My Thursday...

So I didn't get my sewing machine out today....maybe at the weekend - not sure it will be safe with so many kids here tomorrow!

Chris ended up staying home today, so after dropping the others at the party, I came home and we went out for lunch! We then went to buy snow boots for Chris (none in his size) and then we came home - planned his movie for tomorrow - he's doing a French movie that is based around a fashion shoot....so he's using my studio lighting......my camera and the dress up box and they are going to have a Paris fashion show...so tonight he's watching The Devil Wears Prada for inspiration!!

Lauries friends can't sleep over now - so he is going to invite another friend over instead....Chris has the movie people coming in the afternoon and then he's having a games night all evening....so we went and grabbed some snack foods etc for tomorrow for that - and Lloyd WAS going out for dinner with his friend but thats cancelled so instead (as the temp is supposed to be good) we are going to have a fire outside and the kids can all cook sausages and have hot dogs and smores etc and sled in the dark.....fun fun fun :)

Saturday we have to go to DIY kitchens to choose our kitchen cupboards.....

Thank you Jennifer!

I just wanted to post and say thank you to Jennifer for her wonderful emails - they are just sooooo ME - the dark sense of humour, the sarcasm....they just always make me laugh out loud!

And I also love that you can be really funny but serious too - and you write LONG emails :) like letters :)

So thank you!

On the subject of emails - I have been soooo BAD at writing emails in the last couple of months - I owe so many - it seems I can find the time to write crap on LP but when it comes to sitting and writing a proper email to a friend I struggle......I've stopped taking my meds and so within a few days I hope to be less groggy and zombie like during the day and will hopefully be able to write emails again!!! I am so sorry to everyone I owe emails to......don't take it personally because there are a LOT of you :(

For Sale!!

Lloyd ahs decided to auction himself off on ebay.....he jokes that I have no idea how lucky I am (I do lol) and that he could make a fortune by acutioning him off as husband material lol!

This came about because we were talking on Wednesday about him going back to work......and we realised that I would have to make my own coffee for the first time since Friday 21st. And then tonight (Thursday) I will cook dinner for the first time since Christmas Eve...and he helped that night lol) and I would have to change diapers (yesterday) for the first time since Friday 21st........

Of course he's saying this, teasing me, while I'm crying because he's going back to work and I'll miss him sooooo much......and he';s joking that this is why I will miss him - because he does everything ;)

Of course there is that.....but I just miss HIM!

Quiet day

The kids are at an all day party today...sledding etc etc out at a friends acreage - so I have a quiet day....tonight maybe Lloyd and I will go out for coffee. Tomorrow we have 9 or 10 extra kids here for the day for a kind of end of holiday party thing.....several, but not all, are sleeping over.

I think I'm going to take advantage of the quiet and try out my sewing machine!!!

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Wah!!

Chris has grown at least 2 cm's since 21st November!!! He is now almost 2 inches taller than me! Susie has grown about 1cm since then too....Abby and Sam haven't grown at all since then. Laurie is out sledding so I don't know.

Giant knickers stop fire!!!

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7167549.stm

For some reason this story reminds me of Christie......not that she wears giant knickers lol!

Child well-being - very interesting!!!

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6360517.stm

Canada 12th (top three for educational wellbeing)

UK 21st

US 20th

Canadian children rate well for exercise amounts too...

Only a third of young people eat fruit daily!!! OMG!!!

New Years Day....

I can't believe Lloyd goes back to work tomorrow! Where has the time gone???? The last 10 days has just flown by. All in all it's been a wonderful holiday! Lots of relaxing...lots of downtime....hanging out with friends....lots of time outdoors....

Tonight we are ending with a big family New Years dinner....crackers to pull, wine, Christmas pudding or Tiramisu for dessert...candle light.....then a good movie before an early night as Lloyd will have to get up early tomorrow.

As for the rest of us...it looks like we have plenty to fill the next few days with...and the weekend will be here before we know it - with good temperatures to enable us to really enjoy Sams birthday! My little boy is 3!!!!! Wow! Less than a week now!

Well...I was sprout girl earlier and now I've been promoted to gravy girl...so I should go and see to that :)

Enjoy the first evening of 2008 everyone :)

Happy New Year little feathered friends!

Our little Chickadee.....

Good news!

Looks like if we can move fast, then the trees are ours!! This is wonderful - they were going to bulldoze them all but if we can get them moved then we can have them :) Yay!! They start the WEst side of the strip mall - clearing the land etc in Jan/ Feb but the rest won't start until a few months time which means we can move them in the Spring :) The trees are gorgeous and lovely and big and mature and we have so many places we want mature trees :) So for the cost of hiring a tree mover and the people who use them (we've already contacted someone for this) then the trees are ours - soooo many :) It's wonderful!

Other good news, the house is now spick and span and all the CHristmas things are all back in storage :) I've decluttered tons of stuff the last few days and Lloyd fixed the broken bookshelf, so I can start 2008 with a clean and tidy home with room to breathe - no clutter and no mess :)

How would you feel?

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7152762.stm

How would you feel if you learned you had been separated from your twin sister as a baby as part of a psychology 'experiment'??? I think this is disgusting!!!!

I agree witht he way the women think - that there is nothing to bring those years back so why not move forward, but I still think it is so wrong that scientists feel they can play with peoples lives in this way......

Like a black and white movie......