today is my mothers birthday. while 5 kids were passed out in the living room, and two more out in a tent, (i don't understand why we're still referred to as kids, we're aged from 17 to 30, for goodness sake!) when my mom woke up, she immediately received champagne and orange juice. mhmmm. once we'd all woken up, we joined in. periodically eating bagels, chatting about the weather, and going out for a smoke.
we're always at the cottage for the first weekend of august; always around my mom's birthday. this year, she decided she didn't want us to celebrate only her birthday, so we sang happy birthday to 'all of us', and each had cupcakes. including one of the missing 'kids', who is currently living in australia. we even set her a place and the table, and cooked cupcakes for her, her boyfriend, and the daughter of her boyfriend.
while at the cottage, i started (and didn't manage to finish...) a painting. i'm hoping i'll be able to finish it soon, but who knows! i went out fishing with my dad and his close friend, the owner of the cottage, simon. my dad caught the most fish; 8. imagine! simon caught 1, and i caught 3. though, they were all smaller than the size of my fist...
so, i'm home for the night (with many bug bites... i'm itchy all over!), and leave tomorrow morning for gloucester, massachusetts. (i always manage to mispronounce and misspell that word...) i would post pictures from the cottage, but right after we took our final group shot, there was a lens error, and none of us know how to fix it. the way things are going, i may not have any pictures from gloucester for you!
anyways, let me entertain you with a little dream of mine...
after having seen the phantom of the opera again a few weeks ago, i realised that i would really like to go to a masquerade.
aren't they dashing? i would just love to attend a masquerade ball. and fall in love with a lovely boy wearing a mask... oh, just imagine.
xxo.
