Monday Heather was working from our temporary home while I spent time working on insurance and interviews. The kids got to spend time with their uncle Jon and everyone seemed to survive just fine. Heather and I missed the bedtime routine due to our unusually high rate of voice usage on the 10-year-old cell phone plan we have. It prompted a near-emergency trip to a Verizon store where we upgraded our plan. That’s right. We finally have texting on our phone plan! What’s more, we’ve decided we may as well go ahead and upgrade from classic phones to smart phones as we’ve known it would become almost necessary eventually for quite a while.

Tuesday I spent a good deal of the day away. The kids seemed to be mostly OK in the morning. I hear they got to spend some time outside in the kiddie pool after helping to fill it. At nighttime Gideon picked to watch Special Agent Oso. They didn’t get stories as it was much too late.

Wednesday I had a long afternoon. Ok, it wasn’t really that long. The morning I hung with the kids a bit but couldn’t play as much as I might have since I was prepped for an afternoon interview. That interview was 3 hours long, but didn’t really feel it. I got back in time to eat and see Cecilia pick Special Agent Oso before bed.

Thursday I left for a morning interview very early in the day. It was also the day our stuff was due to arrive at the new place. This had a level of potential complication due to schedules and locations that I won’t get into. Suffice to say I really don’t know much of how the day went as I was at the rental most of the day and evening for the delivery. I was back at Heathers parents after pretty much everyone else was asleep.

Friday was our first day at the new house. The kids were excited and Heather had family helping us get unpacked.We made great progress, and even had a wonderful gift of getting our lawn mowed. We still had a lot to do by then end of the day, but we were able to stay there and sleep in our new place, with the kids in their almost done new rooms. Of course, first we had a late dinner out at Red Robin during which Gideon decided it was Freedom (Fri)day. This meant all the prisoners should be let go so they could get ready for the fireworks on the fourth of July. At the end of the day Cecilia chose to watch Doc McStuffins before a very late bedtime.

Saturday was July 4th. We started the day slowly. We got grocery shopping done, but that was pretty much all. We had a family gathering for the fourth that allowed the kids to play with their cousin. (Technically 2nd cousin, I think.) Gideon was wondering about fireworks and we found some at basically the last-minute. We visited the town of Parker for fireworks. The show was good, we managed to move our car to a great spot such that we watched from there instead of the park itself. Also, getting out? I have never gotten out of an event so easily before. Hat’s off to the town, police force, and volunteers involved in directing traffic out of there. From our perspective it was amazing. We had the kids watch Paddington in the car on the way home because it was so late.

Sunday everyone but Heather managed to sleep in. It’s just something she isn’t good at. Heather’s family came over to help us continue to make progress on the house. We made some. At this point the kids bedrooms and ours are close to done. The bathrooms are next, the office/loft is barely touched. The living room/dining room/kitchen area is doing well. The basement is roughly organized. The garage hasn’t really been touched. The front room is a mess. The kids are getting tired of just having each other and want to play with their parents. I’ll have to put job stuff and house stuff on hold for some time tomorrow to spend with them. They did get to watch Miles From Tomorrowland, Gideon’s choice, on the big TV today. Now if I could just get the sound from the woofer and surrounds working right.
Gideon had me read to him from the Big Book of Airplanes. I’m not sure what Heather read him.
Cecilia had a rough night. When she finally calmed down Heather did read her a story, but I don’t know what. I read her Georgia the Gingerbread Fairy.