need something, let me know and I will help you out! I will give it my all! Please know, I just might not last very long! Have a good day!