Busy Bees

The countdown is on, and we've been quite busy with all the preparations for the move and getting the house ready to sell.

After the yard work of last weekend, this week, we tackled repainting the office. It was the only room in the house that we hadn't repainted yet in the last 3 years and it really needed a new coat. Given we're putting our house on the market, we figured it was worth investing a couple of days into this. It was worth it, but still tiring: uncoupling all the computers/networks, moving all the furniture, prepping the room: masking tape, drop cloths, step ladders, spackling the walls, sanding the walls, etc. , painting the first coat, painting the second coat, removing all the masking tape, touching up areas, removing the drop cloths, vacuuming, moving the furniture back....and now it almost looks like before, just much cleaner.... glad that's done.



We got some fun relief yesterday with a birthday party for one of Kevin's friends. They had it at the Clubhouse at Bright Horizon's, and the party itself was preceded by a an hour-long gym session (read: getting rid of some of that wild child-energy) which was great.



This is something I'll miss when I'm back in Europe: all the wonderful amenities geared primarily towards kids/families with kids: like the children's museums here, the children's song/theatre hours at coffee shops, the children's fairs, the library's reading hours, the bookstore's toddler story time, the larger playgrounds, etc.
Not that you don't have children's amenities in Europe, but there are far fewer and usually a lot smaller. I wonder if you'd try to start something like 'playspace museum' in the Netherlands or Belgium if it would catch on ? It'd be interesting to look at comparisons of percentages of mothers staying at home and if similar, it could be an interesting idea for a future entrepreneurial endeavour.