Happy Homemaker 2025-04-21

Good morning 

We had grandkids last Monday (and sleepover), Tuesday and Wednesday as daycare was still on strike.  DS was in Toronto for 3 days for his job too.

Easter... egg hunt was to be at ds' house but ddil said she couldn't do it as they are in kitchen renovations . Instead her sis, bil and niece came here too... so out we went to buy the plastic eggs and fillers for 5 kids.  My family was invited too however it is 3 hours to come and 3 hours to go and dad is not feeling up to it.  the others had said they probably wouldn't be here, it's ok everyone has their own family and now they are starting to have grandkids too.

So just in case I had prepped some chili and some meat stew.

Good Friday we went to Costco's to buy a cake.  17th was Anne-E's 4th birthday and 18th was dd's 34th bday.

Saturday dd and family arrived at 11:00.  Thought ds' family would come to spend the day but ddil had other plans... was sad for grankids as they don't see each other alot and wanted to spend time together.  Finally we went to a local egg hunt with dd and family was nice.  Then ddil texted to ask us to go over for supper with her sis, bil and niece, so off we went.  Came back around 8:30.  was nice.

Sunday dh and I and dd's 2 stepkids had early breakfast, then ds texted asking if we were waiting for them for breakfast (thought they wouldn't come as they had ddil's family there), so told them to come over... they arrived at 9:00... same time electricity went off (until 11:45), so breakfast was eggs and toasts on the bbq.  Sausages were already cooked, so just some reheating on bbq.  Had a tourtiere in the oven (8 hours of cooking) when it went off, so that went on bbq too afterwards for awhile.  Neighbors were also cooking breakfasts on bbq as they had family over for brunch too :)

Then we did the egg hunt and invited neighbor's 2 granddaughters too... each child had 9 eggs to find with each his own design, was great and they had lots of fun.  A bit cold (the winds brrr....) but at least it wasn't raining (we wanted to do it Saturday but it rained all day).

Lunch was hotdogs on the bbq.  Ddil's family left at 2:00.  2 of the grandkids napped and afterwards ds and dh took them to the park for over an hour.  Ddil and dsil napped during that time.  I sat outside with dd for awhile.

Supper was tourtière with a cake for the 2 bday girls.  Sil and bil came for cake too.  They gave the bath to the 4 grandkids and got them in pj's ready for bed when they got home. ds left around 7:30, dd around 8:00 and bil around 8:30.

Was a nice weekend.

Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom . , 

The weather

Mon

11°

4°

Tue

11°

3°

Wed

9°

3°

Thu

13°

5°

Fri

16°

6°

Looking around the house

A mess this morning - have lots to do

Thinking and pondering

Mom, dad,... the whole thing

TV this week

• Indéfendable (saison 3)
• Stats (saison 3)
• Veille sur moi (saison 1)
• Doc (saison 3)
• La Galère (saison 4)
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Interesting blog I saw this week

I like this blog - it is interesting

On my reading pile

A la croisée des chemins - Louise Tremblay-D'essiambre

On my to-do list

Last weekend

• On Good Friday (day off), I had vac'd and duste main floor and did some laundry and basement picking up

Monday

• Prep for in-town work tomorrow - DONE
• 10:30 Tai-chi classes
• Voting
• Revac main floor
• Mop main floor
• Put away Easter decor
• Pick up everywhere
• Freeze leftovers
• Wash LR throws and air out cushions
• Wash and put away boot trays
• Get some entryway carpets put away until Fall
• Post here - DONE
• Sis texted and wants me to put up an add for help for my parents... need to looke that up and call dad to see what kind of help he needs... this doesn't include personal hygyien for mom.

Decluttering 

• 2 rubber ducks

Upcoming this week

Monday - Vote by anticipation, tai-chi class

Tuesday - In-town work

Friday - Friend's 60th bday party

Hockey games ... my nephew is having his finals in town so we will try to see a few games

From the camera

Funny of the week