It's July 2011

Well once again it’s been way too long since I last wrote. My main excuse is work. I’m really busy now (its proposal time) and when I get home from the office, the last thing I feel like doing is typing on the computer some more. Things here are going fine. We are almost done the second full week of kid’s summer vacations. The summer holidays always go by too fast. I love summer and the more relaxed feel to our days. I love that we don’t have to get up and rush around in the morning to get the kids to school. In fact today I went for a walk with Bev at 6:30, and when I got home I watered the plants and puttered around outside for a bit. By the time I was done showering and getting ready for work it was 8:30.

Today I am working from the downtown Toronto office. The kids and I picked up Bernadette and Jordana on the way and I dropped them all off at Toronto island to meet up with Omi. They are there now and I am waiting to hear from mum when they are ready to come back.

I’m having a really hard time focusing n work today. Think I might be a bit burnt out – you know when you work at 100% for several days in a row… eventually you crash. That’s how I feel today.

I keep checking my email because Nikki sent me the password to the second set of pics she took of Jordana and Mackenzie last weekend. There are some super cute ones – especially of Jordana. I sent Andrea and Chris the access info and I want to know what they think. They have GOT to think they are awesome.

So we are off on our first summer vacation in 2 weeks – going to the Eckhart House in Prince Edward County. I am really looking forward to that. We will be sharing the house with Andrea and her family. I plan on spending most of my time at the beach with the kids, sitting in a lawn chair and reading a book. At least that’s my plan. After that we are back for a week and then leave to go camping. That should be fun too. Only problem is that my friend Helen doesn’t seem to be speaking to me right now. I honestly don’t know what I did, but it is really stressing me out. Her family will be camping right beside us. Hopefully everything will go smoothly and everyone will get along.

Other than that, what else is new? Let's see - about 3 montsh ago, Sandy had kittens. We were playing with fire letting her out before she was spayed so it shouldnt have been a surprise but to be honest it kind of was. The kittens were SUPER cute and Sandy is an awesome mom. Here are some pics.



We ended up keeping 2 of the kittens - Cloudy and Spotty. They were my favourites - so fluffy. and they are cute and funny and we all love them lots.





In any case, here are some photos from recently so we remember what the kids looked like at 6-1/2 and 8-1/2.