Hello Dear Friends,

And thank you for your patience.

I'm sorry I have not been a very faithful blogger this past week. I am well, as I hope you are all, too.

Main Man is on holidays now, so we are "on the run" so to speak. He is a restless holidayer, probably because he gets two weeks instead of my two months. He can't stay at home for very long, so this has been our calendar of events:

1. We attended the wedding of very good friends - the groom is #3's Godfather. These two have been together for as long as I've known them, and they are a match made in Heaven. However, due to academic commitments halfway across the country, they've not been able to physically be together much of that time. Even Main Man had a bit of a tear in his eye as we witnessed vows we've been looking forward to for years.

2. We spent three days at a theatre festival in Saskatoon (two and a half hours away). Lots of little plays, street performers, and interesting food from street vendors. The son of our very good friends is in a teen improv group, and their play was a HUGE hit! (MJ and T must be very proud!) Our older boys even attended it a second time. Remember - it's improv - never the same performance twice!

3. These last three days, we have been enjoying what Main Man has dubbed a "stay-cation" (taken from the tv show Corner Gas). Although we sleep in our own beds at night, we spend the day exploring beaches and resorts in our own backyard (so to speak). We drive somewhere after lunch, spend the afternoon on the beach, have a barbecue on the beach for supper, then drive home. The first couple of days were pretty good - we went to resorts an hour or so away and had a nice relaxing time. Yesterday, not so much. Main Man chose a resort two and a half hours away, much of which was on gravel road. Although the beach was wonderful, the long time in the van was a little too much. On the up side, I got a lot of reading done. On the down side, all the driving on terrible roads finally gave us a flat tire, and Main Man ended up changing it in the dark. We were all very happy to arrive home safe and sound at the end of the day.

4. Today, Main Man is popping into the office to do a little work. I get to do laundry, buy groceries, and pack for tomorrow, when we leave for a week at the lake. #1 is attending his first band camp (I can't wait for the first time I hear him say, "One time, at band camp....."), and we've rented a cabin at a resort just down the road from his camp. #1 said to me, "You're not going to visit me at camp, are you?" I said that I wouldn't come right into the camp, because I didn't want to embarrass him. I would just stand at the gate and wave and shout, "Hi, Honey! Are you having fun with your little friends? Did you remember to put clean underwear on today?" ;-)

So, yes, not only have I not been a very faithful blogger this week, but I won't be around next week either. Please don't give up on me. As Ah-nold says in his inimitable manner, "I'll be ba-ah-ck!"