Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2009. Mattie was at the outpatient clinic and was playing with toys in a tub of water. We gave him bubbles and a wand, because we wanted him to exercise his lungs, as he was recovering from lung surgery. In typical Mattie fashion, we had to be creative with how therapy exercises were performed.
Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins.
- Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 33,650,467
- Number of people who died from the virus: 604,423
Peter and I have been dealing with this house now for over a week! All I can say is WOW! I can see why I haven't owned a house in the past and frankly I now can safely say I haven't missed out on anything. I find the whole thing a royal headache and completely a time and money drain. COVID truly impacted the housing market and as such it made it very very difficult for the buyer. In order to buy a quality house, one basically had to pay over asking price and waive a home inspection. I would like to believe that people are honest about their homes and how they upkeep them. What I do know is the upgrades we were told were made to the house, NEVER happened. So we are juggling electrical, plumbing, and HVAC costs we hadn't factored into the renovation equation.
I range in emotion over this house. If I lived in a world with access to endless money, then home ownership would be for me! But since that isn't the case, I have to be realistic. Yet how this house was maintained is way below my comfort level. If I only had trade skills, I would do the whole thing myself! With that said, I have to say that everyone we have been contracting with has been professional and very customer focused. I suppose this surprised me, but I welcome this as it is hard enough balancing what's happening in the house on any given day. Today was a plumbing inspection and estimate, another bath remodeling estimate, and lots of phone calls.
Dare I forget, I also was working on building connections with other non-profits today who we would like to include in the government grant we are applying for! So Foundation work continues through the chaos.
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