pictures that grabbed my attention this week :)

Love this so much :)

Rain.....

It started to rain last night as we headed into town to get Laurence from work...

The skies were amazing just before the rain - and I love driving in the rain - although maybe not in quite a storm like we had the night Nigel and I went out for dinner with friends last year - wow I've never experienced rain quite like THAT before!!  I don't think Nigel had either - with trucks just stopping in the middle of the highway and under bridges and us not being able to see them through the rain!!  It was so dangerous!  So glad we kept going though as it was sunny and light downtown!  

Last nights rain wasn't like that :)

Sick days.....

Sam and Abby have been sick the last couple of days - stomach pains, fatigue and Sam was vomiting yesterday.  They are much better today - just tired...but we have had a quite couple of days - and I have been fighting a migraine from the change in the weather.  It has meant a lot of naps, watching movies in bed, playing Lego on bed and Abby did some art journaling - I showed her how to use the new pastels that I got last week.

Hopefully we will be back to normal tomorrow.

Rosie has loved having us at home with her though :)

I still have my classes to teach - tonight I have my teen art journaling class and tomorrow is my LAST childrens art journaling class of this course!  Wow time has flown!  

so true xx

Earth Day....

The weather today was just gorgeous! I slept with my window open all night so I could fall asleep listening to the frogs.  Bliss.

Today Susannah and I went to see a movie at lunch time - The Lucky One - and then after picking Laurence up from his friends house, we were home by late afternoon and still had several hours of sunshine and several hours before Sam and Abby were due back.  

Susannah and I did some yard work - cutting grass, tidying up the fire pit, demolishing the sandpit/ box,  sweeping up, picking up garbage....

Then we took Rosie for a walk all round the acreage and played fetch with her in the pond so she got tired out from swimming.  

I picked some Pussy Willow to go in a big jug in the hallway.  It looks so lovely - couldn't believe the prices at the farmers market yesterday!  People pay crazy amounts for some cuttings of Pussy Willow!  We have it growing everywhere!  

All in all, it was a fabulous day - still lots to do around the acreage, but we made a good start and it felt good to spend a few hours outside enjoying this little piece of Planet Earth that I am so lucky to have!!

Our Saturday....

Susannah and I had to head to Whyte Ave to pick up the Roller Derby tickets

so we called in at the farmers market.  We treated ourselves to a bag each of the amazing almonds

that they sell there - raspberry flavoured :)  

While we were there, we got to see a flashmob take place outside!!  Turns out, it was the Edmonton location for the Body by Vi Challenge 'Worlds largest flash mob' and these were taking place all over the world in all different cities!!

The tv cameras were there, so no doubt it was on the news last night!!

I expected to wake up and see Kony 2012 posters everywhere, but we didn't see many at all...a few had already been covered over by other posters on Whyte Ave, but we did spot this ONE on a store window:

Saturday evening, we headed over to the Roller Derby to watch the game.  It was a REALLY good game - soooo violent and crazy!  Bet those girls are bruised today!  They were pushing each other like crazy and going flying off the rink and so many fell over.  Great game - so much better than last time!  

The weather was so nice yesterday and today that out came my capri's and sandals :)  

Bliss!!

After the roller derby we grabbed some supper together:

Susannah was busy chatting with her new beau 'Jon'....they text constantly....but thankfully he is three provinces away :)  

It was a good day....started with me going in to town to see Sandy and get my taxes done - yay glad that is done for another year!  Thank you soooo much Sandy!  

Laurence worked last night and spent the weekend at his friends house...he looks exhausted not just from working but all the walking it means too - but it's good for him I think :)  

So my weekend was spent with Susannah - art journaling, Whyte Ave, Roller Derby, supper, lots of chat, lots of laughing...I feel so lucky to have such a great relationship with my Daughter!  

I missed Sam and Abby but knew they were happy and these weekends without them are a great time to spend with Susannah and Laurence.  

Such a shame I didn't have that chance with Chris.

x

I am LOVING the new art sticks that I got for the classroom - for the Tuesday evening art journaling class.  They are soooooo amazing to use!   Love, love, LOVE!!!!  What I love even more is that I got them for 50% off!!!!  :)  

Tonight I worked on an art journaling page about betrayal - this has been a big issue in my life in the last couple of weeks.  I was betrayed very badly by someone I trusted.  I wanted to create a page and get my feelings out about why I am reacting the way I am reacting.  I am not reacting in the way I would normally - in fact I am not reacting to anything in the normal way right now - I think I am just too tired of fighting and arguing and I just needed to move beyond that with everything - even this NEW betrayal.  I am so glad I have remained calm about it.  I wasn't sure what to do about my future...so many people have been asking me about things...and so many have been just soooo encouraging and supportive.  They understand exactly how I feel though.

I think what I am going to do is just give it a little while and see how things go and see how I feel....maybe this time next week I will be more sure of what I want to do.  

My finished art journal page from this evening:  

Our Friday!

Today has been a real mixed bag where weather is concerned.

It snowed a little this morning and then got really sunny and has also rained a bit

too with dark clouds coming over each time....then clearing to blue skies again.

When the skies are blue the temperature is LOVELY!!

We sat outside at the table on the deck and had a 'poetry tea' with drinks and cookies.

We took it in turns to read poetry to each other.  This book of poems was also about sea life or creatures from 'Tide Pools'.  

Today we also did a lot of science.  One of the experiments was filling a bottle with oil and water and a little food colouring.  Of course the oil would not mix with the water - even when we shook it really hard it would still separate:

We eventually went inside and I read several chapters of our story book to them.

Then we used the geometric shapes to try and memorize them.  I think we all did really well - I will test them after the weekend and see if they remembered them :)  

Another science experiment we did was to create gases using baking soda and vinegar, to inflate balloons:

They really liked this experiment and did it over and over and over again!!

All in all it's been a great day of learning together!  Now the little ones are off to their dads for the weekend.  Laurence is working and Susannah and I are going to art journal.  

xxx