Well, in my defense...I HAD updated it but the computer disconnected and everything was lost!  sigh

We stayed!  I'm happy too, cause it's making me realize how much clutter I really do have!  I can't spread out so much here!  What to to talk about first?!

The landlords came to do the walkthrough on Feb 24th...it is actually manditory for them to do it before the end of the first week of tenancy. Well, at least they can't withhold any of the damage deposit when we move...4 days later we had a health inspector come through and he wrote up a report and took lots of pictures.  We called the health inspector because we were very unimpressed with the landlords walkthrough (there are 2 landlords).  Both of them had the tendency to talk out their bum bum, if they didn't know what they were talking about, they tried to appear experts on the matter...for example, the landlord that was in the house the morning we moved in to let the carpet cleaners into the house had specifically said "no" to sanitizing and deodorizing the carpets...the previous tenants had a cat and dog and smoked!  why on earth WOULDN'T you do those things??  Anyhow, this is the landlord that went on and on about how he had kids and wouldn't let anything unhealthy and unsafe stay in the house...he down played every health issue we were concerned about!  the big water damage hole in the bathroom wall...he stuck his finger on the drywall and looked at his finger and said, "no, there's no need to worry about mould...we'll get someone in here to cover that up..."!!!!!!  You get my drift on how "full of integrity" our landlords are....lol

Anyhow, the health inspector wrote up a nice big report that gave them 34 demerits, all the issues listed in the report have to be completed and ready for inspection by 8am March 31st.  I'll be very satisfied as long as most of the items are done and a date is set for the other work to be done.

So that's where that is right now.  We unpacked the homeschool boxes last week and are having fun trying to find enough book shelves to put everything on! LOL  I'm loving it!  But don't want to unpack too much since we still have to paint the interior.  We have Silas' room all done in spiderman theme!  And then the office in the basement is done as well, since we wanted to cover up the swearing and rude little stories that were written all over the walls in permanent ink!!!!  We probably won't paint Shyla's walls since they are pretty pink already!  But the living room needs done and the rec room downstairs along with the illegal bedroom, I mean my sewing room, downstairs!!!  And the bathrooms...but the one is pretty much going to be redone so we'll wait on most of the painting...I'm actually having a lot of fun with the fix-it jobs and choosing paint etc...I've never had the freedom to do this to a rental before! 

My word for the year is discipline, and going through this move and having school put on hold for a couple of months has really taught me how much better we do as a family when there is structure to our days...I've struggled with schedules so much....I hate them, cause I feel like such a failure almost every time!  But I'm learning how to do a schedule that is flexible, it's taken a lot of tweaking, but my mind is finally wrapped around the fact that it really IS ok, not to follow it perfectly!!!  It's a guideline, not a set in stone itinerary...sigh, very hard for my A type personality to get over....hehe

Ministrywise, it's going good!  I'm the leader of our church's nursery and toddler program and other than the lack of helpers, I'm enjoying it, and to be honest, the helpers I DO have are soooo good at filling in for each other!  I even got to sit in the service from start to finish last week!!! WOW!

I'm getting excited about the upcoming Alpha Marriage course we enrolled in!  We have been married for 8.5 yrs and have never had any kind of counselling or been to any marriage builder groups, so this is going to be awesome!  The friday before that starts is the focus on the family After Happily Ever After evening teaching.  This is apparently the year to build our marriage!!  Makes me kind of nervous...is this God preparing us for something disastrous???!!!!!  But then I remembered a prophecy over me concerning us...she saw us counselling other couples, talking with them at our kitchen table....hmmmm, I like that kind of prep better than prep for disaster! LOL

Well, that's the update...any questions?  Did I forget to update anything? lol

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