For today......

Outside My Window... It is lovely and sunny - a gorgeous Fall day.

I am thinking...about the life I want to live - I've been working on my Life Book for 'Soul Restoration 2'....and filling in more pages...it is so calming and so inspiring to work through this class and focus on it for an hour or so.  Even when I feel crappy physically, like I do today, the mere act of working on a page or two of my book inspires me to get going on this life that I WANT rather than wasting even one day of it!

I am thankful for...all the ways in which you can communicate with friends these days - I love it when I get text messages from friends - little hellos and messages of love and caring :)  just 'how are you's'? and 'what are you up to today'?  jokes and pictures :)  They vary soooo much depending on who they are from of course lol!  Then voicemails and phone calls.....and Emails, and messages on FB or my FB wall...I hope people realise how much these little messages make a difference to my day :)  Even when I am busy rushing about here there and everywhere it just warms my heart to know people are thinking of me :)

From the kitchen...flapjack!!  That would be the word of the week :)  Abigail made some earlier in the week and as it was such a BIG hit with everyone, people keep asking hr to make more - so she keeps making more :)  And by flapjacks I mean oatbars NOT pancakes ;)

I am wearing...it's a gorgeous day despite it being Fall - I'm wearing capri's and a short sleeved top.

I am creating...canvases, art journal pages, my 'learn something new every day' album for Shimelles class, an active homeschool community in our area, a busy and fabulous homeschool experience for my children, altered furniture and a wonderful home and home life for my children....a new life for me.

I am going...to have an amazing 6 weeks :)  So excited for what the next six weeks has in store :)
I am reading...not really anything right now...I haven't really had time to do any reading this week apart from the odd magazine article or online article.

I am hoping...to be well enough to meet Cori tomorrow and to take Susannah and her friend out with us tomorrow when we head to the Wilderness Centre and stop off at Katies Crossing - they are having an ice cream sale to celebrate the first weekend of Fall...

I am hearing... a fly buzzing somewhere.....Sam and Abby pottering about in their bedrooms as they have to tidy their bedrooms before we head to Ikea!!

Around the house...The kids bathroom is still unusable which is a pain in the butt and they have to use my bathroom, but we manage.  If I can ever afford it I will get bathfitters in to just throw in one of those cover-all baths and panels that they do in one day.....pretty difficult when L won't pay me any spousal yet has put all the bills in my name....sigh...it's so frustrating to see house prices going up and to see us sitting on our biggest asset and him just letting it rot and doing nothing about it....I don't understand why he doesn't help us do a few things to it to help it sell...not the major stuff but enough for some couple to fall in love with the place - so the bathrooms match the amazing kitchen....but he doesn't get it....he doesn't get that a couple will come here and fall in love with this place for the kitchen and the style and the atmosphere (if it's tidied up)....for the dream....and and THAT will sell it.  But it needs the cosmetics first - the bathrooms, 4 windows replaced.  baseboards.  But each time I TRY and finish anything because I have saved up the money he does something stupid and stops paying me what the courts have told him to pay me and I am left having to use my savings to pay the bills he has put in my name...all the while he has thrown all our money away on people who don't really give a sh*t about him......what a donkey!!

One of my favorite things...driving along country roads with the Autumn leaves falling from the trees like snow over the car as I drive :)  it's so beautiful :)

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...a meeting with Abby's psychologist, French club, Bricks4Kidz class starts, facilitator meeting, dinner date with Sharon, scrapbooking with Val, Kidz Quarterz with Tracy, homeschool swimming, homeschool drop-in gymnastics, park day???