the candid files

Things are going well, I think. Brittni’s been home for a week now, and things are getting back to normal. She’s crabby. At least now she has a good excuse – breaking your back and then having to experience withdrawal from a lot of heavy-duty painkillers would make anyone crabby.

Laura, Tamara, Justine and I went bridesmaid shoe shopping yesterday. It took about four hours and approximately six shoe stores and we ended up (of course) buying four pairs of the first style we saw. Brittni, for obvious reasons, couldn’t come, but fortunately she doesn’t think the shoes we picked for her are that ugly.

After the shoe shopping we headed back to Justine’s place where I was “suprised” by a whole crowd of my aunts and cousins. They had a lovely shower for me – it was a lot of fun and they all gave me great gifts, woohoo! At this stage our basement is beginning to look a little crowded where we’ve been slowly accumulating “stuff” for the last six months or so. But last night we went and picked up the key to our new apartment and we’ll start moving some things in in the next couple weeks. The idea of moving makes me kind of exhausted!

God graciously gave us another gift last week through a lovely co-worker. She has a piano that needs a home for a few years – I offered to “store” it for her. So she gets a free home for it, and I get a free instrument to use for a while. I really didn’t know what I was going to do – I can’t justify buying a piano right now, but I really didn’t want to drive down to Mom and Dad’s every time I need to practice. So this is an amazing opportunity. Apparently our landlord’s oldest kid (he’s going into grade 1) is really excited that there will be a piano in the apartment. I guess he’s fascinated by pianos. Pretty cute.

The invitations are going in the mail tomorrow. This weekend has gone so fast – I can’t believe it’s Monday tomorrow, again. But, only six more Mondays of work before the wedding. Eight more Mondays in total!