3 days ago
Jan 2, 2008
Wah!!
Chris has grown at least 2 cm's since 21st November!!! He is now almost 2 inches taller than me! Susie has grown about 1cm since then too....Abby and Sam haven't grown at all since then. Laurie is out sledding so I don't know.
Giant knickers stop fire!!!
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7167549.stm
For some reason this story reminds me of Christie......not that she wears giant knickers lol!
For some reason this story reminds me of Christie......not that she wears giant knickers lol!
Jan 1, 2008
Child well-being - very interesting!!!
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6360517.stm
Canada 12th (top three for educational wellbeing)
UK 21st
US 20th
Canadian children rate well for exercise amounts too...
Only a third of young people eat fruit daily!!! OMG!!!
Canada 12th (top three for educational wellbeing)
UK 21st
US 20th
Canadian children rate well for exercise amounts too...
Only a third of young people eat fruit daily!!! OMG!!!
New Years Day....
I can't believe Lloyd goes back to work tomorrow! Where has the time gone???? The last 10 days has just flown by. All in all it's been a wonderful holiday! Lots of relaxing...lots of downtime....hanging out with friends....lots of time outdoors....
Tonight we are ending with a big family New Years dinner....crackers to pull, wine, Christmas pudding or Tiramisu for dessert...candle light.....then a good movie before an early night as Lloyd will have to get up early tomorrow.
As for the rest of us...it looks like we have plenty to fill the next few days with...and the weekend will be here before we know it - with good temperatures to enable us to really enjoy Sams birthday! My little boy is 3!!!!! Wow! Less than a week now!
Well...I was sprout girl earlier and now I've been promoted to gravy girl...so I should go and see to that :)
Enjoy the first evening of 2008 everyone :)
Tonight we are ending with a big family New Years dinner....crackers to pull, wine, Christmas pudding or Tiramisu for dessert...candle light.....then a good movie before an early night as Lloyd will have to get up early tomorrow.
As for the rest of us...it looks like we have plenty to fill the next few days with...and the weekend will be here before we know it - with good temperatures to enable us to really enjoy Sams birthday! My little boy is 3!!!!! Wow! Less than a week now!
Well...I was sprout girl earlier and now I've been promoted to gravy girl...so I should go and see to that :)
Enjoy the first evening of 2008 everyone :)
Dec 31, 2007
Good news!
Looks like if we can move fast, then the trees are ours!! This is wonderful - they were going to bulldoze them all but if we can get them moved then we can have them :) Yay!! They start the WEst side of the strip mall - clearing the land etc in Jan/ Feb but the rest won't start until a few months time which means we can move them in the Spring :) The trees are gorgeous and lovely and big and mature and we have so many places we want mature trees :) So for the cost of hiring a tree mover and the people who use them (we've already contacted someone for this) then the trees are ours - soooo many :) It's wonderful!
Other good news, the house is now spick and span and all the CHristmas things are all back in storage :) I've decluttered tons of stuff the last few days and Lloyd fixed the broken bookshelf, so I can start 2008 with a clean and tidy home with room to breathe - no clutter and no mess :)
Other good news, the house is now spick and span and all the CHristmas things are all back in storage :) I've decluttered tons of stuff the last few days and Lloyd fixed the broken bookshelf, so I can start 2008 with a clean and tidy home with room to breathe - no clutter and no mess :)
How would you feel?
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7152762.stm
How would you feel if you learned you had been separated from your twin sister as a baby as part of a psychology 'experiment'??? I think this is disgusting!!!!
I agree witht he way the women think - that there is nothing to bring those years back so why not move forward, but I still think it is so wrong that scientists feel they can play with peoples lives in this way......
How would you feel if you learned you had been separated from your twin sister as a baby as part of a psychology 'experiment'??? I think this is disgusting!!!!
I agree witht he way the women think - that there is nothing to bring those years back so why not move forward, but I still think it is so wrong that scientists feel they can play with peoples lives in this way......
Blah...
Monday morning....well actually afternoon but lets not get too specific here.....I feel sleepy and blah.....this room is just completely FULL of all the Christmas ornaments and decorations...two trees and just CHAOS!!!!!! I don't feel like doing any of it but I do want it all packed away before New Year.
The children are all busy playing...Chris and Abby baked the most delicious jam 'things' this morning....not sure what they are called - a little like hot jammy croissant things.....a recipe Chris learned at school. Delicious!!!
Lloyd got 10 of the lights we have for $15 yesterday!!! 10!!!!! So he is changing all the old fashioned nasty brassy things that were in the house when we moved in, into nice more modern (but in the style of the house) white lights...the kind that flies can't die in lol.....I won't have a nasty flowery lightshade full of dead flies in my bedroom any more...I swear you clean it out and wash it and five minutes later there are dead flies in there again lol - YUCK!!!
Lloyd is also trying to rescue a whole load of trees! He has been on the phone to the planning department today and hopes to get an answer soon. Basically they are building a new strip mall in town and where it is going there are LOTS of trees - mature firs and deciduous trees - gorgeous - but they will be bulldozing them all! So Lloyd is trying to find out if we can get a tree remover and move the trees instead - we would love to have them all! So hopefully we will be allowed to move them here to our land as soon as the weather allows! I hope they let us - such a shame to bulldoze them all :(
Well, I should get back to packing away all this Christmas stuff! We seem to have so much more to pack away this year! I didn't realise we had bought much this year but we needed extra plastic storgae tubs to put it all away.
I love New Year - I wonder what 2008 will hold for us all.......
The children are all busy playing...Chris and Abby baked the most delicious jam 'things' this morning....not sure what they are called - a little like hot jammy croissant things.....a recipe Chris learned at school. Delicious!!!
Lloyd got 10 of the lights we have for $15 yesterday!!! 10!!!!! So he is changing all the old fashioned nasty brassy things that were in the house when we moved in, into nice more modern (but in the style of the house) white lights...the kind that flies can't die in lol.....I won't have a nasty flowery lightshade full of dead flies in my bedroom any more...I swear you clean it out and wash it and five minutes later there are dead flies in there again lol - YUCK!!!
Lloyd is also trying to rescue a whole load of trees! He has been on the phone to the planning department today and hopes to get an answer soon. Basically they are building a new strip mall in town and where it is going there are LOTS of trees - mature firs and deciduous trees - gorgeous - but they will be bulldozing them all! So Lloyd is trying to find out if we can get a tree remover and move the trees instead - we would love to have them all! So hopefully we will be allowed to move them here to our land as soon as the weather allows! I hope they let us - such a shame to bulldoze them all :(
Well, I should get back to packing away all this Christmas stuff! We seem to have so much more to pack away this year! I didn't realise we had bought much this year but we needed extra plastic storgae tubs to put it all away.
I love New Year - I wonder what 2008 will hold for us all.......
Dec 30, 2007
My girls in the snow....
Amber and Rosie in the snow this morning.......clip shot from my bedroom window.....
Me on the wii........
This is a clip of me that Samantha filmed last night......me on the wii....bowling!!!
Our weekend.....
Last night we headed into town to Samanthas house for a fun evening of games, chat and drinks :) Good food and good company. I couldn't believe how fast the night went and was stunned when Lloyd said it was midnight! We ended up leaving around 1:30am and got home at 2am. I drove home so Lloyd could drink. Probably a good thing as the winner of each game could pick someone on the losing team to have a shooter - and of course they couldn't pick me lol! PHEW!!!!!
We played racing Grannies (two wind up little old ladies with walking frames that we raced across the coffee table - it was hilarious and now I want some lol) and then we played Trivial Pursuits 80's edition....then we headed downstairs to play bowling on the Wii...then did fitness tests on the wii (Lloyd was 52 I think) and then we played Taboo which I was REALLY good at but I kept thinking of rude things to say to get people to guess the word!!
It was such a fun night and we are doing it again for Samanthas birthday in a few weeks - Lori and Chris are hosting at their house - so I think maybe we will host in March....
And best of all, Samantha is going to look at the house next door to ours - and they are really keen :) OMG that would be the BEST :)
Needless to say, I was so sleepy this morning - slept until 10am and finally crawled out of bed at 11am. Lloyd and I headed into town to collect Laurie from his friends after he slept over for two days....we also ran into Canadian Tire to get some storage boxes for the Christmas decorations...and into Sobeys to get brussel sprouts, parsnips etc etc for New Years dinner...
Came home and Lloyd lit a fire outside and I went out snowshoeing while he chopped wood etc....then we sat by the fire for a while - then I went snowshoeing again before we came indoors....
Lloyd removed the window seat from our bedroom this afternoon too....and has put it in the girls window instead.....what a difference it makes - I'm thinking of getting a table to go in our window so I can leave my sewing machine out all the time and can sew in the window....we'll see...I kind f like the space there too.....hmmmmm
So thats all our news from the last day or so.....hope you are all having a good weekend.....the holidays have gone so fast and Lloyd only has two days left at home now before he goes back to work. It's been so nice having him home for so long....I guess April will be the next time he has longer than three days off - when we go to Toronto.
We played racing Grannies (two wind up little old ladies with walking frames that we raced across the coffee table - it was hilarious and now I want some lol) and then we played Trivial Pursuits 80's edition....then we headed downstairs to play bowling on the Wii...then did fitness tests on the wii (Lloyd was 52 I think) and then we played Taboo which I was REALLY good at but I kept thinking of rude things to say to get people to guess the word!!
It was such a fun night and we are doing it again for Samanthas birthday in a few weeks - Lori and Chris are hosting at their house - so I think maybe we will host in March....
And best of all, Samantha is going to look at the house next door to ours - and they are really keen :) OMG that would be the BEST :)
Needless to say, I was so sleepy this morning - slept until 10am and finally crawled out of bed at 11am. Lloyd and I headed into town to collect Laurie from his friends after he slept over for two days....we also ran into Canadian Tire to get some storage boxes for the Christmas decorations...and into Sobeys to get brussel sprouts, parsnips etc etc for New Years dinner...
Came home and Lloyd lit a fire outside and I went out snowshoeing while he chopped wood etc....then we sat by the fire for a while - then I went snowshoeing again before we came indoors....
Lloyd removed the window seat from our bedroom this afternoon too....and has put it in the girls window instead.....what a difference it makes - I'm thinking of getting a table to go in our window so I can leave my sewing machine out all the time and can sew in the window....we'll see...I kind f like the space there too.....hmmmmm
So thats all our news from the last day or so.....hope you are all having a good weekend.....the holidays have gone so fast and Lloyd only has two days left at home now before he goes back to work. It's been so nice having him home for so long....I guess April will be the next time he has longer than three days off - when we go to Toronto.
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