At the moment we are renovating what is now our spare room. This was my son's room but he felt that as he starts work early in the morning (5.30) he really needed to be in our old spare room as it's air conditioned. So we've cleaned out the spare room, washed it all down with sugar soap and got stuck into repairing the walls where posters and pictures and truck badges were stuck up all over the place. I pulled out over 100 staples out of the door where my son had used the staple gun to put up some Christmas decorations in 2009. He is now banned from using the staple gun forever!
So last week, I'm up the ladder with my MP3 turned up to full volume, singing along and scaring all the neighbours dogs, sanding the walls with an electric sander, when my daughter brings me in a cuppa. I completely forgot that I'm on the ladder at this stage and step off. Luckily I was only two rungs up the ladder. My daughter tries to grab hold of me but is not sure if she should try to catch me or the sander and instead, drops the cup and misses both. My poor little dog who came in to see what all the fuss is about, saw things going everywhere and took off out the door!
Finally, after the dust had settled, I'm sitting on a paint can, ice pack on my foot - yep broke one of those little bones on the top of my foot. Haven't done much to the spare room since then, waiting for my foot to heal a bit first. The moral of the story (from my daughters veiwpoint): don't take mum a cup of tea when she's on the ladder - it's only asking for trouble! PS she said at least she stopped me from singing!
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