Tales From the Minivan

The past seven days have been as absolute BLUR! The whole family has been so busy! I’ll get to the title of this post a little further down so keep reading!

Our busy week started off with last Saturday. Andrew’s good friend got married and both Andrew and Liam were in the wedding party. Andrew being the Best Man and Liam the Ring Bearer. He looked so adorable in his little suit! The funny thing is that I actually bought this suit before he was even born. We were browsing Value Village one day and I spotted it, and figured that at one point he’ll need one to wear, who knew that it would fit him perfectly when that time came upon us! Here are a few pics from the day!

Liam with his “Flower Girl”

All of the Groomsmen- Andrew is behind Liam

Finn at the reception

Next was Ciaran’s first day of Preschool. He has been so excited about starting school for weeks, then he got there and froze up! Poor little guy just did not want me to leave him. There seemed to be a quick window of opportunity and I took it and ran, I guess he cried for a little while but eventually warmed up to and did great! His second day went great, no drop off issues, no tears. Then came day 3. There was a 3^rd teacher there that he had not met yet, and this completely through him off. I stayed with him for about a half an hour but he was just not settling in so we decided to all leave. I don’t want to push him into this if he’s not ready. He’s been attending playgroups with me with him since he was born, but this is the first time I’m not there with him, so I think it may take a little more time for him to feel comfortable with it! Here’s hoping next week goes better!

Thought I’d show a couple of pics from his first day.

Next came Mackenzie’s eleventh Birthday! As we do every year we got out for a family dinner on the evening of her birthday. Let’s just say this one well be a very memorable one! Definitely “BlogWorthy” in my eyes! We decided to go to Pizza Delight, for those of you not familiar, it’s an Atlantic Canadian chain, that has been branching out across the country. When we arrived we were pleasantly surprised that if it’s your Birthday- you “Eat Free” Mackenzie decided that since it was her 11^th Birthday she should get an adult meal, as she no longer qualifies for the Kids Menu! She ordered the Super Donair and Ceasar Salad combo, minus the lettuce and tomatoes.
When the food arrived, it was brought out by another server other than our own, we noticed right away that Mackenzie’s Donair had lettuce and tomato on it and I quickly let this server know it was wrong. She sputtered something about it not being her table, and then proceeded to roll her eyes at us! There were many witnesses as we were a table of 5 adults along with the boys and Mackenzie’s friend. She took the meal away and a few minutes later the proper one was returned with an apology from our server. She did a quality check and asked how I like the pizza I ordered, rarely do I ever say anything if I don’t like the taste of something, but I told her that I just didn’t like the taste of it, the sauce was just too tangy for me. Still hungry I made it known to Kenz that if she was full I’d be happy to finish anything she had leftover for her. She passed me the rest of her Ceasar Salad as she wanted to save room for her Birthday cake. This is when things went down hill.

I started to eat the rest of her Ceasar Salad, and nearly finished it when I saw something odd in the bottom of the bowl in the dressing. Then I quickly realized what it was! An insect! Not a house fly, mosquito or spider, this was a roach the size of my finger nail! Just as I found it the server was clearing our plates and I felt ill almost immediately. She spotted it too , quickly apologized and whisked the bowl away, saying she would speak to her manager. She came back and said that we would not have to pay for the salad. I pointed out that this was my daughters “Free” meal. She then said, I guess there’s not much we can do then! I kept my cool, none of the kids or anyone else in the restaurant were even aware of what had happened and I wanted to keep it that way. Then my mother and MIL spoke up that this was not acceptable compensation and that we wanted to speak to the manager. The manager was not even working, she was calling her at home. We were then offered a coupon for this location only for the same meal and again told they were sorry this was the best they could do as they wash all of their salad and their kitchen was very clean. Not comforting to me at all or my husband, who immediately stopped eating the pizza after seeing the roach. We all let her know that we were disappointed on how this was handled and that the manager should have been there to deal with this.

The next morning I reported this to Pizza Delight’s head office and was told I would be called back by the district manager, that day or the next…3 days later and still no call! GRRR! Here are some of the happier moments of the night!