Saturday, September 21, 2013

Do we take the toilets?

Okay, this was too funny not to share.  Today has been a good day with our precious girl.  I have not felt well, and Abbey has been a real trooper in understanding when mom needs to rest to get better.  She really does have a compassionate heart.

We are hoping within the next year to be able to sell our house and move closer to my work.  Right now I have a half hour drive to work, which is wearying at times.  Also, we want to get Abbey in a better school district.  So because I was feeling not motivated to do much else, and Tony needed to run to the hardware store, I sat down with Abbey and said, let's look at houses.  So we started looking online at potential houses we might want to buy (if we were able to sell ours).

This was a true novelty to Abbey and she has probably spent about 4 or 5 hours today alternating between Tony and I helping, looking at houses.  Of course she likes to see the big fancy ones too.  Tony told her when she became a star someday she could buy it and we would all live there.  So she understands we can't buy the super big houses.  (This morning I started out with ones more reasonable, but apparently, she figured out how to move the buttons to the more bedrooms and more bathrooms options).

What Abbey was having a hard time comprehending was that we would be taking our own stuff to the house, and if there was furniture in the pictures, that belonged to someone else who would take it with them when they moved.  She wanted the big flat screen TV in one (who wouldn't), and she liked the kids bedroom set in another.  So anyway, Tony finally was using the Google translate site to try to explain to Abbey that we take our stuff to the next house.

Then out of the blue Abbey asked Tony "Do we take the toilets!??"  Oh my, we couldn't help but laugh.  So now Tony is trying to explain which parts of the house stay, and which parts we take with us if we move.  Too funny.

1 comment:

  1. That is great! I love these moments. In all the frustration of language transition, it is these moments that we can just laugh and it helps our sanity :)

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