You Got to be cruel to be kind!

Our cruel, cruel neighbour brought us a bag of kindness - see photo. A whole bag full of Hersey's chocolate bars some with almonds, some with toffee pieces and some plain. The cruelty, just when I thought I kicked my sugar (Chocolate habit). I guess it is smores over the fire pit tonight! Thanks Marianne for the little fat pills (As Dear would call them!). Wish you were here to enjoy too Dear but as we ate dinner together, over Skype video link, the boys and I clearly saw some of the goodies he is being fed! Lets put it this way he wont starve! We miss you dear....Love Me.

Oh, today we head to a lake in the area to visit friends and pick blueberries. It is so nice of the to invite us. For now the boys are full of excitement, I am sure they will be just as I was when I was a kid - as soon as I was full, of what ever was being picked, I was tired of being there! We will see. Have a good day everyone.

Hey, I added a site meter today....ok so maybe I am the only one excited about that!

Corners of our home

We are not planning much today - I have to return a water cooler for the second time now but other than that a relaxing day. Maybe we might even return the water cooler tomorrow.

We will probably end up swimming at some point.

The pictures - Tristen's new bed, the orange - his favorite colour of coarse. I liked the way the light was coming through the window. The other is a picture I painted for the outside dinning area but it has stayed in the house so far.

Hi Dear, it was nice to wake you this morning, with a phone call. We will talk to you later today. We miss you.

It was a Fun Day

Fun day at the pool was great! The boys enjoyed themselves and it was fun watching them. I became the photographer for the day - no one brings a camera! Well, actually, I forgot mine but ran home to get it, hence very few pics of Tristen who was in the pool when I went home to get it. I will get more this week because we are going to the pool for fun and to practice their new skills. The pictures left Jake - first time allowed on the slide, Right Tristen -relaxing in the hot tub and bottom Will - swimming in the big pool. Have a Fun Day all - ENJOY YOUR SUMMER! Dear we wish you were here - miss you - Me.

A Freudian Moment

It was chaos people running everywhere, smoke billowing from the ground, fire and the sound of the injured and lost. Men, women and children were looting stores, someone murmurs - It is the end of the world- and I think why do you need that big screen TV then? As I take my arm and swipe a whole shelf of anti-aging lotion into the bag I was carrying. Wow, wonder what I am worrying about lately! I guess several people have mentioned aging to me recently and what it does to us - our bodies. But really the end of the world and I am stealing creams and potions! I need a life! And not a dream life as you can tell that is already rich enough.

I guess my Dear doesn't have that problem since he is younger and a man. Or do they worry and think that way too? I am sure they do .... balding, paunch and slowing down. Well, I miss you Dear, and will even when you start to grey, wrinkle, bald and all those man things that happen.

Got to get to swimming - it is fun day!! Pictures later! Have a good day.

Played out!!!

Played out...me that is - not the boys. I don't know how they do it. Going since 8am. Swimming lessons all morning until 11am, then to the water front for a picnic and more swimming and finally for a train and carousel ride. Ahhh, I thought home to relax but the are still running...how? It was a great day though, it is nice to have these days to share with friends.

I hope it has been a great day for you and your family as well. The picture- Will swimming with his noodle. Take care all. Dear you are never far from our thoughts, around every corner of the day one of the boys would say - Can we come back so Dad can do this with us? We love you and miss you Dear.

Hi, my second post of the day. I just had the most interesting conversation at the pool with a mom who just had her second baby. We talked about breast feeding and people. She and I are from the same school anywhere anytime but with that comes people who, invariably, feel they can tell you where and when you can breastfeed. I breast fed all of our boys for 2yrs each, as most of you know. Some people commented - Don't you think it is time to stop now? or Men comments - Lucky kid! (Noticeably absent - the wife who would not so gently give him a good cuff in the head!). But pregnancy gives a whole other set of rules - people think they can comment on your weight, touch you and give you unsolicited advice. I had a woman in Church, no less, ask if I was pregnant or just fat! The woman I spoke with at the pool was given a weight loss book by her minister - for after the baby came! Although, that part of my life is done, sometimes I think - Look at that little bundle with wishful inklings (No, Dear!) But then sanity returns, usually in the form of MMMMOOOMMMMMM! I snap to reality and think....wow, those days are done, thankfully. Bring on the Grand kids - not anytime soon! I always tell the boys - first you have to finish school, University, College, have a good job then you could look at finding a nice girl of whom Mom should approve ( Yeah, Right! Dreaming, it is so fun!) . I can only hope that I can be half the mother and Grandmother my Grandmother (She raised me) continues to be in my life and now my husband and boys lives. The picture me with our third - used as a model portrait in the area where we use to live. I am glad I had the pictures done! Have a good day all. If you are pregnant you will get through it - enjoy it - most of all sleep now! If you know some one who is ask before you touch, it is common courtesy and really like I tell the boys think before you speak - you cannot take it back once it is out there. Dear, I miss you!

Well, the telephone just kept ringing but I was glad. A friend I have not seen in 20 yrs called - It was so nice to hear from her. Then the hockey school coordinator - Yes, hockey starts for us in August, with hockey camp for all three. Manon, I am sorry - I did not get back to you!!! Yes, Picnic on the water front tomorrow sounds great - meet you there. What should I bring? Call me.

The above picture - Will writing in the sand with a hockey stick. He is beginning to put it together - that is TOY for Buzz Lightyear and Toy Story of coarse. Tristen got his big boy double bed yesterday and is still sleeping - so he should be I think his pillow top is more comfortable than ours! Jake is relaxing before he hits the pool this morning - he has done 2 levels at once this time much to his older brothers dismay!

Well, we met the new neighbours...because of the dogs! Oh ya - Oh no! 165 pounds of drooling Golden retriever barreling down on a small child and (What they were really interested in) a small slipper like creature that weighs about 2lbs and they call a dog. No, the first words exchanged were not nice - their part not mine but I could not blame them. We did have a good talk after and they met Alex and Caramel in a better light. They met the rest of the brood as well. All is smoothed over thankfully - I would not like to be on bad terms with a neighbour, it would just not be good. We have such good neighbours and live in a great neighbourhood, we are very lucky.

Well, Dear I will have to sign off now. Jake has piano this morning and swimming for all three...Busy, Busy. Do not try to solve everything at once ...one problem at a time - delegate!!! You are allowed. I love you. Have a good day all and hug your Dear today - you are lucky he is home with you.