Where is everyone's favourite place to go, now that Daddy is home, we have our Big Blue van and the world is our oyster?

why, Auntie's house of course.

Not just because of the tiny tortoiseshell Manx kittens (one of whom will soon be ours!).  Not just because of the baby coyotes who are not sure if they are wild or pets still.  Not just because of the little pigeons being fed by the dropper, and who will grow up to get taken to our house to see if they can fly home (after some training).  Not just because of the forts the little ones have built in the bush, with signs and furniture, and a *craft station* (!?!?)

But just because Auntie's house is filled with cousins!  And Auntie!  And Auntie feeds them tons of soft homemade bread and laughs at their jokes, and only sometimes makes them learn a new song (not last time, alas)... And then Uncle Coat falls asleep with four or five littles piled around him on the sofa, cuddling in to watch Star Wars...

What a special blessing my children have in their fourteen cousins!  So thanks to my sisters, and hugs to the cousins, and much gratefulness to my awesome brothers in law and sister in law...  You make life fun...