A Good Weekend

"If you hold your burps in then they will come out as farts the next day!"

"Really, then you must be holding in lots of burps."

A short excerpt from the car ride today on the way from church to A&W for lunch. Everyone cracked up when Bear said the first line. The second one was only quietly heard by me and the two kids. Grandma and Grandpa were happy to see the kids this weekend and Smiles was a huge help watering plants with Grandma. Grandma thinks she takes after her and will be a gardener when she grows up. I hope so because Smiles keeps telling me "Your not a gardener Mommy. You're almost a Gardener!" Mainly because I don't have a lot of interest in the flowers and such. I like the end product, especially of tomatoes and potatoes and vegetable type things but hate weeding and usually forget to water stuff. Smiles is better at watering and will usually remind me that it needs to be done. So at Grandma's farm she was very happy to help Grandma water and feed the chickens and do other chores.

One thing I was happy to get was a piece of cloth that I wanted from storage out there. I thought I was looking for a white crinkle cotton, but instead found a white cotton and a blue crinkle cotton next to each other. So I grabbed both and should have enough to make a shift for myself out of the white cotton and maybe a couple of shirts for Bear or a dress for Smiles out of the dark blue crinkle cotton. So all in all I think its okay that my brain thought I was looking for only one piece of fabric because I ended up finding two! WooHoo!

1. Helped Mom around the farm. Dad had accidentally drilled into one of her fingers and so she's temporarily one handed.
2. Picked Strawberries yesterday.
3. Got the Bear to help out with dishes by drying them for me.
4. Cleaned up my house before leaving and put everything away as soon as we got home :)
5. Had a really good time at Grandma and Grandpa's farm.

Bear ended up helping Grandpa not only pick strawberries but also helped when it came time to clean them. Alas he learned the hard way this morning that eating too many strawberries does bad things to your digestive track. The poor kid was in pain this morning from having eaten way, way too many strawberries the night before. And Grandpa had only encouraged him in his nibbling. Bear was okay by the time we had to go to church (mainly because Grandma gave him ginger ale and some swedish herbal bitters) Once his stomach was okay he was off and running. Literally. He was antsy during church but not too bad. It was at the large Ukranian Easter Egg Park that he really had fun. It being Canada Day there was a gathering of people. Not alot. But enough that there were games and prizes for the kids to participate in. Bear won three times when it came to running. Wow I did not realize how fast he was. So now we have a really cool red frisbee that Grandpa played later at the farm with him. He has this red balloon that is covered with white maple leafs and looks incredibly phallic. (I honestly don't know what they were thinking). And a really nice smiley face pen. The pen in his words "I can use for homework!" Yay! He's thinking ahead.....maybe.

So I hope everyone else has had a good weekend and a Happy Canada's Day!