DAILY SNACK
After a solid week of two sick kids,
We got to enjoy a relatively healthy Easter weekend.
Then BAM!
It’s 2am, of course, and Colum is calling out in a panic.
He’s burning up and we practically have to pry his mouth open to get him to take some Tylenol.
He winds up spending most of his near-sleepless night in bed with us.
Which is great because I just got Irene to stop coming in at 5am.
All day long, my boy is burning up.
And groggy and lethargic.
And Irene is needing to get out,
Both running around wildly and demanding to be held.
It was easily one of the most exhausting days of my life.
PLUS.
It was the day we were supposed to close on our first-ever house.
But then the tenants didn’t vacate on time,
So the date got bumped forward two days.
UNTIL.
They did move out just in the nick of time and the keys were dropped off at 4:30pm.
At the lawyers office in Markham,
Which is a good one and a half hour drive in rush hour,
Which I know because I did it the day before to sign the papers.
But wait!
Our lovely and talented real estate agent picked up the keys and delivered them to Ed,
Who in turn arranged for someone to sit with the kids after they went down.
So we got to see our home together.
And it needs a lot of work.
It is in serious disprepair.
I knew that.
So it’s hard to believe,
How much I love it.
I mean, LOVE-love.
All we could see was potential and character and our family growing up there.
And it’s ours.