On Saturday I had the opportunity to do the most girly girl thing imaginable.  I let my daughter dress up in a pretty dress, one that she will call her Princess dress and took her to see Disney’s Princesses on Ice with my girlfriend and her little girl.  I too put on a skirt and did my hair, just because I could.

Here are the little Princesses before the show. Look at them, so sweet!  I can hardly stand it myself.

Then we got to the show.  They were mesmerized for most of the first half of the performance.

They told the basics of each of the Princess stories, spending a little more time on certain ones than others.  There were a couple that I didn’t even know were Princesses, but the girls didn’t know the difference. They loved watching the colours swirl and fly across the ice.

The second half was entirely about  Cinderella which pleased both girls, who moments before were wanting to leave.  It would seem that Cinderella has the same effect on my daughter as it had on me when I first saw it in a Cinema in England as a little six year old.

It was a wonderful day, one I am sure will be repeated again in the future. Perhaps it won’t be the same show, but I will certainly be getting dressed up in our pretty dresses and having some girly girl time just the two of us.  I can’t wait.

I feel like blogging about our family and fun is so wrong at a time like this.  There are so many people in Haiti that would be happy with some clothes and food and here I am trying to think about what to write.  Trying to keep on going like nothing is going on in the world.  That is what I usually do, I keep on going.  I can do my small part by donating money and supporting charities.  But, it doesn’t help the helplessness that I feel.

Far away from our land of ice and snow there are children without parents.  Babies without their Moms and Moms without their babies. If I could bring them into my home, make them some soup and clothe them put them to bed and tell them all will be OK tomorrow, I would.  But, I can’t and it won’t all be OK tomorrow.  It will be a long time before these peoples lives are even remotely normal again.

So here we go on with our daily adventures and I hope in these adventures, I can use some of these fun times to remind J and Apple that we are truly Blessed. We have a warm house, food, clothing and quite frankly, more toys than most children should ever have.  And even more important is that we are safe here in our warm homes.

So as you look at these photos of us at the Canal on Saturday taking the kids for a skate and a Beavertail, know that we truly feel Blessed in all that we have and know that we are trying in our little way to play a part in helping those in Haiti get through this tragedy.