Tuesday is over....

Today I am grateful for:

1. Chris making french toast for everyone - they all loved it and it saved me from having to make lunch :) Chris loves to cook and is great this dish :)

2. A quiet stroll around Michaels and Homesense...child free :) in fact totally alone for a while......

3. A fun trip down memory lane with Lloyd this evening....I love that Lloyd and I grew up together and that we've known each other since childhood...it's like we share so many memories....even if he does remind me that I'm older than him ;)

4. The yellow rose Abigail gave me...even if it meant she had picked my ONLY flowering rose from outside! It's the thought that counts ;)

5. Seeing the excitement the girls had while I helped them pack their little picnic to take on their adventure......and their thrill of finding 'hawk eggs' (lol)

6. Sitting at the table painting rocks with Abigail today while she taught herself that mixing two colours can create a new colour!

7. The winter months - because they kill off mosquitos (I've just been bitten on my toe......)

Sudoku

My latest obsession is Sudoku. I am really good at Sudoku. Almost as good at these number puzzles as I am at Boggle...and trust me I am undefeated at Boggle!!!!!

I bought two new Sudoku books today but I think I will send one to my Dad. I think he'd like it!

I did two Sudoku's this afternoon....the sun comes through my bedroom window and warms up the bed so I was lying there enjoying the sunshine and doing puzzles.....had to lock the door though as the kids kept coming in to interupt me lol! There should be a law against interupting someone doing a sudoku puzzle!

Firefox and the Cutty Sark

I made a tomato bacon and cheese pasta sauce this evening which turned out really well....we had that with wholewheat pasta, crunchy bread and a salad.....everyone seemed to enjoy it - especially Sam!

After dinner, Lloyd and I drove into town. I picked upa parcel from the post office - they nearly wouldn't give it to me as my name and address on my licence don't match the ones on the parcel......I told Lloyd we should change my name legally to stop the confusion....or get married finally!!!!

I strolled around Michaels while Lloyd went to Home Depot....and then he met me in Home Sense...where he fell in love with a model of the Cutty Sark.......and bought it!!!! Oh and a tin opener thankfully! We live in Alberta.......soooooo far from the ocean but Lloyd seems to be collecting sailing boats!!! I told him it could be for his Fathers Day gift! Although I daresay we will get him other things too ;)

When we got home the boys took the dogs for a walk and here I sit having downloaded Firefox so I can finally add some pictures....

I may go and mow some grass in a bit...or rather some dandelions...I swear they are teasing me...they must duck down and hide from the mower blades and next morning I look out and there they are 4 inches tall grinning evily at me!!!! How can something grow soooo fast!!!!?????

I have signed up for a postcard swap with the homeschool forum I'm on....the kids will enjoy that!

Michaels didn't have much - most of the shelves were empty. I bought a few crafts for rainy afternoons.....and some extra candle wax so we can make more candles. I may do the ones with ice cubes in them as they are really pretty.

I need to put the pictures onto the computer from the camera....and Lloyd needs to go down to the woods to photograph the baby Robins in the next...he's busy beside me doing his accounts for tax season (business)

Lloyd was asking if I thought most couples laugh together as much as us....I don't know....most that I know probably don't....these days so many people are miserable and never look on the bright side...and most couples don't even seem to like each other! Lloyd and I are always giggling and laughing together....

We were talking about 'the old days' in the car on the way back...all those 'I remember when a stamp cost 12p and I remember when you could buy 2 sweets for a penny and we had 1/2 pence pieces!!!! I was talking about I Spy books...no one seems to remember them.....but I had lots of them.....I Spy in the town, I Spy in the countryside, I Spy car numbers.........and I would tick everything off and then write to Big CHief I Spy and he would send me a badge!

And Fuzzy Felts!!!! I loved Fuzzy Felts.......

God I feel old now!

The Big Adventure

Susannah and Abigail packed up a picnic of juice boxes, mini marshmallows and Graham crackers, took a notebook and pen and went out for an adventure......they were going for a walk with the dogs around our land.....

It wasn't long before they came back full of excitement because they ahd found a nest in a hole with eggs! White eggs the size of a dandelion clock. They wondered if they were hawk eggs as we see the hawks flying around a lot.....

I grabbed my camera (which I later realized had no memory card in!!) and headed out to see the eggs...I ahd emailed Lloyd to tell him the news so we were all excited that we may have more eggs to watch hatch!

I hike across the front paddock through all the long grass....we finally find the hole (not easy in tall grass) and there is the egg......except it isn't an egg! It's a toadstool growing otu fo a lump of horse poo!!!!!!

Too funny! The girls were so disappointed...but it was funny really :)

Still, they had fun on their adventure and even stopped to draw some flowers in their notebook...their drawings of the dandelion clocks were especially good.

French toast

Chris is making French Toast for everyone....it smells really good! They are all lining up with their orders!!! Saves me making lunch and they are having fun at the same time ;)

We've been painting rocks and Abigail was complaining because her blue and yellow keep turning green....nice that she is learning how colours mix all by herself...so now she has been experimenting with mixing colours and has learnt that mixing red and blue makes purple and mixing red and yellow makes orange....and she made the discovery just by playing about with the paints while we were working on our rocks........I'm waiting for my yellow flowers to dry before I can do more.....

Lloyds blackberry is playing up so he isn't getting all his emails....which is a pain as I like chatting to him during the day via email...still, he'll call soon......

Summer reading program

Our reading program is going well so far...we started on June 1st...the kids don't ahve to take part - it's up to them ;) but they are choosing to! They have to read a book and complete a simply one page book report (from http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/worksheets/book%20report2.pdf ) and then they get to pick an envelope......the envelopes have different things in them from $5 bills to coupons for things like take out from Joey tomatoes or a sandwich deal from Tims.....large Iced Capp or ice cream of their choice from Laura Secord.......

Chris and Laurie already have two each!!!!

My old blog

This is my old blog....from a different life almost :) or at least it feels very different.....

http://janemma.tblog.com/

I think it's quite different from this blog....

What to do?

I am sat here not dressed. I should have breakfast. I guess we won't get to the curriculum sale...the kids don't seem too worried about not going ;) I'd only spend money on curriculum we won't ever use anyway ;)

I posted The Girl I Used to Be on HB yesterday. Rodders was upset over her parents comments about her pregnancy...I thought it would help. She responded and seemed to like the poem which is good. I think it's beautiful.

She came tonight as I sat alone,The girl I used to be.
And she gazed at me with her earnest eye And questioned reproachfully,"Have you forgotten the many plans And hopes that I had for you?"
"The great career, the splendid fame,All the wonderful things to do?"

"Where is the mansion of stately height With all of its gardens rare?""The silken robes that I dreamed for you And the jewels in your hair?"
And as she spoke, I was very sad For I wanted her pleased with me ... This slender girl that I used to be.

So gently rising, I took her hand,And guided her up the stairs Where peacefully sleeping, my babies lay So innocent, sweet, and fair.
I told her that these are my only gems,And Precious they are to me;That silken robe is my Motherhood Of costly simplicity.

And my mansion of stately height is love,And the only career I know,Is serving each day in these sheltered walls For the dear ones who come and go.
And as I spoke to my shadowy guest,She smiled through her tears at me;And I saw the woman I am now ... pleased the girl I used to be.

~

Rowena K. Lewis ~

I think I need to take my iron. It's day 3 and I'm feeling very washed out today. Maybe thats why I'm not too bothered about doing anything much today.....

If we end up staying home I think we will go outside and paint some rocks...it would be nice to have some painted and put them in the woods.......so the kids can get creative!

I will take the quilt out there and we can read and stuff out there too....or maybe I will see if they want to do some sketching....of the house, or some flowers or the trees..........

Maybe we will run into town after all and buy some little canvases or some spray varnish or some sketch books......

Mmmmmmmm thats a plan!

Maybe it's Aunt Flo's visit or something but I feel like just being at home with my kids :) And I know that next week will arrive and I will be back to my usual sociable self ;)