Just don't understand...

A man in Montreal has been arrested for 'child luring' over the Internet....he pretended to be a teen and then managed to get a 13 year old from Edmonton to get naked in front of her web cam....and then he threatened her and made her do it again.....

Thats terrible yes BUT what on earth was a 13 year old doing with the Internet and a webcam in her bedroom?????? Obviously unsupervised.............

How irresponsible was that of her parents?

My view..................

Here is my view this morning from my front window.....it's still snowing though not as hard now.....but its grey and dull and we really don't need any more snow :( yes it's pretty.....well actually it WAS pretty back in October when the snow first fell but after 4 months of it it gets a little tiresome.....

Luke!

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark was one of my FAVOURITE books when I was at school. I borrowed it from the school library so many times and our teacher read it to us too! I always thought Plop was a funny name!

Laurence read a book about Owls last year called Hoot which he really enjoyed too and we bought a kit called 'Owl Poop'. Owls eat little birds and mice but they can't properly eat all the little bones and fir so they sick up a 'pellet' which is like a lump of bones and fir...... the kit we bought had two pellets and we soaked them in water and then pullled out all the bones....we had a book that told us what all the bones were! It was a great project (but it was really really smelly!)

I like owls...they have such amazing eyes! I always wonder what they are thinking when they are looking at me!

I've attached some pictures of Laurie, Susie and Abby sorting through the owl pellets last May!

I never learn!

I should learn NOT to make plans...whenever I make plans they never turn out! Most of my plans this week didn't happen.....oh well...nothing that can't be postponed....

This morning I was going in to town to Parentlink with Sam and Abby for a while...but it has been snowing fairly heavily all morning and as its a little warmer, the roads and snow are all slushy and slippery.......Hwy 14 is really bad and there has been a big accident between here and Sherwood Park....there was freezing rain this morning in Sherwood Park too.......so I will stay home.

I think I have a cold starting too...I have popped some Cold FX and will have raw garlic for lunch today with cheese and crackers....and more Cold FX later......my throat is sore and I am all achey :(

I HATE colds :(

Chris was supposed to go to Rock and Ride tonight with friends but has cancelled - I'm glad if the roads will be bad, as Lloyd was driving them. Rock and Ride is when they close off the indoor amusement park at West Ed Mall and it is for teens ONLY...they get security checked as they go in and it is a very safe environment..the local radio station has a dance floor and plays music all night and its just a fun time...they get to ride all the roller coasters and have fun with no adults or small kids there......Chris has been a few times.

We haven't decided what to do on Family Day yet...I was thinking maybe we would go bowling...or maybe if the weather is bad we could just buy a couple of dvd's and curl up with some treats to watch some family movies.....we're still kind of getting over our exhausting holiday.....

Next week I have a meeting at the school about a trip they are running next year to Quebec City......the boys have the chance to go to Quebec City for a week at Spring Break.....It's for Social and French I guess.....so we are going to the meeting to find out more about it. I may drag Lloyd along too.....Laurie says it may cost about $1500 each so we need to find out about that first...with two of them wanting to go, I guess we need to know whether it will be worth the money first....we'd like to go down to NC next Spring really...househunting maybe :)

Lloyd picked up dinner at Joey Tomatoes last night.....he had the Thai chicken stirfry bowl and I had the Diva Salad.....I am sooooo glad I picked that because it was DELICIOUS....I haven't had it in a while but was really in the mood for it and it was a good one! I gave the big crispy thing to Susie, and I had the garlic bread instead....so much for our plans to not eat out much this year......it seems we never eat at home!!!

Well, I don't feel well at all so I am going to curl up and watch Nanny McPhee with Abigail and Sam and maybe read a while.........watch the snow fall and maybe snooze...

Oh I forgot to say...as we turned into our driveway on Wednesday night, a HUGE Owl flew out from beside our little bus shelter...it had a mouse or shrew or something in our feet and was level with the hood/ bonnet of the car...its wingspan was enormous and it just flew straight in front of the car....all lit up by our headlights.....it was amazing....it had lots of flecky grey feathers....many of the owls around here fit that description so I guess it could have been any one of them....