Busy Weekends
All of Canada celebrated with us this weekend. We celebrated our great country's Birthday! This year we celebrated by packing up the youngest kid and her friend and taking them up to Parry Sound to a friend's cottage.
Unfortunately Mother Nature didn't feel it necessary to cooperate in making this a great warm sunny weekend and most of our time was spent in sweatshirts and sweatpants.
On Friday evening we arrived just in time to empty the van of all our gear, get a fire started and sit under the awning on the front porch and watch the rain come down. It was actually a great way to relax and enjoy our first evening.
On Saturday, we awoke to cool weather and cloudy skies and this continued through the entire weekend except for a very brief time when the sun was out long enough to entice the girls into bathing suits so they could go for a swim and a tube ride. Well, one of them, Brianne, got a tube ride before the sky opened up with cold rain again! With the rain temporarily stockpiling itself in the clouds above, the men made up an 8 foot picnic table and we ladies prepared a feast of steak and salads. After dinner we broke out the beverages and cuddled up next to the fire.
On Sunday, we were determined to make the best of our last full day at the cottage and although it was cold the girls got out for a boat ride with the men and Dawn and I did what we do best....play cribbage! It was a great way to end a great weekend. We returned home that evening because hubby had to work on Monday night and we couldn't fathom spending our entire last day of the weekend sitting in returning holiday traffic.
This week is going to be a busy one. Lots of preparation for my upcoming business trip. I'm off to Quebec City and I'm bringing my three girls. It will be the very first time that the 4 of us take a road trip of this sort. I will have to work for parts of our trip away but it will be fun for the girls to explore that beautiful city while I'm busy taking care of business....
Hope your Holiday weekend was a good one! What did you do to keep yourself busy?
Unfortunately Mother Nature didn't feel it necessary to cooperate in making this a great warm sunny weekend and most of our time was spent in sweatshirts and sweatpants.
On Friday evening we arrived just in time to empty the van of all our gear, get a fire started and sit under the awning on the front porch and watch the rain come down. It was actually a great way to relax and enjoy our first evening.
On Saturday, we awoke to cool weather and cloudy skies and this continued through the entire weekend except for a very brief time when the sun was out long enough to entice the girls into bathing suits so they could go for a swim and a tube ride. Well, one of them, Brianne, got a tube ride before the sky opened up with cold rain again! With the rain temporarily stockpiling itself in the clouds above, the men made up an 8 foot picnic table and we ladies prepared a feast of steak and salads. After dinner we broke out the beverages and cuddled up next to the fire.
On Sunday, we were determined to make the best of our last full day at the cottage and although it was cold the girls got out for a boat ride with the men and Dawn and I did what we do best....play cribbage! It was a great way to end a great weekend. We returned home that evening because hubby had to work on Monday night and we couldn't fathom spending our entire last day of the weekend sitting in returning holiday traffic.
This week is going to be a busy one. Lots of preparation for my upcoming business trip. I'm off to Quebec City and I'm bringing my three girls. It will be the very first time that the 4 of us take a road trip of this sort. I will have to work for parts of our trip away but it will be fun for the girls to explore that beautiful city while I'm busy taking care of business....
Hope your Holiday weekend was a good one! What did you do to keep yourself busy?
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