I’ll be working until May 31st but a couple of my coworkers will be on vacation in the next two weeks so the team I work with took me out for lunch this afternoon. The restaurant was fabulous and the food was delicious.

In addition to the lovely lunch, my coworkers presented me with a beautiful bouquet of flowers, a heart touching card and a generous gift certificate to my favourite local photograpy shop.

One of the lawyers (James) I worked with for almost the full ten years that I’ve been with Justice left the department to start a new job mid March. He joined us for lunch today and it was wonderful to see him. I miss him.

Another lawyer (Holly) that I’ve also worked with for almost the full ten years I’ve worked with Justice gave a speech at the end of lunch. She started to cry in the middle of her speech and that made me cry.

I am truly going to miss all of my coworkers on my team. I refer to them as the dream team. They are some of the friendliest, funniest, kindest, most wonderful bunch of people I have ever had the pleasure of working with!

I am privileged to be leaving a job with such happy memories.

Before our third sleep in our new bed, I went out and bought a new pillow. I don’t know if that’s what did the trick or if it was because I started getting used to the bed but I had a great sleep that night and I’m now fully comfortable on the new mattress. I’m so thankful for that.

I bought new towels and a bath mat set for our ensuite. They seemed to match when I had them in the cart in the store but when I brought everything home and put the items in place, the bath mat set looked too blue! I returned it and have yet to find a better match but right now I’m sick of shopping so I feel like ‘whatever’. I don’t care if I have to go a while without a set. I also bought a new set of sheets and and as I was putting a pillow into one of the pillowcases, the pillowcase tore along the side. That meant another trip back to the store. I phoned ahead and since they had several of the same sheet sets in stock, they were able to exchange the pillowcase without me returning the full set of sheets.

California closets and/or good quality closet organizers are a lot more expensive than we imagined! We are now considering a much less expensive closet solution for the things we keep in dresser drawers and may redo our home office rather than the closet. We bought our home nearly seven years ago and do a little refurnishing, renovating and decorating each year. Our home office is our last room to do. Ken painted the walls last spring so we just need (want) new office furniture.

I’m not crazy about shopping and I’m even less crazy about returning things so I’m looking forward to our nest being fully feathered and the shopping complete.

At work, I discovered that I had some leave that I hadn’t used yet! I put it towards a few days off at the end of my employment so my last day of work is now May 31st instead of June 6th! One of my boys and his family is coming to visit on June 7th so it’s going to be wonderful to have the extra time to prepare for their visit.

And, I’ve discovered something new (new to me). I’ve seen many wonderful journals such as this one: on Pinterest. I’ve repinned some of them. I absolutely love this art and I want to learn how to do it. It reminds me of scrapbooking and I’ve done plenty of that (both paper and digital). I’ve always loved a lot of layering on my pages but I don’t know what kind of journal to use. Are there journals being made for this specific purpose or do people use any kind of a journal type book? Do any of you create these types of journals? How did you get started? If you have any tips or links you could pass along, I would greatly appreciate it.

Have a wonderful week!

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you that are moms! I hope you are enjoying your very special day! I can’t phone my mom or be with her today because she’s in heaven but I am sending her virtual hugs.

This is a picture of my mom holding me when I was a baby.  Happy Mother’s Day, mom. I miss you and I love you so much.

My neck is stiff and my upper back and shoulders are achy. I chalk it up to the last two nights in our new bed. The mattress is more firm than I remembered it being in the store but I’m guessing it’s probably better for our bones than the old bed we were sleeping on. Tonight I’ll try a different pillow and see if that helps.

The bed is tall! The top of the mattress is about 34 inches from the floor (I measured) and I’m about 61 inches ”tall”. I’ll be shopping for for a pretty stool to put on my side of the bed! We can see so much more through our bedroom window than we could from our shorter bed.

There is a ton of room! I don’t know exactly how much more area there is on a king size bed compared to a queen but it feels huge in comparison.

I’m going to look more this weekend but I have yet to find a new bedding set that I like.

Our new bed and night tables was delivered yesterday!  Ken set everything up last night and I love it with the new color of our bedroom wall! The wood pieces match perfectly – the night tables are not as dark as they appear in my photo. We purchased the mattress and box springs from a different store and they will be delivered tomorrow. I can hardly wait to sleep on our brand new bed tomorrow night!