Married for 50 years

A couple of weeks ago we drove to Brechin, Ontario to celebrate B&As 50th wedding anniversary. Congratulations to B&A, but congratulations too to each of their six kids who arranged the celebrations. There was a church service to reconfirm their vows. All the music, lessons, prayers were by the children and grandchildren. Then there was a party at the legion, with speeches from the eldest son, S, their best man and many of the family members -- this is a family that loves the stage. HG and I had seen the "first draft" of the powerpoint slide & music presentation that the younger siblings had created from old family photographs when we visited N in March. There were few dry eyes in the house. I don't cope with crowds very well, so I hid myself in the back and did face painting for the kids.

50 years though, its really a lifetime. HG and I passed our silver milestone this year, only half of B&As achievement but still it seems an impressive length of time. I'm proud of us, that we have stuck together through rough times, and good times -- here's to you HG, here's to us.

Luma

I'm so far behind in writing on my blog. In my mind I would up date this every few days. It already seems weeks since we visited ARGs friend MDL and her new baby Luma. By now they will have flown back to Peru, to MLDs husband and their new life as a family.

I was happy to have found Fair Trade peruvian cotton, in order to make a little hoodie for Luma. It came out larger than I had expected, but she should be able to wear it by the time she is about a year old. However, I find these days that I'm quite bad at estimating sizes for babies. I knit a sweater to fit a 6-12month old (the size I usually pick when I'm knitting for a new baby), only to visit at 3months and find that it just fit perfectly. I'm convinced that babies are larger these days, or that my old UK patterns do not provide suitable age-size matches for North Americans.