Many of my friends have younger kids, so I’m anticipating a LOT of last-day-of-school photos in my social media feeds in June. Well, as the mother of a university-aged daughter I get to post mine earlier because SCHOOL IS OVER. At least for the Eldest. Yay! I am thrilled to have my little family together again. I am hoping for some great adventures this summer!
Here’s the Eldest on the day we moved her into residence, back in September:
… and here’s her last day, this past Monday, when we picked her up to move her back home to Ottawa:
All I can say is TIME FLIES people. I can hardly believe we’re here.
A word about the sling, because I know you’re probably wondering what the heck happened. I’m sensitive to her privacy but I will say she took a wee tumble the night before we were to come pick her up (FTR she was stone cold sober) and is ok now. I’ll have to leave it at that, but I will say that she comes by her shenanigans naturally and she has clearly inherited her fun-loving spontaneity from her mother.
It was a relatively painless move (that is, for everyone who didn’t have a swollen elbow). Mark and I rented a van and drove to Kingston in the late afternoon. Once it was loaded up we grabbed a quick dinner at Thai Express and ate it in the park on the waterfront. The weather was absolutely gorgeous. After dinner, we treated ourselves to gelato at Mio Gelato (salty peanut for the win!) and soon we were on our way back to Ottawa.
It’s been a bit of a hectic week (or four) around Casa Fishbowl. As some of you know, I’m the editor of a community newspaper here in Ottawa. As of the next issue we are moving to a monthly format and there has been a lot of discussion/planning/transitional stuff to do these past few weeks. More about that later, but I will say that I’m really excited about the change. Our little paper is going to look amazing! It might be early to say, but this change might also free up some time for other writing projects. We’ll see.
