Handy people are few and far between. I’m not talking about handymen – people you hire to fix things around the house – but actual HANDY people. Which brings me to this afternoon when my husband walked upstairs with a sawzall (reciprocating saw) to cut a hole in the bathroom wall, and later our bedroom ceiling. The bathtub hadn’t been draining and I asked him to use some Draino before his family came this week. And here we are, 6 hours later, cutting holes in walls and ceilings. This scenario has a couple of lessons.
Embrace the handy man aspects of the people in our lives and learn from them. I don’t need a man to do things for me but it sure is nice to have one that can remove a load bearing wall when I want an open floor plan. In our first house, we removed almost every wall, replaced every single window and door, and built a 2-story, wrap-around deck on a hill. We did it all ourselves and it was invaluable. I’d never done anything like that before and I learned so much.
As a couple, we’ve learned we thrive when we build together and even today, we build things to reconnect.
This man has taken our son to Home Depot workshops every Saturday (until they stopped offering them), given him the toolbox his dad gave him as a child and includes him in every fix that he can safely participate in. Our son had his last two birthday parties AT Home Depot. He will not stay out of his toolbox and his changing table is an actual work bench that he can use in his garage when he gets older.
We want him to understand how things work and the importance of knowing how to fix them.
