A day in the life of my family

A day in the life of my family,


It started out with a job interview, all the way in Abbotsford. I thought it was a full interview. The interviewer told me that out of 140 resumes I was one of 12 interviews, which he chose for a preliminary interview. (1 of 11 as the person before me didn’t show) So now I have to wait and see if I will become 1 of 3 or 4 for the actual interview. I will not know for at least a week possibly two. I hope so; it looks like a REALLY COOL place to work. I do not want to say anything more regarding the actual job as I hope not to jinx it.

So during the interview I stumped the interviewer by asking about what the benefit package might be, I have no idea if that was a good thing or not. The job would be 8:30ish to 5:30ish (they hadn’t firmed up the exact times they wanted) but the atmosphere was really cool.

After the riding the emotional roller coaster of gearing up for and interview. Then the stress of trying to think of what I could do to improve my chances for the possible upcoming interview. Then the realization that I will not know for sure if I even needed to worry about that for a couple of weeks, (Which will feel like FOREVER.) and the downer that comes with that.

Cameron and I came home and got a chance to finally mow the grass. It is WRONG that one week’s growth looks like 3 weeks. Anyhow after that we sat out on the lawn and I watched Cameron read the paper. I had been reading a paper too, but my paper was WAY smaller and had no comics….so I got bored pretty quickly.

Cameron had the great idea that after the kids come home from we go to the lake for a picnic supper. It was an AWESOME idea. We told the kids where we were going and OF COURSE they wanted to go swimming. We told them “It’s going to be cold, but if you want to you can go swimming”.

I tell you nothing is more entertaining than watching your children learn one of life’s lovely lessons.

First it was Nigel he was itching something wicked to get in the water. So he goes trundling down the dock in his swim suit ready for the first dip of the season. He jumped in…. he shouted out from the cold, his eyeballs the size of pie plates….I wished I’d brought a camera…… it looked like his skin wanted to crawl inward. But he was ooooh so determined to swim, so stubborn him kept right on swimming he had a great ol’ frozen time.

Then it was Sadie’s turn. She was more methodical with her entry. She walked all the way up to her belly button. Then she decided okay I’ll dunk all the way in….well again we were not disappointed ….She screamed and did a jig dance type thing and her eyeballs where the size of grapefruits, which was harder to see because she had purple goggles on….but her like her brother was determined to swim. So she did.

We had a lovely evening. Way better than sitting at home in front of a glowing box, and only one incident with Sadie falling off the trolley platform.

She was riding the trolley and in her OH SO GRACEFUL way as she tried to land on the platform. Instead she landed on the platform, but then in a slow motion flailly type movement she then she slid right off the thing. . At first Cameron and I had been giggling because she looked so gangly and uncoordinated before she had got to the platform (which we had thought she had been doing on purpose) Cameron and I watched her as she kept on going right on the side of the platform, but were helpless to stop the scene that unfolded before our eyes.

We both ran over because at first she’d looked like she may have broken her arm (the way she’d landed on it) but after checking her over all she had was a tiny scrape to her ankle and some bruised pride. With some Mom and Dad love she felt better. We all got in the car, went home to clean up and put the kids to bed. That was pretty much my day.