enjoy :)

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and best of all:

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which I sent to Lloyds colleagues who then sent it around the entire office :)

Go Elf Yourself!!

I did!!!!! :)

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A possibility...

So there is a possibility that we could go to Japan to live for a while......Lloyd has the chance to work there. We will only consider it if it means we have accommodation provided and the pay is good. It would be a wonderful opportunity though. It is somewhere I have always wanted to visit - as has Lloyd - and Chris is fascinated with the country...so yes we are looking into it. We would keep the house here though and return here afterwards...It would be for a maximum of two years.

So who knows.....it would be good but would not be for another year yet and is still just a possibility!

posting comments

Anyone else having problems posting comments on other blogs???? Almost all of them won't let me :(

Please and thank you

Sam has been able to say please for a while now so now we are working on thank you!! This morning the girls were sharing out raspberries and getting Sam to say thank you each time they put one in his cup.....

Piggin Santa Claus is comin' to town!

We tried and tried to get a good pic of Charlie in a Santa hat but it was soooooo NOT easy!!!

Abigails cartoon....

Here is the comic/ cartoon that Abigail did yesterday - I am very impressed. She is 4 :) She read it to me and its about two children bullying each other because they wear braces...then they meet a bunny who talks and then a dinosaur comes along and pees and poos and they go home and then to the park to play where they see a mouse going into a hole and then they play paper aeroplanes........

:) Susie did the writing for her :)

Smitten................

We went into town tonight to get a chest freezer and stock up with frozen food for Christmas - petits fours and cheesecakes, appetizers etc etc.......we also ran into Smittys to grab something to eat. Smittys are selling these little teddy bears for $5 for charity - the money goes to the Childrens Miracle Network.....well I just fell in love with this sad looking little bear and he is just the softest thing ever!! They would make very cute stocking fillers!!! But this little guy is mine and will sit beside my bed with charity teddy from The Bay from last year.

These teddies are so so soft and very sweet and bright white (can't get a good pic of it!)

Treat yourself - or someone else to one this Christmas. I am smitten with my Smittys teddybear!

Our house in Scotland

These are the Realtor details of our house in Scotland. We sold it 4 years ago. All the talk of Scotland and back home lately has made me think of this house......

click on the pictures to enlarge and read!!!

so so sad.

The lady from LP who's pregnancy has ended so sadly, has been sent home for a second day because labour has not begun. How awful is that? This birth is being dragged out needlessly in my opinion. Surely in this day and age there is an easier way to help a Mother through this devastating process.

I just can't imagine what she is going through and hope for her sake that this tragic birth is over soon so that her and her family can start to grieve for their little boy.

Today also......

Today is also the 3rd birthday of my Ex's little girl Ella-Paige. I remember this only because she was born the day of Mandy's accident - and my ex had not even bothered to tell his children he was expecting a child! I remember writing to congratulate him and his wife Lucy - and to say how it was so nice to hear such good news after coping with Mandys accident.

We sent a big parcel to congratulate them and asked for some pictures so the children could see their new sister. He finallly sent a few pictures of her as a baby - but they have had nothing since or heard any news of her at all.......

I had an email from him yesterday saying he was off to London and wouldn't be back until Thursday - working away again - on his DD's birthday....his priority is still work - he has not learnt at all that his children are small for such a short time......he still doesn't make being with them a priority.

He has not changed at all.

I am eternally grateful that I am no longer in that relationship.

That said, I do wish little Ella a very Happy 3rd birthday from her siblings - even if they have never met and have no idea what she looks like - in fact when he does remember to send a birthday card to any of his older children he doesn't even sign his wifes name or his daughters name.......

How weird is that?????

6th December

Today is three years to the date since Cameron and Ashley died in a car accident on Highway 21 near New Sarepta. I will never forget that awful week :( It is just so incredibly tragic and my thoughts are with Mandy, their Mom.

Mandy, wherever you are and whatever you are doing today, I hope you are surrounded by loving and supportive friends and family.

Aeroplane design.......

Today the children were looking at aeroplane design (airplane as I believe they call it here) and aerodynamics. Using our paper aeroplane books each child had to design two aeroplanes - a stunt plane and a flight plane.

I had to judge them on appearance, stunt flights and direct flights. Each plane could be flown twice.

Laurence and Susannah both tied to win with 29 points.

Laurence linked both of his planes together to create one wonderful stunt plane! It was a fun project and the children enjoyed studying the different designs.

Now Susannah is writing poems about Christmas and Winter, while Abigail is making a comic - she wanted to write a story so we suggested creating a comic so she could draw what she wanted to say - its really good so far!

Chris is writing to the local veterans society which has the oldest veterans in Canada.....he is writing to ask if he can interview them!

Not sure what Laurie is doing right now - Sam is sleeping!

Pella

I just realised today that its been a week since Pella came to measure up for windows, and we still don't have the quote.

I also realise that its now 1:10pm and I have still not had breakfast!