Our neighbour for the past 5 years is moving, not by choice – but just the reality of renting in today’s real estate climate. The Flaxie’s, as we eanderingly call them, had become close to us – as close as a good neighbour can be. Every single member of our family are not pleased to see them move away.
Dave and Leah would always be the first to call if our alarm goes off and you could count on them to check out the house when we’re away. Well, the whole neighbourhood actually look out for each other, so I’m sure they would be missed by everyone in the cul-de-sac. Dave would sometime volunteer to play Santa Klaus in our yearly Christmas on the Street.
Their eldest daughter, Emily, is a sweet child and always speaks her mind. Jack, who is barely 10 is one of the most responsible big brother I’ve seen. Ryan and Daniel who are still very young would sometime knock and ask if they could play our piano, have ice cream or just come and watch tv (not that they don’t have tv – they just want hanging out in our place).
We would miss Emily and Jack most – we’ve known them the longest and they are extra ordinary kids. I’m betting, however, that Ryan would become the tycoon – while everyone pull their weight and do some chores, Ryan seem to have a knack of getting others do work for him 🙂 I mean this in the nicest way 🙂
One day I came home dreading the weekend as it means mowing the grass after all the rain that we’ve been having. When ‘lo and behold, our front lawn was mowed – I also notice the Flaxie’s yard was newly mowed. Jack, took upon himself to mow our lawn and even volunteered to do the backyard the following day. Since then – we had an unspoken arrangement that he look after our yard. It’s profitable to him and my weekends are much brighter 🙂
This was not the first time that Jack would impress us. Once, we hosted a party, and while everyone were winding down, saying goodbye – I saw this boy tidying up – beyond what you would expect a boy would do. I was not the only person who noticed it, even the other guests had. On days when we have these children come over for ice cream and cakes, Jack would look after his younger brothers. He’d wipe and clean them up when they become messy.
We enjoy Emily’s company – she’s not a shy girl and a bit cheeky sometimes . Once, we had a spare ticket for a Disney-On-Ice Spectacular at the Entertainment Centre and we invited Emily. We had dinner before the show at the Capitol Thai. Although, she has never eaten duck before – she tried all the food that was served. She’s a great company and you could see that she enjoyed the show. On a conversation, she claimed that she’s a spaghetti monster and would eat spaghetti any time. We got home just before midnight from the show, she went home for a minute to present herself and rushed back to our place because we have spaghetti left-overs. She really is a spaghetti monster.
When we learned about their move, the parents told us that Jack and Emily were most upset. The first reaction of Jack was his concern that he could no longer mow our lawn. We can feel that these kids are distraught when they run to hug us as they told us the news. That’s when we decided to host an Easter Egg hunt in our backyard – to celebrate what would be our last Easter together as neighbours. Following are some photos of the Easter Egg Hunt organised by the 3 bunnies – Jeanne, Celine and Jessica.
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Related Links:
- Jeanne’s Easter Egg Hunt Blog
yup, it is not easy to say good bye esp since it is not always that we find good neighbors di ba? have a happy sunday 😀
Hi Kengkay – It’s nice to see you having a bit of reprieve from your domestics after that big trip – and into the blog hops 🙂 Thanks for visiting my site – have a great day too!