My Exciting Life

I apologize for the lack of blogging these days. I have a variety of excuses which I will spare you. Anyway. To sum things up, I am 40 weeks pregnant, I still haven’t had the baby, etc, etc, etc. I am officially on maternity leave, starting today, which is awesome. And, I am living in Vancouver now, and have been for about three weeks. I spend my time washing baby clothes, sorting through baby clothes, unpacking my stuff and wrangling the eight animals we have living here. Yes, eight. Luckily, my mom’s house is pretty big so you don’t really notice. There is my brother’s dog Emma (the doberman, she is the same age as Basil), my mom’s dog McCoy (the golden retriever, he is about five) (they are annoying, but we all know I am not a dog person), then there are the cats: Marilyn (who we got when I was 15. She is small, black and white and crazy), Juanita (the alpha animal of the house, a really sweet tortiseshell who invited herself into our house back when I was 17. We kept her–turned out she was pregnant!), Pierre (the orange and white male, one of juanita’s kittens, he can’t stand the drama with the female cats and spends most of his time out in the garage) and Roxy (small, black and white and SHY, the runt of Juanita’s litter, spends all her time on my mom’s bed.) Then there are my cats, Basil, who we all know and love, and Mia (who is technically Joe’s cat, but I have had her for about the last year.) Anyway, add me, Joe, my mom and SOON the baby, and you could make a sitcom out of our living situation. I actually like it though, because it gives me something to do at all times. I was pretty bored at my old house, sitting around, watching tv, sleeping. Here I have animal drama to tend to, projects to work on, people to cook for me, people to talk to…did I mention I have a lot of baby clothes that need sorting? I swear, this girl has more clothes than me. Anyway, I am going to go find something to eat for breakfast and then maybe try and be productive. I leave you with a video of Basil’s first supervised trip into our backyard: