This Just Won't Do

We have decided on a place to live, filled out all the paperwork, gotten our keys, and started packing. Now we just have to wait for the electric service to get their stuff done so we can start moving in. My sister-in-law, Elizabeth, came with us on Wednesday to clean up what we could with no power and water (we brought a bucket of water and a seperate gallon jug of water with us). The walls had a bit of a yellow tinge to them and the previous owners apparently didn't care if their children colored all over the walls. We went through about 5 magic erasers (love those things, by the way) and got most of the walls cleaned up. Now we need to deodorize the carpet and vacuum and get the kitchen floor swept of all the dead ants and we'll be good to move in.

There's just one snag though: the electric company needs the county to inspect the lot before they will turn the power on. Why? I have no idea. Will called the county today to set up an appointment and they just didn't seem to understand what it was that he was trying to say. They thought we were building the place and needed them to inspect the property to give us some sort of permit. So now Will is down at the county government building trying to get it all straightened out. It seems to me that this is a job for the landlord, who told us that all we needed to do was call the electric company and pay the deposit then it should be up and running in a couple of days.

We don't want to start moving things in until we get the floors all clean and we can get some of the smell from a closed up trailer with previous tenants who smoked cleared out of there. We can't vacuum or finish cleaning until we get the power on. We're stuck. To top it all off, we weren't able to get one thing done yesterday because I wasn't feeling good and Will had a fever all day! It came completely out of nowhere! I woke up with a sore throat and no voice and Will woke up freezing and feeling woozy. His fever lasted through the night and finally broke about 5:00 this morning and hasn't come back yet. That's all we need...to both come down with the flu while we're trying to move.

The move is also on a time limit. We have to be out of our apartment by the 12th and we would really like to be all moved in and unpacked by the time the baby decides to come out and join us. I can hardly imagine how I would feel coming home from the hospital with our new bundle of joy only to be surrounded by unpacked boxes and not be able to finish unpacking until my body has healed enough. It would be near torture. Of course I know that if that has to happen, I will do my best to handle it, but it would be very nice and wonderful if we could finish before Isaiah comes so I don't even have to think about it.

The trailer is exactly what we need and I am very excited to finally be able to move in! Once we get our things in there and we turn it into our home, it will be perfect. I can't wait!