Our House in the Middle of Our Street

When you get a sunny day in a Pacific Northwest Fall, you drop everything, go play outside and laugh at your good fortune! We moved into Canada just under a month ago, and I still have the residual feeling of anxiety over what still needs to happen within our family to fully be "here". I haven't blogged nearly at all in that time (boxes were priority, spending time with friends, and our laptop crashing were a few of the reasons) and I realized although I was thinking about blog posts, I wasn't actually writing them. Ahem. We just had a three-day weekend to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving and it was so needed. Just that one extra day made a lot of difference. I unpacked the rest of the boxes while Stefan and the kids went out exploring in the canoe, caught up on some of my TV addictions (Nashville, New Girl), and just felt like I had a few hours to catch up and get my head screwed back on straight, or what my grandpa might have said, 'slowed down those BBs ...

Source: hannahwaldron.co.uk via Sarah on Pinterest In case you hadn't noticed, we've had some difficulty with our computer (re: pictures) lately. Our computer, ahem, 7 years old and counting, had literally .03% memory left...or something. I had over 10,000 pictures on it, and along with our large (and unabashedly divine) mix of itunes songs, it wasn't cutting it. We had to take all our pictures and upload them onto the web (thank you, drop box !) and cut them out of our computer memory so we could go on using this puppy for another couple of years. In the meantime, all the pictures of the kids I uploaded from Picasa...and those are all gone! DOH! While I can remember a few of what was in the looming black boxes all over my blog, I can't remember all of them. I'll twiddle my fingers, insert a few I can remember, and that will be it. Sad, but at least not as sad as having my computer crash and loosing all of them! If anyone knows how to recover such things as lost b...