Say it with me everybody! FOUR MORE SLEEPS! FOUR MORE SLEEPS! FOUR MORE SLEEPS! I love my kids more than life but they need to go back to school. Pronto. We've had an amazing summer up until this last week. The kids have had enough of each other and I've had enough of the fighting. … [Read more...]
Annual Adventure
Last Wednesday Sean and I loaded up our van, threw in the kids and headed up towards Ottawa. This was the second year in a row that we made the trek to visit Sean's family at their cottage/home on Mississippi Lake. We had the best time and the only thing to put a damper on the trip was another … [Read more...]
My Body, Myself
Ahhh, summer. Long, hot days stretching out in sixty days of leisure, travel, food and wine. It's a great time of year for me and my girls. Two months of togetherness and agenda-less days, hours at the beach or by the pool and wonderful meals shared with friends and loved ones. It's bliss. I … [Read more...]
1 down, 63 to go!
Yes. Sixty three days until school starts. The kids are on day 2 of camp and all reports came back positive yesterday. Cam likes his group. Cuyler likes his support worker. Eva likes that she's only going for this week. The rest of the summer she's with moi. I want to cram in as much girl time … [Read more...]
FotoFriday – Kiss the chaos goodbye
Ahhh...summer. Fourteen school days left til summer vacay.Her first season of dance has wrapped. Hockey is over. Gymnastics is just about done. Our heavy extracurricular load no longer exists.Until September... … [Read more...]
FotoFriday – We made it
This is how we spent our last Friday of Summer 2011.We made it. We made it through and will send summer vacay off with a SpLaSh! … [Read more...]
The Sandbox
Right around the beginning of spring I had mentioned to the in-laws that I would love to build a little sandbox around the oak tree in the corner of our backyard. They said it would be fairly easy to do. I hadn't thought much about it after that until about a week ago when Cam came home … [Read more...]
Weekend Update – Halfway Over
We have been on summer holidays for 5 weeks now. Summer is half over and for the most part it's been fantastic. And we haven't even had Sean home for holidays yet. He took a week off when we moved and he'll take another week off in August. That week we'll cram in a slew of … [Read more...]
Weekend Update – Letting Go Of The Leash
I've always though that my job as a parent was to raise my children to become independent, autonomous individuals. Especially with Cuyler. I've never really thought too much about it with Cam and Eva, but with Cuyler it's a great hope of mine that he will live an independent, happy … [Read more...]