Blegh!

Lloyd and I are close to deaths door.....to others it may be just a bad cough...to us its triple quadruple pneumonia.....

Why am I always ill on days when its gorgeous outside? Most of today I have relaxed indoors. I feel quite pleased with what I've accomplished though. I have decluttered all of my scrapbooking supplies (well, two drawers to go) and have a huge box of supplies to donate to the school :) I feel cleansed.....

I've been hacking up 'stuff' all day, my head is throbbing and my chest hurts.....but I do feel cleansed lol.....

LOTS of garlic tonight....LOTS and tomorrow we will be all healthy again (PLEASE).

I know I shouldn't complain - its been a fun and busy week all in all. But really it would have been nice to have lots of energy today to go for a long walk. Although saying that poor little Sam couldn't have managed it either....he's still full of germs.

In fact its that little bugger that gave this to us - I swear he must lick every germ covered surface he sees and brings all those delightful cold viruses into this house...if it wasn't for the fact that he's useful for stealing the odd bottle of milk I'd have to consider offering him to Grace ;)

He is awfully cute though.....sigh....how come three year olds are cute even with snot hanging from their noses? This morning I saw wet spots on my lovely soft pillow. I asked Sam what it was.

"Oh thats just snot - I didn't want it".

"Use a tissue".

"Didn't want to".

Don't use my pillow".

"Wanted to". Poopy!" And off he walked. He calls everyone Poopy if he's fed up!

My worry is - what else does he use to wipe his nose when he doesn't want his snot any more and there are no tissues around??????????

29,000

Eight more visits and I will have had 29,000 visits to my blog!!!!! Oh my gawd have you guys got nothing better to do than read about me doing my laundry and how my pig eats my leftover Chinese food?

Baking with Susie....

Did I forget to mention that Susie had the day off of school today???? Too funny but when Val turned up, she had given her Son the day off too....oh we are such baaaad parents lol!

So this afternoon while I crafted with paper, glue and scissors, Susannah baked with Abigail and Samuel. They baked cookies and then stuck chocolate chips into the top of them (as opposed to baking them with chips in them)....

They had fun and loved rolling the dough into balls :)

My atc's so far

I'm quite happy with them so far...they don't have to be in until April some time so I am way ahead for me - I'm normally a last minute kind of gal ;)

Still a lot to do on them - lots of embellishing and they have to have the word 'Dragonfly' on them somewhere...but apart from that I am happy :)

I did a few extra in case anyone else signs up for the swap :)

atc progress....

I have been working on my atc's this afternoon.....I haven't done any for ages and this is the first time I've ever had to include a photograph on it.....and its sooo NOT easy......this is like making miniature scrapbook pages.

They have to be 2 1/2 inches X 3 1/2 inches and they have to include a picture of me and my username at scrappershaven.

Jesus in a pickle

You should all trek over to Mindless Musings (link on the right) and see the amazing pickle that has been found in Edmonton.....not to be missed.....

Things are growing.......

day by day things are sprouting.......

Charlie likes wokbox noodles!

Charlie eating yesterdays noodles!

Yesterday Samantha was oddly interested in how fast pigs can eat an adult human being (lol)......extremely so....hmmmm I wonder why she wants to know......she wanted to know if they needed to be chopped up or if it could be whole......and I wondered why she thought I'd know hahahahahahha!!!

It's 8 minutes by the way.....if you're interested ;) but Charlie seems happy with noodles ;)

Hmmmmm...

Do you think we're in for a lot of trouble when she's fifteen?????

A nice surprise :)

This morning I had breakfast with Val - we weren't sure we were going to make it this week - we've both had children off school sick this week, but we did make it and I'm s glad as we had a lovely morning! Well I did (I hope Val did lol).

Val surprised me with a little gift - a very pretty little lady holding a bee skep (traditional bee hive). All in all I take this as a good sign that Val isn't too horrified at the thought of me having hives here :) Abigail seems to think this little lady looks like me (bless her that she thinks I look so young lol...she's my new favourite)! and so I am going to call her Janie and sit her by my computer, and Janie has inspired me to look up some blogs written by beekeepers :)

Thank you Val - it was great to see you this morning!

At the end of breakfast we looked round to find that Sam had gone into the gas station, gone to the big fridges with their heavy doors, picked out a 4 litre bottle of 2% milk and walked out of the store with it lol.....oh my :) He knew I needed milk but I WAS planning on paying for it ;) Funny thing is that when you are only three foot high no one sees you stealing things ;) Maybe I should train him to take more ;)

Louise!!

How can it be March 6th already? All last week your birthday seemed a centuray away and everything was going so slow and nowI missed it!!! I'm so sorry - I seem to notice days and not dates at the moment!

Happy Birthday for yesterday! Did you have a nice day? What did you do? Anything nice? You know what I think would be really nice to do on your birthday? Be able to look outside and see daffodils and crocuses......instead of #$*$#@ SNOW!!!!! lol! We got another 5 cm of snow last night! So I hope yesterday you were able to look out of your kitchen window (or any window) and see Spring flowers somwhere :)

Happy belated birthday wishes.....you join the ranks of those of us who are closer to 40 than 30 ;)

My Wednesday,

Today Abigail and I went out for a few ours with my friend Samantha. WE picked her up at 11am and we headed to Homesense to have a snoop around. Samantha is looking for a new quilt for her bed....I was looking for towels - I also found some little eggs to hang from my little holiday tree on the hallway table.

After that we went to Wokbox for lunch....Abby and I share some yummy lemon chicken and noodles.

We sat and chatted until Abigail decided that she was really REALLY bored and then we headed over to the scrapbook store. I DID ask Samantha to control me in there but to be honest she didnt do a very good job and it really is her fault!!! Although really I only bought a few sheets of paper and some stickers to send to our sponsor children in Peru and Africa.

Abigail got chatting to 'some guy' in the store....and when it was time to go he came running to open the door for her!!!!! This 'guy' was all of 5 years old!!!!! He came running to open the door for my daughter!!!! What a gentleman!!!!! I was so impressed! He was such a cool dude too - I think he was impressed with Abigail's pink hair ;) Oh and since we got home she has added a tattoo to her neck lol - I have to take a piccy!

We dropped Samantha home and raced back home.....had a cup of tea and threw in some more laundry...Samantha phoned for my Avon order and then I ran out to get Chris from drama club....now I'm cooking dinner (honey dijon salmon with new potato's and asparagus)

Sam is asleep here on my lap! He's like a little hot water bottle!

I am worn out! I had a lovely day Samantha - so much fun! Thank you so much for lunch!

Chris got in the car after drama cub and said oh wow (all concerned) are you ok? you don't look well" Thanks Chris!!!! I'm just tired lol! The tablets have me so tired and drowsy - but Lloyd has made me cut the dose so hopefully in a day or two things will improve!

my atc piccy

I have to make some atc's for a swap I'm taking part in, and each one has to have a picture of me on it. An atc is an artist trading card - it's like a scrapbook page in miniature - each card is the size of a playing card. Teeny tiny! Like a miniature work of art!

This swap is being organized by Glenda - one of my FAVOURITE artists over at www.scrappershaven.ca

Anyway, I'm thinking of using these little pictures on my atc's for the swap.....I've been sat here plaing about with iphotobooth taking pictures of myself - I was going to take some silly ones but I think I'll just use one like this.....this is me....this afternoon. Tired.....feeling a little inspired having strolled around the scrapbooking store with Samantha - OMG Samantha had never been in a scrapbooking store before!!!! She's just getting in to scrapbooking and is just now starting to organize all her stuff ready to start her first album...I hope the store didn't over power her and put her off lol....I haven't been there fort months and months and really need to go there for some inspiration.....I'm going to enjoy working on these atc's for Glenda's swap....a nice little challenge to get me going again :)

Jennifer!!!!!

We have little green shoots!!!!!


Two!!!!!

breakfast at sunrise