Updates

Okay, so technically, it’s later. Just not later yesterday . . . anyway, the house is adorable. It’s four bedrooms, comes with kitchen appliances and a stackable washer/dryer (we have our own of those, but they’re old and dying). There’s a deck in the fenced in back yard, a two car garage, a full sized, partially finished basement, living room, formal dining room, bath and a half (though the half in the basement needs work), and the owner says we can paint and decorate however we’d like, which is rare in a rental in these parts, and awesome. I’d have a place to hang my pictures, and my art! How awesome is that? And it’s only $75 more a month than we’re paying now, three blocks away from the elementary school my kids would attend. Next fall, I’ll be able to pop Liana into the stroller so we can walk Morgen to school. The president of the PTO lives diagonally across the street and high school kids abound – maybe we’d even find a babysitter so Jerry and I could go out every now and then without depending on his parents, who are undependable and only really good for spoiling the kids and then sending them home; I really don’t know how Geralyn and Dave can stand to have them watching Brandon all the time. I guess it’s just because their salaries together aren’t enough to pay for daycare, and next year they’ll put him in nursery school (which I’ve avoided with Morgen, much to the dismay and criticism of my mother-in-law), which Jeanne and Jerry Sr. will probably pay for. But, the house! I think we’re going to take it. Jerry’s going to call the management company for this house tomorrow and see what we have to do to break the lease and how early we can do so, and I think we’re going to move by Thanksgiving. I’m so excited; I actually jump up and down and clap my hands every now and again.

Today is the Greenfield Village Halloween/trick or treat thing; Morgen’s going to be Dorothy and Liana’s going to be Toto from the Wizard of Oz. They both look really adorable in their costumes, and Liana likes to pretend to be a puppy anyway, so it’s really, specially adorable when she does it in a dog costume. I’ll be sure to get pictures, cos it’s super cute. First, dinner at Fishbones and then on to Henry Ford for fun and stuff, yay! If it weren’t with Jerry’s fam, it would be a really good time. For instance, everyone’s planning on changing into costumes after dinner, and I say what’s the point in that? If we’re going to be wearing costumes as adults, we may as well go all the way with it. It’s like wearing regular clothes to go into town from an SCA event. Why bother? Maybe Jerry and I’ll wear our costumes anyway, though it makes sense to change the girls into theirs after they’ve eaten, what with being 2 and 4 and all.

But, we have shopping to do. Must fly!