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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 367328" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>Wellllll... husband worked from home today and all bets were off. He is, afterall, my oldest difficult child!</p><p> </p><p>He decided that TODAY was the day that our 75 gal aquarium in our front room and the pond on our deck BOTH needed to be emptied and cleaned. I stayed out of this project. He had the kids help. Sort of. Started with the pond. Had the boys help scoop the mosquito fish out and put them in a bucket with old pond water to sit so they could scrub the algae out. Put the big water turtle in our tub. Got all the water drained out into the yard, then lowered the plastic pond down onto the grass so it could be scrubbed out. Then he decided we would take a lunch break and go out for lunch. </p><p> </p><p>We came back and I left again and took easy child to the store. By the time she and I returned, there was aquarium gravel on my front porch, there was mud that had overflowed onto the walkway where husband had mistakenly tried to dump the old aquarium water. There was a bucket of dirty water with goldfish in it on my rug, with wet towels all around. And the fish that were upstairs on the deck were DEAD because they'd been left in the hot sun!</p><p> </p><p>But I was good. I kept my mouth shut and stayed out of it.</p><p></p><p>This turned into an all-day project and it STILL isn't finished. The pond got put back together and refilled. But the aquarium is not completely finished. There's still gravel on the front porch. And husband goes back into the office tomorrow and I refuse to finish this mess. The kids can do it tomorrow. I am NOT getting sucked into this one!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 367328, member: 3444"] Wellllll... husband worked from home today and all bets were off. He is, afterall, my oldest difficult child! He decided that TODAY was the day that our 75 gal aquarium in our front room and the pond on our deck BOTH needed to be emptied and cleaned. I stayed out of this project. He had the kids help. Sort of. Started with the pond. Had the boys help scoop the mosquito fish out and put them in a bucket with old pond water to sit so they could scrub the algae out. Put the big water turtle in our tub. Got all the water drained out into the yard, then lowered the plastic pond down onto the grass so it could be scrubbed out. Then he decided we would take a lunch break and go out for lunch. We came back and I left again and took easy child to the store. By the time she and I returned, there was aquarium gravel on my front porch, there was mud that had overflowed onto the walkway where husband had mistakenly tried to dump the old aquarium water. There was a bucket of dirty water with goldfish in it on my rug, with wet towels all around. And the fish that were upstairs on the deck were DEAD because they'd been left in the hot sun! But I was good. I kept my mouth shut and stayed out of it. This turned into an all-day project and it STILL isn't finished. The pond got put back together and refilled. But the aquarium is not completely finished. There's still gravel on the front porch. And husband goes back into the office tomorrow and I refuse to finish this mess. The kids can do it tomorrow. I am NOT getting sucked into this one! [/QUOTE]
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