June 30, 2020

Keaton Creations

Sayde learning time.

Sam, Jack, Keaton, Bryson and Breya

This week we celebrated two of our daughters birthdays - Lucinda’s (Cindy) and Larissa’s. They were born two years and one day apart. We spent all of Cindy’s second birthday wondering if Rissa was going to arrive but she has her own personality and wanted her own day. We had Cindy’s family over the day before her birthday for Chinese food and Larissa and her family went camping in Montana near where they live for her celebration.

Because of our age and covid concerns we try not to go into stores very much other than grocery stores at the senior early hour times. I decided I should shop online and ordered some clothes from the Root’s online site. I am getting tired of wearing the same things all the time. The blouse I ordered came without incident but the pants arrived later with the security tag still on them. We thought we could just pop into the nearby Roots store and quickly have it removed. However, they had lent that particular remover to the White Rock store and told us to go there. Off we trekked to the Morgan Creek store in White Rock. The remover was literally taped together and they could not get it to work and suggested we go to the Surrey Guildford store. By now my size and color of pant was no longer available online so with that not being an option, the next day we drove to Guildford in Surrey. They had the proper remover and took it off without a problem and finally after an online order and a visit to three stores, which we were trying to avoid, the pants were ready to wear. The simple and easy had quickly become complicated and difficult.

Our daughter Liza’s family had planned on coming down for the week starting Sunday, June 29th but Liza had developed a sore throat so she and the children drove down to Vancouver on Saturday for her to have a quicker covid test option. Brendon had to stay to work at his dental office Monday and Tuesday and he planned on coming later. Liza and the children checked into a hotel after she had the test to wait out the arrival of the results in order to keep us safe. They came over on Sunday for lunch and dinner and they sat on the deck while we passed food out to them. It is the new way of doing things. Her was results came back Sunday evening and they were negative so first thing Monday morning they were at our door. Liza got Sayde off to her camp for children with CP and she and the other children went to Ikea.

We have our home bustling once again with grandchildren as two of the Hardy boys have come over to play games with Liza’s family. It is all good and as it should be after weeks of quiet and just the two of us. We enjoy our own company but also love having our family with us. 

We prepare now to celebrate Canada Day tomorrow just with our family.