Louise

I'm so sorry to hear your Mother in Law is so seriously ill...you are right, Cancer is a very cruel disease. One of my best friends from England died of cancer a few months after I arrived in Canada - it was such a shock.

All I can say is just be sure to take lots - (and lots and lots) of pictures of you with your Mother in Law, with your boys (together and separate) with your Mother in Law and especially of your husband and his Mom.....those pictures will be so important!

Thinking of you!

How????? Tell me how!!!!!

So we get a letter from Costco today, saying that a Polly Pocket set that we bought last DECEMBER has been recalled - the magnets in it are falling out and are dangerous if inhaled!

We have to return the toy for a refund!

So can someone please tell me HOW THE HELL we are supposed to find all the correct pieces and return them???? Do they KNOW how small these toys are? Do they REALISE that little girls are not known for keeping all their little bits and pieces in one place for almost a YEAR!!!!!

I don't know where the hell it all is - do we have it all? Has it gone up the vacuum? What bit goes with what set?

So it would be interesting to know how many they actually get returned!!!!!!

Just another manic Monday.....

Actually it hasn't been too manic really. I sat in bed and finished a letter this morning. Then I went on my treadmill for a while, then did sit-ups...then showered....pottered about doing laundry, spending time with Sugar, chatting with Lloyd....reading my running magazines for articles on 5k training (I'm a little obsessed right now lol - I have an obsessive personality - what can I say? lol!)

This afternoon I drove Chris into town to meet his friends - they went to see the Mr Bean movie. After we dropped him off, the rest of us went to Tims for coffee....Sam had JUST fallen asleep as we arrived so he wasn't in the best of moods...it was a little stressful but not as bad as it could have been.

Came home and sent some emails....printed off a few things I needed.....made supper...now the girls are going out on their quads and Lloyd is going to fill my truck with gas. I may scrapbook later or if my tummy doesn't feel better, I think I will soak in another Radox bath :)

Some interesting news (lol) - I have now learned to swallow 7 tablets all at once!!! :) Quite an achievement lol!

Oh and I found another run to take part in :) I'm going to start collecting race tshirts (they give you a free t-shirt every time you sign up for a race!)

Oh and Chris phoned to say he's sleeping over at his friends house - that wasn't a big surprise though lol - I expected him to ;)

My tummy hurts :(

I think I know why.....

I think I know why I have had such awful tummy ache for the last few days - coffee! I used to get bad tummy ache if I drank too much Tim Hortons coffee. And this last weekend I drank too much! Had horrible tummy ache yesterday. This morning I was better but this afternoon I had a double-double and ouch my tummy is the size of a beachball and is AGONY again :(

That'll teach me! I had switched to having either the vanilla yoghurt and berries or chocolate milk when I'm at Timmy's but I went back to coffee because of the cooler days lately. Big mistake!

Sponsoring us from over seas

Just a quick post to those of you who have emailed me about sponsoring me for my run! Yes you can sponsor me from overseas by using a credit card and signing up online via the email I sent out - thats the easiest way, but if you'd like to pay by cheque then thats fine too - you can always send me a cheque paid to me and I can pay via credit card on the site and your name will be with your amount so you can check I didn't run off with your money ;)

Canadians can make a cheque to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation but anyone out of Canada can't do that but a cheque payable to me can be paid into my British account and I CAN JUST PAY THE CBCF DIRECT here oops sorry hit caps lock.

If that doesn't make sense then please Email me :)

I really would appreciate all and any sponsors!!!! Its such a great cause.

Fort Ed Run for the Stollery....

Check out my post in Running To Mickey....anyone want to run this one with me?

join our group!

My good friend Carole-Anne is organizing a Close to my Heart group. If you scrapbook and love the CTMH supplies then please consider joining - the ore of us who join up, the more free goodies we(meaning you if you join up!) will get :)

Basically you commit to spending a minimum of $25 every month for 10 months (if 10 people join) and one of the months YOU become the 'hostess' so YOU get all the free goodies that a hostess of a party would get....it changes each month :) You don't have to attend each month - you can just send in your order and payment each month and then one month you reap the rewards :)

There is so much I want to buy from CTMH anyway...so I am signing up for this group.

If you would like to join up too then contact Carole-Anne at: carole-anne@shaw.ca

and you can see some of the CTMH goodies at: www.closetomyheart.com/

Have I explained that well enough????? I hope so!

I'd also love to recommend the Canadian Scrapbookers group Maple_Leaf_Scrappers which can be found at yahoogroups.com Carole-Anne started this group with some friends and although there are members from across the country, there are MANY from Edmonton :) lots of swaps and get togethers too!

Sugar*

Sugar is doing great here now - she didn't eat until last night but today she ate no problems - although she seems to snack more than eat lol - has a little then saves the rest for later.....But she seems much happier now. She enjoys coming inside and can race up the stairs fast! She wouldn't go in her crate when I told her to, so then I said 'In your bed' and she went straight in! So she must understand bed more than crate!

She is getting lots of walks and lots of time outside with us and has stopped looking at the end of the driveway for Christie :)

She's so good that Lloyd wants to know why our dogs aren't that good!

Christie emailed from Sicamous today and said she is having a great time. I told her that I am teaching Sugar naughty habits just the same as she teaches Sam naughty habits when we go out for breakfast ;)

Mommaspaz!

Really? Will you really join us??? That would be soooo cool! The cost should be really low - basically we will split gas money (it's $90 to fill my truck and it takes almost a full tank to Jasper and as we won't be driving much there it should be $180 max between however many of us go. Then I think Christie said the room is $60 a night for as many people as we can fit in lol! So the more of us who go the cheaper it will be!!!

So it should be a cheap weekend and the more that come along the cheaper it will be :)

It would be so great if you could join us :) we can pick you up on our way :)

Too cool!

Who else???? who else???? Christie is trained in outdoor survival - I was telling her on Saturday that if I was stuck on a dessert island I would rather be stuck with her than Lloyd lol! Lloyd would be great at building a shelter and lighting fires but thats about it lol...I know with Christie I'd survive :)