I'm sure you were wondering why I had fallen off of the blog wagon for a while and well...enough said? This is why our next tenant has been set up on monthly inspections.
After the tenants moved out, we are guessing their 17-yr old son went in and threw a party. I had three garbage bags of beer cans, every floor was sticky and cigarette butts in the sinks. Oh, and don't forget the giant holes they decided to punch in every room! I vacuumed over two years of cobwebs from the plant shelves and scraped two inches worth of grease from behind the oven. These people lived in their own filth and didn't both to pick up a rag when something spilled or splattered. We couldn't walk into the house without masks and gloves for fear of breathing their repulsive germs. Every cupboard and corner held a disgusting and ghastly site. Everything they left from the broken furniture to the canned food in the pantry was taken to the dump. It doesn't surprise me that these people were selfish and extremely lazy but the lack of respect for our property after Ryan was so good to help them out (consistantly) is the part that bothers us the most. If it broke, he fixed it and/or replaced it. She had a hard life and her children made it harder but she refused to show any backbone to teach them right from wrong.
Ryan took a week off of work and I helped him into the very late evenings. It has taken two complete weeks and our children have been raising themselves but it is finally finished and it looks great! WHEW! I will be posting the "after" pictures soon!
Tread was laying on the floor as we were all watching a movie and he jumped up yelling, "MY TOOTH IS WIGGLY!" When we got to looking, it was just barely hanging on! He had never mentioned anything about his tooth before then. Ryan went into the bathroom and plucked it out! Wonder what the tooth fairy is paying these days? - Oh yeah, Grace had to have her time in front of the camera as well. She informed us her tooth is wiggly too!
So, Ryan is posting these dog waste signs in our neighborhood. I can't believe the number of people that walk their dogs every morning to leave their piles on the common area property where the kids walk to the bus stop! As he was installing these lovely signs, the boys were next to him and he could smell that something was amiss. He had the boys check their shoes only to learn that he was the victim! He said, "I can't remember the last time I stepped in a pile!" and all while installing the sign himself. C'mon people! 
