The Dream Team

For those of you who were feeling bad for me being alone since Steve left...well...save the sympathy. hee!hee! The day after Steve was Ontario bound, the Dream Team arrived on my doorstep. The Dream Team consists of my wonderful Mother and her fantastic sister, Germaine.

We had an amazing week visiting together and I was totally spoiled (the kids too!)...meals, free time, cleaning services, gifts AND ironed pillow cases! Great company too!!!

We even had an early birthday party for Abbey and Michael.

They were super excited to open gifts and blow out candles.

Big hugs for grand-maman!

...and the final picture is the Dream Team "high-fiving" for a job well done! I hope I have half of their energy when I'm 60 something! Thanks for everything this past week! I appreciate it very much...now...when are you two coming back?!?

Single Parent...

Well today was the day...Steve left for Trenton this morning to start his Herc course. We knew it was coming for a while now but that didn't make it any less hard. He left while the kids were sleeping to make it easier on everyone but it was still so difficult. Ugh!
The first words out of Michael's mouth this morning were "Where's Daddy?"... so heartbreaking!
Yesterday while I was at work and the kids were at school, Steve went shopping! When I got home the kitchen table was loaded with treats. Abbey got Ballerina Barbie, Michael got a new Transformer and I got beautiful roses and a book I've been wanting to buy. We were all very excited and it was nice to have something new for the kids to play with this morning.
So day 1 without Steve is over! We survived it! ha!ha!
Only 130 days to go...yikes let's not think about that!

Good Friends...

I came across this picture today of my friends, Alex and Shawn and their two children, Ethan and Lauren. We had a Pizza Night at my parent's house this summer and had so much fun catching up. I've been best buds with Shawn since as long as I can remember and now his family and mine hang out twice a year...summer in Ottawa and Florida! (Shawn's parents and my parents are friends as well and we've all travelled together since we were teenagers).
Michael and Abbey always have fun playing with Lauren in Siesta Key and it's VERY nice for Steve to have Shawn as a drinking partner on the beach and for me to have a shopping partner at the outlets in Florida (and Alex and I do a little drinking too! hee!hee!)



P.S. okay Alex...hopefully this pic will inspire you to start blogging again...SOON! :-)