Memory lane, a Fridge and the house countdown

Memory lane, a Fridge and the house countdown, a quick and simple but just as filling look into the life of the Carr’s for week 11

Memory Lane
Having to be in Toronto to do some “home get ready” banking, I was able to turn the ride into a nice little trip down memory lane. Having to be in the east end of Toronto, I was able to go and pick up the “little girl on a corner”, Grandma Elaine and bring her to the Caledon estate for the weekend. I was early and because she lives a couple of doors down from my first school I decided to go for a walk with the girls. Not only was it my first school, but it was also my twin sister’s first school, and the school where my much older sister met her husband.

“See that tree girls, I climbed on it when I was your age” and “that part of the playground was not there, wow it has changed!” I was only there for 3 years, and that was back more than 34 years ago, so my memories are somewhat vague, but after talking about the visit with Debbie and Guy I was able to come up with some names. Like Mr. McGargle, the school janitor, who was always sitting on the pipe that is still coming out of the ground by the middle door. He had a wooden leg, and let us kids bang on it with our hands. Mrs. Fryer was my kindergarten teacher, and I do remember Mrs. Armstrong as my grade 1 teacher. I have driven by the school a lot over the years, but never walked on the long since gone footprints of my past, but sure glad I did it today and had the chance to do it with the girls.

House Countdown
We are 13 days away from getting the keys to our new home and the countdown is on in so many ways. Obviously, we are very excited for the future in our first home and the new memories we will create with friends and family under its’ roof and can’t wait to get started, but the thought of the two week TV reality series style renos we are planning are a little taxing on the brain. We have secured a painter, and that is a load of our minds, but we are still currently planning to do most of the work ourselves. Nathalie does not think it is funny, but I keep saying I have spent a lot of time watching HGTV and TLC, so I am very confident in my ability.

Tooth Update
Well the tooth watch at the Carr house did see a visit of the tooth fairy over last weekend, and we got out of the tooth fairy visit, because it happened during a sleepover visit at the Shea house. It was our change to finally break the $20 dollar pattern, established a bunch of years ago so thanks to the wonder woman for taking care of that for us. We are still keeping an eye on two loose teeth.

Fridge
What is it about your fridge that you love and can’t live without, or what is it that you don’t like about it? Do the shelves move? Does it have the freezer on the bottom?
We have been looking over the last week for all the new appliances and have been going back and forth about the various merits of each of the appliances and each of the features and what it is we need and don’t need. We don’t know if it is going to be black or stainless, or if we are going with Frigidaire or Maytag. The only thing that is clear after all our shopping is we need a fridge with an icemaker and a water dispenser and we can thank the house we are staying at for that. The girls have lived on cups of crushed ice for the last 10 weeks, and I just am not sure how that will go over in the new house if we don’t have a button that will deliver their favourite treat.

In closing
This week was filled with pool time for the girls and computer work for me and I am sure glad the Wi-Fi works under the tree, in the shade outside, allowing me to work and watch the play time. The other thing that surely has caused the shortage of good material for the weekly blog, is that the girls are sleeping too much. Not only is it messing up the story content, but also it is messing up eating patterns. They can’t figure out that when they eat breakfast at noon, that there is NO lunch. Maybe a snack before dinner, but there is no time for lunch.

There might be some time for lunch on the weekend!

Thanks for reading and have a great week.
Jim