Monday, May 17, 2010

Miss Independent



This weekend marked the end of the second week since Mike left. It also marked the end of my moping. When Mike first left Luna and I looked like this:


And we had a week of feeling sorry for ourselves. Then we decided it was time to get on with it.

Saturday morning I woke up at 7:30 am and ran 8 miles. Thanks Ali!! I was physically exhausted but really motivated to get things done. So I drank a pot of coffee and I started to clean. And this is when I realized how dirty our house had become! Saturday and Sunday I cleaned the entire house top to bottom. I did laundry and I bought a cabinet to contain our various bathroom paraphenelia. It was during a trip to the laundry room in the basement when I met my new friend little mousie. He crawled out from under the washing machine and I shrieked just like they do in the movies. Long story short I managed to corral it and take it outside. Just goes to show that you can do things you never thought you could when you have to.
Luna was upstairs during my shrieking episode looking like this:





What a great guard dog.

Sunday night I opened the box the cabinet came in and took out all of the pieces. This is what I had :


Two hours and some sore fingers later I had this:


I built a cabinet all by myself :-)

Sunday, May 9, 2010

April

April was very busy for us. Mike surprised me after a two month trip by coming home a day early (April Fool's!) He left again on May 2nd. We spent April making the most of spring in Europe and our limited time together :-)



Luna and her Daddy watching the swans at the lake

Fetch!


Luna wants to join in everything her parents do

nap time

Cliffs of Moher - our trip to Ireland

workaholic!

near Killarney


Ring of Kerry stop

overnight ferry - one of the many modes of transportation we used to get back after the volcano eruption


resting at the Keukenhof in Holland

1st family picture