September 2023: Things are busy for us. Especially this month. Honestly, I feel like a zombie, so much going on and my brain feels half asleep all the time. Instead of writing daily, which I often forget to do, I am going to try to summarize our highlights into one entry. The beginning of the month was when summer ended, we finished our Sandbanks trip and came back to host a wedding. Then the day after labour day, the girls started school. Peter started three days after them. Frank went back to work as well, he was very happy. Sophia is in Grade 5 – her teacher is Mr. Lanigan, Alice is Grade 3 – her teacher is Ms. Thompson, and Peter is in SK with Mrs. Brett. All of them are in a split class – 5/4, 3/2, and SK/JK. I tried to buy some Milk crates for Frank – I tried to buy 25 for 6$ a milk crate. So $150. They made it seem urgent, so I paid an etransfer to hold them for me. It turns out that they just kept my money and stopped responding to my messages. It made me upset. So Frank pretended to also be a buyer, so he got there phone numbers and addresses and they said someone hacked there account. Not sure who to believe! I also went to Blue Mountain for work. It was 2 nights away from home, Frank watched the kids. It was amazing to be able to sleep undisturbed! I really enjoyed the time without kids, although I did miss them afterwards. Frank worked for the first two weeks on fishing the washrooms at Albert Street. The ceiling was caving in, so he fixed it! Looks nice. We had a large wedding (160 people) so they rented a tent and hosted it outside. It was busy for us because they weren’t cleaning the tent up until Monday. On Sunday we had an Indian wedding start, with there stuff still here. On Monday morning Frank went to work and I was a home. The tent went down, and the Indian wedding happened. It was so busy for us. It was also Peter’s birthday that day and we went to Kingston for a fair. There was another wedding that had $5000 worth of flowers, it was incredible. Everywhere you looked there were live flowers. A normal September Wednesday night was that I clean the barn and Thursday morning Frank cuts the grass and takes out garbage. Frank had his transmission fluid changed but I couldn’t go pick him up after he dropped off the car because nobody would watch the kids and not all the kids fit into my car. So he biked home at 11pm. We also went to the dentist, Peter had 3 cavities. 10 Chicks hatched, but only one survived until the next morning. Alice found the dead ones and was crying. Frank put in a new window into the girls room. They finally have a double pain window. Alice also ran a cross country race, there was about 100 girls – grade 2/3 and she won 4th!! She was so proud, as she should be, I was proud of her too.