When you have a truly great friend that is always there to lend an ear, help you with every crisis you seem to go through, gives great advice and is there for your kids behind the scenes.
I decided to put a plan together to completely surprise one of my best friends and get the inside of her house painted for her (it really badly needed it). She had been working very hard getting the house ready for her daughter and son in law who are coming to live with her for 3-4 months (we are renting their house out until next year) and also her daughter is expecting her first baby (my friends second grand child).
A few phone calls to her kids and we hatched a plan. A call to my painters (Jubilee Painters whom I have used for over 17+ years) and they came to the party and gave up their family time at the weekend to achieve the goal of getting most of the house painted over the weekend. My friend and I were doing a Thelma & Louise trip down to Denmark to see her beautiful grandchild and daughter and son in law. They have just bought their first house down there and I must say they have a beautiful piece of paradise down there.
On the way home I was saying to my friend because it looks like it is going to team down lets unpack all the car first before going into the house. (I needed to video her reaction for the kids - mobile phone was fast getting to a very low battery). Plan was hatched and I thought I had it all under control.
Upon the arrival my excitement was nearly uncontrollable and we were unpacking the car as planned when I turned around and she was unlocking the door and had stepped inside.
PANIC - omg had to bolt to my bag (mobile already turned onto video) and run inside to get her reaction. Instead she looked at me and said "what are you doing" she thought the smell of the paint was from the floors that she had just got cleaned (tiles). Took a minute and she saw the kitchen ledge and realised it had been painted and then really looked around.
The reaction was priceless and my heart filled full of joy seeing her not knowing whether to cry or laugh.
With doing something like that for a friend and the joy you get out of seeing their astonishment is so worth it !!
Now sometime in the future she can pay forward that good deed to someone else, not necessarily in a monetary fashion but just in her usual way where she goes out of her way to help people less fortunate than herself. Enjoy that paint smell my friend it was not as easy to get that plan hatched as you may think.
On the planning stages the painters turned up to her place thinking she had gone to work - probably because I got her start time wrong - we had to come up with the fact that the painters got the wrong address it should have been 44b in North Fremantle - luckily she bought that excuse. I also said to her you should have got a quote from them whilst they were there - "I would have but I was running out the door to work I had no time" ha ha life is great isnt it?
MAKE YOUR OWN DECISIONS AND GIVE IT A REAL GO!!
SELLING MOSMAN PARK & THE WESTERN SUBURBS!!
KEEPING IT REAL IS OUR MOTTO!!
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