Where Is Frank?

I knew yesterday I would have to get to the house early. I did not realize I would have to go tearing out of here like a mad woman.

I was awake and laying with the kids. Will woke up wondering where his daddy was. I told him he was working and he cried for a minute. He then told me to get up, put my boobies away (I am nursing Keely), put my eyes in (my contact lenses) and brush my teeth. With that said I was up and at em. I got a call from James but he hung up. Next thing I knew I had a voicemail from a number I didn't know. I listened. It was Frank from Home Depot saying he would be catching a ferry and get to us between 9 and 11. I called back immediately. You see we went with the Oak Harbor Home Depot specifically because they were not going to charge us for them taking the ferry. Here they are now taking the ferry! He assured me there would be no charge to us. The island guy was too busy to do it so he got the job. He said he would be on the 8:30 ferry. That's when panic really set in. It was 7:15. I had to leave in 45 minutes. I told Will we needed to bust a move to meet Frank at the new house. He told me he loved Frank.

The kids needed diaper changes, dressing, breakfast, Allie needed food, a potty, I needed to get dressed, pack the car still and have coffee. My mom was going to ride with us and she was still in Ballard. 45 minutes was not going to be enough. I flew through everything. No coffee. Allie didn't eat but she peed. Will ate breakfast in the car and I managed to pack a few things in a cooler. My mom said she would catch a later ferry.

We made the ferry. We got to the house with Frank. We were greeted by two small yapping dogs in our driveway. They belong to the 5 pack beer guy. They remained on our property for a good portion of the day. I took Frank in and showed him where to measure. I asked him if he thought it was the carpet that stunk. He had this funny look on his face that he was clearly uncomfortable. He told me I needed to paint the floorboards with something called Kilz. He said it would lock out the odor and other animals wouldn't pick up the scent. That's kinda where he really got me. Allie won't pee in a house but other animals we may own might AND people who visit may have an animal that will. Done. Decided.

Frank was telling me about his buddies truck that had been stolen. He was going to finish up here and go get the truck. Quite unprofessional but if that Kilz stuff works great. We wanted to know how much it would be for Home Depot to rip and remove the carpet but we had to change our tune. Frank said they wouldn't put that stuff on for you. They would rip out the old, put in the new and the funk would always be there. Well, for that cost I am making sure that funk is gone. My mom ripped out the carpet in all three rooms. That stuff is so heavy. It was so gross. I rolled the carpet and saw it was stained with orange/brown circles everywhere. It was so filthy. We were thinking we would just carpet clean the place. Then we decided to just buck up and re carpet. Wow. Yes. That carpet needed to go ASAP. After Frank left to go rescue his buddies truck Will must have asked me 100 times where Frank was.