Up and Away

I started this blog three years ago when I was traveling to New Zealand, and have sporadically contributed to it since.

Now I am going off into the wild blue yonder once again. Tomorrow I hop on Air Canada for Heathrow, Frankfurt and finally Rome.http://www.lonelyplanet.com/italy/rome.
A place I always wanted to see but didn't think it would happen in this lifetime.

I remember the film  Roman Holiday when I was a teen and of course the song Three Coins in a Fountain from the film of the same name, which I might add was made when I was a very young child! Everything was so exotic and historic and vibrant. Wow!
 I am so excited.

I will be visiting with family, my daughters in laws, and the TO family are there as well. Extra time to spend with a dear little dude.
We plan on the Amalfi Coast, visiting Sorrento and Positano, a trip to the villa, in the mountains and lots of Roman sites.

I am not even going to think about the amazing food and wines to savour. It will be such fun to sit at a piazza and people watch.

Keep posted, I really will try to keep up with the latest news.

Rainy Days

We certainly have had a plethora of rainy, drizzly, dreary foggy days this summer. Everything is either grey, sky and clouds and fog, or green, all the trees and grass.
Among all that miserable weather we did have a few days of sun and warm humid weather, my guess is perhaps a week total.
I am turning mouldy.

The oldest was visiting from the Left Coast for two weeks. He returned home yesterday and was sure to tell me about the sunny skies and warm temps in lotus land.

The youngest and family were Stateside for a weeks vacation, they had a great time.

In five weeks I'll be heading to Roma, I am looking forward to this trip, visiting friends and vacationing with the middle child and her little family, and sightseeing.

I hope I get some photos to put in these posts.

A brief hiatus

Well I guess it was a hiatus from blogworld but definitely not brief.

So many changes, parents both in long term care with 24 hour care. My sleeps are better since I am not wondering about them

A new baby girl born in late January and she is such a sweetheart. I visited for 5 weeks in the dead of winter, Toronto was cold, but what a pleasure and she brought her family home for a visit in May.

The other two granddaughters are growing like weeds. Anna in daycare and walking, wasn't she just a little baby? and Claire starting school in September.

Lots of sewing and quilting being done too. I am delving into the scraps and the four patches are piling up, soon I'll put them into some semblance of order and put them into a quilt. In the meantime I finished a wee baby quilt for a new little Rose.

We have had a couple of nice hot summery days a most welcome change from the dreary miserable spring we had in NS.

I am going to go outside and enjoy the evening.