it’s friday night, dear hubby and i are home with the kids without the sitter. we decided not to have her come as we were gone wednesday evening to see cirque du soleil. too many nights away is stressful and we need to be filling up our stress reserves for our adventure in new york in a few weeks. i am getting super excited about our first real vacation as a family that is not camping. we are looking forward to hanging with dear hubby’s sister and her mister for a few days and then we are celebrating the nuptials of a long ago friend of hub’s. it’s going to be grand and fun and hopefully not rainy.


more on that trip later.
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just chatting on the cell and munching on penguin crackers.

so there’s this thing with the screaming. lion, our littlest cub has turned into an epic screamer. not the crying kind either (although he is skilled at that as well), but the kind he rips out when things don’t go his way. they are piercing and painful on the eardrums and i have no idea how to curb this LOUD behaviour. unfortunately, being the little brother means things often don’t go his way. sigh.


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check out these awesome dudes bear drew on our back door. he’s really keen on drawing people, especially ones he knows. these dudes below are various friends and he explained why each of them was smiling, which i have unfortunately forgotten. once he drew a picture of his wee brother as a girl. kids’ imaginations are amazing things!

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so remember back when i vented about house & home writing Ikea in their magazine instead of IKEA? well, here’s an email i received in response to my snippy complaint. tell me what you think, because i think her reasoning is a bit silly. i will one day write to the canadian press stylebook and i will keep you updated on this topic.

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it’s going to be a wet weekend, but a good one spent with friends on saturday and sunday we will get a few much needed jobs done around the house. i’ll be pinning away with a hot cup o’ coffee so come find me on pinterest, i’m under mama lola.

happy week ending to you and thanks for reading everyone!
xo