Some Assembly Required

So it's been a month since my last post...blame it on work or travel or whatever, I've been going nuts not to be able to update my blog. This one goes back to the weekend of Memorial Day. My son turned 2 that weekend and my husband and father-in-law built him a swing set. With my husband's architechtural background, a boxed swing set was out of the picture. Our son had to have one-of-a-kind designed and built by my husband. My first thought was it would be cheaper to buy the boxed one. Boy was I wrong. My son now has a HUGE swingset (partially made of composite boards) with a ramp & slide including a fort with a steering wheel and telescope (we're still debating whether or not to add the sand box underneath). Keep in mind, we didn't find any boxed ones that included everything my son has and yet we spent half of what the boxed ones cost. As for the time it took to build, well, the boxed one would probably have been faster. Turns out, my husband and father-in-law ended up spending about 20 hours over the long weekend. If they had stuck to the original plan, they probably could have finished in 1 1/2 days, but they kept adding to it. It started off as just a couple of swings and a slide w/ladder. Then a ramp was added, then the fort on top, then the steering sheel and telescope. Now, he's talking about adding a small rock climbing wall and a sand box. Guess I don't need to worry about landscaping, my entire back yard will soon be 1 great big play ground - then again I can't blame my husband for all of this, since the swing set was actually my idea :)