Nov 5, 2007

Tonights page...


Here is a scrapbook page I worked on this evening - a picture of me and the children taken in September on our annual Fall walk.....

I also did a 4 page layout of The Run for the Cure.....but its literally just pictures stuck on and bits and pieces from race day to embellish it - not worth taking a picture of!

roasting pumpkin seeds


A helped me prepare and roast the pumpkin seeds...we washed them and then sprinkled them with a little salt and roasted them until golden! YUM!

making the most of the snow....





Sledding fun yesterday morning and this afternoon!

Bird watching....


A sat and watched the Chickadees at the feeder for a while today...she does a good impersonation of a Chickadee call! We also took a walk this afternoon and found fresh deer tracks in the snow....

Fire works for Guy Fawkes night!





A creating firework pictures using glue, straws and glitter......

The Chickadees return...







For some reason the Chickadees disappear all summer long.....but when it gets cold they return and stay for the winter......we put the feeders out yesterday and they have been busy eating all the seed all day long!

The Queen and her sausages!

The Queen and I......and Lloyd!!!!

Roller Boogie!!



www.rollerboogie.net/

Easter 1983 School holidays. I was 11. They showed the movie Roller Boogie on tv and I videoed it. I fell in LOVE with that movie....OMG It was sooooo great!!! Everything about it!!! Its a really corny movie about a rich bratty girl from Beverly Hills who falls in love with a poor roller skating obsessed guy who tries to teach her to skate......

Such a GREAT movie - I must have watched it a MILLION times that year.....I had roller boots and spent that summer roller skating about - mainly chasing after Garry Harris over in East Coker, but probably a little with Lloyd too lol!

Anyway...I've always loved that movie and have looked for it on tv but finally I got around to looking online and I found the dvd for sale on Amazon :) So I've ordered it...and now I get to introduce it to Susannah :)

At home day...

We were supposed to be out for the day but Chris is sick so we had to cancel our plans and are at home for the day...he's old enough to be left alone but I don't like leaving them when they are sick...and I don't think he would want me to...even though he said it would be ok.....

So instead, I did the laundry and washed all the floors on the main floor, cleaned my bathroom, played 3 games of word bingo (Abigail won every game!) we read Ping and Madeline....I spoke to CHER and paid for my order which will be sent as soon as FIAR is in stock.....

Abigail and Sam have played playdough and I built a house with Sam from bricks....Chris has been flopped on the sofa watching Greys Anatomy. Amber and Rosie are running about outside enjoying the snow.....

We put the bird feeders up yesterday but I haven't seen a chickadee on them yet.....I love watching the birds from the kitchen window.....he great thing about the new kitchen and sunroom will be all the HUGE windows and that we will be so much closer to the trees.....and I plan to have even more bird feeders up :)

Off to print some Guy Fawkes colouring pages for Abigail!

Those of you on LP...

One post today just really made me shake my head and roll my eyes.....

Anyone want to guess which one?????? lol!!!

Guy Fawkes Night

“Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.”

Tonight, November 5th, is Guy Fawkes Night. An (traditionally) British 'holiday' remembering the 'gunpowder plot'...when Guy Fawkes and a group of conspirators plotted to kill King James I during the opening of parliament. The plot was foiled and Guy Fawkes captured.....

Since then, children make a 'guy' out of old shirts and pants stuffed with newspaper or straw...a HUGE bonfire is lit in each town, and people gather to watch the 'guy' burn.....there are firework displays and traditional foods like baked potatoes (cooked in the fire), parkin, toffee apples, treacle toffee and tomato soup are eaten around the fire to keep warm.....

You can read more about Guy Fawkes at:


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes



Crafts and activities for children:

www.activityvillage.co.uk/bonfire_night.htm

www.dltk-holidays.com/guyfawkes/index.htm

Marthas blog

blogs1.marthastewart.com/martha/

Oprahs new youtube channel!

uk.youtube.com/oprah

Reading frenzy....

We are having a bit of a reading frenzy at the moment.....lots of reading and reading actiities going on....A chose endless books at the library yesterday...including some that come with tapes to listen to.....since our word bingo games this morning she has been sat listening to stories and following along with the books and pictures!

We spent ages at the library yesterday...S was with his Daddy up in the mall which meant we had the peace and quiet to enjoy looking through all the books, using the computers and generally enjoying all the books - we don't get to go without S very often so it was a real treat!

We also picked 3 dvd's to watch and last night we watched 'Eight Below'.

Rave Review...

www.peggykaye.com

I just want to rave about this website and this lady's books. We are working our way through her book 'Games for Reading'....and this morning we sat on the bed and played several games of 'word bingo'......A picked up on the new words so fast from playing this game!

I've used Kayes 'Games for math' before too and can wholeheartedly recommend both!!! Her website has some great colouring pages and games to print off too!

Enjoy!!

architects drawings

Lloyd just emailed me the jpg's of the architects drawings and I've added them to my home reno blog (link to right) so if you want to be nosy feel free lol! You can click on the image to see it bigger don't forget!

Tess - if you read this....the drawings might give you more of an idea of the amount of granite or quartz we will need - thanks so much!

Building work starts end of April/ beginning of May depending on the weather!
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