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Here are ten simple thoughts about today:

1. We have no Internet so I worked from a coffee shop that was really a chocolate shop that served coffee. Every few hours I ordered herbal tea and a treat and tipped 40%. They let me stay all day and invited me back. Their was a major snow storm outside ... And I was in a chocolate shop all day. I know. I know.

2. We scored our first craigslist find yesterday. Two perfect area rugs for $25 each. It inspired me to sweep, and I found a sand box of dirt. New rugs plus less dirt equals warmer, happier house and cleaner feet.

3. Quinn has her first loose tooth. I am so excited and so overwhelmed. I do not feel ready on so many levels. I feel like all our stuff has to be out of storage before the tooth falls out. You can not start that phase of your life while in transition. How will the tooth fairy find you ... And so many other important questions.
4. Did I tell you about the bears? Well, Tim mentioned to me after we go here, "oh, and Bill (landlord) told me all about the bears." And then he listed all these things we get to do to keep the bears away. What?! The last tenets claimed a bear pounded on the front window and shattered it. But the Bill doesn't believe them, Tim says. And don't worry, they don't have beat attacks in towns, just lots of bears, he says. Oh, so we have to keep all the trash in the house until trash day and just be kind of careful. But, he gave us Pl the details. Don't worry. Enough said. If I comment on how I feel about this, I will have to move.
5. There is a real life men old lunch lady here! It is awesome. Instead of saying something like, "please sit down and eat your lunch," she tells, "if there is a chair, sit in it now." And she was really upset when I order Quinn's school lunch without cheese -- because cheese is protein, and she is required to serve it. And don't touch for food I the lunch line. I thought the last mean lunch lady died in the 90's. this is awesome. What a growing experience for Quinn.
6. I hit a thrift store today for pots and pans. I got a pot but no pan. And also. Butter knife, a Tupperware, and a black sweater. Oh, and an adorable little toaster. I asked if they take furniture donations. She said, "only if it is nice." I like that.
7. The heater in the house are so loud. It is a mother's dreams. Kids are sleeping in. It is like a surround sound white noise machine. But it is so much more than that. Because it sounds like a little mini person is inside the machine banging its pipes with a wrench. He's not in their all the time. Only every 45 seconds or so. But still -- they sleep.
8. Two rooms in the house do not have Pugh switches -- only strings in the middle of the room that you have to pull.
9. When you turn on the oven, it heats up the back left burner. Not a little. A lot. Like boil a lobster a lot of heat.

10. Family Dollar is not a dollar store. What? Apparently it is Wal-Mary quality mini mart that "supports and values" the family's dollar. Hum. I'm grateful that I don't live near a dollar store when there is no Costco or Gap, but I'm still annoyed at sun obvious deceit.