they say we won't be given more than we can handle...

...but sometimes I wonder. especially when we get a letter from our landlord requesting that we vacate in two months. ACK! they want to sell the house by the end of the summer, and they want us out to do it. jerks.

dumb stupid jerks.

and mean!

mean, dumb, stupid jerks.

we weren't looking to stay in this place forever, but we definitely weren't looking to move out anytime soon, what with the 15+ boxes/month of medical supplies we receive a month, the home health nursing, the big heavy medical equipment, and so on and so forth. but we definitely won't miss the leaking ceilings, outdated kitchen, marshy backyard, flooding basement, leaning back deck, and GINORMOUS heating and cooling bills. while this place certainly isn't a dump, it's FAR from being a gem. so good luck to my landlords with unloading it in the next few months. makes me wonder if they're familiar with the terms FULL DISCLOSURE, but, hey, that's not my problem.

in other news, Rowan is coming off the vent for 7 hours a day now, increasing to 8 hours a day on Friday. we've been having a lot of fun taking him out to different places. so far he's been to the midtown scholar bookstore a few times, walking around and picnicking by the river, a sushi place, with me to get by TB skin test, back to the NICU for a visit with some of his nurses, a pizza shop, a clothing store, his gramma's house (of course), and a few other random places. and tonight he gets to go looking at a couple of houses with us! oh, the places you can go :)

tah tah for now, and wish us luck!

erin

awesome. the basement flooded. again.

and as you can see from the above picture, we have a lot of crap down there. luckily i am awake with rowan all night (no nurses) and noticed it before it got too bad. so i woke billy up and he, aaron, and i all hoofed stuff up to the main floor. there are men with large fans coming tomorrow morning to try and dry the carpet back out. i'm sure that will involve a lot more moving of things, but at that point i'm thinking i will be asleep. when we called the landlord her reaction was "wow, that hasn't happened in twenty years!" which is the same exact thing she said when it flooded last march. whatever. as long as everybody is okay there's not much that can phase me. the rest is just details.

billy and i got a chance to hang out in the basement last night after the night nurse came. he wrote in his journal and drew stuff on me while i played super mario brothers. here's the artwork i now sport on my left ankle:

we were really into the panorama setting on the camera last night, can you tell?

well the basement probably won't be functional now for at least a month, so i'm glad we enjoyed an evening down there last night. if a third of the house is out of order for a month, do you think we should get a third of the rent discounted? here's to hoping...