Your children want you

Wow.

We had dinner out on the deck yesterday, and then I gave the kids a bucket of water and some cloths and let them wash it. (enjoyable, time consuming activity for them = wonderful break for me!)

My dear friend Lisa and I decided to take our kids out for a little adventure today! I’ve been dying to check out Longwoods Conservation area and Ska-Nah-Doht Iroquois village that is located in our area. So after a fun visit and lunch out at our place, we loaded the kids up and headed out.

In the conservation area there is a small children’s museum of sorts…(excuse the iPhone pics)


and from there it is a short walk to the village itself…




After that we took a short walk down one of the many trails to enjoy a bit more of the beautiful day!

My thoughts on the park as a kids attraction? It’s not fancy and it won’t take too much time… but it is very kid friendly and an interesting, different and cheap (donations… 3.00 for adults, under 6 are free) activity. You can book tours, and I think they specialize in student groups and classroom tours. There are a ton of trails to explore as well. I’m sure will we be back again with daddy.

After the conservation area we hit up the nearby 50′s diner for ice cream and root beer floats.

All in all a fun day with great friends!

This might just be another meandering post. So why don’t you listen to this bit of pretty while you read?

I’ll start with something nice.

“Penny’s Mom” slept over on Saturday night and we all had a lovely time! Aunt Janine came bearing lots of colourful treats and we had a pizza party and then cuddled in bed to eat junk food and watch AFV. In the morning we woke up latish, lounged around, made lemon muffins, sipped hot drinks, (shared Aunt Janine’s glasses apparently), and finally headed to church for the second service. I’ve never just gone in for the second service, it felt so decadent!

While at church the not so fun part of the day happened. Just before I arrived to pick up Justus he had a collision with another child in his class. When I got him he was wailing and starting to bleed from his mouth. I figured he had just bumped his front teeth (they are already a bit wiggly), but he just kept bleeding and bleeding. I bought him an ice cream cone to numb his mouth a bit (and stop the wailing), and after awhile he said to me… “I think my lip ripped off my mouth”.

I took another look, it was only slightly still bleeding at this point… and sure enough he had torn his frenum. Know what that is? I didn’t know the name before yesterday. But I did know that Justus had a somewhat abnormal frenum in that his came right down between his front teeth (hence the gap) and we knew that one day it would have to be snipped (or lasered or whatever) before his adult teeth come in with a gap as well.

Want to see a close up? Too bad, I’m showing it anyway!

My wonderful Aunt Nancy (who has loads of dental experience) was gracious enough to answer my nervous mommy questions. “Does he need to see a doctor or dentist right away?”
I received her very reassuring answer that he was probably ok. They could stitch it, but that would be even more traumatic and not necessary since he will need to have it snipped eventually. Whew. (thank you again!)

We did still manage to get out and enjoy the lovely day!


I have a feeling living out here is going to be hard on the kids clothes, here are Juno’s country knees…

A little blood, a little dirt, a little hole in her previously whole tights…

The wonderful weather led my dear darling to believe that summer is closer than it really is-

She begged to sleep in her bathing suit and I couldn’t resist. She has informed me that the Ariel suit is her dancing bathing suit. She also has a bathing suit for cleaning in, and a secondary suit for dancing in. I don’t really understand most of what goes on in her sweet little mind, but I do enjoy it.

She was sleep talking the other night and suddenly said, “Justus, the red rooster says cockadoodaldoo!” and later she said, “Get off my head you silly monkey”. ?! Interesting dreams she must have. Interesting animal related dreams of course.

Otherwise… we’ve been getting on pretty well even with Jon’s absence. We all miss him like craaaaazy, but thankful the time is passing quickly and the sunshiny weather is helping keep our spirits up. Looking forward to more tomorrow!

First: Please read this.

It’s the story of a man in Canada who was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm (without evidence), strip searched, his children removed by CAS for a time, his home illegally entered by police, and his pregnant wife interrogated. Why? Because while at school his four year old daughter drew a picture of him with a gun fighting monsters and bad guys.

The Waterloo regional school district superintendent’s response?
“We do work hand-in-hand with these families because we co-parent, so we hope that we could move forward.”

Co-Parent?!!!!

I really hope you will read the whole article, but here is just one quote…
“Co-parent? Neither Sansone nor anyone else ever went on one knee to his beloved then invited the school board into the marriage as co-parent. And the state clearly regards parents as subordinates, not partners. Note how Leviathan’s tentacles converge on hapless citizens like Sansone, from school boards to social services to police and beyond.”

We can’t ignore what is happening in CANADA, RIGHT NOW.

Whose children are they?