oh, canada! oh say can you see?

tomorrow's canada day, my first ever as a wannabe canadian! we will be celebrating canada's heritage by doing more crap around the house (the list is neverending) and going to a barbeque at the in-laws house. canuck's family will be visiting from montreal, and for the first time in the 7 years that canuck and i have been together, i will be meeting the infamous "uncle frank". then we leave bright and early sunday morning to head back to the states to celebrate the fourth of july! i'm very excited, i haven't seen my mom in three months!

the house is coming along quite swimmingly, although there is a loooooong list of projects and things that need to be taken care of. for example, i have always wanted my kids to have a nice, big backyard to play in. that is until i realized that when the fanstasy is over, you actually have to cut the grass, water the lawn, dig out the weeds, and make sure there's no garbage lying around so the wildlife don't set up shop on your property. forget about planting any vegetables or flowers! the goal for this year is to just not let any of our weeds make their way into our neighbor's backyards, since apparently that can happen and it really pisses people off. canuck's better at the outdoor stuff, so he tackles that on his days off. my project is to refinish our old bedroom furniture from new york to put in the guest room and/or for use for more future little doc mommy's. i am also going to paint the finished basement, as the previous owner used to smoke down there and it's kinda stinky ewwww....

friendly neighbor story: gary, the self proclaimed "wingnut who lives across the street" is a really nice guy, now retired and a former canadian military man (don't see much of that around here, let me tell ya!). he's been hanging up the italian flag in honor of the world cup for his italian wife and the flags of ontario and obviously canada in honor of canada day. anyways, we saw an american flag hanging outside his garage and we were like, hmm, that's interesting (since canadians are not exactly pro-american at the moment). when canuck ran into him the other day, they were chatting for a while and it came up about all the flags on his front lawn, including the US flag. which, it turns out, he hung in my honor to "welcome me to the neighborhood". what can i say, that's awesome!