Getting Back to Normal

I have to say that I am really glad August is over. It was a crazy month! The bed bug situation basically wiped away the whole month and went on longer than we had hoped for. But now after 4 treatments, hours and hours of extra laundry, living out of garbage bags and our laundry room, and spending over $1500 we are very hopeful that they're finally gone. We've been sleeping in our bedroom again (after being downstairs for a month and a half) and after a few nights with no signs of bugs I think I am confident enough to start moving our clothes and everything else back in. I was holding off because if we brought it all back in and found bugs again, we would have to do everything all over again.

Since we've had this problem I've found it interesting that bed bugs have been in the news a lot lately. Apparently there is an increase in Canada and the US because the bugs are becoming resistant to some of the chemicals that are used to treat them. I think that is all the more reason to be aware of what to look for when you are travelling. It is a costly inconvenience (with both time and money) to have to deal with.

Another thing we dealt with in August was our second vehicle crapping out on us. The transmission in Daniel's Jimmy went one day while I had 2 hours of precious out of the house time. We did some research into vehicles and we decided to get a truck. We want something for our second vehicle that could fit 3 car seats so our options were another van, a larger SUV or a truck. We already have a van and thought it would be nice to have a truck for those times that we need to move something or pick something up. So we are just finalizing a few things but should have one in the next few days.

Another tough part of the summer was Daniel working so much, which is to be expected with his job, but this year seemed harder. It could have been the fact that the kids have been going through a stage of fighting, whining, crying more than usual so that made it tougher to have him not home as much.

A good thing that we celebrated in August was my parents' 40th anniversary. It was pretty low key but nice to get together with everyone. We had the party on the 28th which was also Daniel's birthday, but their actual anniversary was on September 5th - the same day as the kids birthday.


Grandma, Great Grandma and Casey

G & G with all eight of their grandchildren. And that's it...they're not getting anymore!

Our kids have a major shoe fetish, especially Mitchell! They must have thought they were in heaven with all of the shoes in the entrance because we always keep ours in the closet. Maggie had on Grandpa's shoes and Mitchell was walking really quite well in someones heels.



On a totally different note, this is what can happen if Daniel and the kids are left with some free time and a basket of unfolded laundry.