Sunday....

Laurence got home at 6:30am and made me coffee.  I had been awake for a while already.  I dozed a bit after that and then got up at 8:30am and made breakfast:

It had snowed a little and the birds had left cute footprints:

After lunch we took Rosie for a walk through Millcreek Ravine.  We parked by Millcreek pool and then walked through to Connors Road by the Muttart - and then back.  It was a lovely walk - very quiet there - just the odd person running or families walking dogs.

Its a surprisingly short walk from Whyte Ave to the Muttart.  I was shocked at how quickly we got to Connors Road!  

After our walk we headed home, but stopped off for tea and sandwiches at one of my favourite coffee places in Bonnie Doon.  Their London Fogs are incredible!  I used to sit in there and read/ art journal over tea while Sam and Abby were at one of their regular classes.  I miss going there, so it was lovely to go with Susannah!  

Saturday...

Coffee in Starbucks on Whyte

Over two hours in Chapters picking books to get with gift cards:

Then a walk around the farmers market.

We drove over to the west end to run some errands and then headed home but stopped off for a quick supper:

Stopped in at Stupidstore to get a few groceries...and looked at the make up and bubble baths:

Spent the evening relaxing in the bath with candles:

And created this using Jusgramm:

Snapshots from our week.....

Valentines Day party :)

On Thursday we had a Valentines Celebration with our homeschooling friends. 

It was soooo much fun! 25 children and their Moms/ parents came....so about 40 people in all.  It was noisy and chaotic, but so much fun - lots of laughter and chatter and playing...everyone brought snacks to share and they also brought Valentines/ treats for each of the children.

One of the activities was to make a 'mailbox' or bag - and decorate it ready for everyone to deliver their treats!  This is what many schools would do and I thought it would be fun for the children to do the same.  So we had a crafting station set up in the kitchen.

Susannah had the day off and luckily there were quite a few teens there too so she had a great day and said how pleased she was that she had been off of school :)  

It was such a fun day and I have another planned for St Patricks Day in March - and then will do an Easter one with an egg hunt too :)  

Thank you to everyone who came and joined us.  It was literally the BEST Valentines Day I have ever had - with the fun bowling, the party and then watching The Notebook in the evening with the girls before a soak in the bath...well, it was just perfect :)  

The table with just SOME of the food - there was more in the kitchen:

The ice cream cake that Joanne made was soooo good:

Abby found a heart shaped chip on Valentines day:

Bob the talking Cootie Catcher:

Lots of chatting and laughing with friends:

Some of the 'mail boxes' and bags:

Decorating cookies:

So good to see these two:

Shoes EVERYWHERE:

Cookie decorating station:

New friends who have joined us this week:

Craft station:

More 'mail boxes':

Valentine treats:

Some of the lovely Valentine treats that children gave me: