  Sunday was Johnathan's 7th birthday. Talk about Chaos. Some of his friends from school came and so did a bunch of kids from the coop so there were dozens of children running around all over the place.
Lukily the party was outside! I arrived a bit early - right after church with the cakes in tow. Then I helped my mom set up enough food to feed a small army. The menu of choice - hot dogs and Kraft Dinner! After lunch there was the inevitable whirlwind of presents in which Johnathan gained far too many new toys and many dino themed things. Then came the unveiling of the dino cake. John was pretty excited. And all the kids were excited about eating it!
Some pictures were taken before the cakes were demolished. As soon as they are developed I will try to scan them so I can post them up here. Sunday night I went swimming with Anne- or rather we hung out in the hot tub for an hour. It was nice. Monday was a busy day. I took John to school but he had a major breakdown before 9:30 so I spent the next half hour coaxing him into the car to take him home (he was pretty much in hysterics).
It was heartbreaking. Once he was safely home I had some unanticipated time to kill before work so I went out to UVic and took in my acceptance letter and deposit to hold my spot in the Education program. Then I waited to meet with an advisor to ask some questions about the program. I still had some time so I stopped back in at John's school to let his teacher know he was okay and to arrange another time to come help her out.
I ended up helping her assess some of the kids right then. Next it was work. After work I headed up to Colwood for my voice lesson which turned out was cancelled without my knowledge so I waited for a bit but since Shara never showed I headed for Timea's house since we'd agreed to get together after my lesson. Had fun hanging out with Timea and the Kids - man are they hyper though. Then we watched a few episodes of Angel together and then I came home and went to bed - I'm so boring! Today was pretty much a work day but after work I went to Dee, John, Emma, and Matthew's house for Dinner.
It was really nice to catch up with them as it's been a while. I got to visit with Dee for a while while John made dinner and we waited for Emma to get home. After dinner (hamburgers and salad) Emma and I came to my house so I could help her start to figure out courses for next year (it will be her first year at UVic). I also had to babysit for Maryann and Dan's kids (the people upstairs) so I did double duty helping Emma while Dario played.
Julia was pretty tired and cranky tonight and cried on and off pretty constantly until 7:30 when I finally just put her to bed (I was supposed to wait until 8). Now I shall head to bed as I am tired and I have to work in the morning. Goodnight and God bless to anyone reading this. Hannah 
