Beauty :)

An afternoon at the library....

We headed in to the library this afternoon.  Susannah was pleased to pick up three new books by her current favourite author. Sam played on the computer with a boy her started chatting with - helping him with some game or other...I could hear them chatting away about space ships and something or other...

Abby was still fed up from her morning disappointment.  She didn't pick any books, but after a while she got a couple of board games out and played them with Susannah - including Scrabble which they played - although the words they chose were a little 'odd'.....

I flicked through this book which had some interesting ideas on how to alter thrift store finds:

After the library we stopped off at the ice slide which is still outside the community centre.  One girl was wearing just ski pants/ snow pants with no shirt underneath!!!  omg!!!  I know it was +5c but seriously????  Wow!!  Abby was trying to slide down and NOT get a wet butt hahaha with the above freezing temps the ice was a little wet!!  :)  I wonder how the Ice on Whyte carvers are doing with the warmer temps.  They arrived last week ready to get carving for the festival that opens on the 12th :)  Yay we can't wait to go and have plans with friends :)  

Today was not an easy day for Abigail.  When she has a disappointment she finds it hard to deal with and it takes her a long time for her brain to come to terms with it. It can affect her whole day :(  She had a rough time at her Dads tonight too :(  

Tomorrow we have a fun field trip planned so hopefully tomorrow will be a better day :)  

It's Tuesday.....so strange as yesterday felt like Tuesday to me!  My days are all messed up!

Abigail was supposed to have a friend over today at 10am.  The friend cancelled though...gggrrrr.  She actually lives next door so it wasn't such a big thing except Abby was looking forward to it - and it was the girl who had asked to come over....and Abby got up early and got dressed etc...and all ready...and of course then the girl changed her mind and went to her Aunts instead....so now Abby is fed up!

Susannah wants to go to the library today.  She reads too fast hahahaha!!  And too much!  hahaha  never thought I'd say that about Susannah!  But she does :)  I love it :)  I am sooooo HAPPY that she now has a love of reading :)  Now all my children know the love of books.  The boys don't read as much these days but they DO know that reading is enjoyable!!  Laurence will read a good book when he has one...Chris used to read but now his life is too busy I'm sure....Abigail reads like crazy.  Sam loves stories.

So this afternoon we are heading in to the library for a while.  I also want to go to get some printer ink so I can finish my Christmas journal.

Tomorrow we have a field trip that I've organized - meeting the homeschool group at the museum to take part in their Post-Christmas Activity 'Rudolph Got Left Behind'....the children get to decorated cookies and get hot chocolate as well as learn about Christmas through the ages and do a scavenger hunt.  Then as the weather is supposed to be gorgeous we are heading to Broadmoor Lake for a walk and park playdate.  Yay!!!

Thursday Susannah is off to her friends for the day and a sleepover....then Friday we pick her and her friend up and head off to the pool for a while.....and her friend is sleeping here.  Saturday we will do something I'm sure, before getting her friend home.  The kids are at their Dads this weekend.  I am hopefully meeting a friend on Saturday to do something too and Sunday I'm meeting a friend for brunch :)

Ooooh and pub quiz on Thursday night!!!  Woot!!!!  :)

It's been a while :)

Pictures from my day yesterday.....

We are still using up things from our Christmas, and the children are enjoying having crackers to pull, paper plates, pop, paper cups etc etc....last night at dinner we lit the candle again....we quite often do this if we sit at the table.  We don't always sit at the table these days - we'll sit at the island instead if we aren't all home or if we aren't all eating at the same time.  If I make something in the crockpot we can all just eat when we are hungry....but if it's a meal we are eating at the table then we set the table and have a candle and the children really enjoy it :)

The picture of the cake I've given to my friend who is making my birthday cake!!  It won't be exactly like this, I said just to use it as an idea, told her the colours I like and gave an idea of things I like....and I said to have fun!  I said that instead of balloons it could be cake pops coming out or something... 24 more days until I hit the big 4-0!!!  :)  

Something I want to focus on this year: