Les Bonnes Choses

So Canadian Turkey Day has come and gone, and in my neck of the woods, there was no exception. Rebecca's parents arrived in the afternoon on a cold, drizzly Friday the 9th, and her sister and brother-in-law and Jude's 3 cousins, and her aunt and her husband arrived later on in the evening to help us be thankful this weekend. All but her aunt and her husband stayed with us, so we also got a chance to see how well our house can accommodate the large volume of visitors we were hoping for. It seemed to have worked out pretty well, as our 2-bedroom house can masquerade as a 4-bedroom house pretty well, and that's without anyone sleeping on a couch.

Jude also got his third kick at the birthday can on Sunday. Neither my family nor Rebecca's family were with us on Jude's actual birthday, so it was only natural that they would want to celebrate this weekend. The family went back to London with the caravan of vehicles early Monday morning, so it seems likely that Jude will have yet another round of birthday cake this week. We have a custom calendar with pictures from Rebecca's rather large collection of digital photographs. The month of October features a picture of Jude blowing out candles on a cake on his second birthday. Between that calendar and the series of birthday celebrations, that boy is going to spend his formative years believing that his birthday lasts the month of October. As it is, you can't go into a store without him collecting items that he wants for his birthday.