Dragon Club!

Several weeks ago Dylan formed a boys club who meet at our house every Friday after school.
The group is named Dragon Club and each boy has his own nickname such as Dark Dragon, Red Eye, Yellow Fang and Blue Scale. Together, the individuals come together to make the whole dragon (oooooohhhhh the metaphor!)

The club has a theme for each week such as conducting science experiments (like making slime), making sushi, playing board games (their favourite is Twister).

Recently the boys put on a Christmas variety show for their parents.

Christmas in Toronto

Despite having to work night shift throughout the Christmas holiday, I had a very relaxing and enjoyable time. My mother-in-law cooked and served dinner and my father-in-law did the cleaning. Aunt Greta came over for dinner and we had a lovely time. Dylan surprised all of us, but especially Grandma, with an incredibly heartfelt poem which he had written for her. It turns out he is living up to his namesake, Dylan Thomas (he's a poet and he don't even know it).

Thanks to my new-found family from my father's side, we were simply swimming in presents. Dylan has never had it so good!

Christmas in the Emergency Department

Hospitals stay open 24/7 and this year it was my turn to work Christmas in the Emergency Department. Our staff made the best of it as we had a potluck dinner on site and many of us wore our Christmas "gear".

Several weeks prior to Christmas, our docs threw us an elaborate party. The dinner was spectacular and the DJ rocked.

I won chocolates for all the members of my table by being the only one who could sing all the words to "Frosty the Snowman".

Christmas in Antigua

My parents-in-law own a timeshare which they trade for a destination in the Caribbean every Christmas. We are very fortunate to be invited to join them and Andrew's brother's family for a sunny vacation as a precurser to Christmas. Presents are exchanged and a full year of history is recounted.


This year we had a new addition to the family with our 9-month old nephew Kai Thomas. Kai is a very happy and engaging baby. Arleen and Greg make wonderful parents and will ensure many adventures for their child in the upcoming years.















Antigua is a lovely island and is one of the most scenic Caribbean destinations that we have been to thus far. The varying topography is picturesque and the people are very friendly. The is land is peppered with abandoned windmills used previously to grind sugarcare.
















Each morning we would receive a short rain shower or "liquid sunshine" as the resort personnel call it. A rainbow would appear with one end in the ocean and the other in hills. I had Dylan convinced that the rainbow pointed the way to a sunken Spanish ship carrying gold medallions and to buried pirate treasure on the island.














We had the opportunity to spend the day on a
catamaran. Dylan had a great time being tossed around while sailing on the Atlantic ocean. We saw all of Antigua by sea....










.....and on another excursion by jeep we saw all of Antigua by land.











Overall, we thought of Antigua as a romantic spot and would recommend it as a vacation destination (minus snorkling opportunities).

Its Beginning To Feel Alot Like Christmas!

This is Dylan's letter to Santa Clause: "Dear Santa,
This is Dylan from 104 Winners Circle. How are you? For Christmas I would like either a Transformer called Starscream or another Transformer called Mendsor which comes with a mini-con called Heavy Load. I hope you have a merry Christmas. Best Wishes, Dylan."

By the way, for those of you who may have been thinking about buying the transformer, Santa has it covered.

This weekend was spent preparing for the Christmas season. Lights were hung indoors and outdoors. The tree was put up and decorated. A Christmas photo was taken but probably won't be sent because after many retakes we just couldn't get it right (but we had fun trying).

We had a celebration dinner and feasted on steamed Alaskan crab legs (please note: Dylan did not eat the nature but he sure had a good time cracking it apart for us).