There is such a thing as too much fun.

Happy Easter everyone.  We had a great Easter weekend.We have gotten to know some great families here in Ontario and it has now become a tradition to get together on these holidays because none of us have much  family close by.  It is great to have friends that start to feel like family.
we have had a very adventurous month of March.

We went to Kingston at the beginning of the month for a basketball tournament.

We won the gold.

Kingston is a really neat place with cool architecture, but the highlight for my kids was the swimming pool in the hotel.

 We went to Washington D.C. for March break.

Candy shop on King Street in Old Town Virginia.

White House

Air and Space Museum

Once again, great history, architecture and shopping.  But their favorite part was the hotel pool. Aargh!

Last weekend we took them to a Maple Syrup festival in Burlington Ontario.   

Enjoying syrupy treats.

Collecting sap.

250 year old Maple tree.

100 year old Maple Syrup process.

 This weekend we celebrated J's twelfth birthday by eating waffles and going to see Jack the Giant Slayer. 

Then we proceeded to spend each day of the long weekend doing many fun Easter events such as an Easter egg hunt and Easter dinner with friends.

So today was the first day we hadn't been thoroughly entertained for a number of weekends and I intentionally did not plan anything special to do outside of the house.  I believe my children should have time to be bored and not be entertained and running to activities all the time. I hope that because I had five children they will play together and not need me or M to entertain them constantly.  How quickly children forget.  All day all I heard was "I'm bored",  "can I watch tv", "I'm so bored I would rather be at school" (shocker), "I'm so bored - we never do anything".  That was when I put them to work.  We did lots of piano and violin practicing, multiplication practice and house work.  Soon they were glad to get away from me and hide so that they could happily "be bored" without bothering mom.

Happily Ever After everyone!