Welcome home?
I have been away. Not just away from the blog, but away from home. The Italian and I took the kindern East to visit family (his and mine) and to immerse the children the joys of New England. We had a good trip, and more details will follow.
We returned at noon on Monday after a long day and only three and a half hours sleep the night before to find that one of the cats had used our bedroom as a litterbox the entire time we were gone. I opened the front door and Punkin said "why does the house smell like cat poop?" It was revolting. One corner of the bedroom was littered with poop (including several spots where it had spread and dried on the hardwood) and there was pee all over the room. (Where was the pet sitter in all of this? The pet sitter who came every day? Apparently she has no sense of smell).
We had to remove everything from the bedroom except the bed and the bookshelves in order to clean everything (especially the floor) before putting anything back. Fortunately our bed was unscathed, but the crib was a mess, the floors a mess, and several rugs a mess.
We spent most of Monday and Tuesday cleaning, and I was back at work on Wednesday. So today I'm off work, the kids are elsewhere, and I'm finally unpacking. And folding laundry.
I started a new project on my trip which I'm dying to show you, but I have no photographs yet, and it looks pretty unimpressive at this point anyway.
Off to the laundry!
We returned at noon on Monday after a long day and only three and a half hours sleep the night before to find that one of the cats had used our bedroom as a litterbox the entire time we were gone. I opened the front door and Punkin said "why does the house smell like cat poop?" It was revolting. One corner of the bedroom was littered with poop (including several spots where it had spread and dried on the hardwood) and there was pee all over the room. (Where was the pet sitter in all of this? The pet sitter who came every day? Apparently she has no sense of smell).
We had to remove everything from the bedroom except the bed and the bookshelves in order to clean everything (especially the floor) before putting anything back. Fortunately our bed was unscathed, but the crib was a mess, the floors a mess, and several rugs a mess.
We spent most of Monday and Tuesday cleaning, and I was back at work on Wednesday. So today I'm off work, the kids are elsewhere, and I'm finally unpacking. And folding laundry.
I started a new project on my trip which I'm dying to show you, but I have no photographs yet, and it looks pretty unimpressive at this point anyway.
Off to the laundry!
posted by Marie at 12:00 PM
2 Comments:
Oh no! Fire that cat sitter! Cat pee is the worst...
Yup, that wasn't our regular pet-sitter (who for the first time in 12 years wasn't available!) This was a substitute pet-sitter who is definitely not someone we will ever use again!
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