Feb 28, 2007

It's not Lauries week........

Poor Laurie isn't having a very good week......tonight I cooked his favourite dinner - Lasagna.....so we are all sat at the table enjoying our lasagna when all of a sudden Laurie throws up all over his dinner plate.........

.....needless to say no one ate any more of their dinner after that......

Sigh.......two hours in the oven and the dogs get to eat it all......well, accept Lauries plateful...I'm not that cruel!

So....either we caught Cori's family's stomach flu via email (is that possible??? CAN I blame her????????) or he has picked something else up from his friends as well as nightmares :(

So date night will now be a quick run into town to grab some groceries and water.......I don't want to leave Laurie long. No matter how old they get, they just want Mom and Dad when they are sick.

The sun going down as I write......





Tonights sunset was spectacular and sadly the pictures do not do it justice......

Some good ideas......

http://womentodaymagazine.com/selfesteem/resolution.html

sorry you will have to cut and paste :)

From Cori's blog....

THE RULE IS, ANSWERS CAN ONLY BE THREE WORDS. NO MORE, NO LESS!!!

1. Where is your cell phone? bowl in kitchen

2. Boyfriend/girlfriend? married at last!

3. Hair? roots growing through

4. Your mother? reads my blog

5. Your father? reads it too!

6. Your favorite item(s)? bed, bath, chocolate

7. Your dream last night? forgotten it all

8. Your favorite drink? seamoss or tea

9. Your dream guy/girl? my Lloyd always

10. The room you are in? my yellow room

11. Your fear? spiders running out

12. What do you want to be in 10 years? alive and happy

13. Who did you hang out with last night? lloyd a while

14. What are you not? tall, skinny, unhappy

15. Are you in love? of course YES!

16. One of your wish list items? indoor swimming pool

17. What time is it? almost supper time

18. The last thing you did? visited the bathroom :)

19. What are you wearing? tshirt, bra, ring

20. Your favorite book? The Glass Castle

21. The last thing you ate? Terrys Chocolate Orange

22. Your life? very very lucky

23. Your mood? tired, stressed, excited

24. Your friends? accept me always

25. What are you thinking about right now? date night tonight!

26. Your car? Blue Ford Expedition

27. What are you doing at this moment? ignoring the chaos

28. Your summer? outside almost always

29. Your relationship status? honeymoon stage still :)

30. What is on your TV screen? nothing right now

31. When is the last time you laughed? 5 minutes ago

32. Last time you cried? The English Patient

33. School? place I socialised...

Millionaire for life....................

Anyone here buy a millionaire for life lottery ticket????? Tonight is the drawer that will make one person a millionaire for life...they will win one million dollars a year for 25 years......

We have some tickets and my friend Val does but I don't know of anyone else who has bought any........but if you have a ticket then GOOD LUCK and I hope someone I know wins! Not because I want a loan (lol) but because it would just be so great to know a winner :)

Pop rocks


I LOVE pop rocks.....they are what I buy whenever I go to a 7-11 (Spar). This packet though is very special! Lloyd took the children to Dylans Candy Bar in Florida to choose gifts for me for my birthday....and Abigail chose these pop rocks for me...she remembered how I love them! So now of course I can't bring myself to eat them.....she was son happy to choose them for me and was so excited when she gave them to me :)

I love pop rocks......I remember feeding some to Sam when he was a tiny baby....terrible mother that I am...but I wanted to see his face when they popped in his mouth :) I have fed them to my dogs before too...that was funny to watch :)

My friend Faith......


This picture was a gift from my friend Faith.......Faith and I met in hospital when we had our first babies....Christopher was born the day before Faiths Daughter Charlotte...we became good friends and would get together once or twice a week at one of our houses or at a local play place with the children......Faith went on to have 3 girls in all and I adored them...as I had 2 boys at the time, I loved buying her girls Barbies and pink stuff and doing their hair and everything! Then when Susannah was born, Faith would give me endless bags of her Daughters clothes for Susie....Faith was a total shopoholic lol!

Faith was a dancer before she had the girls and travelled the world doing cabaret...her stories were wonderful to listen to...she then returned home and taught aerobics classes...where she happened to fall in love with one of her 'students' a guy with no hair but amazing eyes (as she described him!)

I miss Faith a lot...we still stay in touch but its not the same now that I am in Canada.....but I have kept this special gift from her and despite the fact that over the years it has faded and the polymer clay has changed colour from dust, it is still special to me...it's on the sideboard in my bedroom.

My answer to stress............






..........has always been to soak in the bath with a great magazine or book....a bath filled with fragrant bubbles....I put a LOT of bubble bath in and get through a bottle FAST.........I have even been known to have 3 baths in one day and quite often will be in there so long that the bath goes cold so I empty it and refill it and keep bathing :)
And no bath is complete without a pile of warm fluffy towels..my favourite towels are my red set from Sears.....

Then because I soak for so long I love to massage in a wonderful mosturiser or body butter.....or sometimes just a little perfume.

When I am tired, stressed, angry......or just for no reason at all :)

Baths are BLISS :)

Siblings........




Abigail and Sam were really good for me this morning when the ceilings were being done.......Abby asked me to take their picture.......

I feel like ET......................





Derek came over last night and prepped the house ready to do the ceilings today.....basically he stapled plastic to all the walls and then rolled it up......Lloyd then gave the ceiling a quick undercoat of white paint......Today Derek came over and unrolled all the plastic so it was like living in a bubble......tunnels of plastic wrap all over the downstairs of my house which unfortunately was not enough to keep everything clean and my walls look terrible now :( I felt like ET at the end of the movie where the scientists coiver the house in protective plastic.....

This morning me and the children were stranded in the kitchen for a couple of hours while the ceilings were done...boy is the machine NOISY!!!!!

The children played playdough and then made paper snowflakes, watched a little tv and played with some toys and were very good about not going into the plastic tunnels.....

I made use of the time to wash down all my kitchen cupboards, walls and baseboards and took down all the homeschool posters and artwork......after the bathrooms are done, we are having a new kitchen put in, so they have to come down eventually and it gave me a chance to spring clean......

Derek is coming back later to do some more scraping and remove all the staples etc before a final tidy-up........

After Derek had gone and I had peace at last I checked Email and saw that Val had asked me to meet her at the local restaurant again so I could have a break from all the chaos here...I wish I had seen that BEFORE - it would have been great! I think I will go there tomorrow and maybe she can meet us then instead!

I have to go wash my floors AGAIN and see if I can get some more of this white dusty stuff off of them :(

Flurries................floating....falling softly...





We woke up to flurries this morning....big flakes of snow falling gently...no wind at all...very very pretty.

They said we may have them off and on throughout today and tonight...possibly tomorrow.......but right now as you can see, we have the Alberta blue skies again and its lovely and sunny :)

Thinking of you.

One of my blog readers is going through a difficult time right now and I am worried about her........(you know who you are!!!) and I just want her to know she is in my thoughts.

I've never met you but I want to! You are someone I greatly admire and KNOW that I would like!!!!

If you need anything let me know! You aren't far away so if there is anything I can do to help just ask!

Feb 27, 2007

Thrilling read....................

You have to read this fabulously exciting, extremely modest and intellectual blog :)

www.dvbstyle.com/news/index.html

Ok so my url button thingy is still giving me hell lol so you will have to cut and paste the link ........sorry!!!

click on 'blog' to the left to read all the fascinating info......


And um yes er I am being EXTREMELY sarcastic.....

Does this girl love herself or WHAT????

Surely with all that money she could be living a more worthwhile and less self-centred life???????

Bookworm................




I like to be surrounded by books and magazines............everywhere! I have four full bookshelves like this in my sitting room and four in my study......and I also have a big basket of magazines in the sitting room.....a pile of books by my bed at all times and drawers and cupboards (and a closet) full of magazines.......

My idea of comfy...............






My idea of comfy........curling up on my bed on all my pillows with my soft throw and a pile of good books by my bed......

Or curling up on my big chair with my quillow.......and when it gets cold I can unfold my quillow and turn it into a snug quilt.....

I have throws on all my sofas, beds and chairs.....I loft soft and warm throws...in all colours :)

conked out.................



Sam collapsed and fell asleep on the sofa this afternoon.....and typical guy he fell asleep with the remote controls from the tv......reminds me of his Grandfather (sorry Dad lol!)

My Laurie.....




Laurie seems to be back to his usual happy self tonight thankfully :) My Mum phoned today to ask how he was and said she rushed out and bought him a magazine to make him feel better :)

Susie dancing




Susannah is at dance class at the moment, but here she is dancing to Little Bitty when she got home from school!

Afternoon naps could be a good thing............

I am so sleepy...still haven't woken up today...I blame Daisy!!! I mentioned to Daisy on her blog that I was feeling so energetic lately and thought I had her energy too.....well blah! Today I am just so so tired....

Laurence and Susannah will be home in about ten minutes...Christopher is going to friends house for a few hours instead of coming straight home....

Dinner is in the oven ready for the oven to be switched on at 4pm. We are having baked potatoes......Last night I made the MOST INCREDIBLE Hemp Salad............it was a mixture of salad greens with diced peppers, tuna fish and cheese mixed in and then I mixed in a LOT of hemp seeds......I wasn't sure how it would taste but it was really good and a huge hit with everyone - so much so that Susannah asked if we could have it again tonight. Last night we had new (baby) potatoes with it and tonight we are having baked potatoes. I may do cheesy beans with Lloyds instead. It is a salad high in Omega 3 and Omega 6 oils because of both the tuna AND the hemp seeds.

While the potatoes are baking I may soak in the bath and read some more of The Girls.

My Mum phoned today and said that my package had arrived...she says she read the first page of The Glass Castle and now can't wait until bed time so she can start reading it properly! I hope she likes it...I feel a bit like Debbie with her 'The Color Purple'

We put all the garbage out this morning and it was still there at lunchtime...and then I remembered that we had Family Day last week so the garbage men won't come until Wednesdays now...so I brought 2 bags back to the garage and they can go down to the box tomorrow. If there are too many bags in the box it won't close properly and then wild animals (and the dogs) tear into all the bags and make a mess......

I subscribed to my magazine by the way! Two years of Creating Keepsakes :) It says to wait 4 - 6 weeks to get your first issue so I am not sure whether I should buy the March issue or not....

I found a writers retreat I would love to go to....Lloyd said he would take the week off if I wanted to go...it's in New Mexico. I don't think I will though.....maybe next year! Its a womens only retreat and sounds wonderful! It is said to really inspire you to get writing! Lloyd is always encouraging me to write...he doesn't want me to go out to work but I know he would love for me to write from home and get published.......I haven't written anything for a few months though.....I used to belong to a writers group and I enjoyed the feedback and support.....maybe I will do something like that again.

Well, I am off to get a snack ready for when the children walk in the door!

Bye for now!

For Susannah..........



Little Bitty by Alan Jackson.....Susannah is dancing to this song with her tapdancing class at her Spring recital.....I've seen her dance to it already and I love the way she flicks her head at certain points....they have to hold their cowboy hats and wear cowboy style clothing :) It's going to be good :)

Charlynn!

Did you read todays Farmgirl Fare post??????? Isn't it wonderful???? I want her life!!!


EVERYONE go on over to Farm Girl Fare and read todays blog post :)

Its wonderful! Just wonderful!

Mornings.....strikes......fat fish and subscriptions....

I have been awake since 6am when Sam decided it was time for the day to begin, but I still don't feel properly 'awake'.....

Last night was nice....Lloyd is working every evening atm...here at home but it means he is sat at the dining table with his laptop each evening.....but that suits me fine because I sit with him and scrapbook....Last night I did another 3 layouts for my Disney album and I worked on my Easter paper bag albums.....I am really pleased with how they look so far :)

I had the boys bring up my scrapbooking drawers yesterday and I decluttered them all.....now I can finally see what supplies I really have amongst all the scraps and junk I had been hoarding!

So now Tuesday is here. I just got back from taking Abigail to preschool and chatting with the other Moms...some of them seem really nice......one invited me to her Partylite party next week so I may go along to that....their tealights smell so good!

I have a big pile of Abigails 'school work' to go through that I found in the scrapbook drawers....at the time I was using some of the drawers for homeschool supplies....

The schoolboard had given me the kindergarten curriculum for Abigail last year which she had mainly worked through but there is still some she can go through in the afternoons and the days when she doesn't have preschool......

Her typing is so good now....she can't read much but she can spell really well which seems odd to me lol....I really should focus more on her reading ability...she can type away on the computer and type in all our names and everything....

I think I may subscribe to Creating Keepsakes magazine for 2 years...I was showing it to Lloyd last night...you can save something like $150 or more if you subscribe for two years.......it works out to just over $3 an issue compared to $9 an issue when I buy them in the store.....if they can sell them for that price then why do they put the price up so ridiculously??????

Abigail tried to kill her fish today.....with kindness...she over fed it.....poor thing...so I ended up having to remove half the water to get the food out and then top it up again and I have now hidden the food....she killed all our fish a few years back by tipping in the whole pot of food...I thought she had learned by now...although she did say it was an accident and she thought the pot of food had a little pouring hole rather than just the big pot which makes sense I guess....she will be feeding Goldie under supervision from now on.

So, my list of things to do today are:

sort out Abigails work folder
sort 2 baskets of laundry and pack Sams away in his closet
read yesterdays Edmonton Journal
collect Abigail from preschool
make tomorrows lunches
take girls to ballet and pick them up

The rest of the day is my own :)

Talking of school, I am really fed up with the strike issue in the Parkland area......basically the Parkland School Board teachers have been on strike for almost 2 weeks now...for shorter hours, more pay and a few other reasons that they give so the public might feel a little sympathy (isn't it ALWAYS for the good of the students??? grrrrr)

The teachers say they will not go back to the negotiating table unless the school board is willing to reduce the hours the teachers work.....but the schoolboard say there is nothing they can do about the hours.....

You know what though...teachers have ALWAYS worked long hours.....when you go into teaching you know it is not the greatest paying job out there...you KNOW the hours are long....you know you ahve to work through recesses and after school and before school and mark papers into the evening etc etc....you KNOW this.....

Yes teachers (usually) do a great job but thats what it is - a JOB......a choice they made!!!!

I do NOT like that bald guy who is head of the Union...to me he comes across as a real SHIT STIRRER who is doing nothing to help the problem and like one parent said this morning, it is more of a personality clash between the two sides than anything else.

Yesterday hundreds of parents and students picketed AGAINST the strike......many students have exams coming up and they are missing vital classes.....working parents are struggling to find childcare.............

The whole situation is starting to piss me off and it isn't even my childrens school board involved!

I am not particularly supportive of Unions anyway and do not approve of strikes....I know some very pro-union people but will have to agree to disagree because I am anti strike and anti union.

To me its a choice thing...like the forces.....yes Lloyds friend is in Iraq atm and my BIL is off to Afghanistan soon BUT when you sign up to join the forces that is the CHOICE you make...you KNOW that is what the job involves......

That said, I do think there should be a 'get out clause' in the forces when you get married....the forces are so very much a single persons career.....I think many young single people sign up and join the forces and don't think ahead to when they are married and have families......

ok getting off my soapbox :)

Feb 26, 2007

Tonights sunset.......




About 30 minutes ago.......

Mad!!!

I am so so mad tonight :( Everything was fine..the children came home and did their homework...had a snack..chatted...Laurie worked on his diorama for his book report....then I gave him his clean laundry to put away.....

When dinner was ready Susie went to get Laurie and found him in tears...he came downstairs looking so tired with puffy eyes....

He wouldn't tell us what was wrong...so Lloyd took him into the other room for some privacy and asked what was wrong.

Turns out that when he was at his friends house sleeping over, the parents put on a HORROR movie!!!!! And he hasn't slept since!!! He didn't sleep at his friends house and he didn't sleep last night! So now he is over tired and scared to go to bed! Even to go up to his room to put his laundry away!

Are they STUPID or WHAT????? WTF were they thinking????? The boys are ELEVEN!!!!!! And Laurie is NOT their SON so they had NO RIGHT to do that to him!

So he was so upset that we have put him on our bed with a fun movie to watch and have given him a sleepeze tablet to help him fall asleep.

I'm not sure what else to do for tonight.....if he doesn't sleep then he will be ill with a very bad migraine....so an over the counter sleeping tablet will help him for tonight (it's the same as giving him a gravol) and then tomorrow we can help him forget and get over it!

I feel so sad for him as I know this will put him off sleeping over there again - which is fine with me but I know he enjoys sleepovers normally and I don't want him to be put off.

I just can't believe how stupid some parents are....how irresponsible and careless they can be with other peoples children.

coooooool :) Sam thinks so anyway!

Under two weeks left..........

I am so happy that in less than two weeks the clocks will go forward an hour and daylight savings time will begin.....several weeks earlier than in the past! It makes so much sense to me....I don't know why they didn't do that years ago......

Evenings will be so much nicer even if the snow is still on the ground :)

I may even get to stop using my litebox so often!! :)

Mark your calendars folks........ 2am March 11th :)

Lunch................



Abigail and Sam having lunch today.............cheese and crackers, hotrod, yogurt, banana, milk.............

sticky fingers!





Sam and Abigail enjoying another craft session at the table...today they were cutting and gluing...all kinds of pictures from magazines......

Blog Readers? Everyone read!!!

Ok so I am doing some blog admin.....going through my list of people who have access to the blog etc...I want to delete those who don't read any more.......

So I need to know who is still reading......even if you don't comment normally, can you please just check in here and let me know you are reading so I don't delete your name from my list of people with access.....I just like to know who is reading and who isn't.....just tidying up :)

Sundays sunset for you.............





The sunset from last night...............
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