After waking up at Becki's and having a little bit of Malandrino family time in the morning, I headed to Derry to see my parents for Mother's Day. I got my mama some jewelry, flowers, and a card, and had plans to spend the day with my parents and brother, then my 4 grandparents would come over in the afternoon and we'd grill burgers and have a simple family lunch. Then my parents changed the plan a bit and asked me and Jesse to get there at 10am and help them paint the pool deck. I actually really enjoy painting INDOORS, but have never been a fan of outdoor painting (decks, houses, garage doors, etc). So of course I said I'd do it for them, but I wasn't even remotely looking forward to it. Oddly enough, it was kind of fun. And it went a lot faster than I thought it would.
Alison came over for a bit, and when we were done, I ran some errands and came back to get ready for a late lunch with the grandparents. Right before they all showed up, I went downstairs to move my clothes from the washer to the dryer and realized that the brand new bottle of detergent that my mom had asked me to put on the washer had fallen off and smashed. Most likely, I'd put it just a tiny bit too close to the edge, and when the washer hit spin cycle, it just fell off. It was absolutely disgusting - the liquid detergent was all over the floor, and it had covered some of my clean laundry (seeped up through the bottom of my laundry bag) and a bunch of laundry waiting to go into the washer. It took me 25 minutes, 3 rolls of paper towels, and a bucket of water to get all of that soap up off the floor. WHOOPS. I still owe my mom a new bottle of detergent and some paper towels.
Apart from that, it was actually a really great family day. Here are a couple pictures of the pool deck - the new pool is coming soon. Forgot to take a before pic - it was gray and very weathered. It looks awesome now. It was a gorgeous day until about 3, then it poured.
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