Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare

Cousin Kyle and the boys watching an airplane after feeding the horses.

My husband is a wonderful man and I love him dearly but we are such opposites on how we attack a project. The above Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb fits us nicely. I have great (Robert might use another word) visions on how I want things to look in our yard and in our house but mine normally end up being the daydream because I can't tackle most of it with two kids hanging on my legs. Robert, on the other hand, will decide spur-of-the-moment that he is going to tear something down, build something or remodel something. Usually without thought of how THE WIFE will react when she comes home and finds a new project in the works. So his vision that is created during the already started project becomes my nightmare. I truly try so very hard to keep my mouth shut because I know that when he finishes one of his projects, it is always very nice and I am always very happy with it. I'm just a planner and organizer and I want to know how the project is going to turn out before it is started and when the estimated finish time is. I want to scour magazines and books and websites for ideas and figure out costs and a timeline. But I also have a hard time with motivation and making decisions because there are so many different visions in my head of what I want, making it difficult to decide on just one. So I suppose you could say that we are good for eachother in the sense that I am forced to make decisions quickly and not given a chance to have a lack of motivation. And sometimes (though I can't think of a single instance at the moment) I am able to convince Robert that maybe we should wait to start something until the first project is completed. Anyway, the thing that started this today is the boys playstructure. We have known that we wanted one for them but didn't know what exactly. One day in August, Robert came home with a tractor and started drilling post holes. Now we have seven very tall posts concreted into the ground, two of which are connected by a beam with two swings hanging from it. The kids are having a blast with it. Nicholas has figured out how to swing on his own and Nathan likes to fly like Super Man on his tummy. Robert is still trying to decide what he wants to do with the other six posts in the ground. He has grand ideas but nothing finalized yet. I'm a little nervous to see what it will become. I think this playstructure will be a project that lasts a very long time because I think Robert will always come up with something bigger and better to do with it (the other night he mentioned possibly connecting it by a bridge to a fort built on the roof of the shed). Like I said, my nightmare. I would have been happy just buying the one at Costco. :-)