Team Platt

Wow, I didn’t realize how long it has been since I last updated the blog. We’ve had a lot of changes and it’s been really good, but certainly not easy. After Samuel was born, we did a baby moon at the local hotel for about a week and a half. Grandma Platt came down and…

Samuel arrived 2/15. I started bleeding and my midwife was afraid it was placental blood indicating that the placenta was lifting, and I wasn’t in hard labor yet. She had us go to the ER to get checked out. Ultimately, we chose to deliver via C-section. Breastfeeding has been really hard, but I’ve been working…

Our return back home has gone well. I deep cleaned the house, we got some radiator style space heaters that have done a great job heating the house, and have replaced some things that were spreading contamination. We’re now in the midst of Winter Storm Landon and praise God, we have not lost power and…

We’ve learned a big lesson in our latest experiment. We’ve been back in a local hotel the past 7 nights bc our HVAC went bad and with storm Izzy, it was way too cold to not run it. I’ve made lots of gains, but Wesley isn’t thriving here during the day. Tuesday Wesley had an…

The past year has seen us do an immense amount of healing and go through lots of transitions. We ended 2020 with an uptick of mystery toxin blowing in with the storms at the ranch we were camping on, and we left mid Jan after our tent got contaminated. That was our transition into hotels,…

We’ve been at the rental house a little over a month now. Sorry that I’m not an awesome updater of the blog. It’s been a busier time getting settled, figuring out a schedule that works, remodeling, and all the storms. I’ll preface the remodeling section with don’t watch a bunch of HGTV, it makes you…

We got all the mishaps from the farm sitting incidents taken care of: Chester, Savy, and the house all smell fine now. The rugs I think will even be salvageable. Lana takes the rugs to the car wash on occasion anyways so that’s her plan for them and then bringing them back inside. Snowy, the…

Our Airbnb hosts had to tend to an emergency so we offered to help with the farm while they were out of town. Since they’ve been gone Chester has been sprayed by a skunk twice. The first time he clearly didn’t take a direct hit, the second time, he did. A dish soap bath cleared…

We looked for short term rentals and were struggling to find that so we decided to try an Airbnb. We’ve been there for a week now and it’s going well. Their house is in great outdoor air, but would likely not be a mold avoiders first choice bc they’d get caught up in the indoor…

We’ve exceeded our benchmark to move out of hotels. We kept our room for 5 weeks and left bc of a combination of factors, not because the room went bad. The town we were staying is goes above tolerance when there are storms and we ended up going to the city yesterday to check out…