Here are a few pictures of the girls that I took on Sunday. They are growing up so quickly. Violet will be 4 months on Sunday. She loves her big sister so much.

A TALE OF DISCRIMINATION...

There once was a mother who wanted for her baby a beautiful laugh and learn home (in French of course). While surfing one night to her delight a deal at Sears she did find. "Hooray, Hooray" she exclaimed. Up the stairs she went, as quick as could be to call for a Sears delivery. To her dismay the man on the phone would say "I'm sorry the french one on sale...no way". "Why, Why?" cried the mother, "'tis toy discrimination, I say". Back down the stairs she went, her energy almost spent...to write a letter of complaint. A look in her in box the very next morning, revealed a reply, she thought she would faint. However, again to her dismay the email thanked her for her comments and that someone would get in touch ASAP. Patiently the mother waited as the days went by. Monday...Tuesday...Wednesday...Thursday...still no reply. Now annoyed the mother did call and to Sears she did cry:

"Toy discrimination, toy discrimination!"

The lady on the phone, cried "toy discrimination, not here at Sears? What an abomination!" What a dear soul, did what the man could not do, and gave a deal on the toy (in french) to the now exasperated mother. "Thank you and thank you" said the mother "My child will have a Christmas gift because of you".

That's the end of my tale. And true once again, is that the customer is always right.

I QUIT!!!

I quit being a mom and a wife. Ok, well not really but I really. really want a break. We've been doing some light renos since moving in. My last project before the holidays was the livingroom. After three weeks (not a weekend like planned for) it is finally painted. I've hardly stepped foot in the living during this project. Dan has been in charge of getting things done while I take care of the girls. I could tell he was pretty tired last night but wanted to get the painting done so I told him I would clean the livingroom in the morning. It turns out that he hadn't bothered cleaning anything as he was working on the livingroom. Sure there was plastic down on the floor to protect them, but drywall dust had accumulated under it. He didn't bother covering up the piano (so I have no clue how it will ever get clean), and didn't do a good job covering the now-encrusted-with-drywall dust-couches. Now I love my husband, I love that he would work so hard to red0 the living room for me, I just wished he paid attention to the little details. I was so mad this morning while I trying to clean the mess --spent 2 1/2 hours and it's still disgusting--that if I had had the van I would've packed the girls up and gone to my cousin's house for the weekend, leaving a note for dan to call me when the mess has been cleaned up. I was just super annoyed (can you tell). There shouldn't have been any dust since I bought a special sponge-sander that if wet creates no dust....however he apparently opted not to wet it. GRRRR. I just had to vent. I was upstairs in tears because I couldn't get things cleaned and frustrated that it was preventable. I'm not sure this is the best forum to vent my anger but i think it worked...

So otherwise I haven't updated my blog in over two months...point form here's what's been going on....

1. We made the far move to Northern Ontario. I like my house...it will be better when it's up to my standards for decor (not some 80 yr old couple's standard)

2. Emmy had a hard time adjusting to the move, we experienced a ton of temper tantrums at first. Things are getting better with her, although we're still in the midst of the terrible twos.

3. Violet-Grace is growing. She's a much shorted baby than Emma-Rose was. She's such a joy. She pretty much sleeps through the night now, which is wonderful. (emmy didn't sleep through the night until she was almost 1 1/2). V-G rolled over last week. She loves rolling over. She's also a giggler. I LOVE hearing her giggle.

4. As soon as the living gets cleaned up, the Christmas decorations will go up. Hooray!

5. We've found a church. It's a small church plant...but very welcoming. I've even made friends! YEAH!

6. We bought the appliances that were in the house, since we thought it was the easiest thing to do. Our fridge died a couple of weeks ago and we had to replace it and seeing as we were replacing the fridge we figured it would be a good time to replace the stove since you could only use one burner at a time, with a wooden spoon or else you'd get shocked (and pretty badly too). Now we have nice white appliances as opposed to gross almond-brown ones.

7. I discovered a no-bake toblerone cheesecake recipe. That's definitely a highlight. Yummy!

8. As recommended by Kayla I bought the book The velveteen mommy. I'm halfway through....it's so good!

9. I really wanted to make it to 10, but I need to get some lunch before the violet decides she wants lunch. That and I have nothing else to say.