We have two!!!

Two eggs!!!! We have two eggs! Another chicken laid an egg this afternoon!

Such clever, clever chickens :)

Old friends and new ........

I'm so glad that we didn't do everything that we had planned today ......we ended up having a lazy morning because I felt ill and hadn't slept......and then we headed into town just after lunch...we went to the library and the children played the summer game...the girl working there remembered the childrens names which was amazing as she must meet a lot of children each day and we only go once or twice a week........she says she's great with names! Sam played with the train and sat and read some books........Susie and Laurie found the books they wanted and they each chose a dvd to borrow.........Abigail made friends with a little boy there and they sat and 'read' to each other.

While they were all busy the Mom of Abigails new friend walked over and started talking to him in a really strong London accent...so I HAD to ask where she was from....so we got chatting and turns out they've been here 7 years and live close to our old home in Glen Allen..she has three children including a teeny tiny two month old girl :)

After the library we went to collect Lloyds new sunglasses...as we were coming out of the optical store I ran into H....a friend I haven't seen for two years.......neither of us could believe who we had run into!!! She looked fab and so happy.....she's living in Boag lake which is really weird as we looked at one of the acreages there! I couldn't believe how big her little girl was.....she's 3!!!!

We had been friends back when Susie was in a class with her DS but both got busy and lost touch....she moved, I moved...life gets hectic......so it was really nice to see her! We swapped numbers and hopefully will get together soon.......

We drove over to pick up Chris from work and then headed to Sobeys for some groceries........I am hopeless at grocery shopping without Lloyd.....I managed to forget to buy sugar, I squashed two loaves of bread FLAT and the milk fell out of the truck when I opened the trunk and the bottle broke! Oh well.......I rarely have to grocery shop alone so thats ok!

There were lots of foods to try in Sobeys today.....we tried such a nice pizza that I ended up buying it for dinner! Multigrain with chicken, spinach and feta.......it was really good! So I did that with superfries and a big salad.

The photos I took at the library were all useless I'm afraid....these are the best three of the whole bunch :( I was in such a rush I think that I just clicked and hoped for the best.......

A journalist in Ontario is writing an article about how non-religious parents raise children with good morals and virtues.......I wrote and offered to be interviewed and she wrote back today and seems very interested so we will have to try and figure out a time for the phone call....I'd prefer to do it by email really.........but we'll see........

I personally don't see that religion has any relevance to children growing up with high morals.....people are always telling me how friendly and polite, how kind and helpful my children are.........why would that be dependent on my religious beliefs? Why is that society seems to think if you are not religious then you have no morals or values? To me that is judgmental and ignorant....yet another reason why I am NOT religious.........

I have many good friends who are very religious.......I totally respect their beliefs. I've never found that it has been a difficult issue between us. My very good friend Lianne back in England even persuaded me to go along to the Alpha course several years ago..........and I happily went with her because it was important to her.......I enjoyed the enlightening discussion but still remain Athiest.

Lloyd and I just came in from a short walk....we didn't go far because I forgot the Deet and the mosquitoes were bad.....I have 6 bites now....they LOVE me.....I have two bites on my neck by my ear....I think they love me so much they wanted to nuzzle my ear....... I took a few pics of the dogs and then of Cairo on the porch.......the skies are darkening now andf they forecast rain...no sunset again tonight.

No use crying over spilled milk.........

Just feed it to the dogs instead.................

I've never seen 4 litres of milk disappear so fast!!!!!!

First egg!!!

Woohoo at last our little ladies have laid an egg!! Our very first egg!!! Laurie went to check on the chickens and top up their water and he found it! The chicken wasn't keen to give it up though :)

It's quite small but not as small as I was expecting!

Woohoo we have eggs!!!! How exciting!!!!

Clever, clever chickens!!!!

what to do?

I feel so so sick yet I am starving hungry!!! How can that be? So now I'm not sure what to eat for breakfast? What should I eta when I feel so sick????

toast maybe......if we have any bread left....coffee maybe.....if we have milk

note to self - must go grocery shopping - cupboards are bare! We meant to go last night while we were in town but we went out for dinner instead and kind of forgot lol!

Ok too much to do today so I'm switching off and getting going. Have a great day everyone!

more of the summer fun......

Some more pictures of our afternoon yesterday..........

summer fun

The children playing outside yesterday.......including a shot with all five of them in!!!! 3 on the trampoline, Laurie on his bike and Sam at the front :)

new babies, farmers markets and peppercorn steak :)

Last night turned out really nice......Lloyd was late home from work but got home in time to whisk me out of here and into town. We walked around the farmers market...I wanted to get some more of the Red pepper and walnut dip but they didn't have any....... :( but we did run into Br and G there and stood chatting for a while. Br told me that F had a baby girl last week.....F lives in our old house......I'm so happy for them as I know how much this baby is wanted! They wanted the bigger house mainly so they could have another baby :)

Lloyd then decided he was really hungry so we went to Joey Tomatoes for dinner......it wasn't too busy so we went straight in :) Lloyd had the peppercorn steak and I had the rotisserie chicken with their amazing mash....and gorgeous asparagus......

After that we picked up coffees from Timmys and headed home just before the storm arrived....it was kind of following us down the highway :)

We then had an early night and fell asleep with the windows wide open listening to the rain......it was lovely!

I didn't sleep very well though as I woke up at 12:30 with awful heartburn....couldn't get rid of it so found myself sat in the window looking out at the amazing starry night for much of the early hours........the storm had blown over and the skies were so clear...without a moon the stars were incredible!

This morning I am feeling horribly sick again :( I thought the bug had passed but I guess not....so now I'm not sure what to do about today......we had a lot planned. But with lack of sleep and feeling sick...and Laurie was ill again last night...so I'm not sure......

Lloyd went into work late and dropped Chris at work for me....so now I just have to figure out our day...see what the children want to do.......it's supposed to be the last hot day until next week (yay cool weather and rain on the way at last) so maybe we should go out and do something...I guess it depends how I feel later......

I'm glad I felt ok last night anyway.....I got to have an evening out after all and had a good time with Lloyd......so I don't mind feeling sick again now........in fact feeling sick doesn't bother me much because compared to a migraine it's nothing!