This Week

Yesterday was crazy. Adessa woke up in the wee hours of the morning puking, and continued until about 11 am. She was so brave. She never complained or cried once, but a few times asked for food right after getting sick. The poor girl went down for a nap for a couple of hours and then woke up completely better and has been fine since! 

At one point I left the three girls on the couch watching a show and went upstairs to go to the bathroom. In a span of a few minutes, Adessa ran upstairs and missed the toilet, puke all over, so Danika starts screaming and then Amara walks into the bathroom sucking on the end of the toilet brush!!! It was a bit of a nightmare! Thankfully Danika stayed home yesterday as she has been fighting a cold and wasn't feeling good in the morning, but she was such a huge help with amara as I was taking care of Adessa. 

Today Danika was back at school, and we had our home visits from both the girls teachers. It is such a great idea, as it helps teachers get to know the kids better. Adessa is so sweet she prepared all morning for her teacher to come visit. She cleaned her room, she got dressed all pretty, made her teacher a card and a bracelet. Then she helped baked cookies and some iced tea. The visit went very well. Her kindergarten teacher is a new teacher, young and so sweet. Adessa just loves her! 

Danika's teacher brought her home from school and she has been teaching for 32 years. she is super sweet and Danika says she is her second favourite teacher so far. I think it will be a great year for my girls. 

Galiano island

On the weekend we worked our butts off on the Saturday to get some more unpacking done and Steve went and bought some shelving for the small storage room we have. I took off in the morning to take Caroline for her birthday present... Pedicures at a little Asian salon I'm Duncan... It was SO fun! Such a lovely break and we laughed our heads off at the massaging chairs. 

But came home to help my hubby with the house. We got quite a bit done, but things are so slow moving with three kids. 

Sunday we went to church and then afterwards we took our boat out for the first time! ( with boat number five!) We went with a little crew of friends and headed to an island where the men dropped us ladies and kids off and they went fishing. They came back with a couple huge ling cod fish and we explored the little paradise island! It was wonderful! 

That evening we came home and put the kids to be early and then made dinner with the fish caught that day and had a date might at home. No tv... Just talking. Just what we needed! 

New house

We have been moved into our new home for 2 weeks today. We are loving the extra space, the location and the size of the yard. It has been insanely hectic however and I feel like right now is the first time I have put up my feet and taken a deep breath... And that is just because I got home from walking Meeko for an hour with a friend! 😜 but I needed out for some fresh air! 

I have unpacked so many boxes it is crazy... And there are still more. But the spaces that count are all unpacked. 

Our moving experience has been something I wanted to document. With our few weeks notice to get out of our home for the new owners move In date, things were a little hectic getting out. I had packed up our home, we had booked a moving van and we asked a few friends for help. But I think I was a bit delirious or something, because I should have flown my mom out or somebody to help me. This was by far our biggest move, and we have three young children. Out of our five moves in our eight years together we have had help for them all... But this time I just didn't think... Or I thought I had it all together. But boy was I wrong! Thankfully I last minute asked our babysitter if Danika and Adessa could sleep there and they happily took them for two nights. So the night before we had to get out we loaded up the uhaul. We got the biggest 4 bedroom house sized uhaul you could get and we filled it to the top.... Twice!!! It is unreal how much stuff we have! The next morning we got up early, packed up the rest and headed to our new home. We arrived and met the landlord from pemberton Holmes realty to do the walk through, as that was the earliest we could get in. She took us around and we were appalled! The place hadn't been cleaned... The floors were filthy, washrooms disgusting... Nothing was done as promised! We were so upset! We had a full uhaul in the driveway and Steve had hired his guys from work for the day to unload, not to mention that we had to be out of our home that day! So we did what we had to and had the guys unload into the dirty house because we had to go back to our house and fill up again and I had to go clean it. We got back and I had a couple of my good friends stop by and help me unload the kitchen which was super helpful! I felt at my wits end at that point so was very thankful for Sharon and Charlene and thankful that my girls were still at Meagan's! 

That evening Meagan's family had us for dinner and offered for us to sleep there, but we wanted to get back to the rental. Steve and I couldn't sleep that night and ended getting up at 4 am to start settling ourselves. It was quite the day! 

Then the girls started school three days after we moved in. My Danika is in grade three already and Adessa is doing three full days of kindergarten a week! Seriously where has the time gone?! They both have been liking their new school and love that they can pray and read bible stories. We are very happy with this new change. They both looked so beautiful on their first day of school, but sadly I didn't even take a picture!