never know when you will need a Snuggie

Connor now says "hot, hot" in a whisper voice when he sees anything that comes from the microwave, oven, or stove. pretty smart and cute!
Last week was not HOT. We have REALLY bad luck when it comes to heating our houses. when colin moved into his first place there was NO heat. Why? well, we thought we did everything right. we called BGE and asked them to change over the service into Colin's name 72 hours in advance of the move-in date. after several angry phone calls to BGE we discovered that the prior owner had a dispute with BGE over his bill and that is why BGE failed to change over the service at our request. how is this our problem?? after several more phone calls we (I) convinced the manager that we deserved to have the heat on (since it was Nov. 1) and COLD and the dispute wasn't "our" dispute. we spent thousands of dollars over the next few years "servicing" the HVAC unit and realizing why the prior owner had a dispute. colin's first bill was over $500.00! Yikes!
this time we thought we were smarter and wiser so we asked the sellers to have the HVAC unit serviced and in working condition before we settled on the house. so you can guess what happened last sunday night when I innocently flipped the switch from a/c to heat. That's right -- NOTHING!!! nothing happened. we woke up Monday morning to a 64 degree house. Which isn't cold, cold but cold enough with a 14 month old who can't really sleep with blankets. And, since Connor was having trouble sleeping Sunday night anyway, I was camped out on his floor with a comfy but small blanket. At 4 am I was freezing and knew he was too so I got a blanket on Connor and pulled out the Snuggie for myself. Thank goodness for the Snuggie!! I was certain I was going to turn into an ice cube at 64 degrees! So anyway, the repair guy came today (it was 70 outside) and did his thing. We now have heat and luckily since we live in better weather now - we probably won't really need it for awhile again.

We found some outdoor furniture (I am picking it up tomorrow, yea!) and hoping that our yard will be finished before it rains again on Friday. So, I can finally post before and after pics. (Still haven't taken the pics though so it will have to wait for another post).