Love, Michelle

It takes a lot of work to make it look this good.

  

For three years I have wanted our house to look this way. And now it does, right in time to sell. But I have to say it took A LOT more work to get here than I would have guessed!

My February

For a while I have been thinking about pulling together all my facebook status updates into one place. I update my status regularly and have often thought that those updates were a pretty good description of my everyday.

Based on those status updates my February can be summarized as follows:

Ethan and I were both sick. Really, really sick. I wanted to be skiing but I was too sick for that. Ethan and I spent lots of time playing. The dance parties and playing outside were the most popular. Aubrey went bison hunting and now our freezer (and bellies) is filled with bison. There was a lot of work emptying out the house, and a little bit of knitting too.

My very favorite is from February 17. That is really the story of my life these days. I don't always get to spend the time with Ethan that I'd like, but we make do and make it work.

Feb 1 – Michelle is beyond happy to be spending tomorrow at home with Ethan. 9:45pm

Feb 3 – Michelle is home with a sick kid. 10:48am

 

Feb 3 – Michelle is trying to balance work and a sick boy. 7:24 pm

 

Feb 4 – Michelle is now trying to balance being sick, having a sick boy, work and no sleep.

 

Feb 4 – Michelle is trying to make sense of this knitting pattern with a sick, foggy head. 7:52pm

Feb 5 – Michelle and Ethan are both home sick. 10:14am

 

Feb 5 – Michelle and Ethan are still sick and feeling miserable. 7:40 pm

 

Feb 6 – Michelle is miserable and sick and wide awake while everyone else is off in dreamland. 4:18am

 

Feb 6 – Michelle and Ethan are on their own again this weekend while Aubrey goes to find a bison. 2:40pm

 

Feb 6 – Michelle and Ethan had a little pre-bedtime dance party. 9:11pm

 

Feb 7 – Michelle is home alone with Ethan who is busy perfecting the temper tantrum. 9:01am

Feb 7 – Michelle and Ethan are still sick and now watching movies. 10:38am

Feb 7 – Michelle is glad that Aubrey and friends got a bison (and no falling through the ice this time, either). 8:18pm

Feb 8 – Michelle is very glad that Ethan is tucked into his own bed, sound asleep. 9:47pm

Feb 10 – Michelle is still recovering. 3:08pm

Feb 12 – Michelle is looking forward to a relaxing weekend filled with cooking, baking and hanging out with sweet baby Ethan. 2:23pm

Feb 13 – Michelle wonders if any of her other Yukon friends were rocking out to living on a prayer on the drive to work this morning. Johnny used to work on the docks... 8:41am

 

Feb 13 – Michelle is ready to be healthy again so she can get out skiing. 12:17pm

Feb 13 – Michelle is heading home to hang out with her boys and think about caking baking and pompom making. 4:20pm

Feb 14 – Michelle had such a great day with Ethan. 10:00pm

Feb 15 – Michelle would like a vacation. 5:11pm

Feb 16 – Michelle is skiing at lunch today. It's not a tropical vacation, but it will do. 9:34am

Feb 16 – Michelle loves Ethan and Aubrey. 7:46pm

Feb 17 – Michelle wishes she could spend all day playing outside with Ethan. 9:00am

 

Feb 17 – Michelle spent all evening playing outside with Ethan. 8:41pm

Feb 18 – Michelle is surprised at how big the downstairs bedroom is now that all the crap is out of it. 8:34pm

Feb 19 – Michelle thinks we really could live with a quarter of our stuff. 9:23 am

Feb 21 – Michelle is going rendezvousing this afternoon with Ethan while Aubrey hits the slopes. 10:06am

Feb 22 – Michelle thinks house parties with live bands and disco balls in the living room are pretty fun. 1:32pm

Feb 22 – Michelle is the mama of a wild little monkey who is mastering the art of climbing, balancing and swinging with one arm. Oh, and playing chase with his mama. 7:55pm

Feb 23 – Michelle is a mama. I brought my diaper bag to work today (on purpose). 9:25am

Feb 24 – Michelle had a hard time getting out of the house this morning because Ethan wanted to brush my hair. 8:50am

Feb 25 – Michelle has the day off and is happy to be spending it with Ethan. 9:19am

Feb 25 – Michelle and Ethan had a wonderful, busy day: playing, naps, groceries, playground, ski, dinner with Shona, cooking for the meal swap. I love days off. 9:16pm

Feb 26 – Michelle finished her soup and it is tasty but not as pretty as Paul's soup. 8:55am

Feb 27 – Michelle forgot that CBC radio 2 is cool now. 9:31pm

We've been busy

We are busy getting our house ready to put on the market. There has been a great deal of moving things out to storage where they will live for more than a year. There has been some serious reorganizing of our space. Ethan now lives downstairs! I know, I can hardly believe it either (and no, he is still not sleeping through the night which means mama treks up and down the stairs several times each night). And there has been a little bit of cleaning. We're hoping to recruit some professionals to help us on this one!

Our house is looking and feeling amazing. I have not missed one thing we've put into storage yet. Well, except for the blender I had to borrow from Marisa for my meal swap cooking. Oh, and the dog brush we also borrowed from Marisa. But nothing else! Just a blender and a dog brush. No big deal.

Next step: cabin in the woods!

(Oh, and our computer is living under Aubrey's desk at work so I might be short photos for just a little while!)

Is it just me or are there are lot of exclamation marks! in this post!