Rome wasn’t built in a day, either
In my absence, my mother and mother-in-law decided my son Jeb needed a play set, and decided I’d build it. They determined it shouldn’t take me more than a few hours to construct. Jeb should be happily swinging by next week while they drank mint juleps in the sun. Well, eight months later, a few vacations, and just about every Saturday I thought my wife and I owned, I finished. It turned into a car set, then a flying saucer set, then a P-51 fighter plane set, and a dump truck set. I finally settled on a Super Chief design, the coolest looking train ever. Beside the swings, there’s a trapeze bar. You can crawl up a ramp to the inside, where there is a lit dashboard with old car gauges and a working throttle to steam down the tracks. The grandmas and Mom and Dad can relax on the little deck in back. After his first swing, the smile on my son’s face made it all worth it. Higher, Daddy, higher!
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