Boy shorts

There is something so cute about little boy underwear...

What's in your garden?

I'm lucky to have an amazing Aunt who constantly surprises me with the additions to her garden. She also is extremely generous and in the Spring when she's divided all her perennials, she calls me to come over and take as many as I'd like.

This year, she gave me an Evening Primrose bush. If you can get your hands on an Evening Primrose they are great fun for you and the kids. You can actually watch the flowers open in the evening. Imagine that, but all over a 2-3' tall bush with tonnes of blooms!

My Primrose started blooming this week around 8:30pm and I sat there watching as the petals forced themselves out of the pods. You could actually see the sticky residue on the stamens (or whatever those pollen covered bits are called). It was amazing.

Happy Canada Day

To celebrate, Addison is wearing a Happy Birthday Canada tee. She's so stylish with the wind-swept hair and all.

June Recap

While I've been remiss in blogging, I have not been sitting around moping. No indeed. This month has been busy! Tyler finished Grade One, Quinten got his letter letting him know what teacher he has for JK, Addison is talking up a storm and trying to figure out how to pee sitting down (not that I'm training her; every once in a while I see her perched on a fully closed toilet with nothing but a diaper on looking confused... I blame the boys who are peeing standing up). And then there is me... and the mountains of freelance I'm buried under. I just had a meeting with a client last night who has 5 books for me to design, countless brochures and a couple web redesigns... all of which he'd like next-to-completed by the end of August. That's just one client. But I can't say no! These are jobs I WANT to do. I thankfully have the support of Craig to do this stuff and the kids have been okay (I've been visiting the library where they have been getting a bunch of books and videos... and don't forget the Wii which they'd play all day every day if I'd let them). Once it stops raining I'll have to find fun stuff for them to do outside...

And because I'm a huge freak, I've written out my cleaning/decluttering agenda on the calendar. One room a week until schools back in which should get the whole house under control. Washing wall and windows, going through everything from clothes to books to toys to whatever else. I'm determined that everything will be in it's place before school starts again. This week are the kids rooms (they are in not too bad of shape so I figured I could tackle both this week).

One last note, our strawberries are now in season and this weekend I think Craig has off so I'm planning on taking the kids strawberry picking on Saturday and making jam with them! Should be good, messy fun!