The True North Strong and Free!

Canada Day tomorrow. This will be our first cottage weekend this year! Can't wait to get up there and breathe. I think I'll rig a contraption for the kids to scoop up lake creatures. I know my mom made my sister and I little net thing-ys out of wire coathangers and pantyhose. Quinn and Hazel are at that age where they are equally intrigued and appalled by creepy crawlies. They'll race around the house trying to catch a moth but if it actually lands on them all hell breaks loose. Hazel in particular should be entertaining, as she has managed to inherit my abhorrence of wasps/bees and of course even if it's just a fly buzzing around, she's horror-stricken. We're going to set up the bunk beds when we get up there, which should be a lot of fun for them. I know that was a huge treat for me when I was a kid, getting to climb a ladder into bed on the rare occasion I stayed at a house with bunk beds! Now we just need to deal with the issue of who gets the top bunk. They really ought to make bunk beds that are just two top bunks, and use the bottom for storage or desk space or something. Hey! I think that's brilliant! I'd better go patent that before someone reads this and steals the idea. Offline for a glorious 4 day weekend!!!