20 Thursday Nov 2025
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art, big girl pants, birthdays, blessed, buddies, food, friends, moments, pictures, WAG/Qaumajuq, walk, White Star Diner, widow
had a lovely day with my buddies…
we spent time at WAG/Qaumajuq checking out the various galleries;-)… so much to see…
this piece of art was the only one I took a photo of, and apparently a bit crooked, lol…
from there we walked over to the White Star Diner for lunch… fun time and tasty food…
we do love celebrating birthdays😊…
19 Friday Apr 2019
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beach-combing, big girl pants, birthday, birthdays, feted, great food, Hawaii, Instagram, Maui day nine, paddle boarding, The Mill House, treats, widow
today is my birthday…
how amazing to be in such a beautiful place to celebrate…
we started out early this morning to get to the paddle board place by seven, as the water is calmer first thing… my daughter had a great time out on the water and I read and beach-combed… she saw many turtles and fish while she was out there…
we sat on the beach and relaxed for a while and then put on our new dresses (in the bathroom at the beach) and headed to The Mill House for lunch… I’ve been following them on Instagram for quite some time so was excited to get to eat there…
another visitor at The Mill House offered to take our picture and had us move here and there until she got just the shot she wanted, lol…
the food was very tasty and besides the restaurant there were gardens, ponds, zip lines, a farm tour and a few shops… we had a lovely wander around enjoying the beauty… especially enjoyed feeding the ducks, little turtles and fish in the ponds…
what a treat…
shortly after we arrived in Maui, I picked up this amethyst as my birthday present… it is gorgeous…
there were lots of birthday messages, some coming at four in the morning as friends weren’t aware of the time difference, lol…
it is lovely to be feted on your special day…
here is a picture that my daughter took of our AirBnB host Eve, who is also an April 18 birthday person… how cool is that;-)…
25 Friday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, birthdays, celebrate, circles, instead, moment, quiet, struggles, treadmill, widow
spent a few quiet moments this morning… first time in over a week that I haven’t been downstairs and walking on the treadmill…
instead, I spent some time quietly thinking of recent and upcoming birthdays… many in my circles have had or will be having birthdays soon…
lots of struggles as we age, and we try to support one another the best way we can…
a reminder for me to make the most of every day and be sure to take time to be in the moment…
12 Tuesday Apr 2016
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appreciation, big girl pants, birthdays, decades, Forks, friend, lunch, packing, sunshine, Sydney's, The Forks, walk, widow
had a lovely walk to and from the Forks today…
excellent meal at Sydney’s at The Forks… had a wonderful shrimp bisque and their signature salad… the bisque had a teeny tiny Monte Cristo sandwich in the middle of it… very tasty… salad was delicious too… today I wasn’t even tempted by the bread, lol… it was a fork and spoon kind of lunch…
my friend and I were celebrating our birthdays, which are ten days, and a few years, apart… on top of a great chance to catch up, I was treated to lunch… we’ve known one another for three decades and have both worked and volunteered together… I learned much of what I know about how to deal with people and appreciate them from our time together… always enjoy every chance we have to get together…
got this great picture of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights as I walked back to the office…
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
really happy to be outside… although it was a bit cool when I was walking into the wind, the sunshine made up for the chill…
should have gone to aquasize after work but this has been and will continue to be a very busy week so decided to rest and finish up the packing…
well I better get on with that…
19 Wednesday Nov 2014
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what a wonderful evening…
picked up by friends and headed to Tres Visi Cafe on Grosvenor and Stafford…
dinner was delicious…
veal with lemon and capers, fettuccine Alfredo on the side… the picture doesn’t do it justice… sadly the wait person and I had a slight communication problem but she was quick to redo the meal so that I got this one… it was amazing and I ate every scrap on my plate… should have taken a picture of the after… would have licked it but didn’t want to embarrass my friends, lol…
we were celebrating two birthdays – one each from July and October… there was a great deal of conversation about how we would divide up the bill to be sure that the birthday women didn’t pay for their own meal, but contributed to the other birthday person… what we decided was that we should only celebrate one at a time because it was way too difficult to calculate for two…
superior service the entire time we were there…
lots of laughter and conversation…
finished dinner with a delightful creme brûlée…
amazing women who always lift my spirits and make an evening special…
18 Monday Mar 2013
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been thinking about what I was doing 33 years ago today…
I realized I had begun my labour and called George who came home about 9 am and picked me up… my parents had come over to watch Cyndi and George and I headed to the hospital… by now my contractions were about 5 minutes apart, but George really needed some cigarettes so we stopped to pick them up… Crystal was born right around noon…
my Grandma, Mom, Crystal and I celebrating Crystal’s first birthday…
we had been up late the night before making a cake for Cyndi’s birthday which was just a few days away… friends had come to help with the project and we had produced a number 2 made out of cupcakes… it looked great and George took it down to the freezer so that it would be fresh for the birthday party…
we heard a crash and I thought George was being funny, but, in fact, he had dropped the cake into the freezer… yikes… I was very tired from the whole process and ready to have a baby at any time and couldn’t believe the cake had broken, but it had… didn’t seem funny at the time but it has been one of our favourite stories about birthdays…
so, being as Crystal was born the next day, we ordered a cake that was shaped like a two and everyone was happy…
one of Cyndi’s presents that year was a little sister who came home on her birthday…
winner of a beautiful baby contest at two…
not sure Cyndi has ever forgiven us for that…
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