They're awake!!!!!

The frogs!!! They are awake!!!! Lloyd came rushing in this evening to say the frogs are croaking! So I went out on the porch and sure enough the frogs in the pond are croaking loudly!!! How wonderful - Spring is truly here!

The frogs here in Alberta kind of freeze.........they kind of hibernate by lying at the bottom of the pond and their heart rates slow until they are almost dead but not quite...so they survive our harsh winters and then come back to life almost in Spring :) Its amazing!

So they are alive and well in our pond and croaking :) YAY!!

I'm loving it.....

Aren't you just loving this weather? My children get home from school and five minutes later they leave to go on a cycle ride with their friends...they were out until 6:15pm...just cycling...they found a lost kitten and a teacher they were near lent them a cat crate for it.....they came home for dinner and are now back outside playing basketball together.....Chris stayed home instead and spent the afternoon outside with me, Sam and Abigail.....giving the little ones rides in the wagon, cuddling Charlie and they all played on the trampoline.....

I love that they are able to be outside all the time and don't need coats or even sweaters....I sat out on the porch drinking tea for ages and just enjoyed being outside again :)

I am so grateful that we live in this area - that the children can cycle for miles without seeing a car.....I am glad they are getting a little of the childhood I had!

Scraparama!!!

So on saturday I met Cori, Colleen and Christie at the childrens school for Scraparama - an all day scrapbooking fest :) I got there for 10am and got settled in - we all wore name badges and added our names for door prizes... there was a huge selection of food to share....and I think I tried most of it lol! But as well as all the junk, I did take my own lunch which was a gorgeous mixed greens salad with feta and cranberries and a few chopped walnuts and some Thai sweet chilli sauce instead of dressing.......and it was gorgeous!!!!!!

Ok so the day wasn't just about food (sadly) Colleen arrived first and made an explosion box as a gift for a friend...although she loves it so much she hasn't quite decided whether to keep it or not.....lol!

Cori arrived next - (cori of 'Cori's Musings' - the blog with th elink on the right)...now I've 'known' Cori online for years it seems..through scrapbooking and also linking parents...but we had never met before Saturday....so thank you Cori for being brave enough to come out and meet all of us strangers ;) I was relieved that Cori is as 'normal' in real life as she seems online - after several years of meeting people online I have learned that they aren't all as they seem at first lol but Cori passes the 'normal' test lol! (Geez - I hope I did!!!!!)

I got quite a bit of scrapbooking done before everyone arrived but after they arrived I didn't get much done at all lol - but we did get a whole lot of chatting and laughing (and eating for me lol) done instead!

I had given up on Christie coming by this time but at 2:30pm Christie walked through the door - YAY!!! So I got to give her the little gift I found for her (this little metal charm thing that reads 'Its not easy being Queen' and some rings for binding a mini album and also a little tin (yes TIN CHristie, not CAN lol!!!) that is the perfect size to hold a pack of playing cards and is designed to be altered....

So Christie made a lovely explosion box for her Mom, I worked on a few layouts and Cori worked on a layout for a design team she belongs to - she showed me all the things that gets sent to her each month and she has to create something from the all - it was really interesting to watch the process.....and I loved the end result!

I finally left the crop about 7:15pm...just couldn't make the extra 2 hours to the end, but they may do another next month and are planning to make it a monthly event from the Falll - running during the school year :)

So that works out great - I have an advert in the community newsletter in a couple of weeks asking about local scrapbookers - so if anyone responds I will tell them about this monthly crop at the school :) It was so much fun......

Oh and one of th eladies was a Creative Memories rep - she had paper and a few supplies you could buy if you needed to (she wasn't pushy or anything but did give out free gifts yay!!) she gave prizes for a draw...I won one of the small prizes and Cori won the big prize of a trimmer :) yay In fact she pulled out her own name - how funny is that????? :) And I had said 'pick me pick me' and they did lol! I won a CM magazine :)

It was a great day!

I got home to find Lloyd driving the children round on his quad...Susie was back from her birthday party she went to, and Chris had gone out for the evening - swimming at WEM with friends! He got home just before midnight!!!! Its lovely pulling into the driveway and seeing them all outside enjoying the sunshine and on the trampoline and everything :)

When I got home I was soooooo in the mood to scrapbook lol but I didn't! And I haven't had a chance since really :( maybe tonight I will do some more

Cori gave me a HUGE brad to use on my tag project....its perfect - thank you Cori - I think I will work on that tonight.....I haven't started any of my three pieces for this weeks contest.....I HAVE to get going because Daniel arrives on Wednesday and then I may not have much time........

Charlie is in the kitchen eating a couple of bananas...OMG the noise!!! She eats like a PIG!!!!! lol!

MOVIE NIGHT...

On Friday our local community League held the first family movie night...they were recently given funding for a top of th eline projector tv thingy (yep so techy am I!!!) and a big sound system for the hall.....so on Friday everyone was invited for free (donation to food bank) to come and watch Happy Feet....we all took blankets, chairs, cushions to curl up in and they had snacks for sale - popcorn, pop, candy, coffee etc etc....

It was SUCH a great evening! Susannah went to friends for supper after school and met us at the hall...Laurence came with me and we all sat together on the floor with our popcorn and drinks and snuggled in our throws.......

The movie was ok - not one I would bother buying but I'm glad I've seen it...... but the atmosphere in the hall was wonderful - they stopped the movie halfway through and had a draw for door prizes and bathroom breaks and then it continued......we were home about 9:30pm....such a great evening - taking all the kids to the movies can be so expensive with snacks and tickets but this was free and snacks were $1 each.......and best of all it was in our local hall so no long drive into town and the chidlrens friends were there :)

A great, great evening and a great turnout so they plan to do this every month :)

I love living here - if the winters were not so long I'd be happy to stay forever....its such a great little village and so much like the village I grew up in :)

New week and new drugs....

I managed to get a doctors appointment this morning and told him I had HAD ENOUGH!!!!! I want to go back on to preventatives for migraines......I am so tired of losing days of my life because of migraines ...since January they have become worse and worse and last week I took 5 Imitrex - when I am not allowed to take more than one a week and no more ideally than 2 a month (they effect the heart and blood vessels and can cause stroke etc)

I used my last half of Imitrex on Saturday so I was so worried I would get another migraine and have nothing to take.....and I am fed up with taking Imitrex...soooooo I asked to go back on preventatives......this means taking a tablet every day to hopefully prevent migraines or at least have them less often (success is when migraines are cut by 50%. I used to be on beta blockers but they made me tired and made me gain weight.....but now - I don't care if I end up the size of a house so long as I am not having migraines all the time.....I am tired of not being able to do ANYTHING out of my normal routine without getting a migraine.....

So the doctor has put me on 2 new drugs that I have to take daily :( I'm not happy about this but its better than migraines......(and yes I have tried many any things over the years - diet changes, massage, chiro, homeopathic remedies and on and on......and nothing has worked for long.......

So I have to take amitriptyline at night as its a sedative...actually its also an antidepressant given to anoriexics to increase their appetite.......just lovely :(

Then I have to take Neurontin three times a day which is an epilepsy drug and helps with nerve pain and nerve endings and things like that......

Both sedate.......so if I don't blog much in the next few days you know its because I am sleeping lots....and if I blog a LOT you know its because I can't drive or do anything else because of the tablets I am getting used to!

My appt was at 11am.....I finally went in just before 12pm.....and an hour in the waiting room with two preschoolers who werre bored was NOT fun :(

After that and after we had got all the tablets at the pharmacy (thank goodness the waitress at breakfast last week gave me extra lollipops for the children - I had them in my purse and it kept them quiet in the pharmacy!!!) we then went to Sobeys where I ran into a lady I used to go to a Moms group with and we chatted for a while.....I spoiled th ekids with far too much junk just because I was in that kind of mood - and I treated myself to some sun dried tomato and basil turkey which is divine!!!!!! I had that in a crunchy bread roll for lunch......

Now I am home and the plan was to go outside for the afternoon, but to be honest this morning has worn me out....I was hoping to get a Docs appt for Wednesday morning but this mornings was the only one available all week. So I am going to wash some dishes...throw some laundry in the machine and then relax........tomorrow I have to volunteer at preschool all morning.....in the afternoon I might go over to Jennifers for coffee for a while - busy day...and then on Wednesday Daniel arrives and I have to go to the airport to meet him in the afternoon.....

I have pictures and things to blog about later but I'm not in the mood to sit at the computer right now....

later!