AGM at The Law Society of Ontario

As part of a field trip, my class and I rented a Hummer Limo and went to the AGM in Toronto at The Law Society of Ontario. The Hummer was pretty crammed, but it was the novelty of it all! The meeting was very interesting as there were disgruntled lawyers challenging changes that would give more scope of practice to Paralegals - basically a turf war.

Tall Ships

Hamilton welcomed the Tall Ships to the Pier and Douglas and I spent the day there.  Sadly, the kids were not interested, so they stayed behind.  It was quite hot that day!

Growing Up

You only have your children for such a short period of time where YOU are their everything.  They wear what you buy them, they do as they are told (for the most part) and they go where you bring them!

Unfortunately, (I guess for some they would say the opposite), they grow up to be TEENAGERS (insert shrill scream here!) and then they want to spend most of their time with their peers! I find this stage to be very difficult.  Trinity is fifteen, a social butterfly with lots of friends and a galavanter (just like me!).  This year she did not wish to go to The Sound of Music Festival with me - I was instead only shown a glimpse by way of a text message with a picture of her! (That bloody lip ring was fake and thank goddess that fad is now gone with her - it drove me crazy!)

 My baby girl, Avalon, who is thirteen is still in Elementary school, so not quite the "Galavanter" as her sister.  We enjoyed Beavertails at the festival together!

 

Avalon & her friends went to Canada's Wonderland one hot day in the summer (in the bottom left hand corner) - again I was not invited! I got some retail therapy at the nearby Vaughn Mills Mall!! 

 I made a "hipster floral wreath" for Avalon & because they were so cute, we decided to add them to our Etsy shop.  Here she is modelling one of the wreaths! She's such a cutie petutie!

A Summer Photography Gig for Me!

While being a full time student, I wanted to find a little part time "gig" to help pay for groceries! I found a position within a local Photography company dealing with children and sports/dance.  It ended up being many more hours worked per week than I had bargained for! I ended up working almost every evening and full weekends - certainly not what I had expected - but I worked all the hours given to me and then some! If I was called in at the last minute, I gladly filled in.  I worked for bloody MINIMUM WAGE - now when you are used to earning at least twice that wage, it is an eye-opener! I can honestly say that the minimum wage job was more difficult than the better paying ones! I was driving all over - sometimes driving 1.5 hrs one way to London to work for only 3 hrs! I really worked my backside off! We would work in hot, full on sun days, no breaks at all for eight hours (on the weekends) and just devour water bottle after water bottle.  Occasionally the shoots were held inside dance studios and a few times inside beautiful Liuna Station for the high school Proms! There was set up and tear down and quite a bit goes into these shoots.  In the Prom settings, the prints would be given right away to the students.  I loved seeing the dresses that the girls wore.  I had my 15 yr old daughter assist me on one of the shoots, so that she could gain some customer service experience - she did really well.  Those were sweet little gigs. Since I loved Liuna Station gigs so much, I am attaching a few pics here of the fountain outside and the interiors - very art deco.  It was a seasonal job which ended in August.

 Trinity in the test shot before all the students started arriving!

Avalon's Confirmation

At the end of the school year, Avalon had her confirmation.  In the Catholic faith, this is a sacrament where the person is "confirming" that they wish to continue to be a Catholic - sort of like a baptism but this time with the person's permission.  The Knights of Columbus start the procession down the aisle - Trinity's hair matched their feathers!

We got all "gussied" up for the occasion and here are some pics!