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Outside my window...the sun is shining, birds keep flying by the window to the feeder on the porch. Abigails bicycle is stood up on the grass out front - a sure sign that Spring has arrived!!!
Outside my window...the sun is shining, birds keep flying by the window to the feeder on the porch. Abigails bicycle is stood up on the grass out front - a sure sign that Spring has arrived!!!
I am thinking... about our lovely weekend - the funny trip to Leduc on Saturday with our stop for brunch and the weird 'twilight zone' feeling - seeing the same people as the week before and the strange happy people!! Lovely walks here at home, playing in puddles, cuddling up with movies...good family dinners....yummy treats....how grateful I was to have taken my camera with me yesterday when we said goodbye to the Witches House...our lovely lunch out at the garden centre. An amazing husband who doesn't try to understand me, but supports me nonetheless. How great the kids were all weekend and how much fun it was - how great Chris has been - how helpful with planning all of the classes for next year etc etc and all the effort he has put into his own plans - So much to be grateful for :)
I am thankful for...All of the above...sunshine, the yummy dinner that has been in the crockpot all day and I can't wait to eat! My cats and their different personalities and how they make this house a home....and for my lovely home and all Lloyd has done to it to make it so beautiful.
From the learning rooms...Abby has been busy reading.....writing poems and haiku's and looking at family shields....watching movies based on classics (Pollyanna, The Secret Garden etc etc)....Sam is busy practicing his alphabet and writing....yesterday he got paid for cleaning out the car with Susannah so he wrote out a shopping list of what he wanted me to get with his money. I'll post a picture of his list!!!
From the kitchen...I'm planning Easter recipes - we are looking at a book we have of childrens Easter crafts and recipes and planning what to make and do next week.
I am wearing... jeans, sweater, socks and undies...
I am creating...ATC's and various other things for swaps on swapbot. I am working on the 'Life Story' class I am taking of Kara's (loving it). I am really not enjoying the scrapbooking class I was taking - I am sooooo NOT a scrapbooker any more - I think you can tell from my pages that my heart just isn't in it any more.....compared to the pages I used to make.....!! I am on to my SECOND Junque Journal!! I am painting on some pieces of bark that Lloyd found for me - LOVING that!!!
I am going...to spend the evening cuddling my amazingly wonderful husband after I finish sipping this lovely wine. He's out tomorrow night and i'll miss him :(
I am reading...My 'Charlotte Masons Companion' (again - it's a favourite that gets dragged out time and again), various writing and journaling books, blogs about nature journaling, crochet and life...
I am hoping...to get some good news in an email tomorrow afternoon.....
I am hearing... Lloyd and Chris arrive home - the garage door close - Laurence snoring - Sam and Susie playing at the bottom of the stairs.
Around the house... I'm getting used to my new washing machine - it will be interesting to have two tumble dryers and not have laundry pile up waiting to go in the dryer any more! I'm sad the my old washer died as it was such a good one - but I am very grateful that we were in a position to be able to just go and get new ones. I'm also grateful that I was all up to date with laundry before my old one died and we got a new one the very next day! With 7 of us laundry mounts up very quickly - especially with Sam and Abby enjoying the puddles so much at the moment!
One of my favorite things...is sorting through my boxes of pictures - I am trying to declutter all my old photographs - I really do have so many that I don't need to keep any more - duplicates, pictures of people who I don't know - pictures that just aren't very good or worth keeping etc etc so I am going through them all and decluttering them - and it is lovely enjoying so many memories as I see the old pictures!!
A few plans for the rest of the week...... I have quite a few plans for the week and they are all kind of fun and I'm looking forward to them all - but they are all dependent on one another and on different things - so I'm not really sure what is going to happen and what isn't....it's going to be an odd week and one of those 'wait and see' weeks which could be busy and could be quiet but either week should be lovely - and will hopefully be better than last week when poor little Sam was not well!!
(I started this before dinner and now it's 7pm and dinner was delicious...off to relax now - goodnight!)
Sams shopping list for today - he wanted two candy 'bags' and a cadburys creme 'egg'.
:)
