coffee break

 such a clever title, if i do say so myself! :)  quite literally, i'm taking a coffee break.  a break to focus on "all things coffee".  as i've mention, we are in the process of bringing to life a start-up coffee shop.  Bean on a Mission, to be exact...it is so much fun!  it is also a lot of work.  i feel internal and external pressure to get this going.  we've been at it for over a year.  and it's time. 

soooo, as we inch closer to opening, i need to keep my nose to the ground, my head in the game, and limit other non-essentials.  i'd rather eliminate laundry or cooking or cleaning toilets, honestly, but i made the wise decision that blogging should be paused first.  my family would agree.

thus, the break.  it might be a few weeks, it might be more.  but one thing is certain, no~ actually two things~ i will miss this space, and i'll be back. 

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a boy and his dog

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Canada Day 2025

 yes, more than a month late.  a little slack, please.  besides, in ten years it won't matter, even a little.  so here it is.  

Canada Day is sure fun when experienced through the eyes of a five year old.  and we are the lucky ones to get another crack at that.  blessed by this dear boy.  fitting that he enjoyed the fireworks, because he is a firecracker personified, let me tell you.  great day with our youngest.  still, we definitely miss the days when all of the kids would pile on the one blanket with gas station chocolate bars (fit the budget :)) to take in the fireworks display, before piling back in the minivan and crashing at the end of a long day.

great memories then and now...