Why is it that when Toby goes out of town I get things done?  Maybe it’s that I don’t expect to have help with anything, so I do what ever needs to be done.  Which, in this case was:

• Get the car completely detailed as it hasn’t been washed in ~4 years
• Wash the dishes
• Deep clean the kitchen
• Clean Kaia’s room
• Put away Kaia’s winter clothes and tidy her clothing drawers
• Tidy/organize the whole house!
• Organize the front porch
• Take everything out of the house downstairs, sweep and mop the floors
• Bring all the food compost scraps covering the kitchen counter to the compost bin
• Bring the dead snake (thanks Suki) and the bird carcass (again, thanks suki) to the compost bin
• Take off all the recycling and trash
• Strain the kefir
• Spend the afternoon with Kaia at a school picnic
• There’s more, but I can’t remember it all!

And that was just today!!!

Tomorrow, we have a birthday party, hiking, maybe we will start planting her flower garden…

If I just had a little help (to lift the big beams), I could have the new house done by the time he comes home! 🙂