The Trend Continues

When we sold our first house years ago; a couple of days before we moved out Brianne found yellow paint and painted the carpet in her room, her blankets, and the walls. What do you do? When my husband was in grad school his parents bought a new house and let us live in their old house. We, of course, caused no damage whatsoever to that house not even the day before we moved out; although, we did have to build a half wall to keep Jake from turning off the water heater. Cold showers everyday for a week will influence you to take drastic measure.

The day before we moved out Will found a sharpie. Background: Will likes to draw on stuff, a lot. Markers don’t last long around our house because he likes to chew on them (they’re not poisonous—I called) and draw on books, walls, legal documents, his sibling's homework . . . He wrote A, E, I, O, U in permanent marker all over two of the air conditioners. I went to CVS to buy nail polish remover at 10:00 pm. It blurred the vowels a little. My husband found something that dissolves plastic. That worked on one of the air conditioners. We defaced the air conditioners. The screen is broken. I broke the disposal. We leave mattresses by the dumpster. My kids ate so many cookies in the office they were banned from taking any more. Will screamed and rolled down the hallway. I’m surprised they didn’t throw a party when we left!