One more week and yours truly is 32! I am actually excited about getting another year older. For some reason 30’s feels like a great place to be right now. I am not sure how much we have planned or can afford to plan but I have a friend coming over Friday and hopefully the basement will be organized. The kids have decided they want to make me something… which will be VERY interesting. I have found a box of random craft supplies that I am letting them dig through and go at it.

Craft time with the table where we want it

We set up Echo’s high chair finally yesterday. Actually, it is one of two that we originally bought for the twins! The other is at my mom’s house for use there. She is the 5th child to use the chair and it still is basically as good as new! She is such a tiny thing in it, but so happy to have her tray and be up so high and able to see what everyone is doing. With how accomplished she is now with crawling forward any place you can put her where she will be HAPPY and CONTAINED for a period of time, however brief is a God send.

We are coming to the end of the stuff upstairs… Trinity’s room is tricky – she just has SO MUCH STUFF! I found the box of IKEA brand tea dishes and put those away in the closet with her kitchen set which meant a major rearrange. As it is her bed is in pieces since we pilfered pieces for Echo’s crib. So there is ANOTHER baggy with some screws etc. that we need to hunt down for her bed. Of course it meant it was TEA PARTY TIME today!

I have found SOME of the containers of maternity clothes I have used over the pregnancies… the goal is to find ALL of it and then sort to size and then… Kijiji. I figure it is worth a try though some of my pieces are way too old to be included, I do have some really nice items… a pretty dress shirt I wore maybe 2 times for choir occasions, and a comfortable sweater I got from Old Navy…

One of the bonuses of moving – you find items  you forgot about or lost. Tonight we are enjoying an item I had packed early on so as not to lose it – Grenada Hot Chocolate courtesy of Esther. It is quite the process. You drop one of the balls into water and bring it to a boil, boil for 5 min, strain and add the milk and sugar (AFTER I measured out the milk for our pudding AND for our special drink TOMORROW night… Monday we need to buy more for sure!). We even had some mini marshmallows that are on their way to hard but perfect for hot chocolate.

It is Father’s Day tomorrow and the plan is a simple one – Ken sleeps in, gets pancakes, plays with the kids, relaxes and of course plays computer games in the evening. No beer, but nothing is perfect. I think he is looking forward to it!

Daddy and baby

I am so excited, today I unearthed and shelved the bulk of my Manga collection! It is fun to get out the things I love again. Makes it home.

So hard to believe we have been here 2 weeks, but at the same time it feels like home and like we could happily be here for some time. I am really hopeful that this week we will get out and see something special in our new city!

7 of 9 From Star Trek Voyager... today's best (according to Ken and myself) of the images shared by Chris and Chris from Comic-Con. I am totally committed to going next year... with a SET budget!