Today

We got an unexpected gift today - sunshine! So while Andrew finished cleaning up most of the damage from the storm this winter (well, our neighbor is actually taking all the branches to the dump for us, but Andrew cleaned it all up, cut the limbs and loaded his truck) I took the kids outside. As you can see, Elisabeth is loving the swing!

Davey is just aching to play in his sandbox, but unfortunately it's still more of a pool.

So, we went and played in the tree instead.


After Andrew was done in the yard, we decided to go for a walk downtown. I have a weekly thing I go to down there, so we strolled around the block, then meandered through a used bookstore (where I found two more PD James books and SIX MR/MISS books!!) before finally stopping for refreshment at one of the local coffee shops for tea. Since I don't seem to be able to drink or eat caffeine anymore (it seems like even chocolate has the strange throat closing effect on me!) I just had water. It was so nice to walk around in the sun though. Then I headed down to my meeting on foot. I was about fifteen minutes early so I headed over to a kid's consignment store I've always wanted to check out and had a good root through. Lots of cute clothes, but nothing I needed. Still, good to know it's there.

Elisabeth is weaning herself. Or at least, she prefers solid food or bottles to nursing. I've been trying to keep nursing her anyway because mommy milk is supposed to be best, but she's getting angrier and angrier. Looks like the only good nurse she'll have these days is in the morning first thing. I'm a bit disappointed, but I do recognize that bottle fed babies thrive too (Jade would only take the bottle after six months too and she's definitely thriving!)


Andrew has taken today until Monday off work to do some odd jobs around the house. I am unwilling to give up our weekends of fun so we decided to use some precious holiday days to get the chores done. Our house is over fifty years old, so there are lots of things to be done around here. Luckily staff conference is in Whistler again this summer, so we can count that as a holiday. I'll just have to cajole him into skipping one session or so in order to do something fun!

I've been getting desperate for time with just Andrew lately. Spending a lot of time remembering what it was like when we could meander around Chapters, just chatting. Not soothing or chasing or feeding. And so tomorrow we are going to attempt to leave our kids with a sitter for an hour or two while we go on a date. I'm nervous and excited all at the same time. They should be okay since Davey will be in bed already when she gets here and Elisabeth isn't as shy as he is. But we'll see how it goes.

And to end the post a picture of Tink - definitely waving at me. Spontaneous and so cute!

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