1 week ago
Feb 27, 2007
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!
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 :)
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
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.
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.
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 :)
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 :)
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 :)
Intellectuals..................
Abigail and Sam are curled up on the sofa and Abby is 'reading' to Sam.......their book of choice is 'The Renaissance and The New World'......
They look so cute I HAD to take some pictures :)
Jesus WAS married and had a Son........
Interesting.........certainly will spark debate...........what do YOU think?
www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6397373.stm
I think I would be a little more intrigued if this wasn't being brought into the public eye over 20 years later by a FILM maker!!! hmmmmmmmm
www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6397373.stm
I think I would be a little more intrigued if this wasn't being brought into the public eye over 20 years later by a FILM maker!!! hmmmmmmmm
A new week..............
It's 9:30am on Monday.....the last few days of February....YAY!!! The end of winter is in sight!!!
This morning I have stripped all the beds to wash the linens, sorted out two baskets of laundry, cleaned the bathrooms...packed away the clean dishes in the kitchen, made toast for Sam and Abigail and we are all washed and dressed.....Yesterday I cleaned out the fridge (yuck as two eggs had broken!!) and washed all the floors and dusted away much of that excess dust from the drywall mud.......
There isn't much to do today chore-wise......so I plan to scrapbook while Abigail and Sam do some cutting and gluing.......I also have an urge to photograph 'stuff' as in objects around the house that are special to me....I'd like to do some more pages for my 'book of me' album............... I am feeling very 'creative' at the moment :)
Firstly though I need to send a few emails to my scrapbooking group to comment on other peoples pages....oh and I need to phone and make a Doctors appt for Friday.
This morning I have stripped all the beds to wash the linens, sorted out two baskets of laundry, cleaned the bathrooms...packed away the clean dishes in the kitchen, made toast for Sam and Abigail and we are all washed and dressed.....Yesterday I cleaned out the fridge (yuck as two eggs had broken!!) and washed all the floors and dusted away much of that excess dust from the drywall mud.......
There isn't much to do today chore-wise......so I plan to scrapbook while Abigail and Sam do some cutting and gluing.......I also have an urge to photograph 'stuff' as in objects around the house that are special to me....I'd like to do some more pages for my 'book of me' album............... I am feeling very 'creative' at the moment :)
Firstly though I need to send a few emails to my scrapbooking group to comment on other peoples pages....oh and I need to phone and make a Doctors appt for Friday.
February challenge page....
Here is the page I created last night for the February Challenge for my scrapbooking group. The challenge was to use 4 different patterned papers on one layout. The picture is of Susannah in Minnie Mouses garden......
The winner will be picked on Thursday......they get a gift certificate for
www.mousememories.com
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