The Sluggard Carrot

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These last two weeks some weird sickness has been making the rounds around our round family. It involved coughing and sleeping a lot. Timmy got it last, and hopefully no one else comes down with it.

Timmy's birthday was on Tuesday. He got video games, bedroom decorations and a plush chain chomp (from Mario) which Rea made for him

Another thing that happened on Tuesday was that Mike went to see our house which is under construction still. Mike was surprised to discover that construction has been progressing at a greatly increased pace, however, he was also surprised to discover that the kitchen is entirely torn apart. 

This wasn't originally a part of the plan, however we have decided that now that the kitchen is torn apart we might end up remodeling it to have a more open connection to the front room which will make both rooms feel bigger. 

Here are some plans that Mike drew up for the modified kitchen:



Wednesday was Juneteenth, and mine for the day off of work. We didn't really celebrate it, however, we did some research into the holiday so in future years we will be able to properly celebrate.

On Saturday since Grandma and Grandpa Poulson were coming back to their house we decided to spend all day cleaning the house to make sure that they would be suitably impressed with our cleaning acumen. In order to bribe the children we promise them gelatos and pizza should the cleaning be successful. We got the house all the way clean by about 4:00 so pizza and gelatos was the order of the evening.

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