Saturday Finally!

The buyers cancelled their contract in the late afternoon yesterday. My lawyer called -- actually his mother, who is the lawyer working on the estate while her son works on the property --Oy! We are going to have such a bill. It was as I expected but silly me, I wanted something a bit more personal from the Buyers. It was probably for the best that there was just a formal fax breaking the contract because the repairs were not done. Actually, the tank was not part of the written repairs, but we get their drift.

Our really great real estate agent called, commiserated, and then told me about the calls she received after the house was under contract. As a good agent, she kept all those numbers and perhaps the house will not really have to go back on the market.

I also had to write a letter to my sibs letting them know that we might have to split the initial cost of the remediation. I guess we are very lucky that our parents did not leave debts for us to split.

Much later now

It was a lovely day. So many lovely days. We walked the Farmers' Market. Passed by all of the bakery booths and found one that has GFCF muffins. We bought two and one was pretty good. We found delicious raspberries, great tomatoes, and a bowl full of tomitillos which will turn into salsa tomorrow. We came home and Julia did some therapy. David and I did chores around the house and I fit in an hour of reading (Much more about that in a later post.). Then we had lunch in our favorite Vietnamese noodle shop -- the one we are going to bring house guests to! They have a cold noodle dish that the three of us inhale. Then, came a buying spree -- a new toaster oven (ours has not been working well for months now), a small rice cooker, and a new radio/CD player/ipod dock for the kitchen. Oh, and Julia was rewarded for a week of working on words and reading with some new little pets. As we were heading into Target to look at appliance and find the little pet, David asked if Julia would go and see Ponyo is we bought a little pet. Julia said yes, we asked a few times to make sure. And we went to the movies!!

You must understand that movies are what we do. We have been in mourning for the last few months since Julia said that she never wanted to go to a movie again. In general, movies are too noisy for her. It is not just the loudness -- and American movies are loud -- but the intensity of the sound tracts. Seeing Ponyo was perfect. We are all such fans of Hayao Miyazaki, and he tells the story of a young and overeager goldfish named Ponyo and her quest to become human. It is a sweet and gentle movie. Soft. The subject matter of a little fish that wants to be a girl, and transforms back and forth a few times fits into Julia's fantasy perfect. She loved the whole thing.

To make it easy for her, we did equip her well. We put foam ear plugs in her ears and cover those with ear phones. I've tried the ear plugs which are pretty effective as a sound block. There are a few kid movies coming out that might interest her. We'll see how she responds when we bring up going to the movies again.

We have been moving towards the GFCF diet for almost a month and have really been following it for a week. This morning we enjoyed the GFCF bread with our eggs. No, it is not like the regular wheat breads that we like, but we've been off wheat bread for about 3 weeks and even Julia thought that today's bread tasted good.