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family day (feb 16th) & valentine’s day date night (feb 13th)

February 18, 2009 by bigdaddy

Well… although it wasn’t really a “Family Day” for us, we did spend it with family. My parents are preparing to move soon. They interviewed a few real estate agents last week, and all of them had commented that they needed to remove the numerous pictures on the wall in the family room. My parents have hung pictures of them, their kids, and their grandkids… so needless to say, there were alot of pictures. So me being the wonderful son that I am with so much time on my hands (LOL), I offered to remove the pictures, patch the walls, spot sand, tape the trim, and paint. As this cannot be done in one day, I removed the pictures and patched the walls on Thursday night, sanded and taped Friday. I put the first coat of paint on Saturday while Mapsgirl was at a play with her mom and sister-in-law. My parents watched the girls. On Sunday, we all went back over and Mapsgirl and I put the final coat of paint on. The next morning (Family Day), after Mapsgirl left for work, I took Peanut and Munchkin over to my parents place to remove the tape, put all the outlet covers back on, and replace the cold air return (as the previous owners painted it and it looked terrible). They are quite inexpensive at Home Depot, and a new one looks much better than painting the old one, and much easier to do too.

When we were done, we went to out for lunch (because the girls were so good), and then went home. My Mum kept the girls quite busy while I was working, so they were pretty tired. We all went down for a nap at 1:30pm. Next thing I knew… it was 4:40pm, Dakota woke up (she sleeps beside my side of the bed), Munchkin was passed out beside me, and Peanut (who was in her crib) was just starting to wake up (her voice in the monitor was what woke Dakota up). I went out to get Peanut and realized Mapsgirl was already home. She had left work early, and when she got home to a quiet home, she didn’t want to disturb us. I started to think what a wonderful nap I just had, although my arm was a little numb from Munchkin’s head laying on it for 3 hours! The long nap was so relaxing… and much needed after all we did this past weekend. I just wish Mapsgirl was home to enjoy the morning, lunch out, and the long nap… and enjoy Family Day with us.

Well… at least we had a night out for Valentine’s Day (on Friday night). We went to the Keg for dinner, and then to a pub for a couple beers. It was great… date night. I was looking forward to it for weeks.

Now… I bet you’re wondering why I mentioned these 2 events out of order. Well… although I missed Mapsgirl on Family Day, we got to spend some quality time talking, laughing, and enjoying each others company… just the 2 of us. With such hectic lives, time is so valuable. Time together alone is priceless.

Although I love the fact we have a new statutory holiday to spend with our families, every day is family day to me. In all, I’d say it was a wonderful weekend.

date night!

December 6, 2008 by bigdaddy

By @bigdaddykreativ:

Tomorrow night is date night. Mapsgirl and I are going out for dinner, and then to the Leaf game.

I had a very generous secret Santa at work. I know what you’re thinking… that’s one-hell-of-a-Kris-Kringle! Well here’s how it goes… the person that had me received the tickets from our boss for saving the day. What he did is not important, but the fact they gave him Leaf tickets, and good ones at that, is the important part. Well… he isn’t much of a hockey fan, and tried to sell them on-line, with no bites. Surprising, being in the GTA and not being able to sell tickets in the largest hockey market in North America. So I organize and run the Secret Santa at our work… and we drew names this past Monday. Low and behold, my name was chosen by the person who just saved the day, and couldn’t sell the tickets. I was unaware of this… until he walked up to me at one of the busiest moments on Tuesday afternoon and said “got plans Saturday night?” To which I replied… “I don’t think so”. So he said “want your Secret Santa gift early… cause I drew your name”… so I said “sure”. Never in a million years did I expect what happened next. He pulled a pair of tickets out from his pocket and said “enjoy… they’re playing Washington, so it should be a great game!” The tickets were the normal mezzanine seats my work gets, and they are fantastic seats. There is a private bar, and a restaurant where you can get a fresh sliced roast beef sandwich, and all of it can be delivered to your seat, so you don’t miss a second of the action.

Mapsgirl and I are planning on making an evening out of it. We are leaving Munchkin and Peanut with their favourite sitter, and taking the GO train into town. First dinner, then the game. This will be our first “date night” since February 16th. We saw the Leafs that night too, and they won. Honestly, it doesn’t even matter to me if they win tomorrow, and I’m not really expecting them to, as they are playing Ovechkin and the Capitals. I’m just going to enjoy spending some quality time with mapsgirl. GO LEAFS!

busy! busy! busy!

March 6, 2005 by Wendy S

This week when by so quickly! I don’t really remember all that happened. With Munchkin still not at 100% we didn’t go anywhere.

Thursday morning I started feeling really bad and decided to cancel plans with Mom and Dad for the weekend. But Friday night I decided that I needed to get out of the house!

Oh, Thursday I finally got a call from the government people that my EI paperwork got finalized and I will be receiving the maximum per week, minus taxes. The money should be deposited in my account in “4-5 business days” so hopefully that will be Tuesday or Wednesday. Once I get some sort of statement I’ll send that in the City and they can process my top-up. I can’t believe how slow everything takes.

Yesterday we had a great day! I fed Munchkin at 2 and Mom and Dad arrived just as we finished. I quickly took a shower and we were out the door around 3. The RV show was really neat. Lots of different trailers, campers, mobile homes and huge bus-like ones! Munchkin was so good. She was awake for a while and everyone kept commenting on how alert she is. Around 4 she fell asleep and I figured that she’d be up at 4:30 wanting to eat. Well, she woke up at 5 and didn’t really start fussing until 5:45. We got home at 6 and I fed her. I thought that she’d go right to sleep…well she did, but only for about 30 minutes. She at again at 8:30 and again I thought she’d go right to sleep. Well she did, but only for 15 minutes or so. So Mom took Munchkin, awake, and Hubby and I headed out for the movie around 9:10.

The movie was sold out. We wanted to see “Million Dollar Baby”. I was upset because I was really looking forward to being out of the house, without Munchkin with Hubby. He said to me “Is it still a date even if we don’t go to a movie?”

TO be continued….