I haven’t forgotten my fellow bloggers but just wanted to let you know things are busy and wonderful at the moment. My kids are still on summer vacation. They are really having a wonderful time. They have been relaxing and doing their own thing for a change and helping me in my daycare. Last week they spent a wonderful week of camp. Summer camps are so expensive but I did fine a more reasonable one to send them to and they both had an amazing time.

I am truly loving the break and not worrying about overseeing homework and school activities as well as all the other exhausting activities that take place in the school year. I am also enjoying the break of making school lunches every evening.

We are having wonderful weekends. We have spent time downtown Toronto at the Harbour front which has had great markets to got o and we found a new small beach. We have also gone downtown to the Kensington market and have loved having real Italian ice cream at “Little Italy”

We have spent lots of time at Canada’s wonderland. The children have loved all the different rides and the other day we had fun at the water park and wave pool.

So, things are busy but great and next week we are all taking a small vacation for a few days, which I will tell you all about after we return.

Just a short note that I’ve been taking a little blogging break.

Things have been so busy and crazy this end.

I will get back with some new and exciting stories very soon.

Sharon

Today is the last day of the school year. When we get to the end of the year, it just seems as though the year flew away. My children will be on vacation for two months now and then on September 2^nd they will be going into grade 2 and grade 5.Two months sounds like a long time but it really goes very quickly. My children work very hard in the school year and are in a very strict and rigid routine in the school year that in the summer I am more than happy to let them relax, have fun and enjoy being kids. Summer camp is very expensive, so they will only be going to camp for a short period of time and the rest of the time they will be staying with me and my daycare that I work with and my hubby and I are taking time off in the summer too. So it will be a great summer.

I always feel a little emotional at this time of year as I watch how much my children grow, mature and blossom during the school year. Both my children and I also have had a wonderful relationship with their teachers and I am always quite sad to say goodbye at the end of the year. So far this year as for the weather, it has been terrible, we have had so much rain and so many lighting storms and after a really hard winter of tons of snow, I am really wishing for some sunny days. Anyway hopefully it will get better and my kids will have a chance to ride their bikes and go to the park and fun things like that.

I would like to wish all the bloggers and their children a wonderful and safe summer. Make the most of the outdoors.

I lost my own father very tragically when I was 11 years old. I used to find Fathers day a very emotional and difficult day after that. Now I have my own 2 children. I am ever so grateful that my children who are 10 and 7 years old are able to spend each father’s day with my wonderful hubby and their special dad. So yesterday we decided to go to Unionville and enjoy a lovely lunch together. We chose a table outside and just as our food order had been taken; it started to pour with rain. Luckily we ran inside and managed to get a table and still enjoy our lunch together.

Both the children made my hubby beautiful father’s day cards at school and my daughter’s class made beautiful father’s day book s. In the afternoon after the rain had stopped we all went for bike rides together.We spoiled my hubby with delicious breakfast and yummy lunch and supper

He had a wonderful father’s day and I am so proud of my hubby, he truly is the greatest dad to our children.

My daughter’s birthday is actually on July 6^th. She always celebrates her party with her school friends in June so that her friends can participate in her parties. If I wait until July some of her friends are away and others go to their cottages for the weekend. We have so many events on this month every weekend, that she celebrated her birthday with her friends this past weekend. She had a gymnastics party, it was an hour and half long and it was wonderful. The gymnastics place took over for the hour and kids had an awesome time. I didn’t do it at meal time so after the hour the children came into the party room for cake, candy and chips. She had a beautiful fairy cake as she absolutely loves fairies. She had a really wonderful celebration. Of course she will celebrate her real birthday with her family and we will do something special for her. The following day on Sunday we went to Canada’s Wonderland and the kids had an absolute blast on the rides. My daughter and I stuck to the more gentle kids rides, while my hubby and 10 year old son braved a few roller coasters. Personally the roller coasters make my tummy jump out, so I will chicken out and stick to the tamer rides.

I am all in favour of school trips. However the other day my son (who is 10 years old in grade four) brought home a form to be signed and paid for a school trip. It’s a father’s day trip. They want the father’s to join their son’s for a baseball game downtown, during the week during work and school hours. We were told if dad can’t make it, bring uncle or grandpa but if there is no adult to accompany your child, they cannot participate on the trip. It sounds so exciting and what a wonderful idea for the school to have thought of. Unfortunately my hubby couldn’t take off work that day as a month ago, he already booked off his vacation time, and we were only told about this a couple of days ago. I too can’t take off work for the same reasons even though it’s not really for the women. We don’t have family living here in Canada with us, except my sister and both her and her husband work full time too. I was feeling so sad for my son to think that he had to miss out on the trip. Eventually, his teacher who is a young male teacher called him aside at school and told him that he will go along with him as “the adult” on the trip so that my son can still have a chance to participate in the trip. Today, I sent his teacher a special thank you note and was so grateful, that his teacher was so kind to do that for us. There really are some special people in this world who are willing to help out and they make this world a better place.

Yesterday my hubby and I celebrated our 12^th anniversary. Wow, how the years fly by. We immigrated to Canada 11 years ago and it has been a long road to climb. All in all we have come a long way and we have had to take baby steps to move forward all the time. Our best achievements in our life are certainly are our two beautiful children who are now 10 and 7 yrs old. Our next best achievement is our happy home. We don’t live in our very big home and we don’t have lots luxuries, but it’s a happy home and we all have lots of fun together and that’s the best luxury any one can have and that my children could ever have. Every day I am grateful for all the blessing in my life and always try and look at the glass half full and not half empty.

Yesterday was Victoria Day over here in Ontario Canada. It was so wonderful to have a long weekend. It’s amazing how relaxed we all felt at the end of Friday knowing that Monday was going to be a holiday too. Actually it was Sunday night that felt so relaxing knowing you had that extra day to relax. We had quite a busy long weekend. We were busy visiting family and friends and also had a barbecue even though unfortunately the weather was not the best.

 On Sunday night my hubby and I watched the movie”P.S I love you” and we actually found it  to be a very depressing and heavy going movie. I personally prefer light hearted comedies or fantasy movies. I feel that there are so many stressful things going on in the world as it is, that I’d prefer to watch a lighter hearted movie. On Saturday night we got a babysitter and went with some friends to an “All you can eat Japanese” restaurant. It was fantastic. The food was delicious, you didn’t have to go up and get your food, each dish was brought to your table for you but you could order as much as you wanted off the menu. The food was awesome and the company was great and it was just great to eat and relax and not jump up 10 times during the meal. Although I must say now that my children are getting older we really do get to relax a little more during meal time. We had a wonderful long week end and the small break  was very much appreciated.

To all the wonderful hard working moms out there, I wish you a very happy mother’s day. I had the most wonderful Mothers day and I hope that you did too.

I received cards from my children and husband and both children made me something special from school. We had dinner out the night before Mothers day as they had plenty planned for me during mother’s day. On Sunday my family cooked me breakfast, lunch and supper and even washed all the dishes for me. So, it was really wonderful and I was treated like a queen.

 I hope all you moms out there were all treated like a queen.

I am in the middle of reading the book “A new Earth”. I have not had the opportunity to join Oprah’s 10 week internet session. .I am almost finished chapter 8, and have chapter 9 and 10 left to read. I wandered if any of you have had the opportunity to read it and what you think of it. Personally, I think that the book has a lot of pro’s and cons to it and terms of what it has done for me. It really has taught me to be a lot calmer about of lot of things in life and worry less about things that I used to worry about. It has also taught me to try and enjoy every moment of each day no matter what is happening at that moment. Some of the things the author states in the book, I do feel to be a little impractical to every day life. Life is generally busy for everyone, especially if you work full time and have children. So, it seems normal for people to be concerned with their daily chores and think about the things that have to be done tomorrow. I understand that his point is live in the present moment and don’t worry too much about tomorrow. It makes a lot of sense but sometimes it’s normal to have to think about things that are going to happen tomorrow. I don’t find it an easy read but it does have a very positive general message which is a good thing.