Memory lane | Lessons from my daughter

I woke up this morning to the sound of notes played on the piano

Than I thought, that’s impossible, the piano is buried behind paintings and furniture…

For a second, I was scared that Emily found her way to the piano, this would mean an even messier living room.

Our living room is not always that messy!

Last Friday (9 days ago) I convinced hubby that we should upgrade our bedroom.

After 19 years, I figured we should graduate from college furniture to adult furniture. I felt we were ready to make our bedroom our sanctuary! I just don’t have a plan for our mix match furniture and now it’s in the living room.

Here are some before pictures!

I know, it’s just sad…

Our bedroom was never our priority.

Emily, her therapies, her school, her activities and so much more came first. I picked laughter and travel before furniture.

As long as the mattress was comfortable, I was perfectly happy.

Than some things happened…

Earlier this spring, Emily moved back to her own bedroom. Just like that she was no longer cuddling with me!

A couple of months later, hubby moved from overnight work outside of the house to evening work from home.

In the matter of 3 months, my sleeping pattern changed drastically.

I now fall asleep and wake-up with my husband and I love it. After 19 years together, we needed a bedroom make-over.

It’s a little cozy and we need to put something up on the walls but that’s how it looks now.

So this morning, I woke-up to the sounds of notes played on the piano.

But it wasn’t the piano.

It was Emily playing on a keyboard in her room.

I hopped in the shower and suddenly heard Emily in the washroom.

Mom, I am trying to play Mary had a little lamb.

Me from the shower – By ear or by looking at music sheet?

Emily – With my phone, I googled it. See!

Yes, she opened the shower curtain to show me 🙂

Next I asked if she could take a picture of that and text it to me?

And she did!

Yes, that really happened this morning.

Take that cri du chat syndrome! We can’t limit what Emily will do. She will not be defined by her syndrome, she is herself and she can google music sheet.

I love reading about tiny houses and minimalist living… Sometimes I wish we could do it but than we turn around and buy something else we probably (most certainly) could do without.

A couple of weeks ago, my little brother was visiting with his family. We looked into kayaking which reminded me that we have a waterproof digital camera. I located the camera fairly easily and to our surprise, we found pictures…

This prompted us to locate other cameras and find more treasures and many selfies of Emily and even more pictures of Bratz dolls, American girl dolls and Chipmunks.

Some pictures go as far back as 2008…

Leave it to us, the consumers of too many things and always the newest gadget, we almost lost some precious pictures.

Here are some of my favorites:

Meeting my godson. I loved him instantly and he is now 5!

Our godson’s christening! My girl looking super lovely for the occasion!

Tiny Maple… not so tiny anymore. She’s a big 15lbs and the vet says she should lost 5 of those pounds…

Christmas morning

Bermuda! We stayed at both the Fairmont Hamilton and Fairmont Southampton Princess.

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First time putting her toes in the sand. The video is quite funny…!

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We even got Emily to play in the water! The custom guy didn’t believe we would be in the water in November. We are Canadians, this was summer weather for us and the water was fabulous.

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A trip to Dallas. The girls were so little. We miss our traveling buddies! Bestie, we need to do this again! Well… maybe not Dallas but I am sure we can find somewhere to go with our girls!

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Those crazy “Canadians” again, in the outdoor pool at the Fairmont Dallas in winter… Let’s be honest, winter in Dallas is slightly colder than our summer so this was actually lovely!