Traumatic Weekend

Ker-ash!!!

Base of the Tree

Well... the weekend started promisingly enough... nice and warm, the sun was out. Off to swimming class for the little boy and then to go shopping for clothes for said boy as he has outgrown ALL his clothes! The kid's a poster child for the benefits of milk! He's only turning 5 at the end of May and is now outgrowing 7/8 and is now hitting the 10/11!!

As we were shopping for Spider Man swimming shorts, I get a text from the daughter stating "I've got to go to Vaughan Mills TODAY because I put my PROM dress on hold and she's not even supposed to put it on hold." Prom = university/college soon. I have been accidentally-on-purpose trying to forget that the former baby of the family has been accepted to one university and is hoping to get into another for this fall. Empty nesting already!

So off we trot to Vaughan Mills at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and do we not drive into a full fledged lightning-thunder-wind storm that knocks out power in good portions of the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). Get to the mall and dash in, get soaked and then fork over the $197 for the dress, dash out, get soaked again and spend 2 hours going home as a good chunk of the intersections had to do the 4-way stop (no lights).

Add all that insult to injury... I get woken up by the hubby this morning with the statement of - a tree broke and fell on the garage. BRILLIANT! How does one bring down a tree off a roof?

I hope the week goes up from here. Positive thinking! Positive thinking!