Somewhere to Play

I know, I'm over a month behind, but after we left our old home we had a fabulous week in hotels playing in swimming pools and on mini-golph courses, watching movies and just having fun. Then it was time for Nat to start work again so we left the hotel and drove up to the house we had rented. It was a HORRIBLE disappointment. There was NO LIVING ROOM!!!! Whoever heard of such a thing? The bedrooms were so small we'd be lucky to fit a bed in one, the yard was unfinished and dangerous, and only a chain-link fence and 8 feet away from the freeway! To top it off there was a horrible smell that was making me sick every time we came downstairs, but the kitchen was gorgeous. But who can live in a kitchen only? I hated it, the babies hated it. They had nowhere to play. Thankfully the landlord was a very descent soul and said he'd refund our deposit so my sweetie found us an awesome house closer to his work. We went to look at it and B announced he was staying there and he wasn't going back to "the broken house." We had to go back to the other house for a week though and he screamed and cried upon arriving there and S, who had fallen asleep on the drive, woke up and saw where we were and yelled, "No!!!" Both boys had diarrhea all week, which we found out was stress related since they didn't like where we were staying. But we made it to the new house and there is a wonderful deck in the backyard for the kids to play on and we've had no more diarrhea or crying at the thought of going home.