French apartment renovations, Day 429: Hard work & Spanish translations...and lice!

Ugh, lice have come back to our household. I happened to check Inga today because her scalp looked gritty and had lots of little red sores. Yep, lice. So that took the rest of her evening.

Tomorrow I'll have to check everyone else.

I had a long, hard work day. I patched the other half of the old kitchen subfloor with several batches of map. Then I laid the landscape fabric (it prevents the granules from falling through any cracks) and poured 3 lines of granules for embedding the rails. Once they were level, I poured bag after bag of granules and started leveling them from one side to the other.

Then I called Eric in to help lay down the Fermacell boards. They are heavy and hard to lay down properly with one person. We worked until we ran out of granules. At this point, we'll focus on other things until the plumber comes and installs the water lines in the floor.

And then we mixed up more map and embedded several electrical lines into the walls.



Phew. Then my second shift started: breech stuff. Today I worked on creating a Spanish version of our online breech training course. We have a translator who has done all of the subtitles in exchange for us coming to train her group of midwives. So I'm currently encoding the subtitles into the videos and pasting the translated course platform text. Most days I work on breech stuff in the afternoons/evenings but I don't usually write about it. Because I would say something really boring like, "I sat at my computer and worked on breech stuff for a while."

After school, the 3 younger kids all went to friends' houses. It was so quiet! Zari came back to an empty house. Desipte some recent disappointments with a few exam scores, she has a really good attitude. I'm really impressed with the changes I've seen in her confidence and resilience since the beginning of this school year.

Eric made sauteed green beans and JFO crepes (jambon-fromage-oeuf). We finished off the leftover lemon cheesecake.