Wishful Thinking

December is supposed to be a month of wishes. My wish is that we will be in our new house before Christmas, however, it seems like everyday there is a new set back. We are into month 14 of the build! Most builders could've built 2 or 3 houses in this amount of time! Our builder, Dominic, keeps saying that he is trying to have us in by Christmas yet does very little work to get progress made on our house. The tile guy didn't do anything because no one brought him the tile. He does not pick it up, he just installs. The carpet guy didn't order our other flooring because he said he was waiting to get the go-ahead from us!? He knew what point our house was at and said they would order the rest of the stuff last month; now he said is was waiting for us. Dom's old painting crew quit, yet he knew nothing of it until we mentioned it to him. Luckily, he found a new crew and they seem pretty gung-ho. I don't think this wish will be coming true this Christmas!

I just can't stress about the house anymore. It's not doing anyone any good. I've come to terms with the idea of moving in January. The sad thing is that I don't even want to get out all of our Christmas stuff since we are already trying to pack some things up. So this year, we will just hang our stockings and use my parent's tree and house for Christmas.

In other news...we just returned from another trip south. We left Emmy and Azia with my parents so they could still attend school. We shipped Parker and Cardiff out to Fort Macleod to stay with Wayne's parents. All the kids did well and had a good time. The girls got put to work at Subway, doing prep on a couple of afternoons. They were more than happy to "go to work" since they got paid pretty well by Grammy! Parker worked on his Bird Dance and Patty-cake Polka out at Grandma's. Cardiff did well playing with Parker and was well behaved all week. We took Sawyer with us and he travelled so well.

Wayne was the featured musical guest performer for the Festival of Trees "Lights On" Ceremony following the auction of all the items. He performed 2 songs during the ceremony then had about 30 minutes of stage time afterwards. What an honour to be able to do that.

I had fun meeting up with some friends from our days in University housing. Can you believe it has been 4 1/2 years since we moved home? Time truly is flying by! I tried to do some shopping, but the exchange on the Canadian dollar is not as good, so I was a bit choosy on what to purchase.

On our way home, we stopped in Great Falls and picked up all 5 of our kitchen appliances to bring back. I had purchased them in August during a super sale and our dollar was close to par. It was a great deal! We loaded them into a Uhaul truck and brought them back. They now sit in our garage until the house is ready for them.

So with that, I'll leave my Christmas wish for all of you...we wish you all the best in 2009. We wish you happiness, health and many joyous memories. We are so incredibly blessed and even though my wish this year probably won't come true, so many of my other wishes have! I am blessed!