Snapshots from our day.....

Today was another good constructive day.  Split the day up with a yummy lunch of egg toasties, and a yummy snack of green monsters.  Todays was made by Susie and was extremely delicious!!  She put plenty of strawberries in it and it was juicy and yummy!  Strawberries and bananas!!  Abby drank tons of it which I love to see :)  

Then we had pasta with a yummy spinach salad for dinner - I think I need to start buying spinach in bulk!!

I've signed up another teaching resource which is REALLY exciting.  I am sooooo thrilled :)  I have several classes planned for the next set too AND I am already planning Spring and Summer classes too - some outdoor classes with nature themes and some non-art classes!  

I booked Abby and Sam into a digital book class today where they get to create an interactive book on cd or dvd.  It's an all day class.  They are also booked in to start climbing again from next week AND Lego classes again.  The theme for the Lego classes this semester is 'weather'.  They will be learning about windmills and satellites etc....we have a drumming class in a couple of weeks and of course they are also doing sculpture.  Sams reading and writing is coming on in leaps and bounds now and his math is great.  Abby's has always been fabulous.  All in all we are having a fabulous year :)  The best ever :)

At the dog park....

It was CROWDED which didn't make for a very pleasant walk - wished we'd gone to Jackie Parker instead :(  But Rosie had a great time anyway!!  We took her ball with us and took turns throwing it for her which she loves...she brings it straight back and drops it for us to throw again - she's such a good girl - so smart and so well behaved!  Even without training she stays by our side always and never runs off, never, never leaves us, never gets in to fights...just stays by our side and walks with us unless we throw the ball for her and then she plays fetch until she's exhausted.  My darling Rosie :)

Love her so :)  

A new posting for today....

Surrounded by...christmas decorations.  Blah....

Thankful for...Susannah's help this weekend

Pondering...love poems, marriage vows, meanings...

Learning together...how to run a business, how to start a business, how to create a classroom.  Oh and I just signed Abby and Sam up for another class - on creating a digital story book - it's an all day class with the City Art Centre which sounds pretty cool :)  

Domestic bliss...having my kiddo's here again after a weekend of us all going in separate directions.

What's app-ening...Instagram...love it :)  Love how it works with IOS5 - love how it adds pictures straight to their own folder on Facebook.  Love how you can connect with so many people locally and globally.  Love how you can find out about so many new places and see your own area through new eyes.  

Making progress...The house is feeling like a home so much more now.  It's lovely being able to use the basement at last.  It's fantastic having a bedroom that is really and truly a bedroom with no toys or clutter or anything in it - just my things in it.  The kids are loving the basement too!!  :)  They were down there ages this morning :)  

Read of the week...The Artists Way

A new habit...Back to having smoothies every day - Green Monster style :)  

On the nightstand...water, tissue box, couple of books, journal and a bucket of pens...but they will be going downstairs today and then it will just be my mug of pens that will stay - and I love my mug that read 'Pretending to be a normal person day after day is EXHAUSTING'  :)  love it :)  

Prayers and petitions...thoughts are with a friend of a friend having brain surgery...and another friend with surgery....

Something I love...this amazing incredible weather we are having :)  Just LOVE it :)  Think we will head out with Rosie for the afternoon :)  


This week...swimming, painting walls, heading to the reuse centre for supplies for sculpture class, walking Rosie, teaching several classes, planning and advertising new classes for February, Science classes at the science centre, Ice on Whyte.  

A photo to share...

Found this great book yesterday - funny how we don't see these books until AFTER we marry those idiots.....sigh....we really need to be given these books to read as part of the school curriculum!!  Hahahaha  :)