Tooth fairy

The tooth fairy visited twice this week as Sam lost teeth two days running :)

He got a toonie for each tooth and was very VERY excited!!!  

:)  

Hair appointments for the children last night - with the outstanding Amber from The Mane Door.  Today it was announced that Amber has been promoted to Artistic Director of the studio, and is no longer Senior Stylist.

Congratulations Amber!!!

xxx

Momiji Instagram

Happy Valentines Day :)

A few snapshots of our day, including the marshmallow treats we made, the goody bags we made as gifts and the fun we had at Niki's house :)  

After making the treats we set out on our day, delivering treat bags and gifts to people all over the place - to Laurence's girlfriend and to Sam and Abby's friends, and then we had to run some errands, then stopped off for a heart shaped donut with lunch before heading to see their friends Joey and Dylan!!

Susannah has Cassie staying over tonight as a Valentine treat :)

I was SUPPOSED to see Darryl tonight, but I have a bad cold and feel pretty crummy, so I'm staying home in bed, and will see him tomorrow night :(  

But he did MAKE me chocolate dipped strawberries :)  

And he made me laugh :)  

Even if he did tell me to wash my own damned car!!  Hahahahaha  :)  

Oh it was a good day - how funny that I can feel so ill and still be so happy :)  

xxx

Abby Banana turns 10 :)

Some snapshots from my beautiful girls day :)  

Happy :)

:)

If you see this you will know who you are.  

Thank you for making me smile and laugh so much tonight.  

Bizarre conversations and awkward questions...and crossing the line...

:)  

Love notes :)

Sam brought this in and put it on my bedside table this morning!!  

What a darling he is!!

More Instagram snapshots

Music store....

We did some running around yesterday and one of our stops was at the music store for Susannah.....it was a great place for taking Instagram snapshots!!!

That These Two Will Live.

Yesterday we went to see my friend Sharla, a fellow homeschooler, who was signing copies of her new book in a local store.  I finally managed to get my copy of her wonderful book and have it signed by her, and I started reading it yesterday - it's truly a wonderful read!!  Yay I know a famous author!!  lol  It was kind of funny, because we were talking about her need to possibly travel to BC to do book signings in stores and how difficult it is to juggle a large family and book tours - and we were saying how similar it is to the movie 'Cheaper By The Dozen' :)  

You can read about the book launch BY CLICKING HERE

Congratulations Sharla - on your fabulous book and its success - but mostly on your BEAUTIFUL and incredible family xxx

Library afternoon :)

:)

Our Friday :)

Sam still isn't well and I am fighting off whatever it is he gave me...and today we were on call in case my friend needed us as she had to head to the hospital today and wasn't sure her hubby would be home - so we missed the classes we were supposed to be in today.  

Instead we spent the day at home and made the most of it!!  Sam worked on the story he is writing...it's quite an exciting story so far about a dog :)  I helped him with his spelling for a while and then Abigail helped for a while.  

I'm so glad I didn't push him with his reading last year when he wasn't keen -  KNEW it was the right thing to do.  They say that 7 is actually the ideal age for children to learn to read...their brain development is just right at this age.  And he is suddenly really interested and keen to read and write.  

Abigail made another dream catcher - I think she plans to take this one to her dads house to hang in her bedroom there.  She said the dreamcatcher worked last night!!

She also made more valentines!!

Susannah finished another book yesterday and today played guitar and relaxed and pottered about!

Abby baked cookies and then made Susannah some hashbrowns!  

Then we got the big bucket of corks out and we looked online for crafts to make with them - Sam decided on boats - and we tried a few different designs!!  Then we set sail in the bathroom sink!  They floated!!!  Yay!!  In the end we decided to get in the bath and sail our boats in there!!  Much more fun!!

The sails got wet and so he dried them over the heating vent and then re-used them!!  He created all kinds of stories about the boats - I think his was named The Catarina, and mine was called Little Louie

Abigail made a man out of corks instead :)  

The cookies Abby made were amazing as usual:

And I also got caught up on my online class and journal:

Oh and this morning Abby and Sam created a race car from a kit that Sam got for Christmas - it is made from bits of cardboard and came in a book but has real wheels - it was really neat!!

You can see Sammy still looks run down in this picture :(  

Some Valentines we've been working on:

A hot bath this evening was much needed and blissful: