ICE CREAM & GINGERALE

Will loves ice cream

And Sam loves gingerale

(and I love painted wood for picture back drops)

Most of the time I say yes if my kids ask me for something, unless of course it is illegal or life threatening or morally wrong. So today in the warm sunshine they had an ice cream and a gingerale.

More pictures of our day on Bowen Island tomorrow...

FIVE PEOPLE 4/12

I know I said I was going to try harder to take a family portrait in April, and here we are halfway through May!

This photo was taken by Mom C. (Grandma) on the beach in front of our cabin at Pasley. And once again we have a drink in our hand, although this time it is champagne not wine. We are celebrating our first visit to the island in 2010, and Mother's Day Eve (doesn't Sam looked thrilled?). I am dressed in my work clothes since I spent the morning wiping down mold from the bathroom and fridge and doing various grody cabin opening jobs. Despite the unpleasant work, it was sunny! and warm! and we were together at this glorious place. I have to be honest, April was tough weather wise.

But the promise of summer is here. And so is rhubarb, new potatoes, asparagus and peas. My flip flops are by the door, my winter jacket has been banned to the back of the closet and it is still light at 8:30pm. Good for my seasonal affective disorder, but bad for 7:00pm bedtime.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

WEEKEND WITH THE MOMS

Some more pictures from our Mother's Day weekend.

Clara was very earnest in her Mother's Day decorating (window writers) and her card making (I got 4 of them).

(I can only wish my legs were this long and thin)

And here is the bulk of us sitting down for some afternoon champagne and fresh crab. Clara loves to jump in the photo last minute (kind of annoying).

Me and my kiddies (without whom, there would be no Mother's Day for me). I do love them.

And my loveliest of lovelies...

We tried to get away just the two of us for some special time together up on the Point, but Kirby kept following us (she is quite intense about stick fetching).

Next stop...Father's Day!

Or actually, Jake and my 10 year Anniversary. We have big plans that involve 5 nights without any children.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

Any day that begins with breakfast in bed is a good day.

My view at 8:17am:

Just got home from celebrating Mother's Day at our cabin. More pictures tomorrow. But for now...my mom kicking back with a magazine on the deck, with a little of Clara's window art:

And my view at 4:36pm:

Me and my beer, my barefeet and the ocean.

It was a lovely Mother's Day.

BOY STUFF

I took the boys to visit the George boys where they did lots of boy things. Like remote control, bike riding, drinking orange crush in the van, hammering nails into the grass, playing in a big pile of dirt, kicking around the ball, peeing in the bushes and watching a tractor do it's business.

It was a good afternoon.

PRE MOTHER'S DAY

Clara wrote me a note today.

It said: Your the perfect mommy. If I had a difrit mommy I wed be sad. I coud never replace you.

I love you Clara. If I had a different daughter I would be sad too!

(my nostril looks particularly big in this photo?)

WILL YOU BE MY FLOWER GIRL

On Friday, Clara skipped school and just us girls went to Auntie Cheri's house for a fancy tea party. This was already turning out to be a good day for Clara (no school, no brothers, cupcakes, tea, sugar, scones, feeling pretty, etc.). But the icing on the cake was Auntie Lisa asking her and her cousin Maddy if they would like to be her flower girls at her wedding in August!

She said yes.

And then we ate some more and talked and twirled and drove to the bridal store in the States to pick out a real flower girl dress and a real flower girl basket. And we got to see Auntie Lisa in her real wedding dress! She looked so beautiful.

Clara is reading her card from Lisa asking her to be a flower girl:

It was a perfect day.