Yesterday, we closed on our house. Half an hour of signing our life away and handing over one very large (in my world, anyhow!) hard-earned check, and we have keys! We did that over Blaine’s lunch hour, then Blaine in his van and me in mine with the kids headed to lunch quick before Blaine went back to work. Stop and go lunch-break traffic near the mall later… Blaine stopped abruptly in front of me, and I couldn’t get the van stopped in time. I bumped Blaine! Seriously. He has a lovely license plate etched out of the paint on his rear bumper. I’ll never, ever live this one down. Pretty sure. In all fairness, the can’s brakes are a bit strange sometimes. I’m blaming them.
After lunch, Blaine headed back to work and the kids and I headed home to pack up cleaning supplies and headed out to our new house to clean it up a bit. When we got there, we realized we’d left quite possibly the most important bag we’d packed – the toilet paper! What a day.
Today, we’re painting polka dots. With the weather not cooperating with my plan to mow the hayfield that is now our yard, we’re going to buy the paint for the kitchen, air out the house Blaine bug-bombed last night and paint polka dots on the kids bedroom walls. So much to do – and yet, it’s great fun to do it for our own house again.
On another note, Sterling doesn’t like the storms we have going on right now. He told me this morning that the thunder is scared (scary, I think he meant!) and asked if I could turn it off. He wasn’t pleased when I told him I don’t have a switch for that one.
