Contentment

My step-grandfather passed away on Wednesday morning.... for some reason I just didn't feel like mentioning to anyone until last night, can't even say why. He was 92 so it was not unexpected, but for Gord it now means that both his parents are gone and that has to be hard on him. It just makes me think of how it's going to feel when my mom is ( Read more... )

Tristan, Month 4 Newsletter

I can't handle Chloe anymore. She is still peeing, despite every effort I have made, she just won't stop. The only place she pees is in our bedroom, so of course Nick's solution is to just lock the cats out the bedroom and problem solved - except that it's not. Then they scratch at the carpet and meow at the door and do everything to drive me ( Read more... )

My joy at having two vehicles was short lived.... we're going back to having only one car. Some unexpected bills are now going to cost us $1000 extra, and we have to pay through the nose for insurance for it.... So I am going back to being a complete house frau with no wheels. It sucks. I can still drive Nick to work if I want the car though, so ( Read more... )

Suddenly I cam to my senses

It's been busy busy busy around here! I've been doing fall cleaning and organizing like crazy around the house and it's looking great! Now we just have to tackle the basement, I'm scared... there is so much crap down there and I'd like to get rid of stuff before we have to sell ( Read more... )

Spending and the new house

My poor baby is sick again :( He's all lethargic and all he wants to do is sleep, poor little bug. He went to bed at 8:30 last night and didn't wake up until 11:30 this morning! And he fell fast asleep again half an hour ago. So we're back to the doctor again tomorrow morning because he also had some blood in his diaper again this morning... ( Read more... )

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