I even made a typo in my post about typo's!!!!
Ha!!!!
3 days ago
Jun 15, 2006
typo's
I am a good speller but I notice I make soooo many typos....I type too fast and never spell check or preview........
...so forgive me but I time is precious and I can't be bothered to go back and edit ;) So forgive me my mistakes :)
...so forgive me but I time is precious and I can't be bothered to go back and edit ;) So forgive me my mistakes :)
Liquid therapy
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of. -Sylvia Plath
them
I am feeling better now....I soaked in the bath with some of the unschooling magazines R gave me and relaxed...now I'm out and Lloyd has made me a mug of ovaltine to help me (hopefully) sleep better tonight.
We went to Costco this evening. I really wasn't in the mood but we went anyway. While Lloyd was paying I walked to the exit and sat by the door watching the veay rain....it hasn't rained that hard in a long time and it was wonderful.
Driving home in it wasn't so much fun - you could hardly see in front of the car. Nasty!
We got home and unpacked the groceries and then I climbed into the bath....
I haven't figured out my feelings about this mornings news yet. I'll write about that tomorrow.
The good thing about days like today is that I know that tomorrow is another day...tomorrow will be a better day. Tomorrow I will be my happy usual self again....
And tomorrow is friday :) the start of the weekend and Lloyd will be home early :) another week closer to his time off!!!
.............And life goes on ;)
Is it really only lunchtime?
Its been a looooong morning. It's 12:30 but feels more like 5pm....Lloyd won't be home for hours yet and it's grey and rainy outside too........fab day - NOT.
I phoned my Mum to tell her about Mervyn...thought she'd want to send a card or something........
The girls have been making more paper bag puppets.....and also Fathers Day cards. The boys watched Trinidad play England in the World Cup. Maybe it was fate that Trinidad played England on the day Mervyn died. Actually a shame they lost.
When someone dies you are supposed to feel sad for them and for those left behind....which I do of course....but you are also expected to think nice thoughts of the person who has died....and that is what I struggle with. I don't have much good to say about Mervyn. The only good thing that I could maybe mention is that he introduced me to the idea that no one has ever landed on the moon........and also that he used to bring me sugar cake.
I haven't told the children yet...so thats hanging over me like a dark cloud. I have to tell them but something is stopping me and I don't know how to tell them or what to say or how they will react. My head hurts and I feel crappy and I am sooooo tired from several nights of no sleep......and I just don't know how to tell them their Grandad has died. This isn't like me at all...I'm normally such a together person.
I phoned my Mum to tell her about Mervyn...thought she'd want to send a card or something........
The girls have been making more paper bag puppets.....and also Fathers Day cards. The boys watched Trinidad play England in the World Cup. Maybe it was fate that Trinidad played England on the day Mervyn died. Actually a shame they lost.
When someone dies you are supposed to feel sad for them and for those left behind....which I do of course....but you are also expected to think nice thoughts of the person who has died....and that is what I struggle with. I don't have much good to say about Mervyn. The only good thing that I could maybe mention is that he introduced me to the idea that no one has ever landed on the moon........and also that he used to bring me sugar cake.
I haven't told the children yet...so thats hanging over me like a dark cloud. I have to tell them but something is stopping me and I don't know how to tell them or what to say or how they will react. My head hurts and I feel crappy and I am sooooo tired from several nights of no sleep......and I just don't know how to tell them their Grandad has died. This isn't like me at all...I'm normally such a together person.
Mervyn
I just heard my FIL died from complications in surgery this morning.
Not sure how to sort this out in my brain. Feel like I have been slapped and not sure how to react or what to do.
Very weird.
Will write more later.
Not sure how to sort this out in my brain. Feel like I have been slapped and not sure how to react or what to do.
Very weird.
Will write more later.
Jun 14, 2006
Yes! Go Oilers Go!!!
Woohoo, the Oilers are going to win this @#$^#@^$ - yay in overtime they scored!!!! Which means they are heading back to Rexall for another game against the 'Canes......and there is NO WAY we can let them win the cup in OUR town :)
My tiredness just got worse and worse through the day and this evening I feel horrid.....I've been curled up on the bed watching the hockey match. Lloyd brought me a cup of tea and a bar of Toblerone to make me feel better (love him so much!) but I still feel yucky. I have Susannahs cold now.....Laurie thinks he does too and poor Susie has gone through a box of tissues this evening! I hope we didn't give our germs to R and family! I think Sam is feeling ill too as he has been soooo miserable all day and hasn't slept at all!
We had a lovely afternoon. I took Laurie to the store to get soem cookies and treats for everyone. We saw two geese with their babies crossing the road.
Our local store is AWFUL.....it's a tiny country store......sells the basics at ridiculously high prices...so high that no one buys anything ...which means everything goes out of date...you HAVE to check every date on the things they sell.....They only had 5 packets of cookies (not 5 kinds but 5 packets!!!) and 4 of those were out of date!!!! Like March this year!! Lloyd picked up a packet fo cornflakes there a couple of months back dated summer 04!!!!!! Anyway, I spent $6 on a packet of grotty oatmeal cookies.....a brand I've never seen before...but they were the only ones not out of date.
R came over with her three children. We got the playdoh out, they made paper bag puppets and played on the trampoline, watched some of Chicken Little and just pottered about while R and I chatted and played playdoh :)
Laurie spent the day pottering in the workshop taking his bikes apart and building things.....Chris arranged his voluntary work at the museum......he also arranged his training program for his voluntary work at the library.
R and I were discussing whether you should buy hard backed books or paperbacks (paperbacks for fiction and hardbacks for non fiction OBVIOUSLY!!! lol!) and whether you should read magazines in the bath! (Yes!!!)
She also told me that her DD has been calling everyone 'Idiot'. I was thrilled to hear this!!! My child is NOT the only one after all :) Abigail spent last summer calling everyone an idiot.....we had a gate between our yard and our neighbours yard so that the girls could go backwards and forwards to play......but Abby would call their DD an idiot constantly so would get sent home.....she'd wait a while and go back but five minutes later get sent home again :)
She grew out of it thankfully....although now has just learnt to talk to people as if they are idiots rather than actually calling them idiots lol! She gets that from her oldest Brother I'm sure ;)
Well, Lloyd has finished driving the garbage down to the end of the driveway so I can go and collapse in bed for an early night hopefully......and please please let me get a GOOD LONG nights sleep!
Today I am thankful for:
1. The Oilers winning and getting another chance to bring the cup home!
2. The space ship S made for Sam!
3. A fun afternoon with our guests :)
4. A cooler day than the 27 they forecast this morning.....although we could have done without the grey skies!
5. The wonderful pile of magazines I was given today...can't wait to have time to curl up and read them all!
6. Tea and Toblerone in bed this evening :)
7. Not having to cook tonight :) Lloyd picked up a rotisserie chicken, some potato wedges and a bag of salad :)
8. Bedtime......I need sleep!
My tiredness just got worse and worse through the day and this evening I feel horrid.....I've been curled up on the bed watching the hockey match. Lloyd brought me a cup of tea and a bar of Toblerone to make me feel better (love him so much!) but I still feel yucky. I have Susannahs cold now.....Laurie thinks he does too and poor Susie has gone through a box of tissues this evening! I hope we didn't give our germs to R and family! I think Sam is feeling ill too as he has been soooo miserable all day and hasn't slept at all!
We had a lovely afternoon. I took Laurie to the store to get soem cookies and treats for everyone. We saw two geese with their babies crossing the road.
Our local store is AWFUL.....it's a tiny country store......sells the basics at ridiculously high prices...so high that no one buys anything ...which means everything goes out of date...you HAVE to check every date on the things they sell.....They only had 5 packets of cookies (not 5 kinds but 5 packets!!!) and 4 of those were out of date!!!! Like March this year!! Lloyd picked up a packet fo cornflakes there a couple of months back dated summer 04!!!!!! Anyway, I spent $6 on a packet of grotty oatmeal cookies.....a brand I've never seen before...but they were the only ones not out of date.
R came over with her three children. We got the playdoh out, they made paper bag puppets and played on the trampoline, watched some of Chicken Little and just pottered about while R and I chatted and played playdoh :)
Laurie spent the day pottering in the workshop taking his bikes apart and building things.....Chris arranged his voluntary work at the museum......he also arranged his training program for his voluntary work at the library.
R and I were discussing whether you should buy hard backed books or paperbacks (paperbacks for fiction and hardbacks for non fiction OBVIOUSLY!!! lol!) and whether you should read magazines in the bath! (Yes!!!)
She also told me that her DD has been calling everyone 'Idiot'. I was thrilled to hear this!!! My child is NOT the only one after all :) Abigail spent last summer calling everyone an idiot.....we had a gate between our yard and our neighbours yard so that the girls could go backwards and forwards to play......but Abby would call their DD an idiot constantly so would get sent home.....she'd wait a while and go back but five minutes later get sent home again :)
She grew out of it thankfully....although now has just learnt to talk to people as if they are idiots rather than actually calling them idiots lol! She gets that from her oldest Brother I'm sure ;)
Well, Lloyd has finished driving the garbage down to the end of the driveway so I can go and collapse in bed for an early night hopefully......and please please let me get a GOOD LONG nights sleep!
Today I am thankful for:
1. The Oilers winning and getting another chance to bring the cup home!
2. The space ship S made for Sam!
3. A fun afternoon with our guests :)
4. A cooler day than the 27 they forecast this morning.....although we could have done without the grey skies!
5. The wonderful pile of magazines I was given today...can't wait to have time to curl up and read them all!
6. Tea and Toblerone in bed this evening :)
7. Not having to cook tonight :) Lloyd picked up a rotisserie chicken, some potato wedges and a bag of salad :)
8. Bedtime......I need sleep!
Rocket Man!
R's Daughter S brought a gift over for Sam today....a rocket ship!!!! She had made it out of a cardboard box!!! Sam thinks its very cool and has been playing in it a lot since! At first he got in backwards but I think he was a little nervous about flying into space so preferred not to look out of the windo and see all the planets!!!
Firey skies and white tailed deer.
The first week we lived here I got up and went to make coffee in the kitchen. As the kettle was boiling I looked out of the kitchen window and there on the grass outside, about 2 metres away, was a beautiful white-tailed deer.....it was chewing the grass and then slowly walked around the house and down the hill to the pond. It stopped for a drink in the pond and then walked off into our woods. It was wonderful! Lloyd was in a meeting so I couldn't call him - so I called Mum in England instead and she was as excited as me :)
The other pictures are of the amazing sunsets we get at the front of the house most evenings and also of one of the old gates that are dotted about our land.....I think they are lovely and when we take the fences down I will keep the gates and grow things over them.....
My favourite place to be.
This is Capeside. Our home for 8 months already...but it feels so much like home that I feel like we have been here forever.....it felt like home as soon as we walked through the doors....or even into the driveway! These are quite old pictures really...from the Fall and winter......
Our house from the road...through the Fall leaves.
A close up of our house taken last October.
Our house from the driveway in the Fall as the leaves started to turn...this slope is actually steep enough to be a pretty good sledding hill in winter!! At the bottom is our pond...we find coyote foot printes across the ice in winter and in summer it is filled with life....and noisy frogs :)
Our home in the snow......it was so pretty!
This black and white picture is one I named 'The Divide'.....its taken at the rear of our land and is the fence between our land and our neighbours land.
Too little sleep
I didn't sleep very much at all last night.....I can barely keep my eyes open this morning....I ache all over and feel about 80! I was so hot and couldn't get comfortable...my stomach hurt and my mind wouldn't switch off.......at 3am I was fed up so I was sat in the bedroom window looking out to see if Lloyds apple core had gone.....he threw an apple core out last night to see if it would be gone by this morning...
Lloyd has been emailing me throughout his meeting this morning...I love that he has his blackberry now and we can chat so much :)
Christopher stayed up late last night and finished Tuesdays with Morrie....he said it is a book that has changed him....which is a good thing....until he said he isn't interested in money any more....of course Laurie and I laughed - obviously the WRONG thing to do.....Chris is over tired and decided we are all horrible and mean to him....oops.....bed early tonight!!!! He's now watching the World Cup soccer matches on tv.
R is coming over this afternoon with her three children. S is around the same age as Susannah and they get on really well. The boys school friends have stayed in touch but Susies haven't so I know she needs new friendships to grow.......she likes S a lot.
I hope I wake up more before they arrive...when I'm this tired I'm a little brain dead and can't think what to say.....
CK magazine was good this month and has made me want to scrapbook again...maybe I will do some tomorrow. Maybe a trip to the scrapbook store is in order....it's been months!
It's supposed to get to 27c today but it's grey and cloudy right now as we are on the edge of storms to the south of us....maybe it will warm up later...we still haven't had a really good thunder storm yet this year......
Laurence has been in the workshop all morning taking apart his two bikes....switching tyres etc etc and taking apart the old video recorder...Lloyd said he could have anything in the barn and take it apart and build whatever he wants......
The girls are building things with Lego...elevators and penguins and various things.....they were out playing with the dogs earlier.....and heard coyotes so Abigail came in and drew a picture of a coyote.....she asked me how many legs they have and said she is bored with drawing animals that have four legs...so she gave the coyote 8 legs instead.......
I think I need breakfast. Most week days I have dry oatmeal (uncooked) mixed with two pots of apple sauce and 3 tablespoons of hemp hearts....I love it and it stops me getting hungry for ages........and the hemp hearts give you energy.....in fact maybe I will have an extra tablespoon today...I could do with some extra energy today ;)
Lloyd has been emailing me throughout his meeting this morning...I love that he has his blackberry now and we can chat so much :)
Christopher stayed up late last night and finished Tuesdays with Morrie....he said it is a book that has changed him....which is a good thing....until he said he isn't interested in money any more....of course Laurie and I laughed - obviously the WRONG thing to do.....Chris is over tired and decided we are all horrible and mean to him....oops.....bed early tonight!!!! He's now watching the World Cup soccer matches on tv.
R is coming over this afternoon with her three children. S is around the same age as Susannah and they get on really well. The boys school friends have stayed in touch but Susies haven't so I know she needs new friendships to grow.......she likes S a lot.
I hope I wake up more before they arrive...when I'm this tired I'm a little brain dead and can't think what to say.....
CK magazine was good this month and has made me want to scrapbook again...maybe I will do some tomorrow. Maybe a trip to the scrapbook store is in order....it's been months!
It's supposed to get to 27c today but it's grey and cloudy right now as we are on the edge of storms to the south of us....maybe it will warm up later...we still haven't had a really good thunder storm yet this year......
Laurence has been in the workshop all morning taking apart his two bikes....switching tyres etc etc and taking apart the old video recorder...Lloyd said he could have anything in the barn and take it apart and build whatever he wants......
The girls are building things with Lego...elevators and penguins and various things.....they were out playing with the dogs earlier.....and heard coyotes so Abigail came in and drew a picture of a coyote.....she asked me how many legs they have and said she is bored with drawing animals that have four legs...so she gave the coyote 8 legs instead.......
I think I need breakfast. Most week days I have dry oatmeal (uncooked) mixed with two pots of apple sauce and 3 tablespoons of hemp hearts....I love it and it stops me getting hungry for ages........and the hemp hearts give you energy.....in fact maybe I will have an extra tablespoon today...I could do with some extra energy today ;)
Jun 13, 2006
Mom, Doctor or fish?
Abigail pushed the cart around Sobeys today (grocery store). She's 4. We didn't need much so she had one of the mini childrens carts to push around. She did a great job. On the way home she said:
"I was great at pushing the cart wasn't I mommy? I was so great at it that I think I should be a Mommy. When I'm big I'm going to be a Mommy because I'm good with carts."
She thought about this for a few moments and then said
"Or a Doctor....I might be a Doctor"
she thought again for a minute and then said
"Or maybe I'll be a fish. Like Nemo".
Tuesdays gratitude
Today has been such a great day. I am very thankful for:
1. Feeling so welcomed at the homeschool drop-in despite not getting there as often as I should!
2. My beautiful home and how much I love to have friends over...it's so nice seeing all the children play outside with so much space to run around.
3. Gorgeous sunny skies and warm temperatures again after a week of grey.
4. My new magazine subscriptions!
5. My great kids!!! They are all so much fun to be around!
6. Sobeys two-bite jam tarts mmmmmmmmmmm
7. Spending my life with my best friend....my childhood friend....the sweetest most romantic, most thoughtful, kindest man I have ever known.
1. Feeling so welcomed at the homeschool drop-in despite not getting there as often as I should!
2. My beautiful home and how much I love to have friends over...it's so nice seeing all the children play outside with so much space to run around.
3. Gorgeous sunny skies and warm temperatures again after a week of grey.
4. My new magazine subscriptions!
5. My great kids!!! They are all so much fun to be around!
6. Sobeys two-bite jam tarts mmmmmmmmmmm
7. Spending my life with my best friend....my childhood friend....the sweetest most romantic, most thoughtful, kindest man I have ever known.
Dandelion jewellery and diamonds
Jewels have been a main theme of my day. Firstly, on the news this morning they said that Canada exported $1.6 billion in diamonds last year and that is set to double in the next two years. Wow.......so how come I'm not dripping in diamonds????????????????
In the car this morning Abigail was singing Michaels Bubles 'Can't Buy Me Love' but she was getting the words wrong and was singing "I don't care too much for Mommy, Cause Mommy's no diamond ring!" She asked if she had the words right. I said not quite but some may agree ;) lol!
It's been a busy day. We took our time getting going this morning and had no plans really....but then Chris offered to babysit Sam while I took the others to the homeschool drop-in group, so I decided to go. N had emailed me to ask if we would be there so I figured we'd go.
We got to the group around 10:30am and people seemed pleased to see us which is nice - I got a hug from L who had had her hair cut! Wow!! I didn't recognise her - thought it made her look so much younger! And she told me she had it done by the grade 12 students in town!!!
N had brought paper bag puppets for the kids to make and T had taken donuts for everyone...I just opted for the coffee though which is always good.
The kids had fun climbing trees and playing outside with their friends.....it was nice not having to keep an eye on Sam all the time. Next week is the Track and field day so we are staying for a picnic after the group. That should be fun!
N said she had the day free so I invited her back here after the group. I ran to Sobeys for a few things and then we came home...N was already here and the kids were on the trampoline.....
Basically the afternoon was spent outside...sitting on the porch, snacking, drinking and watching the children play. N got Chris to make a coffee and she also read his essay on why he wants to unschool next year.
The girls dressed up in all their different outfits and the boys pottered about playing......we took them to see the huge ant hill and N bravely put her hand in it to scoop some out, so we got to see all the tunnels inside and the ants all busy at work.
N decided to dress Sam up in Abby's cheerleading outfit - he thought it was funny - for a while!
Around 3pm we headed off for a walk over on M's land.....N taught the kids how to blow through grass to make a noise and how to make jewellery from dandelion stalks...which was pretty amazing!!!! You peel them like strong cheese and then place them in icy cold water and they curl up instantly! You can then thread them like beads!!!
My first issue of Live Free, Learn Free arrived today...haven't had a chance to read it all but what I have read is wonderful! Glad I subscribed!!!
Dinner this evening was a tuna salad with new potatoes. Light and easy. It's warm out......around 24c I think.....although the skies have just darkened so maybe it will thunder later - that would be nice!
This evening I plan to relax and read my new magazine. Lloyd (surprise surprise) is doing a bit of the coop. I do love him so much! Every morning he kisses me goodbye. If I'm awake and look out of the window to wave he flashes his hazard lights as a 'wave' good bye! Every morning I have a hot coffee left beside my bed in a thermol mug......this morning I found a little pink card he had made on the top - a little get well card saying he hoped I felt better this morning. He has always left me little notes and cards....I have quite a collection of them. I keep them all. Every few weeks there will be another one somewhere......sometimes they are post-it notes in cupboards or little pictures by my computer, or little cards somewhere to surprise me. I love it.
We still have 'I Love You' written in mascara on our bathroom mirror :) I woke up one night for the bathroom and thought I'd leave him a message for the morning :)
I don't know what I did to get so lucky :)
Jun 12, 2006
worms
It's funny that when you really relax about learning you notice learning taking place even more! The girls have been outside and have come back with a big box of worms they have dug up outside.....they are fascinated with them (Abby also brought in a little stick that she is adamant is actually a worm that froze in the winter!!!) so now they are studying the parts of the worms and have the bug books out and are studying their new pets.....
We just found a very cool website on worms too...
http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/worm/pg000102.html
We just found a very cool website on worms too...
http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/worm/pg000102.html
Life is a rollercoaster!
Quite a day! This morning was nice. I got some chores done and then we all sat at the table and wrote to our penpals...each of the children has a few penpals....includinga few new ones. I wrote to my Nan and started a letter to Lianne. Abigail wrote to Isaac.
I was puzzled this morning. I lost my Avon foot file a couple of months ago...you know the kind of thing...you use it to rub off all the yucky skin on your feet...loooovely!!! Anyway it vanished ages ago...coudn't find it anywhere......so this morning I walk into the sitting room and there it is...on the sofa!!!!! Exactly where you expect to find a foot file!!!!! What on earth was it doing there????
Laurie made orange jello hoping it would be ready for lunch but learnt you have to be patient with jello...so they had it for dessert tonight instead!
After lunch we drove into town as the boys had homeschool gym class. I took the others to the thrift store which was so much fun!!! I love that my girls get excited over the 'hunt' for bargains at the thrift store!!!! They couldn't care less about designer labels etc...they know what they like!!! Susannah found a TON of new clothes there.....and Abigail found some fab purple sunglass that matched her outfit......I got a few books (no surprise there) and some things for the boys...oh including a great wall sticker kit of Garfield for Laurie!
After we picked the boys up we headed to the homeschool office......where they preceded to give Chris someone elses exam results - DETAILED exam results.....they are so lax about confidentiality there.....Still, one more week and we are DONE with that schoolboard yay!!! :) They are so ignorant of homeschooling issues...and don't even know anything about other homeschool boards and what is available...you'd think they would be interested in knowing about their 'competition'.........they know NOTHING about getting into college as a homeschooled child either......they seem to think you HAVE to have a diploma!!! Duh!!!!
I am excited about beginning with EU instead.
After that we ran to the Kinsmen to pick up CHris's application for the training course he is taking this summer. He is doing a Leaders in Training course with three levels...basically it will teach him how to run summer camps for kids...even teaches child psychology...he has to put in 70 hours of voluntary work and attend training nights.....I htink he will enjoy it!
On the way home we stopped off at Tims as I owed Laurie a large Iced Capp for his latest book review. Chris got a coffee as did I. Then home finally.
I made grilled beef with savoury brown rice. I added some diced new potatos to the rice which was really nice......
I didn't each much though as my throat started to hurt in town and has since become much worse...it hurts to swallow and hurts right up into my ears.......I am sooo hoping I don't have a cold coming. I haven't had a cold in so long!
The Oilers are playing atm. So far it's 1-1 which isn't good. Go Oilers Go!!!!!!
The kids were so much fun today.......I love how much our relationship has improved since they stopped school. They are really great company.
The girls took the dogs for a walk just after dinner....they like to go on their 'adventures' each day around our land. More often than not they come back with doodles and sketches in their notebooks. Sometimes Susie takes the camera with her to picture their adventure!
They are outside playing hopscotch now, Laurie is helping Lloyd dig the trench for the chicken run and Chris is watching hockey. Sam is out with Lloyd too......he loves being outside.
I was chatting to a someone in ONtario this morning....she is going to the UK on holiday soon and staying in Wells of all places!!!! She asked if I knew Somerset....Ha!!! I grew up there...all my family are there!!!!! Such a small world :) So I suggested a few places they might like to visit. I am so jealous of them going over!!!! Hope they have a great time though.....so many people go to the UK and just do London but the South West is so beautiful and so rich in history!!
Please please don't let me wake up full of a cold tomorrow! Let this sore throat turn out to be nothing!!!!!
I was puzzled this morning. I lost my Avon foot file a couple of months ago...you know the kind of thing...you use it to rub off all the yucky skin on your feet...loooovely!!! Anyway it vanished ages ago...coudn't find it anywhere......so this morning I walk into the sitting room and there it is...on the sofa!!!!! Exactly where you expect to find a foot file!!!!! What on earth was it doing there????
Laurie made orange jello hoping it would be ready for lunch but learnt you have to be patient with jello...so they had it for dessert tonight instead!
After lunch we drove into town as the boys had homeschool gym class. I took the others to the thrift store which was so much fun!!! I love that my girls get excited over the 'hunt' for bargains at the thrift store!!!! They couldn't care less about designer labels etc...they know what they like!!! Susannah found a TON of new clothes there.....and Abigail found some fab purple sunglass that matched her outfit......I got a few books (no surprise there) and some things for the boys...oh including a great wall sticker kit of Garfield for Laurie!
After we picked the boys up we headed to the homeschool office......where they preceded to give Chris someone elses exam results - DETAILED exam results.....they are so lax about confidentiality there.....Still, one more week and we are DONE with that schoolboard yay!!! :) They are so ignorant of homeschooling issues...and don't even know anything about other homeschool boards and what is available...you'd think they would be interested in knowing about their 'competition'.........they know NOTHING about getting into college as a homeschooled child either......they seem to think you HAVE to have a diploma!!! Duh!!!!
I am excited about beginning with EU instead.
After that we ran to the Kinsmen to pick up CHris's application for the training course he is taking this summer. He is doing a Leaders in Training course with three levels...basically it will teach him how to run summer camps for kids...even teaches child psychology...he has to put in 70 hours of voluntary work and attend training nights.....I htink he will enjoy it!
On the way home we stopped off at Tims as I owed Laurie a large Iced Capp for his latest book review. Chris got a coffee as did I. Then home finally.
I made grilled beef with savoury brown rice. I added some diced new potatos to the rice which was really nice......
I didn't each much though as my throat started to hurt in town and has since become much worse...it hurts to swallow and hurts right up into my ears.......I am sooo hoping I don't have a cold coming. I haven't had a cold in so long!
The Oilers are playing atm. So far it's 1-1 which isn't good. Go Oilers Go!!!!!!
The kids were so much fun today.......I love how much our relationship has improved since they stopped school. They are really great company.
The girls took the dogs for a walk just after dinner....they like to go on their 'adventures' each day around our land. More often than not they come back with doodles and sketches in their notebooks. Sometimes Susie takes the camera with her to picture their adventure!
They are outside playing hopscotch now, Laurie is helping Lloyd dig the trench for the chicken run and Chris is watching hockey. Sam is out with Lloyd too......he loves being outside.
I was chatting to a someone in ONtario this morning....she is going to the UK on holiday soon and staying in Wells of all places!!!! She asked if I knew Somerset....Ha!!! I grew up there...all my family are there!!!!! Such a small world :) So I suggested a few places they might like to visit. I am so jealous of them going over!!!! Hope they have a great time though.....so many people go to the UK and just do London but the South West is so beautiful and so rich in history!!
Please please don't let me wake up full of a cold tomorrow! Let this sore throat turn out to be nothing!!!!!
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