Look what we got done this past weekend! Yay. As always we wish Kai could enjoy photo time.
We were all home this weekend. So rare. Mom came for pictures and to help me wrap presents.
I'm trying to get a jump on Christmas so Dec can be more relaxing. Relieving the mental load.
It sure went a lot faster than usual!
Thanks for the help Mom.
Four more sleeps until we leave. Are we ready? Sort of. We personally are. The Commander was ready then Eric took it to the dealership to have the new key programmed. We brought it home and it quickly went into limp mode. Arg. Way too coincidental for us. So now it's back to our mechanic today to check things out. We'll see. We were excited about taking a comfy automatic suv for the long drive but either Wrangler will do. It's just a lot of gearing through Seattle, Sacramento and L.A.
Then our washing machine puked a whole lot of what looked like vomit into a load. ? Wild. So there was a scramble to figure that out. Luk has been doing laundry but gets settings wrong so we're unsure if the dryer is occasionally not drying the load or if it's a user issue. Then our hot water tank quit heating on Saturday. Oy.
Eric got new thermostat and elements for the hot water tank and then it wasn't heating fast enough so he was calling plumbers. They are mostly unavailable on the weekend and the one he found wanted double time. So I said it could wait until Monday. We can boil water and there is a shower in the trailer. And then hours later it was discovered that we did indeed have hot water again after all. Eric was just impatient. I've been complaining about the amount and temperature of the hot water for ages and ages so I'm thrilled to have scalding water again. I gave Eric permission this morning to go ahead and empty the hot tub any time now so it's done before Thursday.
The logistics of the calendar is a bit nuts for Mom, Fei and Gramma. I wrote out a day by day of who needs to be where and when. Fei has the roughest day of running around on the first day. She'll get to experience the back and forth across town we have to do occasionally. It was unfortunate that we just couldn't cancel the appointment midday that screws that day all up.
Today I wrote out a grocery list of simple meals for Lili to cook. Mom is doing four dinners, Lili is doing five.
Lili is off today to Vancouver with a friend to see Sabrina Carpenter. Their Hullo ferry was canceled and they rebooked an earlier one. They got there to find it canceled as well. So they've raced to Departure Bay and made it on a ferry with 8 minutes to spare. The storm is brewing here now too. Fingers crossed they're able to come home tonight as planned. The suckiest part of living on an island for sure. I just updated Eric on the ferry sitch and he said "sucks living on an island". Haha. Yup.
