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A weekend with family – lots of family!

February 11, 2012 by Tricia

I just came back from my home town this evening. I only left home on Friday and I’m already back so it was a short trip, but unfortunately it was for a sad reason. My cousin died. She was the first of the grand children on my fathers side of the family to pass away. Hopefully it will be many many years before any more of us go!

I drove to Ottawa, my home town, with one of my brothers and his wife. I stayed over at my oldest brothers and his girlfriends house but the brother who I drove with stayed at a hotel because he’s allergic to my oldest brothers dog.

My Aunt – my only remaining aunt, was very happy and surprised to see my brother, my sister in law and I when we arrived at the visitation on Friday night. She didn’t know we were coming so I hope our presence gave her some comfort.

My cousin had been sick and in the hospital since sometime in November. She’d rallied and seemed to get somewhat better in December but she went downhill very fast last weekend.

I feel bad because I’ve sort of lost touch with most of my cousins. On top of that, being the youngest cousin in the family (first cousin I mean) I didn’t develop the same relationships with my cousins that my older siblings did growing up with my cousins that were closer to them in age. I mean … my oldest brother is 19 years older than me … and therefore several of my cousins are 10 to 20 years older than me as well .. I came a long a little late in the game. LOL Still .. better late than never and they were all happy to see me. I’m definitely going to make an effort to stay in touch with all of them from now on.

It was also good to see my oldest brother. I don’t see him often. Ever since my mother passed away I really haven’t been back to my home town – other than for my aunts 80th birthday celebration five years ago! So .. my two brothers, my sister in law, my oldest brothers girlfriend and one of my ex-sister in laws all went out for dinner after the visitation. We had a great time and a great dinner. Actually I think my ex-sister in law might have news … I thought I heard her talking to my other sister in law about a titanium wedding band … maybe there’s going to be invitations mailed out soon?

Ok .. well I’ve had a very busy and emotional two days. I think it’s time for me to have some rest. I hope your weekend is going well.

Busy weekend with my sister in law

January 31, 2012 by Tricia

My sister in law came for a visit this past weekend. She came to Toronto on the train on Friday and then went on to Oakville to visit with an old school friend on Sunday.

We had a very busy two days! Dinners out, shopping at the Eaton’s center, lots of catching up … I was tired out by the end of the weekend.

One night we went to a local restaurant for dinner and caught some live music. My husband was working that evening otherwise I’m sure he would have joined us. It’s too bad he wasn’t with us as I’m sure he would have been drooling over the guitars the band was playing. In fact, I think he really would have wanted to take a good look at the lakland 55-02 that the bass player was using. My husband is a guitar player, but he toys with the bass and I know he would have liked that instrument. Anyway .. the band was really good and so was the food.

The next day we had a lot of fun shopping. I needed a new winter hat so we had fun in the Bay with me trying on all kinds of hats. Of course I didn’t find a hat that I liked … but it was fun trying them all on. I gave my sister in law quite a few laughs.

What did you do this past weekend?

January just blew by didn’t it?

January 24, 2012 by Tricia

Wow, it’s hard to believe that January is almost over isn’t it? This month seems to have gone by so quickly or so it seems. At the beginning of this month I never would have thought that it would have felt like this month would have flown by like this as I was (and still am) extremely stressed but I’ve kept myself busy and the month is almost over.

Before we know it, it will be Valentines day .. and it’s a Leap year this year too!

Speaking of Valentines .. one of my nieces called me this weekend and she was talking to me about how she was searching for the perfect valentines day gifts for bf Dan.I don’t know him very well so I could only offer a few suggestions. I did point her towards a few good online sites that might give her some ideas too.

Are you looking forward to Valentines? Do you buy gifts?

Need to get away for a while

December 29, 2011 by Tricia

I would love nothing more than to get away for a while. I’ve been under quite a bit of stress in the last few months and I think I need to just take a few weeks to myself if I can.

Lucky for me I’ve had a few invites from people for places to stay for a while if I want to get away. Two of my brothers have offered their homes up to me and a friend in Florida just offered to let me stay with her for a while too.

I have to say the Florida getaway sounds like it would be the most fun. Especially since my friend and I talked about looking into staying at one of the Disney World hotels for a few days as well during my visit. Of course that getaway would be the most expensive for me and the situation I’m in doesn’t leave me with much money it seems – so staying with one of my brothers if I need to get away is probably what I’ll end up doing.

Still figuring out what to do for Christmas

December 20, 2011 by Tricia

I’m still not sure what I’m doing for Christmas this year. My husband might be working Christmas eve and Christmas evening so I might be pretty much on my own. I’ve been on my own a lot lately so I guess I’m getting used to that – but still – on such a major holiday – not so nice.

If my husband ends up working I might end up going over to my sisters. She going to have her boyfriend, daughter and son over Christmas eve and I’m sure some of them will be around Christmas day as well. I need to see all of them at some point anyway as I have to get their gifts to them. I found some great stuff for each of them, but I think my nephew might like his gift best. He’s quite sport and I found a speedglas helmet for him that he’s going to love or that I think he’ll love. We’ll see.

What are your plans for the holidays – are you on your own, doing something at your home or going to a friends or a member of your families for the holidays?