Welcome To My Home

I'm on a flight bound for DC and at home in my children's former playroom sits our new tenants, a woman and her two cats. My daughter was ill on Friday so I worked from home. My daughter and I got to watch the woman move in. Was it weird to see a stranger tromping up and down our stairs? Maybe a little but not as much as one would expect. Every time I see her, I think of a large $ in front of me and it makes it a lot more palatable to be sharing living space. Apparently I am all about money, just like my husband criticized about me. It's hard not to be all about money when you don't have much of it. 'I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar. That's where you come in.' The Wedding Singer. One of the funniest movies ever. 

My daughter seemed very excited to see our renter take up residence. She watched every box and bag come through the door and then cheered when she saw the cats. This will be a nice trial run for us, my kids have been begging for a cat for months. Once our dog meets these new inhabitants, the verdict will be in regarding whether another furry friend is in our future. 

Neither my daughter nor my son seemed too perturbed about losing their playroom. I think the cats outweighed any negative thoughts they had. And once I promised my son I would hook up the Wii in the basement, he didn't care that most of his toys were being evicted to the basement as well. 

I'm glad the moving in is done and my kids and I are away from home for a while. I had visions of them crying when they saw a stranger coming into our house but I think they view it as an adventure. After all Kit Kittredge had boarders in her home, why shouldn't they? (Kit Kittredge is one of my daughter's favorite American Girl dolls and she's watched that movie countless times.) Maybe this will all come out in therapy twenty years from now and they'll discuss how Mommy rented a room to a stranger. Hopefully their therapist will be a divorced mom and she'll say, 'Divorce sucks. You do what you gotta do.'