we'd like to report

we'd like to report a successful move. we are exhausted, but extremely happy to be in our new home!

we would also like to report that we have very wonderful friends here... friends who schlepp stuff, pack stuff, babysit, clean stuff, schlepp more stuff, unpack more stuff, & even cook for us.

we have so much for which to be thankful!

now, off to bed.

update on the home front

we are pleased to announce that we have thankfully found a lovely apartment on ahrens street in kitchener. we will be living on the top floor of a victorian house, with a large screened in porch and a huge backyard that we will share with our downstairs neighbours. david has been busily packing & driving loads of boxes & bags to the new house, while i try to organize things & keep mateo busy. we have wonderful friends who come & help, watching mateo, doing dishes, driving loads of stuff to ahrens street... thank you karin & erin! we have rented a 14' u-haul truck for saturday, & david is hoping he will get all of our furniture from columbia to ahrens in one load. david is a master packer. he'll figure it out. i'll be at the new place unpacking & putting things in their new places.

swing by if you're in the area.

pictures to follow.

eating apples or teaching baby to share & failing miserably

makin' musik

photoshoot with papa

sometimes we just like taking pictures.

hunting

over the last 2 weeks, since we discovered that the apartment we were so excited about would not be ready for us in time, we have been scouring kijiji about 1000 times per day, as well as all kinds of other apartment renting websites, the classifieds in the newspaper. we again thought we'd found a place... but that didn't work, either. so now, today, we have basically been calling any random number we see advertised in a window. lucky for mateo, he gets to come along on our hunting adventures, and he is really a very good natured and compliant hunter. we've spent two full days looking at places (i forget the exact number of apartments we've looked at), & sometimes things go more quickly than planned, & then we spend time in coffee shops, which is really the best part of the day. we have to be out of our townhouse by march 31, & we're starting to feel the pinch of necessity a little bit. please pray for us... we want a place where we can feel at home & safe.

today it is spring

today i think it is spring. the sun shines & the snow glistens with melting. mateo & i go outside, he in his baby pouch, tied to me. we swing, & look at birds. & watch the big yellow bus return the school children to their homes. m claps at the sky. we sing together, about the bear and his dog and the three fish he caught; they live on m's shirt. we walk to the mailbox, hoping for interesting letters & packages... receiving only coupons from pizza places where we never eat, as well as (ironically) a brochure for a weightloss clinic where you can "lose all your weight" (really? will i disappear?) & a wholly uninteresting but anxiously awaited t4. now it is time for a snack. we eat air soup out of plastic bowls, fresh & delicious. also we laugh a bit. & grumble. & examine our fingers very carefully. hm... what interesting appendages they are.