Happy Women's Day and Happy Birthday, Hannah!
I love that both days are the same!
We've been busy celebrating like crazy around here. I'm glad tomorrow is a PA Day to kick off March Break a little early. I don't have a lot planned (besides more birthday celebrations) but frankly I'm looking forward to a little less structure to the day.
The kids' school starts earlier than any other school in the area at 8:20 and although I find it a little on the early side, I don't think I would be any less rushed if it started at 9:00...that just seems to be the way things go in the morning around here.
On Jack & Henry's birthday, Henry & I were able to accompany Jack's class to a Jack Grunsky concert. Hannah went to see him with the school 3 years ago and his cds have been played to death in our house ever since. So we knew all the songs and had a great time singing along.
The boys waited until Jason came home to open gifts from us and all the cards that came in the mail...thank you everyone!
That evening, Jack had Beavers and they had a special night planned...drive in movies. Now they didn't actually go anywhere but the school gym and they weren't actually in cars, but they had spent the week before building cars out of boxes and decorating them and so that night they watched movies on the gym wall in their cars. We brought cupcakes for Jack's birthday and of course there was popcorn too! What a GREAT idea!
The next day Jack's class celebrated his birthday since there hadn't been time following the concert so we brought more cupcakes for the class.
Then today for Hannah's birthday we all went to the school at lunch to join her in her multi-cultural club meeting. It was a special meeting where they were all to bring something to eat from their culture. Initially I was going to bring in cupcakes (for her birthday - I know, can I bake anything else?) but then I felt like I was cheating and started getting a little stressed trying to come up with something from our culture. I guess, 5 generations ago, my ancestors came from Scotland, but I don't eat (or make) anything that is particularly Scottish. Jason's family comes from France and Ireland, long ago, he suggested Irish stew or potatoes, but these were not going to go over well with a group of 7 & 8 year olds. So I settled on scones. At one point I had thoguht of bringing homemade apples sauce or something with maple syrup to represent Canadian food, but I didn't want to come across as thinking I was more Canadian than anyone else. But sure enough, there were a few maple syrup dishes there...why do I over think these things?
My favourite part of the meeting was when they shared a book with us that the girls had created. Each girl had been asked to draw a picture and write a sentence about a symbol of tradition to them...what is the definition of tradition, anyway? Everyone wrote about Christmas and Easter celebrations they partake in and Hannah wrote that going on the log ride at Centre Island every year reminds her of summer vacation!! Ha-ha! Is it a tradition if we've done it twice?! Sometimes I wonder where she's coming from! We really do celebrate Christmas and Easter, I promise!!
Today was also beach day at the school so everyone was to wear beach gear to school. Henry wanted to join in so he wore sunglasses all day. Unfortunately I forgot to explain the concept to him and he kept asking me when we were going to make a sandcastle. Poor kid!
We've been busy celebrating like crazy around here. I'm glad tomorrow is a PA Day to kick off March Break a little early. I don't have a lot planned (besides more birthday celebrations) but frankly I'm looking forward to a little less structure to the day.
The kids' school starts earlier than any other school in the area at 8:20 and although I find it a little on the early side, I don't think I would be any less rushed if it started at 9:00...that just seems to be the way things go in the morning around here.
On Jack & Henry's birthday, Henry & I were able to accompany Jack's class to a Jack Grunsky concert. Hannah went to see him with the school 3 years ago and his cds have been played to death in our house ever since. So we knew all the songs and had a great time singing along.
The boys waited until Jason came home to open gifts from us and all the cards that came in the mail...thank you everyone!
That evening, Jack had Beavers and they had a special night planned...drive in movies. Now they didn't actually go anywhere but the school gym and they weren't actually in cars, but they had spent the week before building cars out of boxes and decorating them and so that night they watched movies on the gym wall in their cars. We brought cupcakes for Jack's birthday and of course there was popcorn too! What a GREAT idea!
The next day Jack's class celebrated his birthday since there hadn't been time following the concert so we brought more cupcakes for the class.
Then today for Hannah's birthday we all went to the school at lunch to join her in her multi-cultural club meeting. It was a special meeting where they were all to bring something to eat from their culture. Initially I was going to bring in cupcakes (for her birthday - I know, can I bake anything else?) but then I felt like I was cheating and started getting a little stressed trying to come up with something from our culture. I guess, 5 generations ago, my ancestors came from Scotland, but I don't eat (or make) anything that is particularly Scottish. Jason's family comes from France and Ireland, long ago, he suggested Irish stew or potatoes, but these were not going to go over well with a group of 7 & 8 year olds. So I settled on scones. At one point I had thoguht of bringing homemade apples sauce or something with maple syrup to represent Canadian food, but I didn't want to come across as thinking I was more Canadian than anyone else. But sure enough, there were a few maple syrup dishes there...why do I over think these things?
My favourite part of the meeting was when they shared a book with us that the girls had created. Each girl had been asked to draw a picture and write a sentence about a symbol of tradition to them...what is the definition of tradition, anyway? Everyone wrote about Christmas and Easter celebrations they partake in and Hannah wrote that going on the log ride at Centre Island every year reminds her of summer vacation!! Ha-ha! Is it a tradition if we've done it twice?! Sometimes I wonder where she's coming from! We really do celebrate Christmas and Easter, I promise!!
Today was also beach day at the school so everyone was to wear beach gear to school. Henry wanted to join in so he wore sunglasses all day. Unfortunately I forgot to explain the concept to him and he kept asking me when we were going to make a sandcastle. Poor kid!
After Jason came home from work, Hannah got to open her gifts from us and all her cards that came in the mail (yeah, I make them wait for their real birthday!) and then we had her birthday dinner before she was off to Brownies (with more cupcakes)!Now believe it or not, that's just the beginning of the celebrations! My family comes over tomorrow for a birthday party. Uncle John comes the next day to take each kid individually to do whatever they want (Ontario Science Centre for Hannah & Jack & Tim Horton's for Henry). And then Sunday is their birthday party at a gymnastics club with Hannah & Jack's friends.
Sounds like way too much when I write it all down like this, but there are 3 of them. I keep thinking how nice it would be if their birthdays were spread out a little so that we could focus on each of them individually. Obviously I'm overcompensating!
Anyway, once that's all said & done, we got nothin! Looking forward to it!
~Dana
posted by St. Louis Family at 9:42 PM
3 Comments:
Once that's done we've got nothin- sounds like a good time to book into rehab!!!
Dana, I will send over some haggis next year for Hannah's school party, and Sharon can send some Mars Bars to fry up- that will go over a treat.
Sounds like so much fun- have a great birthday weekend!!!!
Hello Cupcake Queen, sounds like the partying was lots of fun with more to come!
Those Beaver leaders are awesome! I wish I was a 6 year old boy.
Happy birthday, all you crazy kids. Thanks for the long post, Dane. I can't believe Henry's going to Tim Horton's. I wish we could have been there to join in some of the many and varied celebrations. We'll give you guys a call tonight.
- Andrew
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