Some other goodness recently:
Beach bonfire with good friends.
Took Winnie the Dog for a walk and came back to the ultimate betrayal – the kids petting a neighbour’s cat!
Having a six-year-old and a nine-year-old is one of the most fun stages yet. There is so much they can do and there is so much they still want to do with us. We’ve been partying to Taylor Swift’s new album, reading Harry Potter together, and they make their own lunches! They are just really fun people to hang out with.
Recently, Peter and I got a weekend away together and visited Vancouver Island for a friend’s wedding. We had a lovely couple of nights on our own and had a chance to visit with some very dear friends.
Another recent opportunity for some to dress up was the Dads & Daughters Dance held every year by the local Rotary Club. This was the first year for Peter and the girls to go and a good time was had, I hear.
Happy long weekend to those who celebrate, uh, Queen Victoria, I guess. Happy Monday to the rest of you!
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You have a day for Queen Victoria? That’s so Canadian! 😉 I hope poor Winnie has recovered from the cat horror!
Is that not a Commonwealth country thing? I kind of assumed we all celebrated Victoria’s birthday!
Winnie hasn’t really met a cat yet but she’s very curious!
Ditto the surprise at a special day for Queen Victoria! I don’t think we celebrate any particular monarch with a day in the UK (or at least not in England – all the constituent countries have slightly different public holidays). Hope you had a lovely day off!
I’m not sure if the origins of the day in Canada but we’re always happy to have a long weekend in May. For most people it marks the start of spring and cottage/cabin/camping season.
One of your kids has spooky tendencies!! 😍 I see that vampire sandwich snuck in there. I laughed a little when you wrote that the girls now pack their own lunches, because lots of husbands still “can’t” (*cough* won’t).
I do still make most of their school lunches but they generally help themselves on weekends. I never make Peter’s lunch! You’re right though – watching my girls make their own lunches and then thinking of a grown man refusing to do that? That’s embarrassing for him.