Just to keep everyone who wants to be in the picture of the November-December madness that descends on our household every year in said picture:
November 6 - young man turns 6
November 7 - young man celebrates with ALL of his class and 5 of his neighbourhood friends with a Mad Science birthday party
November 8 - mother slinks off to do un-6 or 3 year old things to celebrate her birthday
November 9ish - expect paternal grandparents to fly into town
November 13-15 - family heads to Montreal to fete November birthdays with maternal grandparents
November 18 - Sophie turns 3
November 20 - Jo heads off to Myanmar for work
November 21 - Grandma's birthday and Seb's ballet "recital"
November 28 - Jo arrives back home
November 29 - perhaps hold a wee (not to be confused with "pee", though that seems to dominate discussions with an almost 3 year old and friends) party for Sophie and her buddies
December 4 - head to Geneva to celebrate the wonderful Nana Lorraine's birthday; perhaps head through the Mont Blanc tunnel to see Zia Elena in Turino for 3-4 days
December 13 - back to Toronto
December 14+ - expect to host Auntie Roberta in Toronto
Dec 25 - do the lowest keyed Christmas possible
Dec 26 - try to hold back from going to the Boxing Day sales (especially if I haven't yet been paid for my contracts- hey, at least I am honest about my foibles)
January 1 - celebrate New Year's with our annual bash
January 4 - send kids back to school and collapse in a heap.
I told you it gets crazy around here - and that doesn't count the next 48 hours of Hallowe'en hype!
1 comment:
Myanmar? I know you have specialised skills, but honestly, couldn't they find someone a little bit nearer -- say, Australia? Or India for that matter? And on your side of the coin, it's a heck of a lot of jetlag to endure, twice, for a week's work. Aren't there kids in need in your hemisphere? I am thinking of the way bottled water gets shipped around the world: Canadian Rocky "purity" to Europe, Evian (spell it backwards) to North America. And there English apples are still in a minority in the supermarkets in London.
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