{"id":2438,"date":"2011-08-22T16:58:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T23:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:06:12","slug":"playing-with-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2438","title":{"rendered":"Playing with the Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

The boys and I have to clean out the garage.\u00a0 The landlord is going to “finish” it and put in shelving & beautiful clean counters, plus a tankless water heater.\u00a0 Then we’re going to move in all her shit which she has in storage and reduce my rent saving me and HER money!<\/p>\n

The house gets a needed improvement, she gets a cost needed for taxes on the rent I pay her, her business gets a cost reduction, and I get a little break on the rent.\u00a0 Plus I may be able to do some more of my work at home.\u00a0 Win\/win\/win!<\/p>\n

So to get this processed started (in addition to the picking out cabinetry & emailing two contractors to bid on the job) I’ve been boxing up stuff from the garage so I can easily move it into the house.\u00a0 Since some of this stuff is the kids, I had to get them involved.\u00a0 Because I just don’t see a need for a box of ball pit balls!\u00a0 And the old train set.. do we really need to keep it?<\/p>\n

Apparently we do!\u00a0 So I gave Evan the chore of sorting through it and taking out any broken pieces, removing pieces he’s no longer wanting to keep & transferring it all into another box.\u00a0 Which he did, keeping ALL the pieces!\u00a0 And then insisting we set it up.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Which I can’t resist cuz I love the set also!\u00a0 lol\u00a0 So we set it up Saturday and he and Conor had a fun day of playing with it on and off the whole weekend.\u00a0 I guess THAT piece of childhood is just never going to get old.\u00a0 And I think I’ll need to keep it forever as something to pass down one day to their kids.<\/p>\n

Assuming I don’t just keep it at my house to play with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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