Our lovely fier pit that is the centre of many many wonderful times :) All the stones around the fire are ones we found amongst all the trees or lying about on our acreage :)
2 days ago
Dec 29, 2007
Our wonderful fire......
Our lovely fier pit that is the centre of many many wonderful times :) All the stones around the fire are ones we found amongst all the trees or lying about on our acreage :)
Gingerbread house decorating...
On Christmas Eve, the children had their annual contest to decorate a gingerbread house......Sam decorated the gingerbread men to go by each house......Abigail and Christopher competed against Susannah and Laurence!
Last Sunday...
A few pictures from last Sunday, when my wonderful friend Samantha came over for the evening with her family. It was so much fun - a highlight of my Christmas! As you can see, we made quite a mess while scrapbooking her Moms special album!
weekend news.....
Not much to report...we continue to enjoy relaxing at home...sledding...the fire pit...so nice having Lloyd home from work for so long!
Laurie slept at the twins house last night and called to ask if he could stay again tonight......so we just ran in to Costco to get some dog food and I stopped in at Michaels to buy a rotary cutter as I had a coupn that had to be used by Monday. I saw a book on quilted postcards and so I want to make a few of those too - didn't bother wth the book as I will read onine instead!
Yesterday Lloyd and I went out for brunch which was a lovely chance to just be alone together without the children - it's been a few weeks really since we've done that without focusing on the children/ Christmas shopping....we took our time and enjoyed the peace :)
Tonight we are off to a party in town - which starts with a games night - including 'snakes and shooters' and 80's Trivial Pursuits......which should be interesting!!! And its adults ony woohoo :) I said I'd drive so Lloyd can drink :)
Thats all for now - oh and thank you Jennifer for your emails - they made me laugh so much :)
Laurie slept at the twins house last night and called to ask if he could stay again tonight......so we just ran in to Costco to get some dog food and I stopped in at Michaels to buy a rotary cutter as I had a coupn that had to be used by Monday. I saw a book on quilted postcards and so I want to make a few of those too - didn't bother wth the book as I will read onine instead!
Yesterday Lloyd and I went out for brunch which was a lovely chance to just be alone together without the children - it's been a few weeks really since we've done that without focusing on the children/ Christmas shopping....we took our time and enjoyed the peace :)
Tonight we are off to a party in town - which starts with a games night - including 'snakes and shooters' and 80's Trivial Pursuits......which should be interesting!!! And its adults ony woohoo :) I said I'd drive so Lloyd can drink :)
Thats all for now - oh and thank you Jennifer for your emails - they made me laugh so much :)
Dec 28, 2007
Snowflakes.....
Today Lloyd pointed out one tiny perfect snowflake that had landed on my window - can you believe that I have NEVER seen one single tiny snowflake quite like that? Only in books or online...never in real life...they often seem all clumped together but the last couple of days it has been gently snowing tiny delicate perfect snowflakes......I was fascinated! So as I was sat by the fire this afternoon, I watched the snowflakes land on my snowpants and stay there....perfect! I grabbed my camera and tried to get some good pictures....I don't really have the right lens but I got a few nice shots....I think I need a new macro lens so I can get close ups in focus of these little treasures.....
Dec 27, 2007
How wonderful!
Someone treated me to a free year long membership of Linking Parents! How wonderful is that? I have no idea who.....Carmel sent me a pm and firstly I was looking at the webpage and saw that I had another pm and I was fretting over how to tell people I don't have access to pm's! But I thought I'd click on it anyway - and wow - I could read them!
I'm stunned! I'm not the most popular person at LP (lol) to be popular there you normally have to have endless problems and be fairly depressing......happy people aren't too popular! But someone must like me :) How great is that????
So I don't know if it was Carmel or if Carmel just wrote to let me know.....but whoever it was, I am thrilled...it's nice to have my avatar back again....but I WON'T be joining the boxing ring!!!! Even the idea of that forum makes me feel YUCK.....
It isn't so much the membership that makes me happy as much as the fact that someone chose me :) thats such a nice feeling :)
THANK YOU!
I'm stunned! I'm not the most popular person at LP (lol) to be popular there you normally have to have endless problems and be fairly depressing......happy people aren't too popular! But someone must like me :) How great is that????
So I don't know if it was Carmel or if Carmel just wrote to let me know.....but whoever it was, I am thrilled...it's nice to have my avatar back again....but I WON'T be joining the boxing ring!!!! Even the idea of that forum makes me feel YUCK.....
It isn't so much the membership that makes me happy as much as the fact that someone chose me :) thats such a nice feeling :)
THANK YOU!
preview of things to come....
Last night we noticed how foggy it had become - we put the back deck light on and saw that the ice fog was leaving an amazing hoar frost on all the trees and we knew we would wake up to a winter wonderland today! I took these two pictures of the bush that all the chickadees sit in while they wait for their turn on the bird feeder....
Dec 26, 2007
Boxing Day
Today has been lovely and relaxing again :) I went out snowshoeing twice and LOVED it :) Lloyd lit a fire and we sat outside together....I played dominoes with Abigail....just quiet lazy day at home :) Really nice! Although WOW what a workout snowshoeing is!!!!
Tonight we are watching a family movie together...maybe play a game.....
It's supposed to snow tonight :) More snow to snowshoe in tomorrow :)
Best part of today - sitting by the fire outside with Rosie - Lloyd had taken Abby on the quad and Amber went with them, but Rosie sat with me by the fire and we just cuddled watching the flames and enjoyed all the peace and quiet and still air and pretty snow and the sunset :) Just lovely :)
I hope you all had a great day today....
Tonight we are watching a family movie together...maybe play a game.....
It's supposed to snow tonight :) More snow to snowshoe in tomorrow :)
Best part of today - sitting by the fire outside with Rosie - Lloyd had taken Abby on the quad and Amber went with them, but Rosie sat with me by the fire and we just cuddled watching the flames and enjoyed all the peace and quiet and still air and pretty snow and the sunset :) Just lovely :)
I hope you all had a great day today....
Happy Anniversary!
Happy 48th Wedding Anniversary to my Mom and Dad today!
Thinking of you and hoping you had a lovely day!
Thinking of you and hoping you had a lovely day!
Dec 25, 2007
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