Wow--things here have been busy. The craziness seems to have started the last weekend in March. We had scheduled a carpet and air duct cleaner to come out on Saturday the 27th, and so the craziness started the day before. Reid came home that Friday afternoon around 3pm to help get the furniture off of the carpet so that we would be ready for our early 8am cleaning time. We worked for several hours Friday night and then woke early on Saturday to do the last little details. By the time it was 8am, we were ready. However, it was snowing pretty hard. The cleaner called slightly after 8am to tell us that he was having trouble getting up our road. After several runs up our very slight hill on the road, he made it to our house only to take one look at the drift on our driveway and refuse to go any further. To be fair, yes he would have gotten stuck. But still, I was frustrated. We rescheduled for Monday morning and thus began our weekend of living with no furniture or toys on the carpet and a kitchen full of furniture and other items. The biggest challenge was finding a way to keep Kai entertained. We did some painting of ceramic toys I had found at Wal-mart and Finn even helped by doing some light wrestling with Kai. By Sunday evening, I was ready to have our house back to normal, but for the most part it didn't turn out to be a horrible weekend.
Monday morning we stayed at the house as long as we could. I got light-headed pretty quickly from the dust stirred up by the cleaning and once he started spraying the anti-microbial stuff, I decided to evacuate with the kids. Reid stayed behind at the house. Kai, Finn, and I did several errands--deposited a check at the bank, got Kai a haircut (that he actually endured with only one minor breakdown--a miracle!), and then finally went to Target where we found new bath toys for Kai and then had lunch. We returned home 10 minutes after the cleaner left only to hear that we had to stay off of the carpet for the next 5 hours. Ugghhh!! This was even harder than the entire weekend. But we survived and we now have clean carpets and vents. Hallelujah!
Monday morning we stayed at the house as long as we could. I got light-headed pretty quickly from the dust stirred up by the cleaning and once he started spraying the anti-microbial stuff, I decided to evacuate with the kids. Reid stayed behind at the house. Kai, Finn, and I did several errands--deposited a check at the bank, got Kai a haircut (that he actually endured with only one minor breakdown--a miracle!), and then finally went to Target where we found new bath toys for Kai and then had lunch. We returned home 10 minutes after the cleaner left only to hear that we had to stay off of the carpet for the next 5 hours. Ugghhh!! This was even harder than the entire weekend. But we survived and we now have clean carpets and vents. Hallelujah!
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FIVE HOURS!!! I can't imagine.
I love the picture of the two boys looking into the camera while on the floor. Such blue eyes!
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