The Month of May: a New Home, Lots of Illness, and a Time of Celebration

"Rose House" c. J.L. 2010

     May has come and gone already! This year feels like it is moving so quickly, and May was an especially busy and fast moving month. On the first weekend of May found and bought our house! We had only been looking for a week and had seen nine or ten. We saw our home at an Open House, put in an offer that night, counter-offered back and forth Sunday, and signed Sunday night or Monday. The rest of May has been busy with:

-House business calls and paper-work (lawyers, bank, switching Hydro and gas, booking duct cleaning etc,)

-House decor and furniture shopping (picking paint colours, searching kijiji for basement furnishings, trip to Ikea, etc)

-Lots of sickness: first experience with toddler vomit, a night at the ER thinking Theo had a concussion (turned out to be a stomach virus), family bout of a stomach illness or the flu, Roseola Infantum, and a cold.

-Mother's Day: lunch out, family time at the park, beautiful flowers, a card coloured by my baby boy, and the wonderful discovery of Downton Abbey (I received the first season as a gift, went and bought the next season a couple days later! So hard to stop watching!) 

So addicting!

-Our 4th wedding anniversary: a full day of celebrations starting with flowers on the breakfast table. I made blueberry coffee cake for breakfast and we exchanged gifts in the morning. David gave me a canvas print of a photo from our honeymoon! In the evening my parents baby sat for us and we had dinner at the restaurant where David took me the day he proposed. Then we ended the evening at Marble slab for dessert. 

David took this photo on our honeymoon in Paris.This is in the Opera Garnier (the Opera house where the novel _The Phantom of the Opera_ was set, and where the movie was filmed)

   What a busy month! And June is already starting in a whirlwind. We get possession tomorrow! The next few weeks will be full of painting, moving, Father's Day, David's birthday, and, of course, lots of every day fun and hugs and kisses with my little guy. 

    Not sure if I'll be writing again anytime soon, so I'm wishing you all a wonderful month!

           -J.L.