B A B Y ---->

"Where's the baby? Y E S S S ! In there, In mom's belly".... Maybe its starting to click a little.... Just in time. O your world is about to change my little love. Just remember I love you. As much as I always have. I tell you so many times a day. I hope you remember.

A n y D a y N o w

Life is beginning to feel a little bit like life again. Agreeing that we did bite off way more than we could chew this summer, we couldn't go backwards so we had to buck up and slug through it. All the things we've have on our heaping, piling, almost debilitating to do list have one by one been picked away at until one sunny afternoon (today) after a sleepless night with a sleepless baby we realized that life has almost become manageable. The time crunch simply being.... before baby...... Finished work for another whole year. Check. Packed and moved out of old house into mother-in-laws house. Check. Moved from mother-in-laws house into new house. Sort-of Check. Have deck completed at lake to stage that can survive winter. Check. Have trashed rental property fixed up and have new tenants move in. Almost- Check. Prepare house, and freezer, and rooms, and have working bathroom before baby arrives. Check. Move all our crap from brother in laws house. Check in progress. Take River for 18mos check up, needles, and then another doctors appointment and hijack sister-in-law for xray (can't expose baby two to radiation) after a fall at fun factory and subsequent ankle injury. Check. And in the past week we've managed to have a few evenings to visit friends which was sooo good... and even a bbq at the neighbours to meet the block. If you ever want to feel young and either unimportant or uneducated, or maybe even slightly boring, move to our street! bahaha... but what nice people. We feel welcome. So as I was saying. We have our second child due in one week now. And he or she has given us the chance to prepare enough to give him or her a home to live in. After a few false alarms meaning my uterus was shouting at me to quit packing so much, this child held off but has decided my bladder is a perfectly good place to hang out. Well started on the decent, baby two has not far to go.... literally..... and I can say that I am finally beginning to feel content, prepared, excited, and nervous...... now that life feels a little bit like life again. I can't really fathom how our life will change. And to be honest, I'm trying not to. River has brought so much joy to my life I am just preparing for the flood gates, of love, emotion and happiness to be opened and to feel things that are amazing.

Opposites Attract?

How can two people have such a raw and opposing reaction to the same thing? I've been thinking about this for the past few days as we had a chaotic weekend road trip to edmonton.

The situation: Clutter in the vehicle. Disarray and "things" touching your elbow. Chris. Blood pressure through the roof, a partially shaking voice in frustration and a disgusted sigh as if one had seen maggots or something truly repulsive....Basically stating that this situation needed to be remedied before we could carry on in any sort of harmony. I think we were looking for something like a pen or a receipt. Me: Not phased in the least, I just lift layer upon layer of mess rummaging through it knowing I will eventually find it and adjust my body position around the crap cluttering us, stick my coffee in the door holder not really bothered or concerned if a little bit spills into the door. And i then I have to laugh, looking at the genuinely horrified look on his face as he prepares to tell me I have to not put my coffee there. I can actually see him visualizing the the drip and mess of my coffee in his door. Somehow although so truly different and seemingly incompatible...... we have something that still works. Still loves..... and when not in the middle of one of "these" moments... laughs about how ridiculously opposite we are sometimes.