It's a Magic Door!

With the 2 ice days in the past week and an early dismissal for teacher training, it doesn't feel like Friday at all, our schedule has been so off!

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New and exciting this week, we now have a "magic door" in our house!

We had our central vacuum repaired a couple months ago and I asked the guy how hard it would be to add to our system one of those doors in the baseboard that you open up and can sweep all the crumbs in and they are suctioned right into the central vac. pipe and whisked away into the metal drum in the garage.  The price he quoted was much lower than I would have expected for such a thing and my husband and I decided with all the floor mess created by our 4 kids and 1 dog, it was worth it.

This week the installer came.  Only they never actually told me when my appointment was or called with a 30 minutes before call.  So the vacuum system guy arrives on my doorstep at 4pm one afternoon, totally unannounced, meaning the house was in disarray.  The kids had recently gotten home from school, there were lunchboxes and backpacks and shoes everywhere.  I'd promised the kids hot chocolate that I was mixing up and they were adding whip cream and sprinkles, so the kitchen was not clean.  But, bless his heart, that installer hung with us all afternoon, through the 3 different grade levels of homework, 2 kids conversing with each other over walkie-talkies, dinner prep., laundry, disputes between children, a barking dog, the phone ringing, multiple costume changes by my 2 youngest children, 1 child's bumped head that required ice, not to mention squealing and screaming when he used his wall cutting tool.  Honestly I'm pretty sure that young man will never have children now!

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The poor man had to cut a couple of holes in the wall to do the installation and he kept describing to me exactly what he had to do and where the holes would be and what size, he seemed really concerned that I would be upset about the holes, and I just kept thinking, "Do you see the chaos of this house, really I'm not worried about a few holes in the wall?!"

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So it's done and we do indeed have holes in the wall, but who cares, because -- MAGIC DOOR!  Really it is fabulous!  With the flip of a lever (that you can do with your foot), a little suction door is opened up along the baseboard in my kitchen and I can easily sweep the kid and dog debris right in and it is whisked away!

One child and the dog are still a little fearful of the magic door, afraid they'll be sucked away.

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Today there was more excitement, a much-anticipated package was due to arrive with a toy my 6 year old ordered with his allowance.  Here are my boys ready to pounce on the UPS man:

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Thankfully now that I have a 10 year old son this year I DO actually know who is playing in the Superbowl this Sunday, in previous years I had no idea until the big game.  But, now I get an earful from football-loving boy.  Will you be watching  the big game?

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