We took a day or two to get caught up on, as I call it, business stuff. I had to review bills, even if they were already paid, looking at my investments, checking the news and such. We had an important decision to think about, well one of many.
“So what are we going to do about the house?” Max asked
“I don’t know, I mean it should be simple, I’ve lived there for 5 years now?” I said.
Last week my landlord called to tell me that he was needing to sell the land the house sat on after his wife fell ill. I had asked if he could give me a week to see if I ‘could gather the money to put in an offer’
“Ya, know, I have thought of the place as my house for years, so it was a given. What he wants is a fair price, and really, I don’t need a big fancy house to be happy, I am happy with what we have.”
“Well then, call the attorney and have him put in the offer” Max said
I had asked my landlord to not list with a real estate agent until I got back to him. I had called the attorney earlier in the week, and had the place appraised awhile back, as I was planning on offering to buy it last winter, but didn’t. So I knew the offer was sound and was not underselling or really over the top.
I grabbed my phone and dialed my landlord, “Hey Earl, Jason here…. I thought it through and I would like to make you an offer for the house. Don’t list it, let’s just do a for sale by owner so you aren’t getting hit with realtor fees. Your price was well within line, I’ll pay the closing and the taxes too, just to help you out.”
“That is very generous of you, thank you, this will help greatly” He said
“Well I will have my lawyer draw up the contract and send it over to you. I will be back in town next week, and we can sit down and go over it all” I said
“Well that’s done.” I said looking at Max “Big boy decisions”
I reviewed all the bills and stuff, emailed the attorney to tell him they all were good and to start the process for buying the property along with covering the other costs. So now after all the big boy work is done, Max changed my night diaper and dressed me into a cute outfit and told me it was time to go play. He ushered me out the door, opened the ‘garage’ and got the playpen out and the rug that goes under it and I helped him set it up. I then climbed in while daddy brought some toys over for me to play with.
I ran the cars and trucks around the carpet for probably 2 hours, playing with the dinosaurs, lost in my own little world. Oblivious to the other people at the RV park who by now were getting up and around and noticed the overgrown toddler sitting in the playpen.
It’s not like I was unsupervised, Max could see me from the dinette and kept popping out seeing how I was doing. “How’s it going buddy” He asked. To which I responded that I was fine.
I played with my toys to myself for what seemed like all morning until it was time for lunch. Max had made hotdogs, and macaroni and cheese and brought out the high chair and tray. “Ok, lunch time buddy” He said as he set the high chair up.
“I figured let’s give the neighbors a little peek into our life.” He said as he helped me into the high chair and snapped the tray on it and put my plate of food on it. Boy did we get some looks
“Well don’t you look cute” One lady said as she and her husband walked by.
Another older couple were not so nice. “You know that’s what you have an inside of your camper for, nobody wants to see that” The husband said as they walked by.
“Why, you do your drinking and hollering outside” Max said
By now I was embarrassed and just wanted to get out and run inside, I was at the point of crying, and was totally out of my little space. Max looked at me and took control.
“Hey, you are ok, nothing is going to happen, and you aren’t hurting anybody here. If you want to go inside you can but it is such a nice day, and you should be able to enjoy the outside too.” He said, which settled me down some, but it was hard to get back into little mode.
After lunch he brought out some cheesecake that we had in the freezer and let it thaw a bit. I finished it in my high chair and then Max cleaned my hands and face and I got back into the playpen for a bit before dozing off. That day was so much fun.
We hit a few more Route 66 things that weren’t open the last time we were through, relaxed and unwound. We found an RV resort with an indoor pool. We slept in late, relaxed at the pool while the spring sun beat down on us and took it easy at night just enjoying the campfire.