my boys | Danielle Huddleston Photography

prettyboyblue Ever since I made my son a cape he is under the impression that his father and I can make him anything he wants.

An airplane with wings that he can fly in, sure why not? What’s that son? Oh, pretend to fly in.

Then he adds on that it need to have buttons and levers and flames.

Me: Flames?

My boy: not REAL flames, just pretend.

Oh, okay…with my painting ability fake ones don’t seem that much easier.

The funny part is that he keeps adding to the list but he always makes sure to tell you what order he wants it all in.

I am thinking the day is fast approaching that my son is going to see that his parents have limitations!

Like when he asks for a functioning airplane to fly to Minnesota…

Maybe by then we could just buy him one?

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Saturday while my husband worked tirelessly on our new shed and I did the same thing I have always done, nothing. I decided on a change of pace.

We bought a rope to put up a rope swing for the boys because…well I said they needed one.

I felt bad for pestering Nick to put it up since he was building a shed and I was doing nothing. So taking my husbands advice I went inside and looked it up.

He might have meant look it up and get all the information together so it would be ready for him to put up but I decided it was a challenge.

When I saw this tutorial, I thought I can do that.

Now I am not one of those people that know everything about knots. I have been pretty proud of myself for the past lets say twenty years for knowing how to do a slipknot.

So when I saw things like Buntline Hitch and Figure Eight, I almost backed out.

But my stubborn side kicked in.

While Nick was inside for a little bit I went outside and threw the rope in the tree and after only three tries I got it right!

I did all my new fancy rope knotting things and went in to get Nick.

He was a little surprised and worried (our CHILDREN will be the ones using it and he is fond of them).

He said, “you didn’t really tie it all by yourself did you?”

I was jumping up and down(I get excited okay) and used the words I had kept saying quietly to myself so I would remember them.

“I used a BUNTLINE HITCH! And a FIGURE EIGHT knot!!!

I think he could have acted a little more impressed.

It is not everyday I tie a rope in a tree and actually have a name for the knot.

And it is still there!

He did give me a “good job baby” after he figured out the rope was not going to fall right out of the tree.