What a week it was last week. I’ll call this post a Weekend Update, but really, it’s an update of my past week.

– Last Monday I had my dentist appointment during which I had gum grafting done. It went really well and was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. I guess that would happen when half of your face on completely frozen. I’m healing up fine, although everything tastes funny because of the prescription mouthwash I have to use. I get the bandages (yes, bandages in ma mouf) and sutures taken out on Wednesday, and hopefully in a couple weeks I’ll be back to eating normal foods again.

– On Tuesday last week it was the 2nd anniversary of my grandma’s passing. I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel that day – I still can’t believe she’s gone – but my mom and I met for lunch and it was in general, a good day. I miss my grandma so much still. :(

– On Friday I decided that it was finally time to take Isla’s soother away from her. (Those with kids will probably know how big of a deal this is!) See, she only got it during naptime and at bedtime, but on Friday afternoon, she had a HUGE meltdown when I wouldn’t let her have her soother. (It normally sits on her dresser and she was motioning towards it as if she wanted it.) After telling her no, she kept having a temper tantrum, so I told Kyle that it was time to take it away and to hide it when she wasn’t looking. She eventually calmed down and the afternoon proceeded as per usual. When bedtime came around, I was really nervous that she was going to freak out for her soother, but I gave her her favourite teddybear instead to have during storytime, and she went down after that with very little fuss. Score! Naptime has been a bigger challenge, but we’re winning; I haven’t given her soother back at all. She even looks up at her dresser and says/asks, “Gone?” so I think she knows that it’s gone. Now if only we can get the ball rolling on potty training …

– That’s all I got. I suppose it’s not much of an update, now is it? :P

{one} On Friday Kyle and I dismantled our bedroom closet for phase 2 of our bedroom painting project. It needs some serious putty work done from the organizers that were hanging; whoever installed them must’ve been high on paint fumes, because the anchors are WAAY overkill. I’m hoping to get it painted tomorrow, but we’ll see. It will happen sometime this week, for sure.

{two} We also watched the Canadian Men’s hockey team take on the USA at the Olympics Friday morning, and I’d hate to rub it in America’s face, but HELL YES! I’m so proud of our boys for winning that game. It was intense and the USA has an extremely good team. I’m actually a little disappointed in the USA for their loss against Finland in the bronze metal game. It’s like the didn’t even try.

{three} On Saturday morning I took part in my first ever Total Barre class! There’s a lovely gal in Kamloops who’s going to soon be teaching Total Barre and she needed a test dummy class to work with, so myself and a handful of others were happy to give it a try! It was a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to potentially taking more classes with her in the future. Who doesn’t want to get to pretend to be a ballerina and get a good workout at the same time? My legs and abs still hurt a little bit today.

{four} We went to Kyle’s mom’s place for dinner Saturday night since his birthday is coming up soon! (Friday!) Anytime I don’t have to cook dinner is a good time, and she made a delicious ham AND chocolate cake for dessert. I call that a win! Yay for birthdays :)

{five} Kyle and I woke up at 3:30 Sunday morning to catch the Olympic gold metal hockey game between Canada and Sweden. We bunkered down in the basement so we didn’t wake up Isla watching the game. With a little coffee, it wasn’t so bad waking up that early to cheer on our country. It was such a good game and I’m SO proud of all our hockey players for bringing home the gold in both men’s and women’s hockey! After the game Kyle made us an awesome breakfast and Isla eventually woke up too. We ended up being super productive in the morning, getting all our errands done before noon! By the time Isla went down for a nap at 1pm, it was time for us to take a power nap too. An hour was enough to refresh my energy and keep going until bedtime.

{six} I always felt so judgey towards the parents who post on Facebook about their kids peeing in the potty, but I had to be a total hypocrite yesterday when Isla actually went in her potty! She toddled towards the bathroom saying, “Pee?” but she’s always just wanted to just sit on her potty and not actually pee. I decided to amuse her, so we went in the bathroom and I took off her diaper, and after about 5 minutes of sitting, she actually went! It’s seriously such a proud moment and I feel so bad now for rolling my eyes at all the other moms who post that milestone on Facebook.

That’s all for today – how was your weekend?

– This past weekend was actually a long weekend in BC, with Family Day falling on Monday. And a bonus was that Kyle took his last night shift off, so we got to spend 4 whole days together! He’s been working a lot of overtime lately, so it was amazing to have him home for 4 days.

– Even better than Kyle having 4 days off was the fact that his last set was his last one working nightshifts forever! He won a bid on a new crew at work so he no longer has to work nights; now it’s just Monday to Thursday, with weekends off. We’re both so happy that there’s no more nightshifts. They are really hard on both of us, more Kyle than myself, so it’s going to be a welcome change. The only thing we joke about is when I’m going to find the time to watch all my garbage TV shows and movies, since I did that a lot while he was on nights, lol. It’s probably a good thing for me.

– We’ve been wanting to repaint our bedroom for a while now and on Saturday we finally decided to get started. It’s still only half done, but we’re happy with the way it’s turning out. At first the paint was looking WAY more mint-coloured than what the swatch looked like, but now that a couple coats have been put on the walls and it has had a chance to dry and cure a bit, we’re happy. I do plan on doing a before and after photo, but here’s a sneaky peek:

That brown detail on the ceiling is also being painted green.

– On Sunday night Kyle and I had tickets to a comedy show! Brent Butt, an awesome Canadian actor and comedian, was in town doing a show promoting his upcoming movie, and we scored 2nd row seats! Kyle’s aunt, uncle and mom also got tickets (although they weren’t seated with us), so we all went out for dinner then down to the show. It was SUPER hilarious and I was in stitches more than once during the night. The coolest part was that Brent did a meet & greet after the show and happily signed autographs and took pictures with whoever wanted to! He signed our ticket stubs for us and I got my photo with him. AND – before the show had started I took a photo of our tickets and posted in on Instagram and Twitter, with Brent tagged in it. I guess he saw the photo because when I passed him our tickets to sign he asked, “Are these the ones you posted on Twitter? I thought you looked familiar!” I. Die.

– My mom kindly took Isla for the night of the, so Kyle and I had a kid-free evening to boot! When we came home, we had grand plans of popping popcorn and watching the new episode of The Walking Dead, but we noticed that the power was out in parts of the neighbourhood. Amazingly, the power was on at our house, so we started to make our popcorn and Kyle started saying, “Sucks to be the neighbours, our power is still –,” and then CLICK, our power went out. So, we ended up sitting on the couch with candles lit, playing Candy Crush and Flappy Bird on our phones. We’re super lame. We eventually just went to bed, and the power came back on just after midnight. Oh well.

– Monday was a lazy day for us since I was feeling like garbage. We went and picked up Isla from my mom’s after grocery shopping and just bummed around the house. We’ve actually been brainstorming a lot about something fun to do in the summer, but are coming up with a lot of “meh” ideas. We’ve talked about waterslides, renting a cabin (we have NO camping gear), going to Calgary, but nothing just screams “DO IT!” to us. Help?

– On Wednesday last week I got a letter in the mail from the Ministry of Justice, and it told me that I had been summoned for jury duty. How lucky am I?! (NOT.) That was actually the second time I’ve been summoned — the first time I was still in school and was able to get out of it because of that reason. This time? A bit trickier since really, I didn’t have a reason that was on the form’s “excuses” list. My only excuse was financial hardship — I don’t have anyone to watch my kid. (I don’t – everyone works and the $10/day you get paid for jury duty if you’re selected doesn’t come close to covering childcare costs). So I submitted my response form and hoped for the best. Today I got an email stating that my reason for being excused was accepted! Woo! Really, if that didn’t work, I was going to bring Isla with me to the jury selection date and note that I’m a blabbermouth with a journalism degree ;)

– I’ll leave you with a photo of Isla with an angel food cake pan over her head. It was sitting on her head like a hat and was super funny, but then her head went through the hole and I panicked a little as I thought it was stuck on her head. It wasn’t, and I was happily not going to me THAT parent in the emergency room.