Boxing Day.....

Boxing Day at our house means relaxing at home...playing with any toys or reading any books we got for Christmas....not cooking at all but having a buffet of 'party foods'.....curling up by the fire and watching a movie together (today we watched 'Horton Hears a Who' which was WONDERFUL)!!!

If it isn't too cold we sometimes go out to Elk Island Park for a hike or sledding..or will take a walk here or go sledding here but the wind chill felt too cold here - but its set to warm up this weekend so we will do that then. Today we stayed indoors and relaxed apart from seeing to the animals - it's been really nice :) snuggled indoors - no need to go anywhere or do anything but relax and enjoy being at home. So nice :) Lazy mornings....good food, good reads, good movies.....nowhere to go, nowhere to be. I called home to wish my parents Happy Anniversary but apart from that there was nothing to do :)

Christmas dinner....

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday to a very special little Princess I know who is turning THREE years old today!!!!!

Happy Birthday KYLIE!!!!!!!!!

I hope you are having a wonderful day!!!!!!

See you soon!
lots of love from
Jane
Sam, Abby, Susie
and everyone else here :)

Including Charlie the pig!!!!!!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Samuel.....

Sam was just a bundle of energy yesterday and we kept asking how it was that he could just keep going....he didn't stop from the second he woke up until almost 11pm...

The Pickle Champion 2008!

Chris with the pickle ornament he found on Christmas morning! So yet again he is the champion and won the prize! You can read about the tradition here:

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I thought it was German after hearing about it on a Disney World Christmas special, but I guess not!!! Sorry Mom, your neighbours may not have heard of it after all!!!

My little bookworm....

Laurie did well yesterday and has PLENTY of books to keep him busy in the next little while :) I'm so glad he LOVES to read :)

Grayson's first Christmas with us....

Grayson has spent much of his first Christmas with us sprawled on the bed or playing with the tree ornaments....my gorgeous boy :)

I wonder what he was doing last year...he is SUCH a nervous cat.....still....that I wonder what happened to him in the past. He was found as a stray in January and is six years old. He was obviously loved in the past I would imagine because he is loving and used to humans. Not nasty at ALL. But oh so nervous at times. Great with the children though. I wonder if he was homeless last Christmas :(

I'm glad he isn't homeless THIS Christmas. He was in the rescue centre at the store for sooooo long - 6 LONG months :(

Happy 49th Wedding Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary to my Mum and Dad! One away from the BIG one!!!! :)

School Christmas pictures....

Merry Christmas from Abigail and Susannah!

What is YOUR word for 2009?????

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I saw this online and I think it's a FABULOUS idea..... I think I NEED this right now to inspire me both creatively and emotionally for 2009. You go this page and you pick the one little word that just comes to you and inspires you for the following year. That one little word is YOUR word for the whole of 2009. It is YOUR word. It is the word you focus on. Use it. Take it to heart. Let it lead you. Inspire you. Focus on it. Create with it. Let it challenge you.

I have picked two words for the year that I'd like to focus on - a typical Aquarian one: 'Humanitarian' and another word 'content' as this past year has been quite stressful and I want to return to the contentment I felt before all this stress arrived in my life. I miss that feeling of contentment and I'd like to find it again. Not just for myself but for those around me - 2008 was a horrible year for so many and I'm hoping that feeling of contentment returns for all in 2009 through learning to focus on the simpler things like friendship and fun instead of materialism.