Cottage Life!

This past weekend was Fathers Day and Matt's Birthday .....they are so close together I try to do a BIG Celebration for him...but he would prefer that we just celebrated Fathers Day...to him that's the MOST important date!! So this year....we went to a friends cottage. Matt loves the COTTAGE.....he LOVES to FISH! He is most happy when he rises early...makes coffee and heads out to the dock...spending the early hours fishing...and spending time with his son, Josh...who wants to be with him. To me..that would be the GREATEST gift to give Matt! And that's what we did. The whole weekend at the cottage...no phones, TV, computers....no FaceBooking...no Tweeting....no Blogging...no Kijiji.....just US, two friends and great food...of course a BOX of WINE was on hand....it just added to the moment...sitting on the dock, listening to the Loons...sipping wine...it was HEAVEN...no else existed...just us!!

Never having a cottage when I grew up... I realized what I missed out on....I would love for my kids to have their own cottage...a place to go to and escape the WORLD...to RECONNECT with YOURSELF and YOUR FAMILY! Packing for the cottage is another story....soo much to bring..lists here and there...what food...what clothes(what if it rains, turns cold....) and being Fathers Day Weekend...I wanted to make a special dessert. Matt LOVES Nigella Lawson...and I do too...she is my GIRL CRUSH.....I made her Chocolate Cherry Trifle!! I made it before following her every instruction BUT this time around...I cheated... I didn't have enough time to make chocolate custard from scratch...cake and whip cream!! But THEY all LOVED it!!! With FOOD pack/prepared and clothes neatly folded in Katie's Dora the Explorer Suitcase...we were ready!!! AND we only turned around TWICE....to return home for things that we forgot!!

It was a great time...and you know its GREAT when........Alex falls into the water, I lose a sandal in the mucky bottom of the lake(but find it again), Josh falls and scrapes his leg, I get spiked by a fish(who knew that fins had spikes on them for protection) dock SPIDERS can walk on WATER and then after the weekend is over and you are about five minutes from home, Josh throws up in the VAN...cause you are on the highway and  there is nowhere for you to pull over...so you hand him a diaper to throw up in...but most of it lands on the floor(ugh)! That was a GOOD WEEKEND!! Then comes the laundry when you get home....two full loads...and showers and baths...and to save time you bathe two kids together and when they get out, it looks like the beach is in YOUR TUB....ITS THEN YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAD AN AWESOME WEEKEND...and are ready to do it all over again!!!