10 years...

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death.....do you remember where you were when you heard she had died?

I was 25 years old and 5 months pregnant with Susannah and I was in bed...it was early Sunday morning and my then-husband Nigel was downstairs making coffee...he had the tv on down there and he called upstairs to say to put the tv on...he said he thought one of the royals had died - but he didn't know which....

He came upstairs with coffee and we sat in bed watching the news to see who it was...we both assumed it was the Queen Mother.

When they said it was Diana we were stunned. Absolutely stunned! It didn't seem possible!

That day was the day we were having Christophers 4th birthday party. We weren't sure whether to cancel or not but decided to go ahead with the party - we had a lot of people coming and we had a magician and Punch and Judy performer coming to entertain all the children.

Everyone invited came to the party except for my friend Julie and her 3 children.

I later found out that Dianas death had affected Julie very badly - she was frightened to drive because of it and she kept having visions of Diana sat at the end of her bed......she was always a nervous driver after that day. Sadly Julie died 4 years ago.

So that was what I was up to on the day that Diana died.

I remember watching the funeral on tv - and sitting in my window looking out - all the stores were closed during the funeral and the street was really quiet.

What do you remember?

Hiding place...

Poor Sugar did NOT like her cold bath and went to hide under the trampoline for a few minutes afterwards! Funny girl! We'll miss you Sugar - we enjoyed having you to stay!

Time for a bath!

Sugar tried to wipe the dirt off in the grass but it didn't work so she had to put up with a cold shower with water straight from the well! It was a MUST though as BOY did she smell!

New tricks!

See Christie - you teach my boy to throw napkin snowballs in a restaurant....and I teach your dog how to get into trouble like a dog should ;) lol!

Mama Christie does NOT look pleased with her Sugar!!!! lol!

To this:

Sugar was lovely and white when Christie arrived to get her, but while we were chatting, Sugar went to play...in the pond!!! She was all excited and came running into the house!!!!

from this.....

Scrapbooking divas..

The girls scrapbooking at the table yesterday morning.....

By the fire - on Wednesday night

A few pictures from Wednesday night out by the fire.

The bottom pictures is of the girls being chased by Lloyds gas powered car!

pictures to scrapbook!

Here are some of the pictures I took of Susie and her friend yesterday so they could scrapbook them....the bottom picture is actually of them yawning as they are in pj's.....but it looks more like they are singing or something weird lol!

I grumbled through the last two days!

I am so behind in posting.

So, on Wednesday morning I ran for 30 minutes and then in the afternoon Susie and I went to South Edmonton Common...first store we went into was The Childrens Place...and it was a total ZOO (of course having read Kathys latest post, I now realise that that was because it was the first day of their Summer Clearance Sale.....so THATS why the line ups were to the back of the store! We weren't in there for Summer gear so I didn't bother pushing through to the sales racks - we did get some jeans, a lovely denim long skirt and some tops for Susie for Fall and back to school!

We were due to have our hair cuts at 1pm or so I thought! Turns out the stupid COW (sorry but yes she was a stupid old moo who was mouthy and tells LIES....) had booked us in for NEXT Wednesday the 5th instead of this Wednesday! She swore that she had read the date back to me (she didn't - just said 'you are booked in for WEdnesday at 1pm) and she swore it was her that took the booking yet said 'she is all booked up today' well the girl who took the booking said SHE was cutting my hair - so I know she wasn't being honest! Anyway, they managed to find time to cut Susannahs (which I am NOT impressed with) and I was so upset I called Lloyd who got on the phone to my normal hairdresser at WEst Ed Mall and got e an appt for tomorrow! I love you Lloyd - you save my sanity!

So I am having a cut and colour tomorrow!

After that I took Susie out for something to eat and then we hit Rietmans for some clothes for me :) Payless shoes for some Fall shoes and boots for us both....and then La Senza Girl which was a real treat for Susie - a lot of her friends wear things from there but I find a lot of it a bit OTT for little girls! Anyway - we bought her a lovely dressing gown like mine in the sale which she just loves - they are soooo soft! And she bought herself some High School Musical things with her own money!

WE had a fun girls day out shopping but it was so tiring!

We got home and then Susies friend arrived for a sleepover - by this time I was tired and not really in the mood for guests...after dinner we all went outside and Lloyd lit a fire and we had Smores....I have pictures to add when I have time!

Thursday morning the girls wanted to scrapbook but I was so tired from WEdnesday and really grumpy so I took a few pictures a of the girls, printed them off and gave them some supplies to scrapbook with....

I basically woke up THursday morning in a cranky mood and I have been in a cranky mood ever since! I was so close to phoning Val and cancelling going to the lake - but I knew if I stayed home and wallwed in my bad mood it would be worse...so we packed up the car and went anyway!

I'm so glad we did - Val was very kind and put up with me being grumpy all afternoon - the children had great fun and the weather was GORGEOUS!!! 29c I think Val said it got to! Woohoo! Today was nice too and got to 23c too :) in fact all week it hasn't been bad :)

I didn't swim this time and only paddled up to my hips really....the kids seemed to do a lot of swimming though.

I'm so glad I didn't waste this last hot day of Summer being grumpy at home! I know Val was very close to cancelling too, so Val - thank you for coming out and joining us :)

WE got home around 5:20pm and I threw some dinner in the oven...then Susies friends Mom arrived to pick her up and Lloyd and I jumped in the truck with Sam and drove into town with the trailer to pick my quad up from cycleworks. All fixed Yay!!! WE ran into Tims afterwards for a bagel each and then home at last! I was then so tired we put Sam in the bath and went to bed!

That brings us to today!

This morning I was badly sunburned on my back from yesterday and because I had had the sun on the back of my head all afternoon, I had a bad headache too.....so I stayed in bed most of the morning and then sat on the floor and played with Sam for ages with his cars and with some cootton reels and strings to practice threading....he was in such a fun mood and was happy to make tracks in the carpet with his car wheels and build towers with the blocks and the cotton reels.....I am so looking forward to having some time with just Sam. Hhmmm I wonder if I can persuade Val to join me at one of those drop in mornings at Kinsmen where the children can play and then you can swim with them...........Val?????

I got up and threw some laundry in the machine....tidied my room a bit and sorted some clean laundry....exciting huh? Caught up with some Email....and got one from Christie saying she was off to soak in the hot tub because of her aches and pains from hiking this week :) It's ok for some!!!!

Then Val called to say about breakfast next week (its a day early woohoo!) and then Christie called to say she was on her way over for Sugar.....

Christie came in for tea and as always time passes really fast with Christie because we don't stop chatting and laughing! Oh and that reminds me that I need to add Christies bog to my list of blogs again because YAY she has started writing it again (after me nagging!)

So Sugar has gone.....she was a darling - such a good dog - although when she arrived she was white and when she left she was almost black (I have pictures to post and I PROMISE it wasn't my fault! She was white when Christie arrived to pick her up!!!!

Christie stayed until Lloyd got home and then we waved her and Sugar off, I ran inside and tidied myself up, and then Lloyd and I headed into town. WE grabbed supper at Boston Pizza (because Smittys closes at 4pm on a Friday???!!!! Why????) and then we went to Costco to get a months worth of groceries - well actually not quite because our freezer broke down so we couldn't buy much frozen food as our small fridge freezer doesn't hold much. I also bought some of their fab Christmas gift wrap and a copy of Jodi Picoults novel 'My Sisters Keeper'

And that brings us to now - I am sat here catching up while Lloyd and Sam watch Brother Bear.....I am tired and still grumpy - although not quite as grumpy because I had a child free evening which was nice.

I have pictures to add so I should do that while I have the chance.

Have a FAB weekend everyone - what are you all up to?

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