Wednesday, July 16, 2008

We now return you to your regularly scheduled, uh, blogging?

It's been TEN DAYS since I last blogged! Wow! Why? We've had a little chaos going on around here!

Apparently, some bugs decided to move in and start eating our house. The nice man who came out and found them (LOTS of them) informed us that the only way we could get rid of them was to tent our house. So we did.

Let me just say that if you have a CHOICE and you can either tent your house or move, you should MOVE. Sadly, we didn't have that choice. So this past week was spent moving all of the food out of the house to a shed that wouldn't be tented. Then we packed up the rest of the food that couldn't stay in the shed and drove ourselves and our three pets to our WONDERFUL friends' house where we stayed for two days.

We really enjoy these friends, and they were so tolerant of our digging dog, hissing cat, and screaming preschooler. They had a GREAT room that housed all of us for our two nights in exile. We went to the beach, played games, went to a cool garden, and the kids jumped and swam themselves to exhaustion. It was a great preview to our vacation in August, when we'll be traveling with this family to Lake Tahoe. What a blessing to have friends who would put up with all of us descending on their house!

But today we returned to our smelly house where we proceeded to move all the food BACK to the cupboards and refrigerator, clean the dirty floors and counters (dust and dirty footprints from the fans and termite people), wash every possible item because I am terrified that my kids will get sick, and wash the dishes for the same reason. Oh, and we had to wait for the gas company to come back and light the pilot, so we had no hot water.

So now we are settling back into our termite-free house (which is hosting a variety of flies that got in while we were trying to air it out) and trying to resume our lives. This should happen quickly since we're hosting Nikki's Girl Scout troop tomorrow for back yard campout and Scott has to report for a summer league football game. *sigh*

Oh, the dryer is stopping. Time to get back to work!

2 comments:

TAMI said...

Welcome Home!!! However, if I'd know that you getting your house tented meant that I'd be without wireless internet access for ONE WHOLE DAY, I NEVER would've agreed to it!!

LOVE the new picture in your profile.

Cindy said...

Oh no! SORRY! I should have given you the Airport before we left. :P