Unexpected

You take things for granted until someone comes over to visit and gets roped into ‘helping’ with a project.

This happens to our friend, Pete, quite often. He lives around the corner and often comes over to watch the hockey game on TV with Henry and Michael (Pete is a single guy without children and obviously does not mind having to put up with sitting amidst our family piles of laundry in the living room to watch the midweek game).

Each time Pete comes over, there is always something that needs to be fixed or just ‘dealt’ with. Monday night (amidst the mountain of laundry), Jenny decided that her room furniture HAD to be moved around (more than likely, she was just copying us~ we did our room the night before).

Of course, Henry and Pete agree that this task is right up their alley (in commercial time of course). They try to get into Jenny’s room, but are blocked by pieces of ‘everything’ all over the floor. Henry tells Jenny to clean up the floor before they will do any work (sounds like at the job site, if you ask me). Well, the funny thing is that Pete starts helping Jenny (even I, would balk at this daunting and usually gross task).

I was standing in the doorway when Pete pulls the chest of drawers away from the wall and then tells Jenny that she should throw the ‘science’ experiment of food in the garbage. Let me tell you that this comment came as NO surprise! Obviously, it didn’t to Jenny either, because she gingerly peeked around the drawers. Pete just laughed and said, “made you look!”

I had forgotten what it was like to act in frivolity while doing normal tasks. We get caught up in everyday life and forget to have fun along the way. We all laughed when Pete picked up a teenage mutant ninja turtle wearing a dress and a diaper. You should have seen the look on his face.

That’s what having a girl like Jenny is like, Pete. Always expect the unexpected!

Welcome to our world…I think that’s why he keeps coming back!