Happy Valentine’s Day and Family Day!

 

I hope that everyone had a great Valentine’s Day, and to those of you in Ontario, a fabulous Family Day!  (Thanks for another long weekend, Dalton!)  We spent the holiday weekend at home with my mom and some close friends, but we were here in Toronto for Valentine’s Day on Thursday.  Here are some shots of how I connected with my family and my wonderful Craig over the weekend.

Here’s Craig taking in the snow covered Lake Huron in Southampton.

 

Valentine’s Day breakfast.  Mmmmmm pancakes…

 

Making my desk far more pleasant to look at.  Thanks babe!

 

 

 

My grandmother’s dress.  My mom’s mom was one of the classiest and most elegant women I’ve ever met.  This was her much-coveted black ballgown.  My mom thought it was far too sad to leave it hanging in a closet so when she came across an old dress maker’s dummy she picked it up so the dress would have a more fitting place to be kept.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A stained glass lamp

 

My mom’s beloved antique stained glass window

Yup!  We have an antique carousel horse.  Don’t you??

 

My beloved art books, currently residing on my family’s bookshelves.

 

My mom’s rosary from her first communion

 

 

My beloved piano.  It’s been in my family for generations, and I’m itching to move in to a house so that we can be reunited.  I’m terrible, but I love it.

 

 

My recently framed childhood.  Yeah, my brother and I were pretty cute.  Did I say were?  I meant ‘are’.

Mom  

 

She has a deep love of cobalt blue glass.  Here are some of her glasses and goblets, a small part of her collection.

My backyard, with the reindeer my mom’s best friend gave her as a gift years ago.  On Canada Day it officially becomes a caribou.

 

Beach benches looking over the frozen lake and Chantry Island’s lighthouse

 

The storm coming in over Huron

 

 

 

Chantry Island