Castle Adventures

Today the plummer came for the second day in a row. Yesterday he started installing our new basement shower, and today he finished it (kind of) along with several other projects (some of which are still broken even after he supposedly fixed them, so we will have to call him back . . . tedious). I hadn't really planned on the plummer being at my house today. I had other items on my agenda other than hanging around waiting for the smelly plummer to finish his tasks, but I tried to be patient because I want everything to be finished. Things could have been worse . . . he could have left all the jobs half done for who knows how long.

Anyway, because the plummer was at our house, we couldn't go anywhere today: no play group, no trips to the library, no short walks to neighborhood garage sales, no driving to the raspberry farm to pick raspberries, which were all things I had been considering until Mr. Stinky Plummer kaboshed my Friday agenda. It was a nice day out. We needed something to do, so while we were sitting outside on the patio, I decided it would be fun to convert the large cardboard box our cartop carrier arrived in before our last trip to North Dakota into a cardboard castle to play with. I cut and snipped cardboard. Sarah had lunch. Sarah painted the castle with her paints, dressed as the waif Servant Sarah. Noah had lunch. Sarah kept painting. I hosed down the high chair I had carried outside so Noah could picnic in style. Then I brought out our smaller Princess dress-up box and Ms. Crazy Preschooler changed elegant dresses about 246 times during the afternoon hours. And I got a slight sunburn standing around taking a bazillion pictures.