fun | Sherry's A Labour of Love

It’s been a crazy summer. If you have not seen me lately it’s because we’ve been really busy. Praises to the Lord for the strength He gives to continue on. We are richly blessed and are thankful for every moment. As we close out summer and begin our school activities, I thought it would be fun to share a few of our special moments.

Starting out with Summerfest and Music. Lindsey Stirling was amazing!

How about a glass of wine and a little Shakespeare in the park overlooking the city? Cheese and crackers anyone?

The night market was fun. Listening to music, walking the vendors, and watching the ice sculpture slowly melt in the 80 degree evening.

Who could believe we would once again venture down to Disney. Especially when we said we would never go during summer. We did enjoy several aspects however, that we would not have enjoyed had we not gone….

And seeing some friends of old! What a great night of selfies, dancing, blue blinking lights and sore feet. 🙂

Learning how to make several Korean dishes while listening to friends play the kids instruments.

One of the best parts of summer was attending the North American Championships in Maxville, ON. Ten bands competed for the North American Championship in Grade II….

Meet the winners of the North American Championships….Yes!!!! Greater Midwest Pipe Band. Well worth all of the travel and the work. Something the kids will never forget. Next year Scotland and the World’s?

Who could forget session in a local pub. Playing fiddle with friends and classmates.

On stage with Liz Carroll at Irish Fest. Playing just before a monsoon of rain, constant lightning, and wind gusts that nearly blew us over. It did end up being a great night once the rain stopped. Took longer for the lightning, we just avoided sitting on the metal bleachers.

Our daughter celebrated her 16th birthday which was not only her sweet 16, yet also her golden birthday. It was a day of celebration with friends, a limo, dinner and a masquerade party.

Yes this is me..scaring a dear friend at the end of the Jurassic World movie. It was hilarious… and I’m sure if she would have thought of doing it to me, she would have! 🙂

And lastly, a fun night with mom and daughter attending a Saucy Suffragette party with our friends and Attorney General for our stat celebrating 95 years. Should we be worried that the only thing we had to buy in order to dress time period, were the hats? What a great night.

I hope dear friends that your summer was as full and as exciting with thankful blessings of family and fun. I do hope to begin blogging more consistently in the next few weeks. I have plenty of Feline Friday pictures to post. 🙂 And a great many thoughts of God’s ever present providential care in our lives. God’s blessings to you all and to your families

Random thoughts of youth…

Teenager… The word for youth between the ages of 13-18. A word that made it’s debut in 1941 in Popular Science Monthly. Although, as early as the 1920’s parents were already beginning to allow their children more time to enjoy their youth before they experienced the challenges of adulthood, yet the word was first used in print in 1941. Honestly, I think there should be more time to be a child before you have the face the challenges of the “teen-age” years. Things change from one generation to the next so significantly that I’m just not sure how society keeps up with itself. Does that make sense? Not sure it does, yet for those over 40 I’m sure you can relate and understand where I’m coming from.

Since I spend a great deal of time with my “teenagers”, I am astounded at how old I feel. I seem to be in a constant state of disbelief at the things they know and the things I don’t. I mean, when in the last 20 years did red stop matching blue, brown shoes not match blue jeans, belts go out of fashion and jeans not fit around the waste. Who are the bands that my children download onto the family iTunes ap? For that matter, what makes it an ap? What is LOL? Is it “lots of love”, “lots of laugh”, “laugh out loud” or “lots of luck”? I just don’t remember things being so difficult to keep straight. Funnier yet is that my teenagers seem to be “in the know” since they understand each LOL. Really????

In November, I learned a new word and thought it was such a fun word with such a fun concept that for about 4 hours I dragged my daughter around Disney acting upon what I had learned. It was all fun & games until she decided her mother was becoming an embarrassment and told me she was done. What was the word? Selfies…taking a picture of yourself with your cell phone. Although, in my case, we did it with a Canon camera. At least most of them. I was shocked at how many people actually knew the word and laughed when we asked them to be in the picture or when we were setting the stage for our next picture perfect moment. What made our 4 hours challenging was the fact that I was in the wheelchair for most of them, so getting the right angle with a Canon was quite time consuming.

I was looking through pictures and thought you may enjoy seeing some of our selfies that we took that day… that is until the 14 year old stopped all the fun. Guess there are some things that don’t change from one generation to the next… Parents can and will embarrass their children! LOL..Just so you know, that means, Laugh out loud!