Healing and Projects in Progress

Thankfully April is feeling much better. A powerful combination of prayer, medications and a few helpings of egg drop soup from a local Chinese food place helped her recover and return some sense of normalcy to Rocheville.

But having played Mr. Mom for the past few days, it was time for the pendulum to swing back and be Mr. Dad again. So I decided to do some manly tasks around the house, including caulking the shower and repairing wall holes with spackle.

I realize these don't sound very impressive. In fact, on the scale of human accomplishments here's where they fall:



However, we Roches aren't really known for being handy around the house. We don't build things. We don't install appliances. We don't change the oil in our cars. A microwave that mounts under a kitchen cabinet once sat in its box, unpacked at my parent's house for something like six months.

Bottom line, if the situation exceeds the ability of our standard tools (Philips screwdriver, hammer, bottle opener) we either hire someone to do it or go see what's on TV.

So, on the Roche achievement scale, this weekend looks more like this:

It's the equivalent of running ten marathons to raise money for cancer research after donating both kidneys to homeless orphans on the "Mankind's Achievements" scale. And it's only Saturday!