Happiness

One of the perks of the new house for C and the kids was the inground pool. I'm not such a big pool person myself but the happiness on this little face makes it all worthwhile.

Busy bee

These guys just love one of the rose bushes out front. Try as I might I couldn't get a decent shot of this fella taking a pollen bath in the little rose bowl, he just wouldn't hold still, but you get the idea. He rolled around and rubbed himself well with the pollen - so neat!

Views from around the village

The village we've moved to is tiny, around 300-ish homes (in fact, C says it's too small to be a village, that it's a hamlet) and yet it also has a whopping 3 churches. That's a whole lot of praying per capita!

I love this sweet little stone church. I don't know much about it yet, but I hope to soon.

Floored

Came home to a gorgeous new floor in my scrap room. My honey is becoming a floor laying pro!

Friends together

So nice when friends get together. Portrait of the mamas, taken by one of the princesses.

Ah the sweetness

of a little girl picking wildflowers in her jammies.

The divine Miss M at our mother-daughter weekend at the cottage

Waterlogged princesses

They'd have probably stayed in the water all weekend if we'd let them! Day two of our mother-daughter weekend getaway.

Clone princesses

The clone princesses on the ferry, en route to our big mother-daughter cottage weekend (and the getaway I so desperately needed)

Only in Canada, eh?

Ubiquitous Canadian-only sight: Canadian Tire money. Nearly everyone has a drawer full of these bills. We counted ours out today, nearly enough for a new weed whacker! Coool.

scenes from the back seat

We spent an awfully long time in the car today, running all of the gazillion or so errands that needed to be done. Thankfully at least one of us was pleasant about it.

English cottage

I just love this house, near my mother-in-law's home. It reminds me of an English cottage (minus the thatched roof, this is Canada after all). I'd love to retire to a place like this, and putter around the gardens.

Still in limbo...

What's with the clowns anyway?

A birthday party, this clown wasn't very scary at all, he was quiet and artistic. The colours are odd because he was under a red canopy.

Life is in an odd limbo, this party a welcome distraction.

The movers

Nice guys, polite and efficient. Today very little went the way it was supposed to, but the movers were a bright spot.

A thousand words

My life, summed up in a massive stack of boxes.

Moving day is tomorrow.

Ducky class picture

LOL, they way they're all standing there in perfect staggered line reminds me of class pictures :) These were the 'teenager' ducks we fed today, the cute itty bitty fluffy guys weren't brave enough to come this close.

One last trip to Mooney's to feed the ducks before we move. Sigh. One place I'll miss about this neighbourhood (and so many I won't).

Those things

Those little things that you have no idea are wrong with your house until a home inspector comes... the inspector found a little (non-leaking) crack in our foundation. No big really since it's a condo but we facilitated the repair anyway. Today they came in with air compressors and stinky stuff and injected some polymer resin into the crack. I'm not exactly sure what this little port is (they left several sticking out of the wall and made no mention of coming back to collect them) but the dried resin drool is pretty cool looking :)

Location, location, location

This cute little (and I mean SMALL!) old cottage near my sister-in-law's house is on the market for...

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... a whopping $475,000, AND you can't even view the inside of the house! It's being sold for land value only. Someone will buy the 50 x 100 piece of property it sits on, tear it down and build a monstrosity.

Big yellow bus

My baby is off to sleep-away camp for the first time. She was so excited. Her papa was a wreck. I was somewhere in between - excited and scared but mostly melancholic for the fun I had as a (not quite as young as she is) kid at sleep-away camp. Another big leap towards independence.

More flowers for mama

I love being off work, time to play in the yard, smell the clover, remember why I had kids in the first place...

bokeh

Bokeh is a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field.

Playing with the camera while the bits and their friends collect wildflowers.

Margaritaville

Keeping up with the Joneses (or in this case, with his brother) C brought home a new toy, and what tasty delights it makes!

retro!

Who says 30+ year old toys can’t be just as much fun as the modern ones?

Splish-splash

First weekend at the cottage this season (a late start, we've been bizzy!)

Chip truck

Several of my American friends claim to have never seen a chip truck. I can't imagine, they're ubiquitous here.

This one is in Kingston, Ontario.

Go fly a kite!

A better day today so the bits and I headed to the park to fly kites. They lost interest after dragging theirs around for awhile, but I had a blast :)

Cosmic

Too much rain lately, the bits really needed to run off some energy so we spent the afternoon at Cosmic Adventures. They love it, I find it way too loud but I love seeing them happy.

Self portrait with ceiling light

Someone was playing with my camera again.... good thing he's cute!

Happy Canada Day 2008!

We didn't get to see the fireworks this year but we did enjoy the day together.