Lately, Professor, Piglet, their parents and my life has been absolutely a-whirl with weddings, birthdays, parties and celebrations of the fact that it’s finally summer here in Toronto! After a horribly cold spring, we’ve just lately been getting warm temperatures and wonderful sunny days. Although it’s still been rainy a couple of days a week, at least we have some sun and that’s what counts when you’re suddenly stuck inside, finishing up that last bit of work, as I am, or looking longingly outside, waiting for school to be out, as Professor is!

We recently went to Mama P’s sister’s wedding, M, and her husband – Mr. M! It was a great time to see all the P’s cousins running around and to watch the little Ps in their wedding finery. Piglet was resplendent in a gorgeous white dress with “bees” (beads) as she called them, and kept pointing out to me, and Professor looked quite the dapper young man in his full wedding suit and slicked-back hair. However, their good clothes went cheerfully awry as my job quickly went from holding Piglet in my arms and Professor in my other hand, smiling at relatives, to ensuring that the Ps did not fall off an unfortunately placed rock by a wrought-iron fence. Professor was a bit under the weather, so when the time came for bedtime, I think we were all ready, most of all him!

I got to meet a lot of readers of this blog, which was really fun for me – thank you all for reading! Now I know who some of you are, and it gives me great pleasure to think about you reading these words and remembering your own fond memories of that wedding. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings in the comments – I’m always glad to hear from people who read.

Anyway, after the Ps and I, and their cousins, the As, and little J, who came later on, went back to the hotel, the night truly began. Finery stripped off, little fists rubbing into tired eyes – the Ps were toast, and they weren’t going to let me have an easy time. Piglet would have been happy to fall off to sleep, but Professor was tetchy and sick and wanted to sleep beside his sister – which was fine, except that these are wiggly little children we’re talking about and they kept waking each other up! Piglet also has never really slept in a big bed before, and kept lunging awake, panicking, wondering where the sides of her safe, secure crib were! I had to practice my diving-without-a-pool skills a few times to catch her from lunging right off the side of the bed! She shivered in my arms at that point, slowly calming down from her dreams of falling. Poor little tyke.

Professor was in rough shape. He coughed, sneezed, gagged and tossed almost the entire time I was with him. Viruses are nasty things, but luckily he’s on the mend and I hope to see my bright little boy, back to his old self tomorrow.

It was my birthday Wednesday of last week and the Ps truly made it a special day for me. They knew that I was missing my best friend, who’s vacationing in South America, and Mama P went all out to ensure that I smiled! A cookie, dressed as a cake; a lovely Chapters gift card, and my favourite, a signed card by all the P family, really made my day and I was able to reflect on the fact that when you nanny, you don’t just have a job. You have another family. Thank you, all of you, for really making me feel like a special part of your lives.

I hope that as our summer goes on, I’ll have more and more stories to tell of events and holidays that I get to share with my two favourite little charges!