Can you believe it more snow in May! It snowed all day yesterday. I had to shake off my raspberries a couple of times yesterday so they wouldn’t break off. I guess I shouldn’t have planted all of my pots and put everything in ground so early! Who knew it was going to snow again! The pink stuff in the garden box is the flower petals off of one of my flowering apple trees. Seems really wrong to have flower petals in the snow.
Underneath this snow is strawberries. I hope they survive!
Adam has the day off. When I picked him up from school today he told me that there was no school tomorrow. I knew that I didn’t have it written on the calendar. But he assured me it was true, something about the water main breaking. Sure enough when I looked in to his back pack there was a letter from the principal that they had to shut down the school tomorrow because they would not have any water. Thank goodness for my parents, they have come to our rescue. He is thrilled, he had too much fun over the weekend and really didn’t want to go to school this morning.
I picked up some contract work this past week.
Let me back up so you get the whole story. Our friend Emma, who is Adam's age, told her mom that the Ace of Cakes made cakes that were almost as good as Chandra's. Emma has been at all of the kid birthday parties that we have had for the kids and if I do say so myself, I have made some pretty cool cakes. Now I have said before and I will say it again, they are not perfect but they were made with love. Here is a sample.
So when Emma’s mom called to see if I would do some contract work, I was a bit confused. It soon became clear, she wanted to me to do a birthday cake for her. I was tickled pink! Here is what I came up with. Again, made with love not talent!
Here is Adam at his recital with his teacher, Mrs Chandra. She has been his teacher for three years but this is her last year. She is having her second child and will not be continuing on. So it was a bit sad! Here is a little sample of his composition piece and his song that he sang!
We did practice really hard but he had a bit of trouble!?!
We are planting!
I had some help yesterday with the planting. It was lots of fun and they actually did all of my digging for me.
Ed dug me a couple more beds to plant some shrubs and more flowers.
And I got this for mother’s day. I will keep you posted on how it works.
So this day did not go quite as planned. In the morning Adam had golf and Isla had dance and then we were off to Isla’s piano recital. We carefully packed her bag, got all prettified and went to pick up Grandma and Grandpa. We got to Sylvan with lots of time to spare and horror! We forgot her music bag at home. Ed jumped back in the van and took off back home to get the bag. It is about a 20-25 minute drive and we just hoped he would arrive in time! He made it just in time, when I say just in time the last person before Isla’s group was on the stage playing her song. Way to close for comfort, my heart was starting to pound wondering what I was going to do! Whew is all I can say!
Adam was a total stinker and started to complain before anything even started. By the end, 90 minutes later, I could kind of forgive him. But he was well rewarded with snacks after the recital and then a walk to the ice cream shop for some Big Moo icecream.
For the record, I had a cinnamon bun ice cream that had raisins in it. Really good but I need to try the Nanaimo bar one next!
