Big News!

My best friend tried for three years to get pregnant with her daughter and needed some medical intervention in order to do so. After G. was born, Tanya and her husband enjoyed life as a family of three and decided that they did not want to pursue any other fertility treatment to have a second child.
Long story short...
Eight years later, my amazing best friend is PREGNANT without any medical intervention!!!!! I have been keeping this under wraps for the past eight weeks or so and it has been KILLING me!! Today, she had her first BIG ultrasound (12 weeks and 2 days) and it revealed a beautiful, active, and very cute baby swimming around inside of her. How miraculous is that? Honestly, if you didn't believe in miracles before, how can you deny this?

 

I am beyond thrilled for you, Tanya, and I can't wait to share this journey with you...again!!!  Congratulations!!

Anatomy of a Renovation

Dusty Sub-Floor

 

The beginnings...my job was to lay out the pieces in a pattern I liked.

 

 

I am not someone who likes the house to be in this kind of disorder.

 

K2 and his brother working hard at close to midnight!

 

Thanks to my dad and K2's brother, we only have a few more boards to put down!  What a difference hardwood makes.  I can't wait for it to be all done!

Hardwood Slumdog Milkshake

K2 and I have been talking about ripping up the carpet in our great room/foyer for the past 8 years.  When we built the house, the builder wanted to charge $4000 to install his not-so-pretty hardwood and we just couldn't justify spening that amount on top of the costs of a new house.  So, we started a little hardwood fund and even though we have been able to purchase hardwood for a few years now, we just couldn't find one that we wanted at the price we had set our hearts on.  However, two weeks ago, we found the hardwood that we have loved for so long at 20% off.  In addition, the Canadian government is offering families a 15% tax break on all home renovations completed in 2009.  So with 35% coming off of the total price, how could we NOT jump?  The bad news?  This is what my kitchen/great room looks like this morning. It will stay like this until Thursday when K2 and his brother begin to install it.

 

Last night, K2 and I ventured out for a Saturday night "date night".  We went to the movies to see "Slumdog Millionaire".  If you haven't seen this movie, you must.  I wasn't keen on sitting in a theater watching something that was rumored to be quite sad, but it is so much more than that.  Honestly, go.

On the way home, K2 and I were discussing the movie and the ramifications of orphans living in India and elsewhere in the world, when all of a sudden, K2 turned the radio up high enough so that I couldn't hear myself think.  Now, to set the stage, K2's favorite music (or so I thought) is U2 and Depeche Mode, so when I heard this song being cranked and belted out by him, I just about lost my theater popcorn. Even after 16 years of knowing my husband, I still find out new things about him.  I guess that's a good thing.

Nothing

I have nothing to say.  Honestly, how much more can I write about Bear, about what K2 and I are up to on the weekends, and about teaching? 

Under Construction

I'm playing with templates.  Be patient with me.

Birthday Wishes!

Interesting Turn of Events

Or...why I have had to move my blog.

I had mentioned just this past week, that I suspected that someone at work had been tampering with my laptop there.  Each night, before I leave work to come home, I log out of my computer.  However, this past week, I came into work to find that my computer had been turned completely off.  I never turn it off and only log out each night.  The thing is, I don't typically log out of my gmail and forums.

I mentioned it to one of my co-workers (whom I trust), to my husband and to my brother the other night.  No one really believed that it could be happening and no one really thought that much about it.  Fast forward to Friday night when I was checking my stat counter (something I rarely do) and saw that someone from the sch.ool boa.rd had been going through my archives.  Our sch.ool boar.d has a very distinct server and there is no mistaking it on a stat counter.  So, it is now completely obvious that not only has my computer been broken into, but whomever has done it has accessed all of my personal information.  Nice, eh?  And I teach in a Cath*olic Sch*ool.  Do unto others?  Right.