The Twins and Other Thoughts

The Baby Shower was a delight. The twins were the stars of the show. Everyone got to hold them They slept through it all in perfect peace and tranquility.

Vanessa went to Montreal with her mother Mary on Monday. She had to attend at the American Consulate . There are only two in Canada . One in Montreal and one in Vancouver.

Heather went to Kitchener to help her brother Stephen, the grandfather, take care of the twins
until Tuesday. The babies have to be fed every two hours on the hour. It's a very busy schedule.

Heather and her brother are good friends. He is the eldest of my children. Heather is number five. Thinking of them together with babies conjured up many memories.

Stephen was always first out the door when I brought a new baby home. He would be twelve years old when he took Heather from my arms.

When she was no taller than his legs were long, she would put her hands on her hips and leaning her head as far back as it took to look up into his face she regularly gave him a piece of her mind about how things were to be.

Their families would get together every summer, camping at Sandbanks Provincial Park. Now that his kids are grown,Stephen still goes down and joins Heather's family for a week. We discovered Sandbanks when my family were young and it's been a favourite place ever since. The games on the dunes were pretty much the same as those I played myself on the sandy hills of the shore in Scotland, where I grew up.

And this week she was happily engaged helping him take care of his new-born twin grandchildren.

Stephen is quite convinced, there are two tiny angels in his house.

They will leave soon when all the formalities are completed. To live and grow up all the way across the continent in Seattle, Washington.