Shea and I were cleaning out the basement today and came across the note I’d sent her mom acknowledging receipt of a damage deposit before Shea moved into a condo my family owned by U of R.
I always joke that Shea couldn’t pay her rent one month and next thing I knew, we were married! 😉 But the reality is that we were pretty lucky to get to live together and know each other as friends before friends turned to something more.
Another ongoing joke is that Shea’s mom still doesn’t know when we started dating because of how that transition happened! I can now confirm it was sometime after May 19, 1997!
Oh, and a very cool coincidence – ten years to the day after this note is dated – May 19, 2007 – is when Pace was born!
If, like me, you’re not quite ready to let Christmas go for another year, here’s a video medley of a bunch of different Christmas songs (bonus for the number of UK-centric Christmas songs that are a bit less well known on this side of the pond):
This is an interesting way to determine the best book of the year – see which book(s) made the most “Best of” lists? (Kind of like using Google PageRank algorithm but for book lists!) Of course the book on the most lists is one I hadn’t heard of – bad librarian, bad!
In my own defense, I have read many of the others that were on multiple lists – “The Fault in Our Stars”, “Gone Girl”, “Beyond the Beautiful Forevers”, etc.
Shea and I got to find out the sex of our baby at the same time our parents did earlier tonight.
During our last ultrasound, we got the tech to put the sex of the baby in a sealed envelope then handed that to a trusted friend along with a blue and pink jumper and instructions to wrap the right one! Then Shea, Pace & I opened that very special present together on Christmas Eve along with the rest of our family.
Video to follow once I figure out how to edit out Pace’s tantrum when he realises he’s going to have a sister instead of a brother! 😉
