We survived a week without Dad......

Sam went to a meeting in Vancouver last week. He hardly ever travels whereas I feel like I am gone all the time. I don't know how he copes!!!!  I spent a huge amount of time cleaning up after the animals (cats and birds), watering the garden, and running around after the kids.
Ben and Maggie were very cooperative.  I had to drop them off and pick them up every day, so I did a lot of running around.  I had meetings that I couldn't avoid, so Ben had to stay late at SLU a couple of days.  He took his Anatomy book with him to read, and was still reading it sitting on the porch at night!!!  Maggie is curled up with her phone as close to the wall outlet as she can get!!!!!
We love this porch.  We have been sitting on it every night since it was finished.....

Apparently, the week was just too much for Ben.  Oh, the life of a teenager!!!!

It has been hot and dry so I had to water every other day.  My beds are doing really well, although I suspect I have over planted as usual!!!!!

Cleo is obsessed with Sam and I'm not sure she left the front door the whole time he was gone!!!!

Maggie's glasses came in, so we went to get them.  She says everything is amazingly clear now

The cats are also obsessed with Ben (especially Ferdy) and will not leave him if he lets them in his room.  That's fine until you hear "Mum, Ferdy threw up on my bed" right before you are walking out the door

We went to see Shakespeare in the Park on Thursday night.  They are doing Winter's Tale this year and it was absolutely fantastic.  We only made it to the interval though as we were all so tired.....