House Update

So the previous owner did return for his cats - actually there were two of them - and did finish "cleaning" out the house of his remaining stuff. I say "cleaning" loosely because the house was A MESS! We sent a two person cleaning crew over there yesterday and it took them five and a half hours to clean the house. The bathrooms were a mess, everything was a mess. Now everything is kind of a mess again, because the painters have set up shop and in addition to painting they are having to install a couple of light fixtures, which means drilling holes in the ceilings, which means lots of dust on the floor. Also, both the upstairs bathrooms had wallpaper on them, which was scraped off today in preparation for painting. So there's shredded wallpaper all over the floors of what were nice clean bathrooms... The knee-high grass in the back yard got mowed and we hired a lawn service to mow and maintain the yard for $175 a month (going to ditch the lawn service we have at our present house, since this other guy is supposed to be better and does more work for the same amount of money).

On tap for tomorrow is Dad's arrival, Joel and Ben's departure for Camp Blue Star, Caroline's introduction to her helmet, more painting, and the delivery of Caroline's new crib and dresser. WOW, full day. Dad you have quite a treat in store for you this weekend - hope you are prepared to pack some boxes! And to put together some office furniture from Ikea ;)