Flower girls.....................

Visiting with the horses.......

We strolled across the field to see the horses and feed them some hay........the children loved this...........

The Sam effect..............................

Our plans changed and because I was feeling sick and so were Laurie and Lloyd we decided to register for dance tomorrow night instead of tonight (thankfully they are having two nights) and we went for a stroll instead.......on our way I found the most perfect dandelion head........so I went to take a picture but Lloyd thought this was hilarious and shouted...'get it Sam!' because Sam just loves to destroy them lol...not just blow them but attack them lol! So anyway...here are the before and after pictures of what happens when Sam gets a dandelion clock ;)

Tell me why I don't like Mondays...........not today anyway lol!

Its been a blah day really.....our Mondays won't kick off properly until the 25th when classes start up...from then our Mondays will be all planned out each week which is a good start to each week.........although next Monday will be fun fun FUN!!!!.................

I have felt a bit sick all day.......can't eat and my stomach wants to refuse any food I try to eat........................Laurence has just come in complaining of the same.........YUCK!!!!

So what can I say about today so far? I woke up with Abigail and Samuel in bed curled up with me...............but Lloyd gone :( my coffee was on my bedside table so I knew he had left already....and then I heard his car start so I managed to get to the window in time to wave him off to work......but too late for a hug :(

I got some errands done around here, laundry, vacuumed the entire house......and my homeschool board info arrived so I spent a while going through all my receipts and sorting out my funding.........I have $800 to claim for so far......not bad for one week into the school year lol!

Both Chris and Laurie did some Math U See.............oh actually they all did some math...even Abigail but the girls didn't use the dvd's.............Susie and Laurie did some writing........from their write now books and then we did a project on adjectives...I did it on me the other night and showed them what I had done...so then they wanted to have a go and we will finish the project on Wednesday................they are doing adjective acrostics using their names and we will make posters for the wall...with photographs of themselves......then they have to make acrostics about each other......

Abigail and I worked on her Alphabook which we found on a great literacy site.........Chris wrote to his penpal in England..........he also designed a computer program for Susannah so she can practice her typing skills..............

They all played outside for a while...on the trampoline etc.......

This afternoon......Chris is watching some shows about the Anniversary of Sept 11th.........Susannah is reading her books on Moose as she wants to study them.........

Tonight we go to register for dance and yoga........and may go for a walk by the lake...we were going this afternoon but Laurie and I feel sick so we're not up to it........tonight if we feel better we will go........it seems such a shame to waste what may be the last 20c+ day of the year.........

Lloyd has sent me a few links of properties for sale in PEI and NB.......................some of them are lovely.............

Oh I feel so ill this is horrible........all I have eaten all day is a small bowl of Special K........Lloyd will be home very soon thankfully.........

I'm feeling good about getting the invoices for the homeschool funding sorted.......its much simpler than the other school board I was with last year.....you don't have to separate the tax or child or date or anything..................

Well, can't think of much else to say right now............

Glamour shots..............a blog post

http://shiveredsky.blogspot.com/2006/09/open-letter-to-all-women-who-have-ever.html

This post on another blog is just so so true!!!! Thankfully I have NEVER had a glamour shot taken ....although my sister has and numerous friends.......and I was given a coupn for a free shoot after I had Susannah..................and I so agree that these pictures are HORRID!!! lol

A piece of art...........................

I love nice pens........I really love them.......they don't need to be expensive...in fact my favourite pens used to be the tiny free ones you could pick up in the Argos stores in the UK....like a catalogue store where you had to fill in an order form instore...........they had these mini pens for you to use....they were so nice to write with, with pale blue ink........

Lloyd knows how I love nice pens....I love to write but only with a nice pen......so he brings me home all kinds of pens that he picks up at work or gets given........

Last week he brought me home this STUNNING pen.........he works with various companies, among them Fujitsu and IBM.......when he goes to IBM meetings he twirls around his Fujitsu pen as if to tease the IBM team ;) so last week the IBM team gave him an IBM pen...........yay :) these pens are little works of art!!! They are made from GLASS!!!!!! and when you click the end they light up BLUE!!!! And they write in the softest silvery grey ink!!!!

So I am keeping this precious pen safe, put away out of the reach of little hands and it is only for special writing :) Carla...my next letter to you will be in silvery ink and NOT in about 20 different colours lol!

Isn't this pen just so pretty????

Ok ok little things please little minds ;) but I'm happy with my freeby IBM pen :)

Where were you?

Today is my Ex Brother in laws birthday............Happy Birthday Miguel! Miguel lives in New York.

Today is also the Anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York.........I was fortunate enough to have seen the towers before they fell.........beautiful buildings...........they 'made' the New York skyline................it just isn't the same without them......

So as with Elvis's death and the assassination of President Kennedy....they say everyone remembers where they were when they heard about the WTC bombings...........

So where were you?

I was pregnant with Abigail, it was just after lunch in Scotland and I was havinga rest on my bed watching an afternoon chat show called 'The Gloria Hunniford Show'. I was fed up when they interupted the show for a news report.......until I realised what the news report was! I got straight on the phone to Lloyd who was at work in his office at 'Intelligent Finance' in Edinburgh...........he yelled out to everyone around what I was telling him............and I kept reporting things over the phone as I was watching them.....I remember saying 'Oh My God the towers collapsing....its falling' and he shouted that out to everyone...........and then ;oh my god the other towers going....' and again he repeated what I said.......they then got a tv set up at work for everyone to see what was happening..............................

With family and friends in New York it was a worrying time and the news reports and stories that followed were tragic..................Luckily all friends and family weren't harmed.....although my ex Father in law lost his job when the building he worked in was destroyed........

2973 people died in the Sept 11th attacks and 2051 children lost their parents......