Tuesday, February 17 - Thursday, February 19: We Are Tired of Living in the Basement

We are tired of living in the basement, shrouded in dust. But progress is being made every day. The old windows are out; new windows will be in by the end of the week. As usual, there is a new temporary wall to hold up the house while work is being done. I'm glad these construction guys know what they're doing. 

I'm behind this week on blogging, for no reason other than the house is chaos, evenings are chaotic, and there's always a lil' piece of extra chaos each day to make things interesting. 

For example, on Tuesday the cleaners came, at the exact moment a dumpster arrived and the street construction settled directly in front of our house for the day. 

For example, last night Farrah managed to find, steal, and eat an entire chocolate bar Andrew had brought back from Germany. Fortunately, it was milk chocolate with a lot of peanuts, so she wasn't in too much danger. But there was a tense half hour of finding chocolate toxicity calculators online and using Google translate on the ingredient list on the wrapper etc. 

But I was able to work from home on Monday and Tuesday and even fit in two walks with friends during the day. And the kids and Andrew and I all gathered Thursday night to watch the women's free skate. Andrew and I had meticulously avoided the news all day so we could have all the suspense of the competition (the kids knew the results but avoided giving them away). 

Kisqali and I are getting along well as I finish up the second week. I won't know for a while if it's working, but I'm feeling good--a little more tired than usual in the evenings, but otherwise fine.