Tuesday happenings...

This morning we went out for breakfast with Val......which was as lovely as always...although I didn't go prepared with games for Abby and Sam and they were a little tired and cranky from late nights and playing outside and they were bored and annoying...we still enjoyed breakfast and it was lovely to hear all of Vals news and get caught up with each other....

After breakfast we came home and spent the afternoon outside...catching butterflies and frogs and playing in the mud....sitting in the sun......playing with the dogs...cats....enjoying being here in the peace and quiet.  I was left wondering how long we will get to enjoy this beautiful acreage for......and how my little boy will find living in a subdivision instead of all this land with trees and pond and land to roam all day...he soooo loves being outside and playing here with all this space.......

Tonight Chris is off to the movies with some friends...

Susannah and Laurence are recovering from their track and field day......I bet they will flop and watch a movie with the little ones.....

Porcupines and other 'creatures' with quills ;)

Last night Lloyd and I went to watch Susannah sing in her Choir evening...it was so lovely....I especially loved when they sang 'I Believe'....

Afterwards I had to take Susannah somewhere briefly, and Lloyd went back to the house to spend some time with the children.....and then Susannah and I went back to join them.  When we got home there was quite a fuss going on because there was a porcupine in the wood where Sam and Abby have their 'den'.....

Lloyd took me down to see the porcupine and it was fun trying to get close enough to get a picture and Lloyd clambering in the trees to get a picture of it from the front (not possible lol) and Abby was crying because she thought the kitten was going to die cause he was sniffing the porcy lol!

It was a lot of fun - kind of crazy and like the good old times when we were a real family :)  

We got Sam inside and bathed him together and chatted and stuff and I made Lloyd a sandwich and then it was time for him to go and he told me how great he thought I was doing - how much better than himself (this is true) and that he was proud of how great I am doing......

But actually I didn't need to hear that from him - it didn't feel that important coming from him - and that felt even MORE important....because really - I am proud of ME :)  I am proud of how much I have changed in a few short weeks - of how much I have coped with and how much I have done....and how much I am facing......

The worst I could have imagined happened - and you know what?  I'm ok :)