Snapshots from our day.....

Today was another good constructive day.  Split the day up with a yummy lunch of egg toasties, and a yummy snack of green monsters.  Todays was made by Susie and was extremely delicious!!  She put plenty of strawberries in it and it was juicy and yummy!  Strawberries and bananas!!  Abby drank tons of it which I love to see :)  

Then we had pasta with a yummy spinach salad for dinner - I think I need to start buying spinach in bulk!!

I've signed up another teaching resource which is REALLY exciting.  I am sooooo thrilled :)  I have several classes planned for the next set too AND I am already planning Spring and Summer classes too - some outdoor classes with nature themes and some non-art classes!  

I booked Abby and Sam into a digital book class today where they get to create an interactive book on cd or dvd.  It's an all day class.  They are also booked in to start climbing again from next week AND Lego classes again.  The theme for the Lego classes this semester is 'weather'.  They will be learning about windmills and satellites etc....we have a drumming class in a couple of weeks and of course they are also doing sculpture.  Sams reading and writing is coming on in leaps and bounds now and his math is great.  Abby's has always been fabulous.  All in all we are having a fabulous year :)  The best ever :)

At the dog park....

It was CROWDED which didn't make for a very pleasant walk - wished we'd gone to Jackie Parker instead :(  But Rosie had a great time anyway!!  We took her ball with us and took turns throwing it for her which she loves...she brings it straight back and drops it for us to throw again - she's such a good girl - so smart and so well behaved!  Even without training she stays by our side always and never runs off, never, never leaves us, never gets in to fights...just stays by our side and walks with us unless we throw the ball for her and then she plays fetch until she's exhausted.  My darling Rosie :)

Love her so :)  

A new posting for today....

Surrounded by...christmas decorations.  Blah....

Thankful for...Susannah's help this weekend

Pondering...love poems, marriage vows, meanings...

Learning together...how to run a business, how to start a business, how to create a classroom.  Oh and I just signed Abby and Sam up for another class - on creating a digital story book - it's an all day class with the City Art Centre which sounds pretty cool :)  

Domestic bliss...having my kiddo's here again after a weekend of us all going in separate directions.

What's app-ening...Instagram...love it :)  Love how it works with IOS5 - love how it adds pictures straight to their own folder on Facebook.  Love how you can connect with so many people locally and globally.  Love how you can find out about so many new places and see your own area through new eyes.  

Making progress...The house is feeling like a home so much more now.  It's lovely being able to use the basement at last.  It's fantastic having a bedroom that is really and truly a bedroom with no toys or clutter or anything in it - just my things in it.  The kids are loving the basement too!!  :)  They were down there ages this morning :)  

Read of the week...The Artists Way

A new habit...Back to having smoothies every day - Green Monster style :)  

On the nightstand...water, tissue box, couple of books, journal and a bucket of pens...but they will be going downstairs today and then it will just be my mug of pens that will stay - and I love my mug that read 'Pretending to be a normal person day after day is EXHAUSTING'  :)  love it :)  

Prayers and petitions...thoughts are with a friend of a friend having brain surgery...and another friend with surgery....

Something I love...this amazing incredible weather we are having :)  Just LOVE it :)  Think we will head out with Rosie for the afternoon :)  


This week...swimming, painting walls, heading to the reuse centre for supplies for sculpture class, walking Rosie, teaching several classes, planning and advertising new classes for February, Science classes at the science centre, Ice on Whyte.  

A photo to share...

Found this great book yesterday - funny how we don't see these books until AFTER we marry those idiots.....sigh....we really need to be given these books to read as part of the school curriculum!!  Hahahaha  :)  

Love these.....from Pinterest :)

Instagram...20 days until my 40th.....

:)  

Love this :)

For today:

Outside My Window... it is dark.  There is a full moon - or almost full at least.  It is just outside the window to my right beside my chair.


I am thinking...about the thrift store and all the bargains I have got from there over the last year and how much money I've saved furnishing this place....and kitting out the classroom...and other things - and yet this place is beautiful :)  I love it :)  I can't believe I have managed to kit out an entire classroom for so little :)   Today we ran into Tina there and it was lovely to see her again - hadn't seen her for sooooo long and then we saw her at the Christmas brunch in december and today :)  Hope to see her again very soon :)

I am thankful for...my life....the fun of it...the luck of it...the adventure of it.  the way I live it.  Wouldn't swap it for anyone elses.  I have so much fun :)  My life may well be a bit of a rollercoaster and an adventure at times, but it's one hell of a ride and I love it :)  I don't think I have one day go by where I don't laugh out loud several times :)  I am blessed with amazing children, incredible friends....many who are totally insane which suits me perfectly - I am so grateful for their cracks ;)

From the kitchen...daily smoothies, yummy dinners, finishing off the Christmas goodies we still have...lot's of fruit...


I am wearing...old jeans...tshirt inside-out....old sweater - we've been painting :)

I am creating... lots :)

I am going...to bed early tonight because it's been a long busy day but I feel soooo good about how much we accomplished today :)  Woot!!!  :)  
I am reading...through a pile of magazines that Sharon gave me at Christmas :)  Thank you Sharon - I LOVE the magazines you always give me xxx

I am hoping...that I've signed up two new students to my class at short notice :)  woot :)  I also have another teacher signed up to teach fine arts - starting with oil painting!!  AND I have a some one-off classes planned throughout February - including a session on Vision boards to help you keep going on those New Year Goals you made for 2012!!!  :)  Also come on over and make a Junque Journal....

I am hearing...  Hedley....listening to their new album which I got for Christmas :)  It is fabulous!  I love love LOVE Hedley  :)  So hold on tight, it's gonna be a wild wild ride....

Around the house...I am slowly putting away all the Christmas things...it's such a chore and it's hard to do also because I am always sad to do it - AND because I don't WANT to pack them away!!  BUT...I get to decorate again in a few weeks - for my PARRRRTAAYYYYYY!!!  :)  WOOOHOOOOO  :)

One of my favorite things...Instagram - and the fact that Instagram now uploads pictures automatically into a folder on facebook.  Yup - little things please little minds :)

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...Ummmm....cleaning, sorting, organizing, swimming, walking Rosie, heading to the Winter Festival, celebrating Sams birthday and planning his party, working, teaching, planning, Science Centre, Lego class, library, pub quiz, Ice on Whyte, work/ Exhibitors conference.

MMMMMM :)

A well deserved supper out after all our hard work today!!!  

Omg we ache so much but it was a job well done :)  

Woohoo!!!  :)  

Thank you Susannah 

xxx

Green Monster Lurve..... :)

Today was MY turn to make the smoothie....

Flax, protein powder, spinach, banana, peaches, raspberries, blueberries, apple, strawberries, pumpkin, milk.....all blended up.  YUM!!!!

xxx

Morning Gratitude....

Early morning.....sunshine.....and emergency coffee cups :)

I keep these cups of coffee in the back of the cupboard for emergencies JUST like this morning - for when I run out of coffee :)  

This morning we had to get up early as we had a lot to do in the basement to get organized :)  

So before we started we NEEDED coffee :) 

Sitting in the morning sunshine drinking emergency coffee and watching Rosie :)

Grateful :)  

Dads of girls!! :)

Click here to read a great blog post about Dads of Daughters!!!

Such a great post!!!

A must read for all dads of girls :)  

About Last Night.....

Last night at the pub was just....well...I don't think I stopped laughing all evening.  Thanks to everyone who came out!!  Great night out!!  So much fun!!  So lovely to meet Melissa - even though meeting her was like meeting an old friend :)  Somehow meeting a fellow Brave Girl is like meeting a Sister - you know so much about each other.  And Melissa and I have walked the same path over recent years....we can relate to so much.  

I loved loved LOVED last night :)  Can't wait until the 28th :)  

xxx

Twelfth Night.....and it's over....

Wow. Twelfth Night....and with it, Journal Your Christmas comes to an end. I can't believe that 37 days can go so fast. My album is full of so many wonderful memories yet again. I am so grateful that we have been healthy and fortunate enough to enjoy the season as much as we have. We made the most of every moment. This morning my little boy summed it up for me. He woke up, hugged me and said "I love this family, it's so much fun" ♥ And THAT is what I want my children to remember ♥

Green Monsters!!!

Susannah and I are taking it in turns to make smoothies each morning.  Today Susie made this one! I want to encourage her to drink orange juice high in pulp, but she doesn't like it!!  So we added it to the smoothie instead of milk and she really liked it.  

This week we've been adding a lot of frozen berries instead of ice, bananas, mangoes etc etc...protein powder and of course the flax and spinach.  

Everybody has been drinking a lot of these and I think it's sooooo good for the kids to have a cup each day :)  Luckily they eat a lot of fruit and veg anyway - always having salads, apples, bananas vegetables etc etc...but this is a great way to get a LOT of good stuff in to them in a quick shot!!

I love vegetables but was never a fruit fan, so for me its great to have these again as it has upped my fruit intake again....there are instagram groups for pictures of them too so I'm taking part in those :)

As of today Instagram pictures instantly go into their own folders on Facebook!!!  At last!!!  yay!!  About time too!!!  :)  Makes life so much easier :)  

Triops

The Triops are growing so fast!!  We have moved them in to a bigger bowl now and they are doing great!  They are pretty dumb though and swim really fast doing somersaults and crashing head first into each other and in to things again and again!  They are very strange looking but fascinating to watch :)  Much better than sea monkeys!  I would definitely recommend these little creatures for kids and I will definitely get them again!  I would NOT follow the instructions on the box though, but would follow instructions online about how to care for them!!  Much better :)  

definitely fun little things :)