Saturday ramblings....

The girls each have a friend sleeping over tonight....Abigail and her friend have set the tent up in the front room and are 'camping' for the night :)  

Susannah has her friend Maddie who used to go to her school, staying over.  

Laurence is staying at his friends house in town.

My afternoon was spent driving here there and everywhere dropping kids off and picking them up, but they are happy and have had fun.  Sam has been busy playing Minecraft.

We also called in at the library as Susannah reserved another two books from the series she has been reading.  I can't believe the speed at which she is getting through the biggest books!!  She has a real hunger for books as the moment!  I love it :)  

Abby and Natasha have been making 'worry dolls' tonight and are now playing a few rounds of 'Spot It'....Susannah and Maddie played a game of Othello and I played some rounds of 'Spot It' with them.  

Tomorrow we are going to have cinnamon buns fresh from the oven for brunch and then we are heading out in the cold to the Festival of Trees, the Snow Globe Auction and the Celebration of Lights...before dropping the friends home and picking Laurence up and heading home....

And then that will be another weekend done

xxx

five questions.

1. Do you have a go to song that always puts you in a good mood?

Fisher - Beautiful Life

2. Are you a real Christmas tree kinda person or do you go with a real fake one?

Fake.  They don't dry out and leave a mess everywhere.

3. What are you thankful for?

So many things - but especially being born with a 'cups half full' personality.  I tend to be a very positive person and this has done me well throughout my life :)  

4. Which fashion fad from the past do you wish you could wear today?

I had this lovely pale grey with faint pastel checks in it dress...I called it my skating dress...It was from Tammy Girl.....I loved it...I must have been about 10 or 11.  It was soooo comfortable and pretty and sweet :)  

5. Do you wait until the "low fuel" light comes on before you fill up the gas tank?

No not always....depends what my plans are, the weather, what I'm doing, where I'm going....if it's raining then i'll wait...or if its dry but I know it's going to rain or be cold tomorrow I will fill up sooner - or if I hear prices are going up....or if I'm going to be running about a lot the next few days I will fill up...or if Laurence is with me it's nice to get him to do it ;)  

Pampered Chef!!

Last night I met up with Sharon for supper, before heading to a friend of her's home for a Pampered Chef/ Lia Sophia party.  

The girl that did the Pampered Chef was great and created a really yummy buffalo chicken dip and then made this amazing trifle (above) from graham crackers, bananas, lemon, cool whip and vanilla pudding, and melted chocolate.  Yum!!!

The Lia Sophia lady used to teach at Glen Alan school, so we talked about that for a long while as well as issues regarding discipling children these days (or rather the inability to).  

I really loved some of the jewelry there, but $100 for a bracelet or $108 for a pretty piece of costume jewelry....I just can't fathom paying that.  

I won the door prize last night from the Pampered Chef girl - yay!!  I won some bamboo spoons :)  

I think I'm going to have a Pampered Chef party in the new year....

It was a fun night and I'm glad I made the effort to go despite a long day and a migraine - thankful for Advil pm which helped me sleep off the migraine last night!!!

Thank you Sharon for inviting me last night!!

xxx

Homeschool field trip.....

Yesterday we had another field trip at the science centre.  Sam and Abby both had classes to take.  Sam took 'Bubble Bubble' and came out with a beautifully scented picture created by soapy coloured bubbles.  He seemed to have had fun making all kinds of concoctions that created bubbles.  

Abigail took a grade 4 class - Umbra Penumbra - which was about light and the eclipse etc etc.  She enjoyed her class too.  

While there, we also went to the star theatre and watched a show all about the planets in our solar system.  It was show that was a little like a tv quiz show, and we all got to shout out the answers when questions about the planets were asked!  It was really interesting and I think we all learned quite a bit!

We also met this cute little guy:

Who turned out to be a Horseshoe crab!!

They are arthropods (have exoskeletons) and are considered to be 'living fossils'!!

Very interesting looking creature!!