Sam turns seven
The kids and I are listening to WMPG's Radio Junk Drawer, one of my favorite eclectic radio moments. Gracie's reading to Sam and Kezzie and Jonah is building words out of letters and organizing objects into visual stim-trails, and water is heating on the stove. Outside it is cool and damp and green and grey, and MB is off registering our new vehicle and the travel trailer. Sam and Jonah both lost a lower front tooth within days -- Sam one on Saturday and a second on Sunday, and Jonah one on Monday. Twins, but for the 18 months between their births.
Sunday we pulled away from our home of seven years, having completed our move-out one day over budget in a heat wave. By afternoon I'd the kids in a lake and the new owner shut down the nameserver I'd left for Mid-Maine to pick up along with their DSL modem -- taking down wampum and everything else I'd left depending on the home nameservers.
Monday was Sam's birthday. He's now 7, and he spent the day happy as a duck splashing about in the lake, roaring and splashing. MB made him a chocolate G/F cake and in the evening we watched The Incredibles that Sam had surprised us by asked for. Tuesday the heat wave broke. Sweaters replaced aloe vera and sunscreen, and more showings of The Incredibles. In the afternoon I went to Kennebunk and started rebuilding our facility, so now the blog URLs resolve to the host.
Just to make it more challenging, MB's purse, wallet and cell phone are in a box unknown, or left hanging on the back of a door of a house we no longer own.
The adjustment from a 2,800 square foot two-story to a 30' trailer, in effect a studio, is a challenge. Every day boxes go from storage to the trailer and boxes go from the trailer to storage and entropy (order) gradually increases. One of the two cats was very, very iffy on Moving Day, finding a hiding place minutes after we parked the trailer above the driveshaft under the car and spending the next hour wailing its fate.
However, all problems seem tractible, and life goes on, changed, which is how we distinguish it from non-life.
Written by Eric, using MB's lovely zd7000.