This past weekend we spent Father's Day on a friend's family's farm. Our friend's Mat and Tina from BC came all the way from Ontario to see family and invited us up for the weekend. Between Father's Day, a 3rd birthday for friend, Eli, daddies making bubbles, airplanes, four-wheeling, the sheep, little friends (new and old) it was a pretty lovely weekend!
It was really darling being at Tina's family's farm a few hours away. Her parents have a big old place that is 180 years old sitting on a huge property with barns and sheep and fields. Seriously, what a place to grow up and then bring the children back to play at their grandparents. There was much wandering the property, riding through the fields, bleating at the sheep, sniffing the vast flower gardens. (I just love places like this. I am most likely a city girl, but there is a big part of me that really just loves the country too. Maybe the part of me that grew up in the country building frog habitats, digging in streams and putting on old fashioned dresses with aprons and pretending I was a pioneer woman stirring a pot of boiling wool and then hanging it out on the old wooden fence in the back yard).
It's always good to spend time with "old friends." I remember a year ago standing on Mat and Tina's driveway in BC saying goodbye and Tina and I bawling our eyes out thinking we'd never see each other again. Well, I'm glad to say we were wrong! We just love this family. These days with social media, texting and skype, it doesn't feel like it's been nearly a year.
The resident sheep protector.
We left Jordan in charge of all the littles at one point. Like a good father that he is, he excelled of course.
Tina is always so creative! She made this watermelon cake with whipped cream frosting. It was light and delicious.
Later in the afternoon, the daddies took out the bubbles. I took great delight in seeing Jordan waving a pink wand around in the air, a big smile on his face and the kids chasing after the bubbles. They were seriously the biggest bubbles I have ever seen. They were bigger than our heads and floated up over the house and disappeared over the other side before finally popping. After the hours of bubble blowing and popping that ate up the afternoon, Jordan laughed and said, "Well, that was way more fun that it was meant to be." Isn't it just that way with kids sometimes, though? We take so much pleasure in seeing their delight as they eat up life!
And then they were so completely zonked, the all but fell asleep in front of the tv watching Peter Pan.
It is weird that I love big car trips as a family? We filled up the car with blankets, toys, books and snacks.
We bought things we usually don't eat like chips and licorice to make it
special. Both littles slept most of the way there and alllll the way
back. Which meant that Jordan and I got to talk and spend time just the
two of us for a lot of the trip. And once we got home, we just lifted the
children into bed and off to sleep. We were pretty proud when, at
10pm, we met at the bottom of the stairs, both children in bed after a
long day. Thank you Mat and Tina for the weekend. Your family is just so beautiful! We miss you. Come back again some day!
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