So we have welcomed a new little one into our family today.....here is my beautiful Dorothy.......she is a Phalaenopsis (or Moth) Orchid......
1 week ago
Feb 24, 2007
Introducing Dorothy.........
So we have welcomed a new little one into our family today.....here is my beautiful Dorothy.......she is a Phalaenopsis (or Moth) Orchid......
Macabre...
I thought this orchid was very unusual...and I loved the name! 'Double Deception Absolutely Huge X Macabre'
More Orchids....
Some more of the orchids on display today. Aren't they amazing plants? So delicate looking and yet some of them even look like alien species....
The Orchid Society of Alberta Annual Show
I expected to be the only saddo walking around the Orchid show taking pictures, but it was PACKED with people using tripods and VERY big and expensive looking camera equipment to get the best shot....
The show itself was only small but I really enjoyed it...some of the orchids were so stunning...they had huge blooms as well as a bouquet that was so small it was under a microscopic dome! The orchids in that were the size of cress stems!!! Amazing!
I also thought the show would be full of old people.....BUT I was wrong....many of the growers are quite young and many of them are men...younger men! Who would have thought!
Lloyd bought me a beautiful orchid to bring home and care for......he says it might just be my 'passion' so we should at least TRY orchid growing lol! I will photograph 'her' later! I've even named her :) The next few posts will be pictures of the show! Remember you can click on any photograph to make it bigger!
Saturday morning......
Lloyd is disgusted because I am eating a slice of chocolate cake at 10am :) It's even better the next day :)
So the phone doesn't stop ringing here any more........but it's never for me...it's the kids and their active social lives!! This morning I am dropping their friends home and dropping Susie with them...she is going swimming with them and then sleeping over there tonight.......Laurie is getting dropped at a different friends home and is staying for the day to work on a school project with him.......
Chris was invited to swim but is staying here instead (luckily his choice!) and he will babysit while Lloyd and I go to the Orchid show :)
My camera battery is charging....I am so looking forward to the Orchid show...Lloyd (as you can imagine) is ECSTATIC hahahahahaha! But he's happy to take me and thats all that matters :) He'll enjoy it even if he won't admit it :) he enjoys the quilt show even though he jokes he hates it lol!
We are going to pick up Lloyds wedding ring later...he had it resized.....I may take my watch in to be fixed too.....and my engagement ring for the new diamonds......
Well I have to take the kids friends home so I should stop eating choccy ake and go get ready!
Have a great day everyone whatever you are up to :)
I think I will buy a Creating Keepsakes magazine as well to read tonight in the bath :) I am hooked on crafts again atm......I have a FAB idea for some teachers gifts for Easter so I want to work on those as well as finishing the paper bag albums I started yesterday. And my hummingbird painting...I did the tail feathers last night as well.....I am inspired to create ...for the first time in months andf its a wonderful feeling :)
So the phone doesn't stop ringing here any more........but it's never for me...it's the kids and their active social lives!! This morning I am dropping their friends home and dropping Susie with them...she is going swimming with them and then sleeping over there tonight.......Laurie is getting dropped at a different friends home and is staying for the day to work on a school project with him.......
Chris was invited to swim but is staying here instead (luckily his choice!) and he will babysit while Lloyd and I go to the Orchid show :)
My camera battery is charging....I am so looking forward to the Orchid show...Lloyd (as you can imagine) is ECSTATIC hahahahahaha! But he's happy to take me and thats all that matters :) He'll enjoy it even if he won't admit it :) he enjoys the quilt show even though he jokes he hates it lol!
We are going to pick up Lloyds wedding ring later...he had it resized.....I may take my watch in to be fixed too.....and my engagement ring for the new diamonds......
Well I have to take the kids friends home so I should stop eating choccy ake and go get ready!
Have a great day everyone whatever you are up to :)
I think I will buy a Creating Keepsakes magazine as well to read tonight in the bath :) I am hooked on crafts again atm......I have a FAB idea for some teachers gifts for Easter so I want to work on those as well as finishing the paper bag albums I started yesterday. And my hummingbird painting...I did the tail feathers last night as well.....I am inspired to create ...for the first time in months andf its a wonderful feeling :)
Feb 23, 2007
My sweet boy........
Today I was curled up in my big chair for a while with Sam.....I was pretending to be asleep...snoring loudly...and Sam kept holding my face and shouting 'WAKE' he can't say wake up yet so he just says 'wake'......then I'd start snoring again and he'd yell it again giggling! Then we swapped and he pretended to snore and I'd tell him to wake up and then tickle him until he yells 'NO NO NO' I stop and he pretends to sleep again (still giggling lol) until I tickle him again and tell him to wake up.......
He is so ticklish and has the sweetest laugh! I was kissing his ears and neck and he just loves that too!
My boy...my sweet sweet Samsam!
paper bag albums...
I have started on some Easter paper bag albums this evening.......Springtime colours...I plan to fill them with Easter and Springtime quotes and send them instead of Easter cards.....
Farmgirl Fares' emergency chocolate cake.
Kids having friends for sleepovers calls for chocolate...and so I decided it was the perfect night to make Farmgirl Fares Emergency Chocolate Cake..... It's in the oven now with about 15 minutes to go! The batter is INCREDIBLE even before it goes in the oven......I don't normally like cake batter but this is HEAVENLY OMG!!!! After making dinner for 8 kids and Lloyd, I'm not in the mood for dinner myself...but I AM in the mood for chocolate cake :) And this cake doesn't even need frosting!
Emergency Chocolate Cake
1/2 cup (1 stick/4 ounces) butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup yogurt or sour cream (or a combination)
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9"x5" loaf pan. Cream butter and sugar until smooth, 1-2 minutes. Beat in eggs one at a time. Beat in vanilla. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture, alternating with yogurt. Beat just until smooth. Turn batter into prepared pan and bake 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean. Do not overbake. Cool in pan. Cake may settle in the middle as it cools--this is normal.
There is a link to the Farmgirl Fare blog to the right.....visit it...FAB recipes and even Fabbier pictures!!!!! What a dreamy life :)
What I miss the most......
What do I miss the most about Orlando? I know this may shock some of you...knowing that I have posted before about how I don't enjoy shopping...but what I miss the most is FLORIDA MALL!
Every time we went there it was to GET something specific (wedding outfits, shoes, gifts, suitcase) and I didn't really get to stroll around and browse...It is such a nice mall...not too big but big enough, with a great selection of stores...it was really quiet there too...nothing like West Edmonton Mall. Actually kind of like WEM when it has just opened in the morning and not many people are there!
Florida Mall may not be very big but it has some of my favourite stores and the food court was pretty fab too! There is enough to excite the kids too with M&M world and Dylans Candy Bar......and Adrenalina......
Tara - make sure you go to Florida Mall :)
Every time we went there it was to GET something specific (wedding outfits, shoes, gifts, suitcase) and I didn't really get to stroll around and browse...It is such a nice mall...not too big but big enough, with a great selection of stores...it was really quiet there too...nothing like West Edmonton Mall. Actually kind of like WEM when it has just opened in the morning and not many people are there!
Florida Mall may not be very big but it has some of my favourite stores and the food court was pretty fab too! There is enough to excite the kids too with M&M world and Dylans Candy Bar......and Adrenalina......
Tara - make sure you go to Florida Mall :)
Dreams do come true
I have finished this scrapbook page this afternoon......very simple and basic but I guess thats my style lol!
sleep overs.....blah!
In the book I am reading......The Girls.......Aunt Lovey tells the girls that there are three kinds of people.
Those who love children.
Those who love their own children
Those who don't like children but have pets they call 'baby'.
I read this sentence last night and it really did make sense to me. Which one are you?
I am number 2. I love my own children but can't stand other peoples.....well a few of them are ok but mostly, no, I don't like 'other peoples children'!!
Tonight my kids all have friends sleeping over...they came back with them after school and this to me is hell.....I don't like having other people here...I like it to be just us.....Lloyd and I have an evening routine and it suits us just fine....we like to relax and mellow out...curl up in comfy clothes or I like to soak in the bath and read or go to bed at 9pm and watch a movie.....or potter about ad make snacks in the evening.......and Fridays are especially laid back....
But having 'other people' here changes that......the kids want this and that and want to do this or do that.....they are high as kites and they don't get to bed at the normal time.....
The other issue is that the new friends come from a family where they are on the go CONSTANTLY....5 kids all in sports and they also go swimming and go bowling and literally the mom spends her whole life driving them to and from places and cleaning up after them (they do NOTHING to help but demand so much)......
So of course they come here to our home and we like quiet evenings, we are very laid back and my kids have chores to do.....we don't entertain our kids constantly - they have time to be bored...time to daydream......time to 'be'......so I am wondering how these other kids will find that.....will they be bored within an hour or two.....hmmmmm we shall see....
So I shall be glad when tomorrow morning arrives and I can drop the kids back to their home and head off to photograph Orchids for a few hours :)
I much prefer Orchids to other peoples children :)
Those who love children.
Those who love their own children
Those who don't like children but have pets they call 'baby'.
I read this sentence last night and it really did make sense to me. Which one are you?
I am number 2. I love my own children but can't stand other peoples.....well a few of them are ok but mostly, no, I don't like 'other peoples children'!!
Tonight my kids all have friends sleeping over...they came back with them after school and this to me is hell.....I don't like having other people here...I like it to be just us.....Lloyd and I have an evening routine and it suits us just fine....we like to relax and mellow out...curl up in comfy clothes or I like to soak in the bath and read or go to bed at 9pm and watch a movie.....or potter about ad make snacks in the evening.......and Fridays are especially laid back....
But having 'other people' here changes that......the kids want this and that and want to do this or do that.....they are high as kites and they don't get to bed at the normal time.....
The other issue is that the new friends come from a family where they are on the go CONSTANTLY....5 kids all in sports and they also go swimming and go bowling and literally the mom spends her whole life driving them to and from places and cleaning up after them (they do NOTHING to help but demand so much)......
So of course they come here to our home and we like quiet evenings, we are very laid back and my kids have chores to do.....we don't entertain our kids constantly - they have time to be bored...time to daydream......time to 'be'......so I am wondering how these other kids will find that.....will they be bored within an hour or two.....hmmmmm we shall see....
So I shall be glad when tomorrow morning arrives and I can drop the kids back to their home and head off to photograph Orchids for a few hours :)
I much prefer Orchids to other peoples children :)
pics from out East....
Our friends moved back to Newfoundland last Fall and they sent us some pictures of the house they are renting at the moment......
Some layouts
A few of my layouts from my Disney/ Florida album.....a few of them aren't finished and some are still missing the journaling but you can get the idea from these pics......
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