FULL HOUSE

Okay, when I say full house, I mean FULL HOUSE!!!   Right now Kevin and the kids are here.  I am so enjoying them.  The kids are at an awesome age (6 & 9) and honestly the best behaved kids in the world.  Well brought up.  Monte and Anton are also here.  Monte has stayed longer than he planned, I have a feeling he is enjoying being home with the usual mob of people and activity.

Mid morning Peter texted, he was on his way and is going to stay a few days.  He arrived mid afternoon.  Somewhere in there Jo phoned and needed a babysitter for Stirling.  I was quite happy to oblige as there were enough people here to pass him around should he become unhappy, and an unhappy Stirling is something to behold!  I also had Emma...which is such an awesome addition to the mix.

Later when there were people in every corner and a dog running around and a truly screaming baby being passed about, Peter came into the kitchen and put it something like this, " This is nice, its like home.  Gramma, dads, friends, family, baby and dog."  I couldn't agree more!  That is what this place is for.

Today we are going to the Little Big Science Centre.  Kiwanis has supported this centre in the past and it is a fun fun place.  I think the kids are going to love it!  Kathy is possibly going to meet us there with Ainsley.  Should be a hoot.  I think that I am going to take them to Denny's for lunch first.  Nacho time!!!

My old Auntie Edna died :(.  She had a good long life.  The funeral is on Thursday.  I have managed to either be totally ensconced in unmovable plans, or off on the other side of the world when all my other old rellies passed on and missed their funerals.....which, lets face it, are really mini family reunions, which I love.  So this time I had to wriggle things around a bit so I could go to the funeral with Stan and Kathy.

I don't have my jeep at the moment.  Tandy drove the family over but she had to go back so she left the truck for us and took the jeep.  The plan was I would drive them home on Thursday and collect my jeep.  But Kevin is going to drive home himself, and Peter and Anton offered to go with him and bring the jeep back for me.  So I can go to the funeral with my sibs.  There are people going to be there that I really want to see.

One of them is a worker (a minister from the religion I grew up in).  She used to stay at our house when the workers came to town, Smithers.  She probably won't remember me but I would dearly love to see her again.  I will put a pic down below.

My biggest problem is  I don't have any decent clothes to wear.  Tights, jeans, shorts and skorts are the only things I own.  I shall have to try stuff on...if I can find them.  I haven't even remotely unpacked any clothes yet.  I can't even find the boxes.

I had forgotten how totally noisy kids are.  In my little solitary world, when things are calm, there is very little noise in my life....other than music.  But kids, holy crap, they can make noises you don't even know about.  All the floors in this place are laminate.  And laminate is NOISY.  Right now they are upstairs in their bedroom, playing with dice on the floor.  Its rattling through the whole house!

Yesterday I took them out with me to run errands and go to the brick.  They were so excited.  We were buying bunk beds for their bedroom, and bunkbeds we bought!  It took a while to get all the ordering and paper work done.  While I was doing that they tried out every chair in the store, deciding which was the softest.  Then they moved on to beds.  I saw nervous sales peeps hovering about so I suggested they go check out the tv's.  That kept them busy.

Then I took them to my fave sushi place.  Boy they sure knew their sushi!  They knew exactly what they wanted!  And...they ate it all with chopsticks!  Just like little pros.  Then we made a fun trip to Walmart to buy new flip flops for Elise and a toy for each.  And I gave them only five minutes and no changies once they picked.  I shop on occasion with a bestie and sister who tend to be either indecisive or a put it back before we leave the store people.  You know who you are!!!!!  So I counted them down and told them, if you haven't picked, you don't get.  Pressure was on!!!!  They actually did very well! 

Well I have to bounce.  Lunch and Science Centre coming up!!!  TTYL

BACK ROW:  (LEFT TO RIGHT)     UNCLE LOWEL, MR. DURING, ELSIE DIXON (WORKER) DAD, AUNTIE IRIS, TRISHY (COUSIN) MRS. DURING (FROM RUPERT, FRIENDS) MOM  FRONT ROW:  (LEFT TO RIGHT)  BARBARA LOW (BEST FRIEND), KATHY (SISTER) HEATHER (COUSIN) NORENE CLEVEN (WORKER I WANT TO SEE MOST) , I FORGET THIS WORKER'S NAME, AND ME.