Craft supplies and curriculum!

We went to Michaels today and stocked up with craft supplies for a few projects I've been planning....including firework pictures for Guy Fawkes night on Monday. WE bought glitter in all kinds of colours, new paint in the primary colours and black and white...and numerous project kits for Christmas....

This evening I also printed off some number lines and umber charts for next week and I order Five In A Row which is a curriculum based on quality fiction. You can read more about it here: www.fiveinarow.com/fiar/

I ordered a book by Dr Ruth Beechick too www.homehearts.com/beechick.html

and some card games.

I'd like to get Chocolate Chip math but can't find it anywhere....

This morning Abigail whizzed through several pages of her math workbook..then spent a while on her math cdrom....next week I have 'lesson plans' for want of a better term.....basically I have aplan of activities to get through during the week....but we also have some field trips planned....I just hope I feel better and more able to face it all - this week I have been sick and had no energy to do much at all.....thankfully Abigail is happy to read or do her workbooks etc so it's been an easy week all round!

Library reading...

My friend Jennifer is giv ing a 'reading' from her novel at the library next week :) How wonderful!!!!

I am going to be holding a reading on the evening of November 12 at the Strathcona County Library, together with Jennifer Rahn. I know most of you are already familiar with my book, Dominion, which was released by DragonMoon Press two years ago. Well, DragonMoon had just released a terrific new book by another Alberta author, who happens to share my first name. Jennifer Rahn currently lives in Calgary, but grew up in Sherwood Park, and is coming back here to promote her first novel, The Longevity Thesis. We will both be reading from our respective books, and will also provide refreshments. We are hoping that this will be a fun evening, with plenty of opportunity for us all to visit and get to know each other better. We will begin at 7:00pm, and continue until 8:45.

I know you will enjoy meeting Jennifer R. She is a wonderful, intelligent person. I have read her book, and found it really absorbing. It is not your typical fantasy, by any means. The story centres on a university campus in an underground land, where the inhabitants have so long avoided the desert above them that many now regard the stories of its magic as mere superstition. Antronos, who has been touched by that magic, knows better. But even he does not suspect what ancient and unnatural beings are at work within the University itself, until his desire to study longevity places him in their power. The Longevity Thesis is at turns darkly primeval and disconcertingly modern, grimly macabre and life-afirming: compounded together, these ingredients create a powerful and unsettling tale.

I hope you will be able to join us on the 12th. Please pass this on to anyone else who might be interested.

Jennifer Kennedy

Afternoon...

Still feeling crappy with my throat and cough and everything...but we headed out anyway. We had lunch out and went to Michaels....we bought glitter, new pots of paint, lots of wooden crafty bits and pieces to be painted....playdough, foamy kits....

And I bought the cutest snowman - its a jar and the snowman is kind of around the jar...or like the jar part is his belly.....its very cute anyway...not sure what I will fill it with, but he is sat on the table in my hallway :)

I heard back from Runners World - they said my subscription was cancelled because of a problem with my address (?????) yet they had my email address - they had used that to send my confirmation number etc...so why didn't they just email me to confirm my address????? So I have waited since June and they did NOTHING!!!! Ggrrrrrr. Lloyd said he would sort out my subscription for me if I wnat but I said to forget it - I think I would rather just buy the magazine each month instead of all this hassle...its the sme with Cretaing Keepsake magazine - you get your issue about 2 days before the NEXT one is due in the stores :( gggrrrrrr!

Today I got The Old Schoolhouse magazine in my mailbox...its a religious homeschool magazine....its ok - a little over the top re religion, but some of the articles are useful....I won a free subscription last year.

So when Chris gets home from school in a short while, I plan to go and soak in the bath with some Radox and my two magazines (I finally BOUGHT Runners World today now I know it won't be arriving in my mail box) Oh and Danica yes, I'm still running....I just never seem to update my running blog.....there seems little point unless something interesting happens on my run or I am in a race....not sure people would want to read 'today I ran for 30 minutes. I haven't run this week because I've been ill but apart from that yes I'm still running. I look forward to it - it gives you a high :)

Lloyd is cooking his infamous Butter Chicken tonight.....I had to pick the cream up in town earlier....along with some Alphabits cereal for a spelling activity on Monday.

Kids are home so I am off for my bath now :)

Friday morning

My throat is rough and sore again and my cough is driving me nuts and my head hurts :(

I think maybe my body knew I needed to get through Halloween, so I felt fine for a day or two...but this morning I don't feel good :(

I was heading into town today - to Michaels for a few supplies...but I think I will go in tomorrow when we go to Costco instead. I don't need the supplies until Monday anyway.

I'm not sure what to do today....I think we should start with breakfast!