I've thought of our treehouse often, wanting to give something like that for my own kids to enjoy, and this year I decided was the year we would do it. I often thought perhaps Adam and my dad could build one, but the more I thought about it I realized it would be much easier to just buy one. Well, it certainly wasn't that simple, it took some convincing on my part. Adam didn't want to spend the money so we made a bargain...we had planned on taking the kids to Disneyland this fall, it was loose plans, but we had talked about it. I suggested we could wait on the trip till next year (that way Megan would be even taller) and buy the girls the playhouse. He thought about it for like two seconds and said yes. It's not that he didn't want to go on the trip with the girls, but Disneyland is quite the adventure, plus I think when he realized we'd be spending less money and it would occupy the girls all summer he was on board.
We've had the playhouse in boxes for a while now and my brother-in-law Randy has been putting it together off and on (you know he had to work around the crazy spring snow) and today he and Adam finished it up.
So I need help remembering I have kids. They've been outside all day long playing, having the time of their lives, and I haven't seen then except to come in and get a drink or run to the bathroom. I really hope it will become what it was for me when I was their age...a place to escape and let their imagination run free.
