Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Can I fix it? YES I can!

This morning I found Kate and Ruth in their usually clean room. Kates broken dresser drawer on the floor with pants little nails and pieces of wood every where. Oh and they were in their underwear. I had told them to get dressed and this is what I found 20 minutes later. Who dropped the already broken drawer? They both said, "she did it." So I folded up all the clothes with their help, and got them both dressed. Then I stormed off to the garage for the hammer, nails, screws, wood glue, and the drill. I was having no more of the broken drawer. My poor husband has been swamped with work lately and the drawer probably wasn't even on his list of things to do. But I see it every day and was done with it. Happily now, I can say I fixed it. YEAH! What a big girl I am. I glued every piece first before I nailed them into place. I also nailed twice as many nails as it had originally had, and I reinforced the parts that weren't broken with more nails. I'm pretty sure the whole house will collapse before that drawer falls apart. Now I just need to keep thinking about my handy skills and fix some more things around here.

3 comments:

The Eldredge's said...

You go girl!!

melanie said...

Great job Miriam! You've inspired me. I have one of those drawers on a console table. Wood glue and nails... here I come!

WNC Paranormal Research Society said...

Good job girl! I understand your pain LOL. I think I told my hubby to fix one of my kids drawers about twelve times and he never got around to it...Two rolls of duct tape later that drawer is fixed.