Monday 10 February 2014

Celebrating Family

What a wonderful long Family Day weekend my family had!

Friday night began with Scott and I taking the kids to the Lego movie.  This is a fantastic show with a terrific lesson.  I enjoyed watching the story unfold and had some quiet giggles to myself as I connected with the bad guy "Mr. Business".  I don't want to stay too much in case you plan to see the movie, but Mr. Business wants to use glue to keep certain lego pieces together... and it wasn't that long ago that I took some crazy glue to a few of Matthew's StarWars Lego ships.  Needless to say I felt like the movie was speaking to me directly!

Saturday Scott took the kids for a bike ride while I did homework.  Yes, I am enrolled in another course but this time for fun!  I am taking a Math course and really enjoying learning about the history and theory behind the subject for which I have grown so fond.  In the afternoon/evening we visited with one of Scott's friends, his spouse, and two twin girls.  We had lots of fun playing many games with the kids.  I have a new found favourite - Spot It! and plan to pick this up for a Valentine's Day present for M & M.  We have an adapted version of this game with NHL team logos but I like the original version better.

Sunday we had hoped to go skiing but the weather was a bit too cold.  Instead we went to the mall and searched for new ski gloves and snow pants for Matthew and learned that you should never wait until February to buy winter clothes as they have moved on to Spring!  Matt played a hockey game in the early evening and Scott and I watching The Help for the first time later in the night.  Although it was good, I felt the book was much better.

But the best part of the weekend was today when my entire family came together to celebrate my Mom's 70th birthday, which is tomorrow.  This year I have witnessed a few of my friends go through the loss of a parent.  Understanding that life is fragile, I wanted to convey to mom just how special she is to all of us, her family.  So together with my siblings, our spouses, and our kids we created a list of the 70 things that make my Mom so special.  My sister printed this list on nice paper and we framed it.  She loved this homemade gift, as well as the plate and bowl my kids made her.  As I watched her blow out the candles, surrounded my whole family, I could not have envisioned a more perfect end to Family Day.