“The hills are alive in Mississauga”. Jaclyn treated her mother and her aunt (Toronto Mom) for a night out on the town. We laughed and giggled the evening away at the Stage West Dinner Theatre. The evening was a lobsterfest buffet and live theatre. We ordered a fine bottle of Austrian white wine and sat back in our own comfy booth to enjoy the musical production, “The Sound of Music“. We all had our happy faces on and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Thank you Jaclyn for the surprise Mother’s Day treat.
Season Opener
Spring has sprung in Mississauga. We had the baseball season opener last night in Oakville and won. Yah! Tonight Steve is the starting pitcher. I have been hailed via cell phone to bring a bunch of rags and old towels to wipe the wet and muddy ball down with. So sad that it is raining today. Peter and Brian are away at their school retreat up to Muskoka Woods Sports resort for three days. Check out the family album to see the trees in bloom on Bramsey.
A new sprout appears on our family tree.
The Royalty Family have a new member in their family tree. William and Jean Royalty wish to announce the birth of their first granddaughter Madison-Elizabeth. Angela and Eric became proud first time parents this morning at 8:10AM at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington, KY. Madison arrived as a happy and healthy 7 lbs. 7 oz. girl – 19 in. tall and both Mom and Daughter are doing well. Check back soon for a picture when the hospital posts them online here.
EDIT 5/15/03 – More picture links available in comments section.
Another Enters the Fold
This past weekend was a happy day for all. Andy Bako had his First Holy Communion on Sunday at the 10:30 mass at St Christopher. He is in Grade 4 and I being his Godmother was very pleased that he received the sacrament. Cindy had a elegant catered party following mass. Andy was very happy and had fun with his cousins. We gave him a loot bag of religious items… rosary beads, first prayer book with holy cards, cross tie tac, framed picture of St Andrew and scroll with the story of who St Andrew was, and a crucifix for his room. You can see our celebration pictures in our photo album here.
Photo Album Upgraded
The software to the photo album has been changed/upgraded to protect against a recently discovered security hole. If anyone has trouble using (uploading to) the album please let me know. You might notice minor changes in the photo album layout plus everyone’s admin privileges, only apply for albums in your folder. Most recent thumbnails reduced to only 5 to reduce load time for this page.
The blog leaves Pennsylvania
Within the next seven days, the web server that our blog physically resides on, is moving to a new location. My provider, AlphaOmegaHosting.Com is relocating their PA datacenter to a location that has more dependable bandwidth and server capacity. I’ve been assured everything will be moved transparently, but don’t be surprised if a problem pops up. For those of you who have complementary 4tg.ca e-mail addresses, the move should go trouble-free, and require no action by you. Everything will be mirrored on two sites until the global name servers have all been re-synced (about three days). I’ll post again when the move is complete.
Martha Makes the Front Page
Martha came home dancing on air today. She and some of her class made it on the front page of the Chatham Daily News.
“CLEANUP CREW: Georges P. Vanier students joins teacher Martha Gillier in a cleanup along Mud Creek Thursday, as part of Earth Week’s national Pitch-In campaign. The cleanup effort was coordinated by the municipality of Chatham-Kent in conjunction with Pitch-In Canada, a volunteer organization that has been working to beautify towns and cities since 1967.”
Holiday stories in the Carolina’s
The Carolina’s are so beautiful this time of year with all the flowering shrubs and trees in bloom. We had a wonderful drive down despite the three hour crawl through the Washington DC Beltway. Now I know why the people thought they were sitting ducks when the Beltway sniper was on his rampage. We borrowed a tv and watched videos in the car and this made the trip seem to go by quickly and without the boys nattering at each other. Nick and I shared the driving and it took 16hrs down and 16hrs back with a stop over each time. The weather was very pleasant with high 70’s being the norm with no humidity, wind or rain. Sunny blue sky days for golfing… what more could one ask for????
Our timeshare townhouse at Marsh Harbour was great as were the golf lessons at Whispering Pines. We had quality time spent all together and we were all able to relax and have fun. Now we are back home and the baseball season has started. Thank-goodness for holidays
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A New Spring Look for the Blog
OK, since spring has started, its time for a new look for our Family Blog. In my attempt to make this site easier to view at different screen resolutions, I have used all scalable fonts and formatting is now done entirely with CSS style sheets. No more fixed pixel size text. Let me know what you think of the new color scheme and layout. Please be patient with me while I fix the photo album’s style sheets… it’s a bear to setup the album CSS.
IT’S B A C K… (Spring that is)
Spring has finally returned to Chatham! The bunnies are grazing on grass just outside the open garden doors, the birds are chirping, and the temperature is a balmy but breezy 28°C! What a change from last week. 
It’s warmer here than it is in Calabash, NC. Now where did I store that Margarita mix?