Cutest Barista Ever?

Sav is a Sewing Beast

Lynnie, thank you for letting us use your amazing machine. Sav is on fire!!!

 

Rocket's Time to Shine

When you have already spent 3 weeks together, and you are gifted with two more while the boys are isolating at Nana's, you are on the hunt for games and new company. 

Rocket's status raised to all new levels.

 Thank goodness for nature, and the glorious sunshine we have been having.

 

New toy to transport Rocket to Caddy Bay.
New bday tank while playing ball at the beach.

 
When life returns to the crazy schedule, or some new form of such, Rocket will be seriously bummed.

France with Beast 1... and JOEY!

Unbeknownst to us, cheeky, schrewd Joey made his way to France to crash the Sav-Mom party. The lazy lout mooched a lift here there and everywhere.

 
 
JoeyLisa...

We lost him after Paris, and assumed he had found Bleuette, a beautiful French 

poupée to start a new life.
However, he surprised us back in our hood the other day. Must have hitched his way home!
Classic Joey.
 

Savvy Turns 13!

You can have any birthday party you want.
As long as it is at home alone with me!

Huge thank you to all the ding-dong-dashers with baked goods, the amazing 3-metre-apart-serenaders, and to Savvy for her kind heart, knowing we have waaaaay too many front line folks risking it all for her to complain about her limited (but still awesome, frankly) party options.

 
 
  

France with Beast 1: The Return

It was a bit tricky making sure we could get back to Paris (shot below at the Marseille airport), but we felt quite sure of our Air Canada flight from Paris to Montreal. In the end, the travel was smooth, and we made it back on our original return date.

 
It was so nice to get back, and so kind of Nana and Chi to host Glen and Mac for our 2 weeks of isolation.

France with Beast 1: Life on the Farm

We feel very fortunate to have been in such a heavenly spot for our final week in France. Isolated, but with amazing trails and great food.

The farm always had a wood fire on the go, so the air had the beautiful campfire smell.

There were dogs and cats to admire. Here is our favourite chat, Vanille, who loves to sit and watch TV all day.

 Breakfast and dinner were each a 3 course meal. The food was outstanding. And if they did not have a veggie option for Savvy, they would whip her up a gorgeous omelette. 
 Savvy had her first Crème Brûlée, and her first tiramisu. Then she had it again. And again. 

In the evening, from our comfy bed, we would sometimes watch a special show on my phone, moving into more adult territory it being just Savvy and me. 
We covered some great material during our trip, and each movie/episode provided wonderful discussion for the next day's hike. Elizabeth, Madame Bovary, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, The Crown, Les Misérables ...and yes, Frozen 2 was allowed one night.

Savvy also red four novels from the Unwanted series. Our hikes would always start with line one, page one of the chapters she had read the night before, and she would describe the story to me in detail. Then we would move on to analyze the show, if we had watched one the night before. We would bundle up the stories in themes, favourite moments and worst moments, who was the author and what was their background, how we would have changed the story if it had been ours. The conversations where peppered with a million intense questions from Savvy; they were genuinely amazing. How this kid hates school so much, I do not know.

If the books and shows had been exhausted, Savvy would effortlessly come up with a ton of moments to rehash and dreams to share. She retold the story of seeing Frozen 2 with uncle Kevin. How he did not remember Olaf ("This guys is hilarious. Why wasn't he in the first movie?" She laughed so hard about this, she had to sit down on the trail), how Kevin appeared from a washroom break with a full bag of candies for her, plus a blanket, plus a toy. She described how she plans to spend her summers at the cabin, where everything will go, how she will make her bed, what adventures she and her new cat will get up to. She described the kind of baking she would do when home, and what kind of actress she will be, what kind of interior designer she will be, and how she will be very, very wealthy, but generous.  
Basically, I just had to navigate and listen.