I’m nowhere to be found when it comes to crafts, remodels, and just plain superior fixes. My carpentry skills are nowhere to be found even though I have searched for a long time.
If I try to fix something, I make it worse than it was. Fixing is not my forte.
On the other side of the rectory, we have a different scene.
If the Gracious Mistress of the Parochial House can’t fix something, it can’t be broken. No matter what it is, it doesn’t take her long to figure out how to fix it.
You will often spend time on the computer looking for a particular project and knowing what needs to be done to get it fixed and up and running.
I must say, and this is just between you and me, she has saved me quite a bit of money by fixing things that would cost a lot to fix at a professional place. If there is a problem with my vehicle, I bring it up to my wife first. I have yet to find anything broken in my vehicle that she can’t fix.
I once had a fender on my vehicle that was loose and nearly fell apart. Graceful Parsonage Mistress looked at it, thought about it, and then she went into the house and took a huge clip, took it out and fixed the fender. That was five years ago, and it’s still fixed.
When he fixed it, he said, “Well, that was easy.”
She says that every time she fixes something and then looks at me and smiles.
The first 100 times he said that, I didn’t think too much about it. But lately, I’ve been trying to figure out what the heck you mean by “easy”.
I know I could sit down and ask him to explain it to me. I tried it once, and she just looked at me, smiled, and said, “Oh, you silly boy. You know exactly what I mean.”
I smiled back even though I had no idea what the hell he was talking about.
If I ever find out what the phrase “easy-peasy” means, I might be able to understand my wife a little better. No matter what you put in her hands to do for her, it’s easy for her.
This has been a wonderful relationship for us. If there’s something I can break, she can fix it. If there’s something she can’t fix, I just can’t break it. That has made life quite easy.
From time to time, she asks me to come over and help her with something. My job, of course, is to move something too heavy for her to move. And then after I sweat my neck and move that thing around, she’s always like, “Well, that was easy, wasn’t it?”
I thought about that for a while and began to realize that sweating my neck is what she means by “easy.”
The other day I was sitting in my office pondering some things. The wife was out shopping, so I had a quiet moment. Sitting there, I looked around and then started walking around the house, and I couldn’t believe how many things had her fingerprint on them.
When something breaks in our house, we don’t call a repairman; we just call on Mrs. Easy-Peasy, who can fix anything and everything.
Even when the situation calls for the AC technician to come and fix our AC, she tells him what is wrong and how to fix it.
The last time the A/C tech came over and fixed our A/C, and as he was leaving, she was like, “Well, that was easy, wasn’t it?” As she walked out the front door, she smiled and said, “Yes, it certainly was.”
Not everything in life is “easy”. Many things are very difficult, at least from my perspective.
Having someone in the house who can fix and repair everything is quite remarkable, especially in saving money.
Then I had an excellent thought. How much money could we make if we started our repair business? I think I’d call the business “Ms. Easy-Peasy Unlimited.” I could hire her to fix everything in our neighborhood and beyond.
She could fix everything and I could count the money she makes. I can count money; I just can’t make money. I think it would be a great deal, and every time she got home from work, she would say, “Well, that was easy,” as she counted the day’s money.
Of course, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that with business like this I wouldn’t see her very often. So much so that she needs to fix herself in our world, and she would leave all the time.
For me, that would not be “easy”. No matter how much money we could make from “Ms. Easy-Peasy Unlimited”, it wouldn’t be worth it not having her around the house all the time.
As I thought about this, a verse of Scripture came to mind. “And the Lord God said: It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make a helper suitable for him” (Genesis 2:18).
I wonder if maybe that is the reason God gave Adam his Eve.
