Friday was a teeny bit hectic.
I didn’t have a peaceful night’s sleep the night before – I was too wired – and I was up at the crack of dawn to get ready for the MomCafe event at which I was speaking.
I washed my sweater. It may have shrunk a bit, but I ‘m not sure, but the shoulders were decidedly damp as I ran around the house making sure everyone was up and properly breakfasted.
Until a few days before I had forgotten it was a P.D. day and that I had stupidly scheduled a parent-student-teacher meeting at 7:45. I would have preferred to be relaxing at home before my event but that was not going to be happening..
I walked out the door on Friday morning wound up tighter than a Sealy Posturpedic spring. And this spring was ready to sproing.
The teacher meeting was fine, and after it was over I shuttled the girls off to a friends (they went to Gotta Paint to make Christmas ornaments) and made it to my event with time to spare.
It was great. There were a few friendly faces in the audience too – which I really appreciated. My friend Anna Epp, the event photographer (here are her pics!); Lara who is slowly taking over the blogosphere with Losing It, Kids in the Capital AND her own blog; Donna from Elation Centre, and Sara-Lynn from Macaroni Kid (who was speaking with me!). Everything went off without a hitch, and I got to meet some fantastic women and munch on a lovely lemon-blueberry scone from Viva Loca.
I practically floated out of the room, picked up the girls, went home for lunch and a nap, did a quick phone-interview with a local paper, and then took the girls and the dog for a short visit to Britannia Beach. Unfortunately – except for a small benchless stretch of lawn – almost every part of the park around Britannia Beach is off-limits to dogs, so we picked up and went to Andrew Haydon instead. (Which proved to be a much more dog-friendly part of Ottawa. Yay!)
The light was just about as perfect as you could get. The water was still. The grass was green. The leaves were crunchy. The trees were welcoming.
Overall: a day for the record books.
