Mar 9, 2007

Rice pudding fiend.........




I sat Abigail and Samuel at the table with their lunch while I washed some dishes.....they were doing fine....so I left them and came and checked Email...got distracted and assumed they were still there eating.......

Well Abigail had decided to get up from the table and take her lunch into the sitting room to watch tv......so Sam was on his own....

He decided to mix his penguin bar (a chocolate wafer) into his rice pudding...then he decided to flick the chocolatey rice pudding all over the table and floor.....then he used his hands and wiped it all over his clothes, the chair, the table and the floor........

And then he ran around the main floor with bits of rice pudding being flicked everywhere and then came to me at the computer and wiped his hands all up my pant leg (trousers)...........

Oh my! What a mess!

So I start clearing up the mess and he thinks it is hilarious and starts finding things to throw into the dining room and into the mess while I am trying to clean it up...just so he HAS to come in and get it and mush all the mess in with his feet at the same time.........

fun fun fun!

Costco on Fridays...

We just got back from Costco...we weren't sure if it would be busy tonight but it was EMPTY...like REALLY empty! So it was ideal :) Especially as we took Abigail with us!

I bought myself a new book......Vincent Lams 'Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures' which is a collection of stories surrounding the relationships between medical students.....I've wanted to read that for a while.....

I haven't got much of The Girls left to read...part of me is so so excited to see what happens but another part will be really sad to say goodbye to Rose and Ruby.....I NEED another good book to jump into afterwards......

What else did we get? Well I tried a sample of juice while I was there and fell in love...so we bought a pack of them...it is flavoured water and is called 'Talking Rain Botanicals'...it's made with Splenda and comes in three flavours...Quintessential Kiwi, Purely Passion and Luscious Loganberry......they are all gorgeous and all 0 calories :) and the bottles are a great shape to hold :) If you want to drink more water then try these mmmmmmmmmmmm

Before Costco we went to Scrapbook Memories and More and I bought some more supplies.....adhesives and blades for my paper trimmer and some gorgeous papers and embellishments....Abigail chose some Minnie Mouse rub-ons too......I bought a Flip Book to alter too...

This afternoon I embossed some juice lids and a laminate tag.....in a copper colour...ready for the wedding layout I am working on for the March Challenge....Abigail had fun with some of my rubber stamps while I was working.....

When the boys got home from school (Susie went straight to Cassie's on the bus and is sleeping over) I went to the mail box with Laurie.....I found ANOTHER issue of Homeschooling Horizons magazine...I seem to get one every couple of weeks right now ...I've had three since we got back from Florida which is puzzling becaus eits monthly......anyway I was thrilled because its a FAB magazine so I went and soaked in the bath again and read until Lloyd got home.....and Chris brought me a cup of tea :) .........am I spoiled or what???? lol!

We had chinese for dinner tonight :) lemon chicken for Lloyd, rice and a vegetable dish for me......Lloyd picked it as it had lots of big mushrooms in it for me...he hates mushrooms so I don't have them often but if he sees something like that he will get it for me.....

So what are you all up to this weekend? We have NO plans :) Chris is meeting his girlfriend at the mall on Sunday....they are going to choose a gift for Lloyd for his birthday....

We do plan to be outside a lot...tomorrow I plan to wash my car inside and out.....we want to try and clear a route to the fire pit.......I want to bath Charlie........I plan to scrapbook and when I take Chris to the mall I may well take the others to the library........

Lloyds friend Stuart was coming for dinner on Sunday but won't be back from Calgary in time so we will do that another night.......

Oh I want to add some pics of the rice pudding.......

Soaking up the rays..........




Another warm day here. Rosie, Amber and Cairo are sleeping in the sunshine on the porch......

Congrats to Chad and Robin!!!






Our friends Chad and Robin move into their new house this weekend.....and are expecting their third baby :) This is wonderful news all round :) Sadly though they are the other side of the country in St Johns......they moved back 'home' last Fall......

They sent us some pics of their new house....I believe thanks to selling their Edmonton home last year, they are almost..if not completely mortgage free :) Wonderful :)

The people in the pictures are the building company finishing things off while the walk-through was being done!

My little man..........




painting the beads.......






My little creative artists at work this morning.......

Pasta and Paint......




Take a bowl of pasta and a plate of paint and you can have LOTS of fun decorating beads for necklaces :)

Right now we are waiting for them to dry so we can thread them onto elastic.....

Paper bag albums





I finally got around to photographing my paper bag albums...they aren't totally finished yet but you can get the idea......each 'pocket' has a page that you can slide out by pulling the flowery ribbon.....

Full bloom............




Dorothy has only one bud to bloom now......

I miss you......

Today I am missing Florida and Disney World BIG TIME......we have been back from our holiday for well over a month now and we are all desperate to go back.....Lloyd says maybe next year we will go again.....

We had such a great GREAT holiday and I just didn't want it to end and we all keep reminiscing about it. Everything from the villa and the pool to the rides and the sunshine and the food and the fun and and and and.....you get the picture :)

This morning I read a sentence with Disney World in it, and that was it....It got me thinking about it and I just can not WAIT to go back! Tara I am squishing into your suitcase this summer!

Mar 8, 2007

Lloyd

I love love LOVE listening to you helping Susannah with her math...all the little math problems you ahve designed for her tonight...how patient you are and how long you have been helping her this evening...and you can tell you are enjoying it too and she sounds so alive and loving math now as you explain it all!

Thank you for being you!

Spring Clean your Dreams.............

Got dreams? Spring is a time that’s fairly crackling with possibilities for forging ahead. But how can you effectively harness all that energy, and turn it into actions that really move you forward?
I say have a "Clean Start Planning Retreat." This is a technique I've been using for several years that really helps focus and ground your actions. And even though it may be brown and muddy outside (if you’re in New England) ... you can still rise up and harness the abundant energy in the rebirth of spring.

1. Schedule two full days in which you can do something just for you.

Begin by scheduling in at least two full days sometime before spring really kicks in that you can designate "Clean Start Days." You can schedule them together, or separately. Saturdays can work well for this. (If you tend to be a guilty parent, use this as a chance for someone else who loves your kids to spend the day with them.)

2. Record your results for the last year or quarter.

Day One is dedicated to assessing what progress you’ve made on your dreams. It may be that you’re just beginning your dream, and have few or possibly no ‘tangible’ records of progress yet. Take a look through journals, and notebooks from classes or programs.

On the other hand, you may be launching a business, or just starting to sell your work. If so through ledgers, stat reports on web sites, check book registers, receipt piles, Quicken files, sent email files, even phone bills. Compare what you unearth to any goals you made for the last year. It doesn’t matter how much time you span – use your intuition on which parameters to use...

Read more at: http://www.soulfulliving.com/spring_cleaning_dreams.htm

I forgot date night!

I forgot to post about last nights date night...

For any newbies to my blog (and there are a few this week) Lloyd and I have date night every Wednesday night.....it really varies as to what we do....last night we went to Home Depot woohoo :)

Driving up Hwy 14 I was kicking myself for not having my camera with me because the sunset was GORGEOUS!!!! Ah well there will be plenty more!

So we went to Home Depot and strolled around to get some ideas for Lloyds birthday, to look at bath styles and sink styles and lamps and a few other things...then we strolled around Home Sense.....we didn't buy anything in either store.....

After that we debated where to eat supper and decided to try Swiss Chalet.

I have NEVER been to a Swiss Chalet before.....neither had Lloyd...e weren't sure what to expect.....the atmosphere is kind of like a Smittys or a cheap kind of family restaurant...not our usual choice of atmosphere but it was convenient and we have always wanted to try it....

Lloyd had a quarter chicken with fries and dipping sauce and a roll....I had teryaki chicken on rice....and we shared the sundried garlic loaf.

Service was wonderful - friendly and fast...I didn't even see her take my glass to refill it.....Lloyd said the coffee was really nice too....

The Teryaki chicken was ok.....not wonderful but I enjoyed it.....the garlic loaf was TO DIE FOR!!! OMG really REALLY good garlic bread!!! Mmmmmmmmmm

There were very few people in there so it was a nice quiet place to talk......Lloyd has so much happening with his business right now and we had a lot to talk about....we are updating his website at the moment BIG TIME because some very important contacts will be looking at it in the next few weeks.....

He is so busy with contracts that he asked if I would be interested in training to do some of what he does...I can work remotely from home doing the basic testing and QA of the scripts or something........he said he would pay me a salary if I wnat but I told him I don't see the point...why take the money out of the company and pay tax on it if we don't need to......

So yes as soon as his website is finished and he has finished the documents he's working on, he is going to teach me to do testing......then I can REALLY work for my own company :) he says he already has work projects planned out for me :)

The way I see it, he can pay someone else to work for us or I can do it and we keep the money in our company :)

So we were chatting about that and we were chatting about our days and this and that and although the restaurant isn't our normal kind, it was a good place to chat......I wouldn't choose to go there on date night again BUT it is definitely somewhere I would take the kids :)

I love listening to Lloyd talk about work......its very sexy :) You have to realise that I have known him since he was 7..........he was always 'my Lloyd' just this boy who lived next door......that I played soccer with and tennis and teased and who teased me.......and now he's this successful business man with so many responsibilities and so many plans and ambitions and although he is so sweet and soft and gives in constantly to me at home, at work he is the boss.....he runs meetings and makes big decisions and delegates and takes charge.......I LOVE listening to him on the phone on conference calls and talking to his team.....so yes it was a good date night :)

Ok Lloyd just finished helping Susie with her math homework so now I can go relax :)

Goodnight!

The evening is here :)

So I soaked in the bath and read 50 pages of my book The Girls (I will be sad when its done but I can't wait to find out the ending!) I also nibbled my way through several mini eggs while in the bath....actually they are the ideal chocolate for bathtime because if they roll into the water they don't melt! You can scoop them out and the shell is still hard :)

They are also the ideal chocolate for scrapbooking...kind of like minsterls from back home......melt in your mouth and NOT in your hand...so this time of year if I go to a crop then I always take the jumbo bag of mini eggs to share :).....right now I have a jumbo bag in my knickers drawer AND a jumbo bag in the kitchen cupbooard for scrapbooking at home :)

Yep I think I am DEFINITELY # 31 on my list with THE most boring blog...I can spend 2 days talking about the pros and cons of eating mini eggs......sigh!

Dinner was a HUGE hit...we had a nice garden salad with our pasta and the meatballs I made earlier and there are some left which Lloyd is taking to work for lunch tomorrow......everyone loved them including Sammy :)

And I saved enough of the Rigatini pasta for Sam and Abigail to paint and decorate tomorrow to make necklaces from.......

Laurence is watching Open Season tomorrow at school...its movie day......and so the kids can take chips or a snack to eat during the movie.....I don't buy chips...very VERY rarely do I buy chips....so he is taking a bag of home made popcorn and a bag of cereal to share instead......and luckily we have Lucky Charms and Honey Nut Cheerios atm because they were buy one get one free.............so he can take some of those.....

Talking of popcorn.....Christie finally noticed yesterday that we don't own a microwave......I thought everyone knew that! We just don't need one...can't think of anything we would use it for (except heating ovaltine I guess) So yes, we don't have a microwave.....we did use the one in Florida at the villa - once, to make microwave pocorn that no one liked.......so I don't know that we will ever buy a microwave.......what would we use it for? we don't reheat food......we don't have 'leftovers'......we don't eat microwavable foods really......so I cna't think of what use we would have for one....

I had one years ago and I used it to 'crackle' CD's........for card making and altered crafts.......you lay the cd in water and zap for about 30 seconds and you get coloured sparks in the microwave but when the cd comes out it is so so pretty :) all crackled and prismatic! Then you can decorate them or add them to other crafts.......

Tomorrow is Friday and I am not sure what we will do yet.......I may go to Parentlink and see Samantha......I may go to Broadmoor Lake and the library.....I may stay home and relax and then go for a walk in the afternoon......Susannah is sleeping at her friends house tomorrow night...not sure what the boys plans are....Saturday we have to go to Coscto as its 3 weeks since our last trip.....we go every 3 weeks or so.....

Ok well I am going to cuddle with Lloyd and Sam in front of Madagascar for a while........have a great evening everyone......

Lloyds answers......

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