Painting with Dad

I have solved my bedroom dilemma for the kids. To my luck and my husband's dismay, our wood burner broke. After much deliberation we've decided to do away with it for now. I see us getting another one (in the garage or outdoors) after we build on. I am ecstatic for two reasons. #1 it made a huge mess. I was forever cleaning up little wood chips and bugs. #2 the wood burner was housed in a little 8x8 room that I am now fixing up for our desk, filing cabinets, and bookshelves. If I am really good, I will be able to fit my scrapbooking supplies in there too and we'll have a decent office/work space. So, that frees up our other room in the house for Kayelynn.
Wooo, I'm worn out just typing all that. But now my mind is a frenzy of paint colors and furniture arrangements. I enjoy it though. And I'll be a much happier mommy when this task is complete.
To get towards the point of my story...I was shopping for a good deal on some used furniture to add to the kids' rooms. I found a bookcase with cabinets that I could picture in Kayelynn's room filled with toys and books and baskets of tiny shoes and hair bows. I also found a small cradle that I envisioned her dolls in. Both of these items were a bit ragged but I had a vision forming in my head. It was nothing that a couple coats of paint couldn't fix.
I needed a place to paint... that's where Dad came in. I invited myself to his garage. Because he loves me, he let me drag my project in and take over a good portion of his garage. But, he also helped me paint. I told him he didn't have to. He said he was just 'tinkering'. We didn't have any deep talks, just listened to the radio and painted. It was nice to just be with him. Its not very often that he and I work on a project together. At one point he made the comment, " Good thing ole dad taught you a few things about painting". We chuckled because I have been painting a lot lately. I was also thinking that there were many, many other things that ole dad has taught me and I'm grateful for every one!