Priceful Memories: New Windows

Thursday, May 22, 2008

New Windows

I need to vent for a moment and haven't been able to since I've been working on that gargantuan Italy post. Our landlord had new windows put in our apartment this week and notified us with a letter in German. Okay, no big deal, right? WRONG. At 7am, two mornings in a row, these guys came ringing. Considering our night owl daughter and my late night photo musings, this was way too early. The first day, they took out 3 of the windows in our house and the one right outside our hall door. It was a cool day and it made the entire house FREEZING. I had a sweatshirt and fuzzy socks on and I put slippers and a jacket on Kelsey. When nap time came, I couldn't put her in her crib because it was covered with paper and she had NO WINDOWS in her room. So, I laid down with her in my bed and ended up falling asleep...that is until my friend Dianne came over for lunch at 11. I hadn't meant to fall asleep and it was nice to have her over to distract me from the CAOS that was my house. Kelsey was still asleep until 11:30 when the window guys came in and told me they needed to start working in my bedroom. I told them my baby was asleep (and pointed out that they hadn't replaced any of the windows they took away in the rest of the house yet). I gave up the fight, woke Kelsey up and let them in. For the record, they didn't end up doing anything in that room that day. I walked into town with my friend to escape the CAOS and took the bus to pick up my car that was in the shop. The next day, they came at 7am. We let them in and went right back to sleep. I knew they wanted to do the windows in my room, but stayed asleep when they WALKED IN on me sleeping. We finally escaped to Jessi's at 8:30am and stayed there until 4pm (thanks Jess). I came home to a mess of dust and concrete particles all over my floor and any horizontal surface, a sawdust smell, and dirty everything. Oh, and they broke off or took off all our our window treatments. Anyone in the mood for spring cleaning? I'm not!

Thanks for letting me vent. If your landlord ever wants to replace the windows or you do on your own home, GO ON VACATION while it's done and hire a housekeeper to clean before you come home.

It's Saturday night and I've just now finished cleaning all but my room. Phew!

UPDATE: My husband just informed me that I spelled CHAOS, CAOS in this post. There is a valid reason for this (and any of you are welcome to tell me my spelling errors - I WANT to know b/c I will be printing out my blog someday and I don't want my kids to make fun of me). When I used to work for GS, I worked with a system called CAOS - Client Account Opening System. I guess it became my version of chaos, thus craziness in my mind is CAOS. Get all that?

4 comments:

likeschocolate said...: Sorry it was a stressful week for you. Even though Germans are suppose to be known for being hard workers, I think they could use some lessons in customer service. When we had are windows replaced in our house in Georgia they were all done within a day. Hope this week proves to be better!; 5/25/2008 11:30 PM
Crashpixie said...: Looks like fun there with no windows! And did Tally tell you we can't call it CAOS any longer? Isn't that super sad? I mean AO is no fun to apply to anything, it's no fun to say at all.

By the way, love those pics of Tuscany....I'm now dying to go!; 5/27/2008 2:38 PM
Balagna Bunch said...: What a mess guys. I am surprised Tally caught the spelling error. Prices aren't know for their spelling! ;); 5/30/2008 3:46 PM
fünf said...: Something similar happened when Sam was a baby. they painted the outside of our apartments and it was horrible. They were painting the front door, so I had to leave it open while it dried and I was in taking a bath (with door locked of course) and hear footsteps coming through my living room! One of the workers came into my house and knocked on the bathroom door! He had to ask me a question. I yelled for him to get out of my house. Ugh. The thought makes me angry.; 5/31/2008 1:31 AM

Kelsey Speaks

April 14: Advertising works, even for kids. Kels just came up to me with my iPhone and the app "Team Umizoomi" ready to purchase. I asked her how she knew about it and she said, "this mom put team umizoomi on for her kids and it teached her kids and he did it all by himself!" I've seen that commercial too, but never realized how much she soaked in! I'm a sucker, I downloaded it.

March 14:

We were having a new babysitter come and Kelsey wanted her to play a game but wasn't sure she'd know how. "What language does she speak?" I said, "English." Kels said, "Oh no!" I said, "Kelsey, did you know that YOU speak English?" She looked surprised, "I do!?"

October 17:

We had our carpet pad replaced today and the carpet guy was using a heavy duty iron that smelled like burning. Kelsey came in and said, "Mom, is that dinner I smell?" Thanks Kels, thanks. Says a lot about my cooking!

October 11:

So I'm on the phone and the Kelsey does soemthing that makes Aiden cry. I tell Kelsey, PLEASE make it better, say your sorry and make him stop crying. She starts singing, "Flower gleam and glow, let your power shine, make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine..." I started cracking up. I think she's a little too obsessed with Tangled.

February 19:
Family prayer
"Thank you that Aiden is incredible and that he could watch Incredibles with me. And thank you that mommy can change things."

February 9:
Family prayer tonight by Kelsey: "Thank you that mommy could be a good listener (?), thank you that mommy can be so stretchable...in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." I laughed and asked her what stretchable meant. She said it meant that I can read Aiden books and change his diaper, put us to bed, play with us, and wiggle us and throw us, stuff like that. Does that mean she's grateful I can do mommy stuff?

January 5:
While at my mom's house in California, she said, "I want to stay at Mimi's forever!" I asked, what about your toys and our home in Utah?" She replied, "I like Mimi's toys downstairs." "But what about your friends back in Utah?" She replied, "they can get in the car and drive really, really far and come see me!" She has it all figured out.

January 4, 2011:
Tally read aloud a sign as we passed a church, "Jesus is making a list." She said, "No, Santa is making a list, and checking it twice."

December 20:
She was sad after I scolded her for taking her brother's food. I asked her why she was sad and she said, "My life hurts right now."
"With Christmas just a few days away?" I said. She perked right up.

December 13:
Tal was going to bed early and we all jumped in bed to give him hugs and say goodnight. Kelsey said, "I like it when our whole family is in bed together. Dad, you're hot. But I like it hot. You're the hottest."

December 9:
I had made a big effort to go to the gym and literally had 30 minutes to work out and then be back before everyone came over for play group. I get Kelsey out of the car and walk around to get Aiden. Kelsey says, "Mom, you can't wear THOSE shoes to the gym!" I looked down and sure enough, I was wearing my Crocs. I'm so glad she saw it before I'd gotten Aiden out of his car seat, gotten the kids checked into day care, and stepped on the treadmill. 10 points for trying, right?

October 22:
"Mom, I don't wanna have a baby in my tummy. I don't want to have a baby doggy come out."

October 3:
"Mom, you shut up and I'll shut down." (playing around with the word shut up to get a reaction from me).

September 30:
"Aiden, you have pretty eyebrows."
August 15
While sitting in our master bathroom, Kelsey said, "You guys have two sinks."
Us: "Yes, we have two sinks, isn't that nice?"
K: "No, I don't like it, you need to take one out. I need more room to sit."
Tal: "When you get married, you can have one sink in your bathroom."
K: "When I marry Aiden?" (who she said she wanted to marry when we were talking about weddings the day before).
Tal: "You can't marry Aiden, he's your brother."
K: "I want to marry DADDY!"
Jess: "He's mine, darlin. Daddy is already married to mommy."
K: "My cousins?"
Us: (Laugh, gave up...we'll have this talk one day when she's ready) She is constantly playing with my bouquet of silk flowers in my room and saying, "I'm getting married mom." I guess she picked that up on her own...I don't think I've ever talked about the flowers with her!

August 11:
As I'm putting her to bed I said, "Kelsey, your little body is so tired because you didn't take a nap today and little bodies need naps."
"And sometimes big bodies do too?" she said.
After the gym today, we caught her doing her hand clasp thing. Tally said, "Don't do that, you're doing it so hard you're getting sweaty."
She replied, firmly, "Well I just back from the gym." (which is true, but she was at the play place at the gym)
May
(While shutting herself inside the kitchen pantry)
K: Alright Aiden, I'm going bye-bye to Lily's house, 2 seconds, and when I come back, I'm going to Zoe's house. Okay? Okay, see ya later.
(about 2 seconds later, she opens the door)
K: Oh, hi Zoe's house!
She has been cracking me up (mixed with a little worry) with her imagination. If you ask her what she did today, she'll say she played with her cousins. We don't play with cousins everyday, but she does, in her imaginary play. She'll tell Libby and Zoe to come downstairs to the playroom or come outside with her. Then I'll hear her telling one of them to go hide or that this doll is for them or that they are nice. She will also throw in Lily and Edie, and an occasional Colton, Carter or Spencer. But that's more rare. Maybe because she sees them the most? Or because they are boys.
She also loves to pretend she's mommy and I'm Kelsey. She'll ask me, "is your pee-pees coming, mommy?" (No, is yours?) She'll also say, "you want a treat Kelsey? Okay. " Or my favorite, "You go in time out mommy, no-no." When I ask what I did wrong she'll say it's because I hit Aiden. Shocking.
She is also such a good sister. When I was reading my friend Mary's blog today who just lost her baby girl and bawling, she came over and gave me a big hug and said, "it's okay mommy." Then, because I wasn't paying attention to the fact that Aiden had run out of Cheerios and was "asking" for more, she fed him her Cheerios. Then she came up to me and said, "mommy, Aiden wants more Cheerios." She's a great little mommy.
5/?- (while Tal is at work)
K: Mom, I want to tell dad I had fun at the doctor today - daddy, I had fun at the doctor today - oh you did - yeah, dr. M was really nice. Yeah? Yeah.
She has little conversations with herself as she imagines the conversation she had or will have. These crack me up. She does it all the time, I just need to remember to write them down.
5/29 -
K: Mom, don't let Swiper come swipe our new house, okay?
M: Okay, I will. I'll tell him, Swiper no swiping, okay?
K: Yeah!
She's on this kick where she says "everytime" or "everday" with almost every sentence. I guess she's learning how to tell time/days?
She also sings all the time, usually "I am a Child of God." How can I ever get mad at that sweet little thing?
February 1, 2010
J: "Kelsey, get up on the stool so we can wash your hands."
K: "Mommy, you need to pull my pants up first."
J: "Okay, sorry"
K: "You don't need to say sorry mami."
She's been saying sorry to EVERYTHING and so I think she's heard that a lot lately from me. It's funny to hear your own words come from the mouths of your little ones.
January 28, 2010
K: "I want to be baptized."
J: "You do? How old are you?"
K: "TWO! Aiden wants to be baptized too."
J: "You have to be 8 to be baptized."
K: "Oh, I EIGHT!"
A little boy was baptized last Sunday and she started noticing it more in her books about Jesus and we talked about it a few times this week. But the subject hadn't come up this day - she said it out of the blue.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

New Windows

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