My shoes were soaked for the majority of the day due to morning dew. Quite uncomfortable. I tried drying them in the sun at the house but it wasn't quite strong enough and I kept needing to put my shoes on. I tried drying them in my mother in laws dryer but her dryer just kept rejecting them. I put them back in the sun and just stayed barefoot for a few hours. It finally worked.
We woke up this morning and went and got coffee from a very pregnant bitter barista. We went to the house and did our Easter egg hunt with Will. So sweet. So cute. That boy loves jelly beans. Not so much a peep fan and likes his animal crackers but would rather have a jelly bean. James went on to scraping and I watched the kidlets. After a while we convened in the garage. We are giving away these 6ftX10ft fence pieces that came with the house. We are looking around and then I spot it. Mold. Something is wet up there. James thinks its the master toilet. We aren't allowed to use it until its fixed. Joy. I have a husband in over his head with this laundry room re model, he starts school on Tuesday, he commutes by ferry now and we have to wait for him to find time to fix a lord knows what.
We decide to leave and go have lunch and nap time. Even though I have had 2 coffees, I am beat. It's amazing how much stress can exhaust you. For funsies we check out our mailbox. Wow. Nasty. Barely hanging on. Needs replacing stat. There is though tons of mail. We pull it out and drive to Bobs. I look through the mail. There's a letter in there, open, from someone that obviously cared very much about the previous tenants. It expresses great concerns about their whereabouts and their wellness. It's ends with a strong desire for them to call. The other mail is stuff for the beneficiaries of the male homeowner. A couple pieces for a son, whom James of course knows, and possibly something about being laid off. By looking at postmark dates we can gather the house has been empty since at least January of 2012. Long Time. So sad.
After getting to Bobs very tired and slightly emotionally drained we hang out in the sun with Toby and Catie. Then James takes Will to nap and I take Kiki to nap. Kiki isn't sleeping. I get a text that Will pooped and isn't sleeping. We get up and go play some more in the sun. Will spends hours running around butt naked in his grandparents yard and house. He is simply sublime. We are all greatly entertained. Toby and Cate made everyone Easter dinner which we had at 3. So fun. Then we all piled into cars to be to a hardware store before 5. We had 20 minutes to get there. We made it, James got his tool and back to the new house we went.
Toby and Cate took a tour and left soon after. Bob sat in the chair he brought and James got back to work. I took the kids upstairs and had my most happiest moment ever. Before I had my moment though I went downstairs only to discover that James' new tool was creating a dust storm and neither Bob nor James was wearing a mask. I made James stop and asked if he had a mask. No, he didn't. I gave him a shirt of mine to wrap around his face and gave Bob Wills triple 7 shirt. Whatta pair. Back upstairs I made Will a bottle of apple juice. I put Kiki in her toy and we all sat on the deck. It was sunny and warm. Kiki was happy. Will say in my lap and let me just love on him. Eventually he turned around to face me. He rested his sweet head on my chest and let me just hold him and love him. Pure Bliss. Nothing is better than loving your children. Nothing. Kiki squealed with delight and I held Will in my arms. In the sun. On the deck we owned. The deck that we noticed isn't level, but that we owned.
We returned inside when Kiki lost it and needed to eat. She let us know she was done eating when she went to tackle Will. After playing a minute I got down to cleaning. I need to clean the hardwood floor and am at a standstill as to how to do it. So instead I cleaned the stove. I put Will up on the counter and we explored the stove. After wiping down the stove top we turned on the stove light and looked at it. There was something very large sitting on the light cover. It looked like a bat. I called up James. He messed with it for a minute, tacked another project to his list and told me to keep the light off so we don't cook it.
James was able to finish the first part of his laundry room project. We finalized a carpet choice. We really like the tile we chose. We tried to catch the ferry back to Lynnwood but it was 2 hours long. We went back to Bobs. Kiki screamed the whole way. Thank goodness tomorrow is Monday and James goes to work. We shouldn't have any more house problems until Tuesday when I come back to have the house measured for carpet.
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