Bathtime :)

I had a fun afternoon at Ikea today with two of my most favourite people :)

Owen decided to get in the claw foot tub in one of the bathrooms, so I snapped this picture...he was then 'soaking in the tub' the other way round...but when I went to help him out, we realised that the bath wasn't attached to the floor and it almost fell over!!!  Ooops :)  

It was funny :)

For today......

Outside My Window... It is cloudy and breezy...I think it is starting to thunder in the distance.  The wind is really starting to pick up and it's raining a little.  I like days like this after a series of hot days.

I am thinking...of so many thinks that it feels as if my head may explode.

I am thankful for...a few wonderful people in my life who have been amazing recently!!  I seriously don't think I would have survived without them....or at least would be in the position I am in without them!!!  Thank you, thank you!!!

From the kitchen...I've been barbecuing more now that I know how to!!  I made a yummy pasta a couple of nights ago and threw in some mushrooms...the girls had some for lunch yesterday.  There are so few of us here right now (Chris and Laurence aren't around right now) that there are leftovers!!

I am wearing...as always, I am writing this in bed, so I'm in my nightwear still!!

I am creating...Not much this week - it's been a busy week with other things....I guess you could say it's been focused on creating a new life for me and the kids ;)

I am going...insane ;)   but apart from that.....I am going to miss Darren when he goes back to work tomorrow.  I am going to have breakfast with Val at some point this week and catch up with all her news.  I am going to take Susie to see Eclipse.  I am going to go to our favourite outdoor pool as soon as the weather heats up again!!  I am going to see Christie and Sid again next weekend :)  I am going to take my girls to camp next week.
I am reading...three books right now - two fiction and one non fiction.  The non fiction is one Darren gave me and I'm working through.....I'm reading a Jane Green novel and a novel Vals Daughter Kayla let me borrow!!

I am hoping...that this week is much easier than last week....


I am hearing... Miss Spiders Sunny Patch on Treehouse, and the window blowing through the window and under the door..

Around the house...I'm still painting my room, working on the stairs....life keeps getting in the way of me finishing it!!!

One of my favorite things...sleepovers :)

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...get the windows clean, go swimming, give Chris a driving lesson, cut the grass, count the money in the jar, start packing for the girls for camp. go to the bookmobile, see the Twilight movie.....

City Hall Wading Pool...

Cooling off (freeeeeezing off????) in the water after the festival...they were having a blast!!  They all had cups to fill with water and throw at each other.....and Sam was the only one with spare clothes to change in to!!!  :)  

Street Performers Festival...

Yesterday we went to the Street Performers Festival in Downtown Edmonton with some good friends of ours.  You can read about it

 HERE

It was the first time we had ever been to this festival and it was a really fun afternoon!  Of course the first focus for the kids was the FOOD!!!  lol...so they all had hot dogs or lemonade, poutine or snow cones etc....

I got to have some Indian food :)  

We did eventually get to watch some of the street performers!!  I really enjoyed one guy who was making a couple play tennis with a ball that he was controlling on a stick.....and then he was pulling a little girl along with a rope....

I also really enjoyed the guy in the pictures above!!!

I would have liked to have watched the girl who was hula-hooping as Barbie, but the children had all been in the City Hall pools by then and were wet and cold, so we wanted to get them home!!

It was a fun evening and perfect weather :)

Sunday morning sunshine....

The weather here has been gorgeous lately.  Today is the first cool day for a while and it's supposed to rain today and tomorrow and then be hot again by Wednesday.  

This was me yesterday morning, bright and early, having coffee out on the back deck with my laptop checking facebook.....bed hair and still in my nighty lol.....oh I LOVE living on an acreage with no neighbours that can see me....it doesn't matter that I've just crawled out of bed and I'm outside....no one can see me :)  well, except you lot now because I've posted this picture lol!  :)

Oh my, I look FABULOUS in the mornings huh??? Hahahahaha ;)  ok no comments please ;)

:)

Glow stick fun....

On Saturday night I gave the kids a bag of glow sticks at bed time and they had a blast messing about with them.  At first they couldn't get them to glow - in fact it was little Sam who finally found a way to snap them and get them glowing :)  Once they were glowing they were all high as kites for a while enjoying them :)  

Shocking how much fun you can have with a $2 bag of glow sticks :)