We spent the weekend with good friends up at their country property north of Caledon, ON.

Just one night, but a welcome relief from the daily grind. We picked raspberries until I think it could be awhile before I consume them again. Poor Finney has started to get carsick over the last few car trips and very quietly and without angst brought up dinner and a slew of raspberries in the car last night on the way home. She didn’t even whimper. Within a minute or so she was her chipper self again. There are reserves many adults will never tap in their lifetimes in that little girl… But she did cry mericilessly for about 1.5 hrs on the trip up, though.

Owen was the older child, and very much seemed so (piteous crying over dropped toys aside….). He seems happier these past two months (more?) than all of last year. Perhaps this is residual moving-from-Toronto atmospherics, but you just can’t know for sure.

O.M.C.H. – Berry Picker extraordinaire

We went for swims and splashes in the pond on our friends’ property and had lots of fun hunting down frogs, who eventually just got bored and stopped swimming away and were caught more easily after awhile. At first, a few swam into the stream of cold water entering the pond through a pipe and seemed struck with “Jah-heezuz! That is truly freaking cold!” and stopped dead in their tracks making them especiually easy to catch. They just floated, stunned by the arrival of Iceland into central Ontario…

Of course, we took lots of picks of kids frolicking everywhere, but we’ll save those for their parents to post, if they wish.

Back to work….