1. Easter was different this year. First it was the first time I felt anything on Good Friday, and so I felt more Joy at the Easter vigil than I have before. Also, during the prayers of the faithful there was the most beautiful Freudian slip. “May the Lord eliminate…illuminate the minds of our world leaders.” My mother and I couldn’t stop giggling, oh well we shouldn’t feel bad, laughter is a form of great joy 
Then Easter Sunday was different because DH was working. He was not originally scheduled but traded shifts to work Easter Sunday so he could play paintball on Good Friday. 
I was not impressed, and was rather cranky all Easter Sunday as a result of being home alone with the baby. I didn’t really get to do any Easter stuff until dinner that night.
Here are some of my photos from Easter:
I did try to take Easter photos of the baby, but he doesn’t sit still like he used to now that he can crawl!
2. We’re moving. It’s a bit of a long story.
When we started out it was just the two of us, at the time both bringing in good money, but then I stopped working as much, we had a baby and our rent went up. So, for a while it seems that we must have been slowly depleting the money in our account each month, but we didn’t notice. Then in January my job contract ended and we were out an additional $600 a month. We’ve made some cuts in our spending but we’re literally scraping the bottom of the barrel now. Moving elsewhere would save us a lot of money.
I have mixed feelings about leaving, it will be great to be able to have some extra money for emergencies, fun things and to be able to SAVE (this has nothing to do with greed, it’s not healthy living paycheck to paycheck with no plan in place for the future) but this was our first place together and I will be very sad to leave. Ahhh.. I know I know, this will be a chance for me to exercise detachment, (but it still won’t be fun!).
3. Part of why I was quite keen on this change was because originally when we discussed moving, the plan was to move into DH’s grandparents’ house in Blandford. It’s right on the water and it’s a beautiful spot. It is a dream of both of ours (and my mom too!) that we live there someday and I thought if God was telling me it was time then I better accept the blessing and go along with it.
The trouble is that DH’s parents have joint ownership with his cousin. Thus, we need permission before we can move there. We are still waiting to hear back on that front, and now it’s looking like even if we get the ok, we won’t be going for a year or two. Then, God having closed that door again for now, (after only opening it a crack) opened a different kind of window:
4. Saturday night, DH came home from his parents after the Easter Vigil and dropped this bombshell: “My mom said we could move in with them.” Of course it sounds like a great idea to him, moving back in with his parents, but his wife is of course then the odd one out. We haven’t always gotten along the best (his parents and I), but things are stable at the moment, and this may shift the balance. I agree that things are much better than when we were dating, but already in the planning stages there are disagreements. If this is God’s will for me, then it is definitely a major trial that he is placing before me.
5. So DH and I got started on cleaning up the apartment so we could post photos and have the place looking good to show off.
The baby, trying to mess with my photo set up
Our plans at least somewhat settled, we went to tell the Supers that we wish to leave at the end of our lease in June. Our lease is yearly and DH thought we could give 1 months’ notice-but it has to be 3, so we are automatically renewed for another year 
. Now we’re looking for someone to sublet. At first it didn’t seem like it would be too difficult, it seemed this was clearly God’s will for me/us and He was letting things fall neatly into place like when I was planning our wedding. We’re in a good location, the apartment is large, has a storage room and dishwasher, and the building has laundry facilities AND an elevator.We put up some ads, generated a bunch of interest and booked a total of 4 viewings in less than 48 hours. The first seemed quite interested and told us if she chose this building she would go with our apartment over the other one in the building. The second and third prospective tenants never showed up and the fourth viewing is tomorrow. We like the first one though, and if she chose us it was looking like we’d still have our tenant, however, it’s not turning out to be so simple.
6. The supers told us we had to write a formal letter of our wish to let someone take over our lease. We did this wed afternoon and wed evening we got a phone call, outlining the rules, now that our plans were official. This is the silliest thing ever: There are no children allowed because our apartment is on the top floor! Not only does this mean the nice Prospective Tenant #1 is no longer a candidate as she has a 3 yr old, but having to make this change in our ad has greatly reduced interest. We had 4 viewings lined up by this time after we posted the first ad, and as of yet we still haven’t heard from anyone. We have a kid and yet we can’t rent to someone who does, the reason we’re ok is that we had the kid since moving in 
7. What more could I have on my plate? The pregnancy insomnia has started, I have been short on sleep and I have an exam today. Thankfully DMIL took the baby for the night so I woke up feeling rested and with lots of hours in my day. I have also been feeling lonely because my friends both seem too busy and with all this going on I just want to talk to someone face to face. However, this is looking up, and there is a Summit tonight. 
I leave you with an interesting quote from the Liturgy of the Hours yesterday morning: “If it should be God’s will that you suffer, it is better to do so for good deeds than for evil.” -Peter 3:1-17
