Go Canada Go!

Today is the Canada vs. USA gold medal hockey game - I decided Anderson needed to be dressed for the occasion.

My 2 boys, watching the game, not that Anderson stayed for long to watch.

He even already has the hockey hair....

Mommy's Little Helper

For the longest time Jacqueline has been afraid of the vacuum. One of us has to hold her while the other is vacuuming, this little man however - not afraid.

Instead he is quite interested in helping - it took forever to do this small rug at our front door with my little helper, the stretch on his arms was just not quite long enough.

A Future Chef?

Anderson is obsessed with the dog dishes, I am starting to think it is not specifically the dog dishes, but the actual dish.

He loves to pour things into them, stir them around and if he gets a hold of one of my pots - well he is in heaven.

I am starting to think we might have a future chef on our hands - that or some big messes in the future to worry about....

Honest, we are good parents....

I swear, we give him food and water, lot of it - we do not make him eat his meals this way.

He is actually drinking water - I am not kidding!

Of course we are such good parents we grab the camera instead of pulling him away.....

Right Handed

Since I am left handed we were quite interested to see what would happen with our kids, but as you can see, he is already a solid right.

Jackie is the same way - at the same age she was holding a pen only in her right hand.

Book Review: Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road - by Richard Yates

My rating 2 ½ stars out of 5

Over all I did not enjoy the book, I would give it a much lower rating but the book was extremely well written so I think it deserves the 2 ½.

I did not like the book because it was depressing. This is a story set in the 1950’s about an unhappy husband and wife stuck in the suburbs with 2 children. It is a life neither one of them envisioned nor enjoys.

Frank is mired in a well-paying but boring office job and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career. Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, they decide to move to France where they will be better able to develop their true artistic sensibilities, free of the consumerist demands of capitalist America. As their relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations, their trip and their dreams of self-fulfillment are thrown into jeopardy.

As much as I did not really enjoy the story of this book, it is so well written and deals with a timeless issue of what the true definition of happiness and fulfillment in life is, it was hard to believe it was written in 1961.
Movie Note: as you most likely know, this book was made into a very popular movie starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, I have not seen it, but have been told the movie is spot on to the book.

A New Playhouse

A co-worker of mine was selling this almost new playhouse - I have been wanting to get one for the kids, so this was a fantastic opportunity.

She loves it!