Explanation of previous post

Sorry to be so dramatic, at the same time I felt like bursting with this new situation but at the same time I didn't/don't want to talk about it because I haven't even processed it yet myself.
Basically what happened was the samples they took of the house last week came up elevated, so today the man from the health dept. came back with a machine that can read through 35 layers of paint. It gives you a number, and anything over 1 is considered elevated and dangerous. Essentially, one paint chip put in Jacob's mouth could send him to the hospital.
He found lead on: all the front porch wood, inside the door jam where the doorbell is, on the closet trim, on the trim on the kitchen door, on the wall in the back porch room, inside the door jam going into the downstairs bathroom, the bathroom window, the window in our bedroom that is between our room and the crib room (it's an enclosed upstairs porch), in the upstairs bathroom window, in the middle bedroom window, on the landing to the third floor, on the walls going up to the third floor and throughout the third floor hallway, on the ceiling in the third floor hallway, on the outside of the window in the third floor hallway and most likely outside the window in the computer/storage room in the third floor-because it had an air conditioner he couldn't test it. Plus the walls going down into the basement, the steps going down to the basement, the door to the basement workshop, the door to the butler's alley, the trap=door thingy from the outside going into the butler's alley, and the basement floor in the workshop section.
He was actually quite surprised. Lead was-and actually still is-added to outdoor paint because it does an excellent job of keeping the paint safe from the weather. He said if you put your hand on the side of a house and you get this chalk coming off, that's lead. Now only very small amounts are added of course. But he said probably 99 % of his cases are from windows. Lead paint was used on outside surfaces and then if a home has been remodeled you may find a surface inside with lead paint because it was originally an outdoor surface(like with our backporch room). But our house is highly unusual because he was shocked to find lead paint on the 3rd floor hallway walls and on the walls and steps etc in the basement. You don't usually find lead paint on indoor surfaces. Guess we're just lucky.
So we will have to move while lead removal specialists come and take care of this. First they notify the landlord of the situation and they have 3 days to reply. Then the landlord has to find a contractor-certified in lead removal-they put in bids, which means they have to come here and examine the place too. Then after they do the work and the cleanup, the place is stringently examined, the samples are submitted to the lab and we wait for the results. If everything comes back ok, them we can move back in. I asked a lot of questions, and the answer I got was that it'll probably take about a month until they get someone to come do the work, and then maybe about 3 weeks to do the work. I asked what's the worst case scenario, and he said 2 months out of the house. That's a loooong time.

I have no idea how the landlord will react to this news. Hopefully they will explain to her that there is no safe way to remove lead paint unless you are a certified professional, so it's not that we did something wrong. But we've known from the start that they cannot throw us out because of this and even if we voluntarily move out, they still have to take care of the lead before someone else can move in.
I don't really know when all this will happen or how long it will actually take-the info above is just estimates. This is just a nightmare as far as I'm concerned. I must now triple mop all floor surfaces (3 buckets so you aren't re-contaminating every time you put the mop back in) clean all window sills at least once a week with the triple bucket method, really scrub the basement steps good and we're supposed to paint with an enamel paint over those steps and the upstairs bedroom and bathroom window wells as a temporary protective measure, and keep the kids off the porch and away from the basement and 3rd floor. Plus wash all their toys. In addition to getting EVERYTHING out of the basement because they are going to have to do the entire floor, and moving everything out of the third floor hallway and computer room into my craft room for storage. And getting ready to move out. I don't know how we are going to do it all.
I don't know if we will just move out temporarily or make it permanent. We can't really afford either one. Our entire lives are up in the air right now. My stomach is in knots all day long. This is just a nightmare. On top of the whole CPS thing. And they don't have the results back yet from the testing the boys all had done last week, so I don't know if Jacob's level has gone up or down or if Justin or Timothy has become elevated again as well.