In October my building began upgrades on the elevator we use. We only have access to one elevator so without it we have to walk up the stairs. It is not so bad during the week. it is only a few flights. The challenge is the weekends when we need to move two small children. It is still amazing to me how much gear we need to transport when going anywhere with two kids. Even with an elevator going anywhere in the car was challenging since MC would go get the car and i would get downstairs with all the gear and both kids. Now we have to get down flights of stairs with both of them and stuff. it becomes a production. For a basic outing near the house it is not significantly easier. We had to leave the stroller in a room in our lobby and carry Amelia and have Teagan walk down the stairs. I have been a sucker recently and picking Teagan up when she asks. Did i mention she asks all the time to be carried. Its just easier than having he take 5 minutes to walk up stairs.
Other challenges we have are simply doing laundry. our laundry room is in our basement. No problem you think, its just one more floor of steps to go down. You would be correct if there was stairs that went to the basement. Without an elevator we have to go outside to get to the basement. In the winter when its cold or rainy that is an added bonus when we have to do the laundry.
I only feel compelled to write about this now since we are at or past the due date for the elevator to be done. The reality is the work needed to be done so we sucked it up and dealt with the situation. Now when the project is supposed to be done any day now, i can’t have it working soon enough. Apparently all construction work is done but the city needs to inspect it. Fingers crossed that when i get home today it will be done but i don’t know how good my luck is.