My little Prince...............

Sam being pulled around on a blanket by Abigail...he sat there like a little Prince being pulled around by a servant :)

drifting against the window........

This is the snow that had blown against my bedroom window this morning :) its so pretty...you can see all the layers :)

Craft time............

Here are the girls enjoying the foam......and the paint :)

And yes Chris, at 13, wanted to puff up his own shapes too :)

If you click on the picture of Abigail to make it bigger, you will see that there is probably more paint on her and her clothes than on the paper ;)

foam craft fun.............

My friend Samantha introduced me to this fab new craft supply...it comes in a thin sheet like cardboard...you can cut it into shapes or use a die-cutting machine to stamp out shapes into it......

Then you put the shapes into water and they puff up into sponges for sponge painting...........

Kids LOVE wtaching them puff up...even Christopher got in on the action and puffed some up!

Its less than $2 for a big sheet and you can get plenty of shapes from one sheet......and the place we get ours from also has all the die cutting shapes to use for free :)

Very cool!

lunch time.............and breakfast foods...

Or breakfast time as I just ahd some toast...and a mint thin lol......so lets call it brunch and be done with it ;)

Talking of breakfast foods...yesterday I tried one of the new breakfast sandwiches from Tim Hortons.....I had the sausage and egg with NO cheese (you Canadians are so weird with your 'cheese on everything' thang you have going!!!) anyway for those in foreign parts (lol) this new sandwich is like a Macdonalds breakfast thingy.......but its like a scone (they call it a biscuit here) with egg and sausage inside.........

it was WONDERFUL!!! omg it tastes like it is sooooooo BAD for you......but it tasts so good...the scone kind of melts in your mouth - the herby sausage just mingles with the egg and scone and it was just sinful!!!! :)

I want MORE!!!!!! :)

Such a healthy start to the day :)

The sun is out and everything is beautiful outside.......I must take pictures!!

Lloyd hasn't heard about his blackberry :( his leg is still hurting too :(

I phoned my Mum for a chat.....she still hasn't booked her tickets to come over next summer.

I phoned Pella and they are coming out to give us a quote for our windows......we want them all replaced but we also want a bay window put into the side wall in the dining room (which will one day be part of our family room) it will have a window seat and over look the sledding hill and down to the pond and front woods..........

We are having the huge ugly windows at the front of the house replaced..hopefully by two smaller windows for each ugly big window....and we are having a window put into the bathroom.........

We love the Pella windows. We are having the double hung windows....with the small square panes.........the windows that are on the house now are really ugly windows...why on earth did they put them in??????

I feel like I have accomplished a fair bit today.................I also decluttered my bedroom and cleaned out the messy closets............

I got the nicest email today...from a client (and blog reader!) - it meant so much to me.......well you know who you are I am sure.....and your Email just made me so happy - thank you for taking the time to write that!!

I have a mountain of laundry to face .............I have been procrastinating over it.....

Abigail has Sam sat on a blanket and is pulling him around the house on it - he loves it! He is cuddling Maurice (Abigails teddy bear) and looks like a little Prince being pulled around by his servant!!

The children did quite a bit of 'work' this morning.....I was having one of those days when I had the need for them to do book work! So they did math and LA in their workbooks at the table......I am a failure as an unschooler today :) but my needs were met and now we can relax for the week ;) They don't seem damaged long term by my forcing schoolwork on them today so I think we will be ok ;)

Tuesday...feels like Monday!

Blah!! Its weird...with the three day weekend it means today feels like Monday! And I'm not in the mood for a Monday! Monday means chores and laundry and getting the house back to normal after the weekend. I wish Lloyd was home.

It snowed a LOT yesterday....I think this is the most snow we have had this early since we arrived in Canada...it is -9c outside but the windchill is -22c.

All highways in the area have poor conditions and they are recommending you only drive if you have to......so we are staying home.....

I was supposed to take Chris to work and then go to meet someone from LP at her house...and then on to the homeschool group...........but I have cancelled all............

Lloyd fell on the icy road this morning on Jasper Ave downtown.......he slipped hurt his leg...he's ok I think but when he got to his office he noticed his blackberry holder was empty...he had dropped his blackberry! When he went back to look for it he couldn't find it.........

So if anyone finds a blackberry on Jasper Ave then you know who it belongs to!

Chris is miserable this morning....so I sent him for a shower to wake himself up. Too many late nights over the weekend.

Its 9am.....I need to go get dressed and get the kids sorted for the day...

Have a great day everyone.