{"id":643,"date":"2006-05-21T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2013-03-19T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:06:13","slug":"welcome-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Mat"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week introduced us to two new people. Well\u2026 the newest one we have yet to meet: Cordelia <\/b>arrived in the wee hours Friday May 19th in time for the long weekend. We\u2019re hoping to get over to see her today or tomorrow. And the other is newish since it took us six months to get our schedules in the same direction. We finally got to meet Joshua<\/b>, son of one our friends, Maryellen<\/a>. He\u2019s six months old, and quite an alright little dude.<\/h3>\n

he said<\/h2>\n

As mentioned, last Sunday we went and saw Hawksley Workman<\/a> at the Aoelian Hall<\/a> here in London. I have to be honest I didn\u2019t really know that much about him until Matthew lent<\/i> me some of his albums. And when Danielle\u2019s younger sister Chantelle told me how his song \u201cJealous of Your Cigarette\u201d was part of her rolling soundtrack when she was giving up \u2018the smoke\u2019. Never had seen him live, and I didn\u2019t know all of his songs\u2026 just knew he did an amazing cover of The Joy Division<\/a>\u2019s, Love Will Tear Us Apart\u201d. Well, after seeing him, I would totally go see him again. And especially at that venue. Cool little place. At any rate, he gave us three encores, and some of the most hilarious asides in between songs that were almost more worth hearing than his amazing songs. A great, show.<\/p>\n

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And, as mentioned, we did get to meet Joshua this weekend. We had Mare and Josh down Friday night and got to hang out until later in the afternoon yesterday,\u00a0 before she hopped a train back to Toronto. It was nice to see Mare again as we haven\u2019t in a long time. We caught up, we relaxed. And we watched some movies. I know Mare is having a hard time as a single parent, but Danielle and I both think she is doing a wonderful job, as Josh is evidence. It was a wonderful visit, though it flew by too quickly, but really good to have them here. And just as good to have her in the house and to see friendly smiles. And a few<\/i> laughs.<\/p>\n

So here I am, in the midst of a long weekend, with a whole other day off yet<\/b>, before I tumble into the work week. Which is glorious I tells ya!! So, I leave you with some things my camera phone has seen and keeps forgetting to share with all y\u2019all. Don\u2019t hate the playah, hate the phone\u2026<\/p>\n

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she said<\/h2>\n

As John mentioned the long (REALLY long if you ask the new mommy) awaited newest McFadden arrived. Cordelia Lorraine arrived on May 19th. As requested Cordelia was kind to her mommy, unlike the labour and delivery of Paige this was a much better experience. 5 hours\u2026 5 pushes\u2026 and a new little one arrived. We can not wait to meet her – as evidenced by Paige, those two make some pretty darn cute kids.<\/p>\n

It was amazing to have another baby in the house – Josh was an absolute joy to have. He is a snuggle bum which helped with the clock ticking inside me<\/i>.\u00a0 He is incredibly cute. Oh yeah and Mare was here too. Hahahahaha. It was so amazing seeing her after all this time and being able to talk face to face\u2026 to share the day-to-day struggles and triumphs of our lives over the last year was incredible.<\/p>\n

And the car was barely in park before John started \u2018exploring\u2019 more behind the walls of the bathroom and tearing out the floor. We have to get a start soon on the demo – the cabinets are going to take about 6-8 weeks which may seem like a long time but considering we are doing the tear-out ourselves at nights and on weekends and that we have to get the electrical, heating and plumbing rerun as well as drywall framed and up before that time\u2026 Oh yeah and the floor in the kitchen needs to be tiled before then too! So we have a few, long weeks ahead. Did we mention that we have not finalized the schedule or tradespeople yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week introduced us to two new people. Well\u2026 the newest one we have yet to meet: Cordelia arrived in the wee hours Friday May 19th in time for the long weekend. We\u2019re hoping to get over to see her today or tomorrow. And the other is newish since it took us six months to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[21,119,23,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}