We have a 5 year old!...and we have new (noisy) neighbours
It’s
officially a new year, and nothing has really changed, but I guess that’s to be
expected given it’s only the 2nd day of the new year.
Andrew had
a great 5th birthday, and for the first year EVER of his life
everyone was able to attend his party without illness! Almost every year we’ve come down with
something (tis the season!) but this year, totally healthy. His Lego Star Wars theme party was lots of
fun, and included a few Lego themed games, such as building the coolest Lego
sculpture in 2 minutes, guessing how much Lego was in a glass jar, and a Lego
Star Wars disc toss game. There was a
prize for each game, which was a cool idea and I think will be good for when
Andrew’s a bit older but this year he focused a bit too much attention on the
idea of winning a prize than just enjoying the game and being OK with someone
else winning. He got a little too
focused on present opening, but for the most part he was a really good boy, and
I know he felt really special on his big day.
He wore a really cute outfit with a green argyle sweater vest that GG
gave him for Christmas, and Margaret and Emily were in matching sparkly dresses
that words cannot describe, they were SO cute!
My bro and sil got them for them for Xmas. So much cuteness.
I rang in
the new year by myself, but that’s OK. I
think of New Year’s Eve as Andrew’s birthday, not NYE the way most people think
of it. Truth be told, James and I were
both annoyed with the amount of noise going on around us that night. Our new neighbours (who moved in about 2 days
before Christmas) are very loud in general, and it sucks because our old
neighbours were SO quiet. It looks to be
a whole bunch of young 20 something’s sharing the place, there are always
people coming and going it seems, and they are all chain smokers and are
constantly hanging out outside our front yard area – which will be problematic
especially come time for us to start using our front yard for the kids’ play
area. I already find it frustrating
though, as getting the kids in and out of the van means breathing in a lot of
second hand smoke, which I’m not cool with.
Anyway…they also play loud music a lot, and the bass is ridiculously
loud, to the point that you can feel the vibration of it in your skeleton. If you open the cup cupboard, you’ll hear the
cups all rattling, etc. James did go
over just after they moved in to let them know it was shaking our entire house
and they said they’d turn it down, but if they turned it down one notch that’s
all they did. On New Year’s Eve I was
willing to give more leeway as obviously a lot of people celebrate with
parties, but it was SO annoying because the bass went from about 6pm till who
knows when – I went to bed at 1:30 and I could still hear it then. We’re lucky the babies can sleep through it
as their wall is against the same wall their TV obviously is, and it shakes in
their room, too. (The babies got a noise
machine for Xmas for their room, which helps drown out other noises, but
still). The same neighbours went out the
back door at midnight on New Year’s and blew noise makers, but they were
obviously the cheapest noise makers in the world and made it sound like a
gaggle of geese was congregating outside our back door. About 10 minutes later they went out front
and did the same thing. I get the whole
ringing in the new year thing and I’m not saying I’ve never done it, because I
have, but not more than once. Usually
you’d go outside, make a bit of noise, and then that’s that. You don’t go from one side to the other over
the span of 10 or 15 minutes. Or maybe
that’s just someone with little kids who’s sleep deprived talking, I don’t
know! I don’t particularly love
obnoxious noise at the best of times, but particularly late at night it gets
under my skin!!
I know I
sound like the Scrooge of new year’s and I don’t mean to. I think I’m just upset about our new
neighbours, because I was so hopeful it would be a family like us with kids
and we might finally have friends right in our neighbourhood and then it turned
out to sort of be the opposite. Now I’m
worried we’ll end up having to move sooner than we wanted to and I HATE
that. I wish so much that we could
afford to live in a detached house, but the only way that could ever happen is
if we moved a lot farther out than we are now, and I hate the thought of James’
commute to work being even longer than it is now. So yeah…Hopefully the noise next door calms
down and it all works out so I don’t feel like we’re being chased out of
here. Time will tell!
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