Take a good look at this picture. Looks pretty normal. Three kids (who’ve decided to sit on about 1/3 of the couch) watching a little television. Yep. Nice and normal. Except that little girl in the pink shirt there, at that very moment, has a broken collar bone!
Yes. There has been some unforeseen excitement in [...]
The first full day we had in England we took one of those double decker bus tours of London, where you can get on and off the bus at any point that interests you. The first place we got off the bus was St. Paul’s cathedral. I wanted to see it, but it wasn’t until [...]
The day we stated the drive home we took the kids to the Enchanted Forest. We were going stop there on the way to BC, but it started pouring rain as soon as we pulled into the parking lot. We definitely made the right choice going on a beautiful, sunny day. All of the kids were at [...]
Canada Day in Summerland. We went to the local park to watch the Legion raise the flags and listen to a few speeches. Stockwell Day was there (without his jet ski) and Olivia got chased by the bagpipe marching band on her way back from getting a balloon. She started crying as soon as the [...]
Warning: This post is not for people who get queasy with medical stuff (there are pictures below of Olivia’s burn). Apparently my dad almost passed out when my mom first told him about Olivia burning her arm on the campfire.
Tonight, because I’m flying to Alberta tomorrow, the whole family drove down to the hospital at [...]
A few weeks ago we received a second-hand girls sleeping bag from a friend. The fact that I even got the sleeping bag comes from a series of events. But I got it. And that started our family down the spiral of events leading towards our first weekend of camping together.
I didn’t grow up camping. [...]
I don’t really have much to say. Madeline got her haircut yesterday and she wanted Grandma to see it, since she won’t see Grandma for a few months. So there you go. She’s a beautiful girl.
Guess who graduates from preschool tonight? And since it’s finally his graduation party, and since he says parties need decorations, we’re decorating this morning. Pretty special day. (And, yes, I promise to get that face paint off of his nose before the party. He had a snake face last night.)
I did have a chance to get my breakfast before I did all this, even though the kids were asking for face-painting a good hour before I got out of bed.
It looks like in the time it took for me to do Madeline’s face, the bottom half of Olivia’s face rubbed off. Now how am [...]
When we moved into the big house in PA every May we’d go for a picnic in the big field of dandelions by Prime Minister’s Park. It was a fun little tradition. So you’ll understand my disappointment when I saw the big mowers out in the field last week mowing up the dandelions I’d hoped [...]