Paulette

We had a family get together at Ken & Amy’s today.  They had the whole family over for a BBQ and as usual it was amazing.

Amy always puts out a wonderful feast with a variety that compares to no ones.  With all the good food available the highlight and anticipation is always for “Aunt Amy’s famous brownies”.

We had a special guest this year.  Iso, a childhood friend of Granny’s was over for a visit.  It was nice to see her again.

Thanks Ken & Amy!

We had the floors redone.  They sanded down the old ones and added a very light stain.  Then they coated them with a water based sealer.

The floors look brand new!  We’ve had them done before but never with such results.

50+ year old floors, imagine that!

Valerie and I met 27 years ago when Brian was 6 months old and her daughter Andrea was 5 months old.  Val was looking for someone to babysit and I was looking for something more to do.

I babysat Andrea for 6 months and then Val decided she wanted to be at home with her.  I wasn’t sorry to lose the babysitting job because I gained a really nice friend.

We haven’t seen each other much over the last few years.  We moved to Alta Vista and they moved to Stittsville.  Recently Val joined Facebook and found me.

It was the perfect time to renew our friendship.  We had dinner tonight and ended up staying at the restaurant for over 4 hours chatting.  It seemed like we never lost touch (though our kids are much older now).

I think this time we’ll make the effort to see each other a bit more often.

I spent the day at the water park with Carla, Thomas & Kristen.  We went to Mont Cascades on the Quebec side.

It was a beautiful day and it was not crowded since most of the schools were on their last day.

We had a couple of races down the Pro Racer slides.  I foolishly decided to try to beat everyone down a face first slide.  I won but I ended up banging my face in the process.  I spent the next few days with scabs on my chin.

Sometimes I act like a 12 year old.

We are getting the floors done this week prior to getting the new kitchen cupboards.  This means all and I really mean all has to be removed from the kitchen & living room.

Luckily we don’t have much furniture so that wasn’t a huge problem.  I had been packing some seldom used kitchen dishes so that brought the work down a little.

Emptying the refrigerator and moving it and the stove were the major events.  Brian helped his Dad move the heavy stuff using carrying straps.  They do work very well (both the guys and the straps!).

Mindy helped a lot by packing the food and moving small items to the garage.

Kat & Hong joined in and helped as well.

Good thing the kids helped.  With all the hands in there we still weren’t finished until 11:00 PM.

I had dinner with Terri today.   We got take-out Chinese food to eat at her place.

Terri’s days of working at the school board are almost up.  She is retiring at the end of the month.  She really deserves it.  No one has worked as hard as she has.

I’m also glad for selfish reasons.  She’ll now have more time to spend with me!

We played golf at Le Geant in Tremblant with Jean & Helene.  The weather cooperated and we had showers for just a brief time.

I had a couple of good holes and putted amazingly well.  I was “Mrs. Two Putt”.

Some days the putting works, some days the irons work and some days the driver works.   One of these days I’ll string a few of those together.

We went to Boone plumbing and ordered a sink and taps today.

We decided to go with a single rectangular sink.  We decided that the double sink setup wasn’t working for us.  We typically wash pots & pans in the sink and everything else goes in the dishwasher.  This way we can wash large pans more easily.

The taps we went is a simple modern looking one.  It has the spray in the nozzle and the nozzle pulls out of the handle.

Hopefully it will all look marvelous when it is installed.

Today is Kristen’s birthday.  She is the daughter of Carla & Paul and she is 12 years old.  She is a lovely young lady.

Happy Birthday!