Busy week...long week...emotional week...

I really don't even know where to begin with this post because it's been a LONG week. On Monday morning, a close friend of mine lost her boyfriend. He was 26 years old and he died of a heart attack. That's not right! I shouldn't be watching my friend go through this at such a young age. I ordered flowers for her on Monday because I heard she was actually at home for a little while that day and I wanted her to know I was thinking of her. The flower shop was great - they delivered the flowers within half an hour of me placing the order.

Ron discovered on Tuesday that he blew a brake line in his pick up truck so we obviously had to go get that fixed. Add to this that his work truck was broken into the night before and had to have a window replaced. The girls & I headed over to International to pick him up after work (around 4) and then we had to head back to the shop to get his pick up truck....and THEN head over to his cousin's shop to drop the pick up truck off to get fixed. London isn't a HUGE city but it is big enough that traffic at rush hour SUCKS...not to mention the stupid pot holes. You would think with the amount of property tax we pay (it would honestly make you sick), we would have the best roads in the world!!!! Anyway, by the time we did all of this running around, we didn't get home until 6pm. The girls were a little cranky...and rightfully so. If I had to sit in a car for 2 hours, I would be too! Oh wait - I DID...and I WAS! :)

I went to Toronto for the day on Wednesday with a friend and we saw Dirty Dancing. I really enjoyed it; not sure if it was the show I enjoyed or the fact that I was out of the house for a day. Please don't get me wrong - I love my girls with all my heart but I was ready for a 'Me' day. Stopped at Ikea on the way home and picked up some stuff for the girls. Oma spent the day with Rachel & Natalie and thankfully they were both angels. That's my one fear when I'm away from the girls - I'm not worried about the care they are in...I just worry that they'll have an 'off' day and the people who are watching them will never want to babysit again! ha ha Anyway, Oma had a good day with the girls and I'm sure they enjoyed spending time with her.

Thursday I didn't do much during the day other than take the girls for our morning walk in the wagon (I LOVE the wagon!!!) since Ron had my vehicle. We dropped the girls off at my parents on Thursday night (after we invited ourselves for dinner - ha ha) and then Ron & I headed over to the funeral home. As much as I hate going to funeral homes (as I'm sure everyone does), I realize that it's the right thing to do. It was rough but I knew Friday would be worse. We didn't stay long at the funeral home so we were probably gone for a total of 25 minutes. When we got back to my parents, we could hear Natalie screaming before we even got close to the door. My first thought was 'uh oh....should have brought the bouncy chair'. My parents were obviously not bothered by Natalie screaming but it made me feel bad. Here they are helping us out and yet Natalie screamed 90% of the time we were gone. Good thing she's cute :)

Ron's truck still wasn't ready on Thursday night so he asked his groundsman to pick him up on Friday morning so I could have a vehicle to go to the funeral. The back up plan was to use my Mom's car and have her come over here instead of me dropping the girls off. Wouldn't you know it that Rachel was STILL sleeping at 11:55am and I needed to leave by noon. I packed up the car (including the bouncy chair), packed Natalie up in her carseat and then went to wake Rachel up. God love her - she was sawing logs. I rubbed her back a little bit and called her name a few times. She finally woke up and I literally just lugged her downstairs, threw her coat & shoes on and we were on our way. Thank goodness she's an easy going kid! When I got to my parents, I pretty much just dumped everything off, kissed the girls and I was on my way to the funeral. I got there around 12:15 and the parking lot was almost full (the funeral didn't start until 1). It ended up being such a large funeral that they had to set up another room in the funeral home and pipe the sound in. It was a beautiful service and there was not a dry eye in the house. A few of us went to the reception afterwards so I actually got a chance to talk to Aimee for awhile. I know she has a tough road ahead of her and I reminded her that I have a couple of little ones here who would love to give her cuddles when she needs them.

Today was another busy day...finishing Rachel's room. Sort of. We're getting there but it's not completely done yet. We painted the flowers on the wall so hopefully this week we can finish the room! We went to Rona and purchased the railing for our deck that we built 4 years ago :) We couldn't decide what we wanted to do with the railing so that's why it never got done. I'm excited to get the deck done and get rid of the 'temporary' stairs that we built for our party (also 4 years ago lol).

At any rate, I'm exhausted after such a long and emotional week. Please keep my friend Aimee in your thoughts & prayers...along with her boyfriend's family.