Prepping the Cottage for Baby

Not sure how much we will be up at the cottage before the baby makes an appearance especially with School starting for both girls and all the birthdays that will pop up.  We had some family dinners in Van so we made a bunch of trips to IKEA to get office stuff and pick up a bunk bed for the girls so we can turn Rosie's crib/toddler bed back into a crib for baby.

Hubby and I spent the morning doing furniture moving and construction.  I took apart both toddler bed from the kids room and put one back together as a crib in our room. While I did that J started the job of putting together the bunk bed.  I think he cheated using power tools but it does the job done faster. It probably would have been easier for both of us but we had the girls helping with the construction projects and they liked moving things from where we put them, plus Rosie liked undoing bolts that I has put in to hold everything together while I tighten other things.

Once we finished with that we had a lovely lunch of poached salmon and corn sandwiches with a side of curried cucumber pickle and watermelon and feta salad.  I really want to try my hand at making a curried pickle this summer since that is one of my favourite way to eat salmon salad sandwiches with a nice thick layer of curried pickle which is very much a cottage things since we buy them from the preserve lady at the Saturday market on Denman island.  As an added bonus both the girls love them too.

Now I'm off to make banana bread with Rosie while Ladybug gets use to her new glasses.







I'll will have to figure out how to rotate the pictures on my tablet or phone since that is all I have to post on right now.

Tea at the Cottage

I had a thought today about a yahoo group that I was part of for a number of years.  It was made up of some of my friend here in Victoria, and some of the people they had met in Finland while on exchange.  It was a nice way to keep in contact, so that when E moved to Scotland and N moved to Seattle we still had our little group.  No one uses the group now but it came to my mine today

It was named for the cottage in Finland called Dragoon.  The cottage belonged to a Miti's family (Miti is now my sister-in-law, so I have one more tie to this group of people)  This is were E or N would vacation with Miti.  

I met with Pirjo and Miti at E's wedding, which was a fun experience and I am really glad I got to meet such nice and interesting people.  I got to meet a few more of the crew while in Finland for Miti and Stephen's wedding. 

Friends come into your live and sometimes they move away and maybe even move back again :)  But is always nice to know that you are friends.  There are some people who come into your life and you only see occasionally but it feels like the time between visits is insignificant.  I have such great friends in my life and I wish I could visit with them more, but I know that when we meet again there will always that bond.

This is a great gathering of memories.  My pink Muumin cup that was a apartment warming present from Miti's mum when we were visiting Finland for the wedding.  The tea pot is the same pot I made tea in every morning when were staying at my cousins house in Reading while he was in Victoria.  In the pot is my favorite Finnish tea called Emperor's Bride.  Even the kettle is a the same brand that I grew up using, it is a Russell Hobbs which used to be difficult to find in Canada (but now I can get it at Costco)

Ah, Muumin and some lovely Emperor's Bride.  Two Finnish delights.