Kelly bought a house on Tuesday, the tenth of July. After the closing, she and I ran home to grab some lunch and cool off for an hour- it was 95 degrees! Then we ran to Walmart and Home Depot to get cleaning items, a case of bottled water, several box fans, random tools and things like paper towels, toilet paper, shelf liner, etc. At Walmart Kelly spied a notebook in the back to school section with a camel on the front, so I grabbed that because I have always liked camels. The notebook went into the bag with other items for her house. We spent about an hour and a half at the house, sweated buckets even with two box fans and a high velocity floor fan going at high speed. Hot and tired, we headed home. About an hour later it occurred to me that my camel notebook was missing. Where was it? At Kelly's house! That was a novel thing for me, to have forgotten something of mine at her house!
On Wednesday even she and I went to her house to mop floors. We opened all the windows, cranked up the fans and she mopped the downstairs kitchen and lavatory floors, then the brick hearth in the living room, the red=painted cement floor in the "den" (former 3-season room now a 4-season room). It was still hot, s we called it a night. Her job was to close all the second floor windows. I closed the first flor windows. We put things away, jumped in the car and headed home. About three and a half miles toward home she asked, "Did you close the kitchen windows?" Uh, no. So, we turned around and went back to close the kitchen windows (hidden behind curtains, so out of sight to Mom's eyes, I totally missed them because I forgot they even opened.) So, that was failure to adapt number tw, forgetting to fully secure the house before leaving.
Last night she went over with the Connecticut Trolley Museum president and friend. He gifted her a cordless drill (can we say happy girl!!!). Mm stayed home recovering from two days of heat and cleaning.
Tonight, we loaded Revere into the carrier and took him along with us to the house to begin acclimatizing him to the house. We took tissue paper (he has a fetish for that), and some of his "babies" from the toy box. He wasn't impressed with the house- it was strange, there was no furniture, and the replacement windows are not comfortable for lying in. Kelly and I removed shelf liner (which looked new, but she wanted her own choice in her kitchen cabinets.) She put new shelf liner in the downstairs lav medicine cabinet so it's ready for a bottle of Aleve and Tylenol, etc. This evening, she found three pieces of mail addressed to her in her mailbox on the front porch. Tonight, I forgot nothing, all the windows were closed when we left, and we brought Revere home where Riley Beans met him at the door. Day 3 and we're adapting better.
She can't move in until the asbestos insulation in the attic is removed when the weather is cooler, so we're tackling all the other projects on the list, like cleaning, painting, looking into central air installation, hardwood floor refinishing, and all the other things that will make this house uniquely her own home. I'm so happy she found what she was looking for and that she's happy. It's a nice house. No icy steep road down a mountain to have to deal with trying to get to work and back home at the end of the day. She knows people who live in the area when she'll be living- some are people she knows, some are people who know her because they're my co-workers and friends. she has a network of people, including her aunt and two uncles nearby. She made a good choice...and now Mom just needs to wrap her head around Kelly being old enough and grown up enough to leave the nest! Big transition for me, so I'm glad it will take place over a couple of months and not she'll be gone tomorrow!
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