Over and out!

It is kind of funny how on a Friday afternoon half the population up here packs up and heads home! Many of our friends in the military are from all over Ontario, and others come from different ends of the country. Those who are lucky enough only have a 2 to 8 hour drive to their home town. You would think the drive would be agonizing doing it that often but it's not, it is rather freeing.
Before my husband and I were married he would drive down to see me every Friday and head back up to base on Sunday nights. That's four hours in one direction and not cheap on gas! Now that we are married and I am living up here with him we don't head down as often anymore but still manage to go a couple of times a month. I guess there is something about Lake Ontario that keeps me coming back.
The reason for our trip this weekend is tomorrow our families are throwing us a baby shower. We decided to have the shower in a town just outside of Toronto so it would be a half way point for the two families (I don't think anyone would have driven up to Pembroke for it!). My husbands family will be coming from as far as Windsor and there was no way my body would have been able to handle a drive that far from Pembroke and then back again within 48 hours, Ekk! I'm still curious to see how we manage to get everything from the shower back home to Pembroke, should prove to be interesting.
My son and my niece will be at the shower as well. I'm going to use this as an opportunity to get him to start helping me with the baby. I can't really think of a better way to start the help off than to have him open the gifts for me! I think tonight when he is at his Grandma's I am going to go out and buy him a little something so that he has a gift for him too, I don't want him to start getting jealous though I know it will more than likely happen. I'm sure his jealously will be nothing compared the how jealous our dog is going to be! lol