The Nelson Narrative

A few months ago we moved Olivia out of their shared room (now just Kayley's room) and into her own room that was formerly our office/guest room.  So far, we have painted the room a sea green color and purchased another dresser, a bookshelf (that we have yet to put together) and two nightstands (one for each room.  They never had one before because there wasn't room). Her picture of a lemur for her African animal project at school We're going to replace this dollhouse/bookshelf with a more grown-up bookshelf (the aforementioned one that we bought and haven't put together yet) and we'll eventually put a desk here Olivia kept the same bed but Kayley traded hers in for what was formerly the guest bed, moving up from a twin to a full and thus getting all new bedding (and a new frame).  We offered to get Olivia a full also but she is happy with her twin for now, but we did get her new bedding as well. New bed frame and bedding ...

Last Friday, the 13th, was our 10th anniversary!  It sure does fly by.  We took that day off and took the Victoria Clipper from Seattle to Victoria, B.C. for the weekend while my Dad and stepmom graciously watched the girls for us.  We stayed at our timeshare in Seattle (WorldMark--they are all over, not just Seattle) Thursday night so we'd be close because we had to be at the Clipper pretty early, so all together we had 3 blissful kid-free nights!  That is the most we've ever had at one time, other than once or twice when the girls have gone to Crescent Bar with Paul's parents for like 4 nights but we were working during the day so it's wasn't really the same. We got there around 10:30 on Friday and it was too early to check in so we just dropped our luggage off at our hotel (WorldMark again) and went to lunch and then took a bus to the world famous Butchart Gardens.      ...