The House Adventure

By everyone's standards, we've had a very mild and beautiful winter here in Boston. It's actually felt more like spring, what with all of the sunshine, and blue skies (except for this week and last week- it's been gross weather like snow and rain).

However, the temperatures have still been a little chilly.

So when we realized that after three days, our heat had gone out,  it started to make sense. Our ground floor was a balmy 42 degrees- and thats only when we checked to see what the temperature was (it was probably more like in the 30's). We had been wondering why we didn't really feel like being downstairs, and we had been spending all our at-home time in our bedroom.

So we called an oil company, arranged for them to come fill and light our tank in a few days, charged my account $840, and holed up in a blanket fort we built in our teeny tiny sewing room with a space heater inside it. I wish I had a picture of our epically fashioned, structurally sound tent- we fit all of us inside, watched Hulu.com and knitted stuff.

While this was going on, Alexandra had her sisters over for the weekend, and our newfangled fridge decided to melt itself, so our fridge smelled gross, and we couldn't use the lights, because the computer was sending too much power to the sockets so the plastic would melt. So poor Kenzie shelled out $600 to replace the computer parts...

So then there were a few weeks of panic, because we had both just spent a whole lot of money and there was the problem of us not having jobs, but let me tell you, we were not hung out to dry. 

Through our ward, Kenzie got an awesome job watching three darling kids- two girls, 4 and 7, and a little baby boy. I got a great job from my amazing visiting teaching partner, working for her on some projects, and I just started working for a very nice lady helping her with her adorable little 1 month old twin boys. They were actually born the day before we left for Boston, so we are all three starting out on a new adventure together! I love them so much, they're the cutest!

So now we're back to not freezing to death, having SO MUCH FUN together with our roommates, Alexandra and our new roommate Julie! She's a massage therapist who splits her time between us and her house in Connecticut. We're so excited to have her! 

Hopefully though, it warms up soon, so if we happen to run out of fuel again, we won't have to resort to living in a space-heated blanket fort!

Cheers and best wishes!