Well it's my usual day to see my mom but today I am staying home and she is venturing out to St. Jacob's with a few of her friends. So I figured I'd start my day early and catch up on a few neglected things.
1. My blog
2. cutting CS for Monday's class
3. Finish mom's coaster scrapbook
4. A cuppa hot tea and a good book
So here's what i've been doing since my last post.
Thursday went with my mom to the Madarin with a couple of her friends. I had a good time, a lil rushed but oh well. I bought some tickets from my cool grandma SU upline for a draw she was holding on Sunday. (I won a package of SS CS and some CE- woohoo!!! I needed some CE for buttons on my Father's Day cards for the church men so I'm very happy with my winning!!)
The whole family went to the drive-in to see POTC3 and Hog Wild on Friday night. I don't know about you ladies but I bet my hubby was dieing of envy watching Hog Wild. I could see him as one of the bikers! Wont tell you which one.
Sunday was a frenzy of activities like usual.
Monday uneventful.
Tuesday was awesome. I went with Kimmy to Scrapaholics 3rd Anniversary Open house. We had a blast! I actually got to go to something that didn't include one of my kids, weird. Oh and I so have to get me one of those chocolate fountains!! Kimmy even became a member so now I have someone from the area to crop with, woohooo!!! Paige might not have found the evening to be so much fun as she had to get a booster shot, but at least that is taken care of. Jacob and Terry attended the soccer meeting and now Jacob is on another soccer team. There's 2 teams out here and one was so sorely stacked and the other is just kids that love to play the game and is evenly matched with the other teams. Well the other teams in the league hate playing against the stacked team cause they get whopped and it's obvious to them when they play our 2 different teams that the picks were not even. We don't whop them but we can still beat them. So either we make a switch of players or they pull out of the league. My son is one of the top players from our team but he was traded for the 2 top players from the stacked team. This was the only trade made.
I worked yesterday, Wednesday, and then attended Jacob's game with his new team. I was not (to say the very least) impressed with a parent who took the opportunity to loudly express his opionion in a rude and vulgar way about his disagreement with the switching of players. I wish the ref had heard cause he wouldn't have been there the remainder of the game. When exactly did kids sports become so aggressive? C'mon folks it's recreational KIDS soccer! I will be filling a complaint about this parent's outburst. Jacob did wonderful and a few of the players actually associated with him. I was later told that a few of our players were away on a field trip and "if they were here we would have done much better", UGH. Jacob got equal playing time which I was happy to see. Mind you our convenior was there to oversee the game so we'll see how next week goes.
Oh yeah, we won 2-1.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Happy Birthday Shane!
I did remember in all that kraziness to send the parcel with Shane's cards. I snapped a quick picture of some of them. Well, Terry took it to the post office for me, he's so sweet! The kids at our church also made some cards to send along with these and painted some pictures.
I was able to track it and discovered that Shane will actually be receiving his cards on his actual birthday!! Way too cool. If you want to track it go to:
www.canadapost.ca
and use the tracking number: 0105724000123715
I was able to track it and discovered that Shane will actually be receiving his cards on his actual birthday!! Way too cool. If you want to track it go to:
www.canadapost.ca
and use the tracking number: 0105724000123715
Krazy Krazy Week
Oh my goodness what a krazy couple of weeks! Many things occured. I worked a bunch of extra days at the greenhouse and can you believe it one day it was 67 in there!! I now have a lovely deep brown summer tan already and it's not even June!
We got a call from my brother Will's girlfriend that he had been rushed by ambulance to emerge for chest pains. No idea what hospital he was at at that time, we felt a little helpless. We got an update on my brother. It was a cyst in his left lung that they gave him a blood thinner injection and told him to return in the morning for some more tests. UGH I won't tell you how I felt about him being discharged with that bit of information!
Fast forward through Friday... I got called into work. The ultrasound showed that the cyst had diappeared and Will got a clean bill of health and went on to school (he's so cool he's gone back to school to learn a new trade!!) While at school at lunch time the guys were kicking around a soccer ball and Will stretched out his leg... a little too far! Once again left school and off to the hospital. I wonder what his teachers think?!
My weekend at this point in time had gone kaotic and plans got changed on the spur of the moment almost every day. I was so looking forward to a quiet weekend with just my son and hubby (the girls went to a youth convention in Kitchener from Friday afternoon til Sunday afternoon).
Monday we met the boy that Kaisha likes. I took the inititative and had her invite him for dinner. I'm not sure how to express my thoughts on how the evening went considering he showed up 2 hours late and with 2 friends that obviously were not planning on leaving any time soon. they did however invite Jacob to play monopoly outside with them and then they played tetherball and basketball together. Fortunately I had even ka-bobs to feed everyone. I think we shared about 4 sentences with the boys... all of them containing the phrases of dinner is ready... come get it! I personally liked my comment "The cow is dead and can not walk to you you must walk to come get it."
Tuesday my hubby and I got to experience what it was like trying to be in 4 different places (towns!!) at one time. We had to be in Sarnia for 6-10:00. Kaisha had to work in Alvinston from 4:00-9:00. Paige had to be picked up at school in Glencoe for 8:00. And Jacob had soccer from 7-8:30. If it wasn't for the help of our friends we couldn't do it. Thanks Kimmy for getting Paige for us from her overnight field trip from Stratford. And also thanks to Flora and Brian for taking Jacob for dinner and soccer! He had a blast spending time with Graham.
Wednesday was the usual 11 hours at the greenhouse and then off to the soccer game. The first game ever where it wasn't freezing or raining! YEA!
I had another great day with my mom on Thursday. While we were gazing at her new fish pond my dad brought out the mail and there was mail that actually wasn't a bill, wasn't something she ordered, it was.... Oh, I'm not gonna tell you! Dontcha just hate it when people do that?! Okay it was a card from BEATE JOHNS!!! Talk about awsome timing! This was a complete surprise to my mom. A little bit of a backtrack on how this transpired was actually through this blog. I had posted about Shane Bernier and that my mom too has leukemia. Well Beate emailed me saying that she will be keeping us in her prayers and then we got to emailing each other and I had asked if she would send my mom a card... and voila. This woman is amazing and what a wonderful heart of gold. Mom absolutely loves the card and it sits on display on her coffee table. I'll have to take my camera with me to mom's this week and snap a picture for all to see.
Our friend, Nancy came over for and hour and then it was time to take dad to work. While venturing out to 3M we toured on over to Alicia Walls place to pick up my lovely order of CD tins for July's class. Not knowing the area at all I asked her if there were any stamping/ scrapping places. We toured on over to the dollar store, I was a lil disappointed and only spent $1 on a set of small sport brass tags. I know the shock! But I made up for it when we headed on over to "The Rubber Room". Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!! The ladies there were fabulous and I learned so much that my lil brain went into overload. I didn't realize the time when we got there and we only had half an hour before closing but Cathy was such a doll she stayed open and shared a mountain of information with me. My mom bought her first stamp set ever too!! After we left there we headed back to mom's where Kaisha and Terry had been waiting outside for an hour (oopsie). I bought them a Shrek shake when we headed over to Heather's in Lambeth and then we toured on home. Got an update on Will,he tore his akile's tendon and is off his feet for 2 months. So now he can't attend school and will have to complete his course during the summer.
Since then life has been pretty much work, church, work, work. I'm off today and for some reason although I was working no one else seems to know how to run a dishwasher or washer or dryer. UGH! So this mountain of laundry is slowly decreasing in size while I catch on blogging!
Tomorrow will be another day at the greenhouse unfortunately I wont be able to go to Jacob's game cause it's too far away (in Sheddan) and will have started before I am even done work.
Thursday I'm off to my mom's, less errands to run this week while there and then Paige has a band recital back in Glencoe for 6,we really need a family jet!
We got a call from my brother Will's girlfriend that he had been rushed by ambulance to emerge for chest pains. No idea what hospital he was at at that time, we felt a little helpless. We got an update on my brother. It was a cyst in his left lung that they gave him a blood thinner injection and told him to return in the morning for some more tests. UGH I won't tell you how I felt about him being discharged with that bit of information!
Fast forward through Friday... I got called into work. The ultrasound showed that the cyst had diappeared and Will got a clean bill of health and went on to school (he's so cool he's gone back to school to learn a new trade!!) While at school at lunch time the guys were kicking around a soccer ball and Will stretched out his leg... a little too far! Once again left school and off to the hospital. I wonder what his teachers think?!
My weekend at this point in time had gone kaotic and plans got changed on the spur of the moment almost every day. I was so looking forward to a quiet weekend with just my son and hubby (the girls went to a youth convention in Kitchener from Friday afternoon til Sunday afternoon).
Monday we met the boy that Kaisha likes. I took the inititative and had her invite him for dinner. I'm not sure how to express my thoughts on how the evening went considering he showed up 2 hours late and with 2 friends that obviously were not planning on leaving any time soon. they did however invite Jacob to play monopoly outside with them and then they played tetherball and basketball together. Fortunately I had even ka-bobs to feed everyone. I think we shared about 4 sentences with the boys... all of them containing the phrases of dinner is ready... come get it! I personally liked my comment "The cow is dead and can not walk to you you must walk to come get it."
Tuesday my hubby and I got to experience what it was like trying to be in 4 different places (towns!!) at one time. We had to be in Sarnia for 6-10:00. Kaisha had to work in Alvinston from 4:00-9:00. Paige had to be picked up at school in Glencoe for 8:00. And Jacob had soccer from 7-8:30. If it wasn't for the help of our friends we couldn't do it. Thanks Kimmy for getting Paige for us from her overnight field trip from Stratford. And also thanks to Flora and Brian for taking Jacob for dinner and soccer! He had a blast spending time with Graham.
Wednesday was the usual 11 hours at the greenhouse and then off to the soccer game. The first game ever where it wasn't freezing or raining! YEA!
I had another great day with my mom on Thursday. While we were gazing at her new fish pond my dad brought out the mail and there was mail that actually wasn't a bill, wasn't something she ordered, it was.... Oh, I'm not gonna tell you! Dontcha just hate it when people do that?! Okay it was a card from BEATE JOHNS!!! Talk about awsome timing! This was a complete surprise to my mom. A little bit of a backtrack on how this transpired was actually through this blog. I had posted about Shane Bernier and that my mom too has leukemia. Well Beate emailed me saying that she will be keeping us in her prayers and then we got to emailing each other and I had asked if she would send my mom a card... and voila. This woman is amazing and what a wonderful heart of gold. Mom absolutely loves the card and it sits on display on her coffee table. I'll have to take my camera with me to mom's this week and snap a picture for all to see.
Our friend, Nancy came over for and hour and then it was time to take dad to work. While venturing out to 3M we toured on over to Alicia Walls place to pick up my lovely order of CD tins for July's class. Not knowing the area at all I asked her if there were any stamping/ scrapping places. We toured on over to the dollar store, I was a lil disappointed and only spent $1 on a set of small sport brass tags. I know the shock! But I made up for it when we headed on over to "The Rubber Room". Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!! The ladies there were fabulous and I learned so much that my lil brain went into overload. I didn't realize the time when we got there and we only had half an hour before closing but Cathy was such a doll she stayed open and shared a mountain of information with me. My mom bought her first stamp set ever too!! After we left there we headed back to mom's where Kaisha and Terry had been waiting outside for an hour (oopsie). I bought them a Shrek shake when we headed over to Heather's in Lambeth and then we toured on home. Got an update on Will,he tore his akile's tendon and is off his feet for 2 months. So now he can't attend school and will have to complete his course during the summer.
Since then life has been pretty much work, church, work, work. I'm off today and for some reason although I was working no one else seems to know how to run a dishwasher or washer or dryer. UGH! So this mountain of laundry is slowly decreasing in size while I catch on blogging!
Tomorrow will be another day at the greenhouse unfortunately I wont be able to go to Jacob's game cause it's too far away (in Sheddan) and will have started before I am even done work.
Thursday I'm off to my mom's, less errands to run this week while there and then Paige has a band recital back in Glencoe for 6,we really need a family jet!
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
A beautiful Monday
Yesterday was such a beautiful day. What began as a gloomy cloud burstin' day turn into a day of glorious sunshine. Terry was right when he decided to run my sunglasses in to me saying “it doesn’t hurt to be hopeful!” I spent the day with my study buddy/ Chicken lady, Diane, we haven't been able to do this since I up and moved to the country 4.5 years ago. It was nice just to hang out and spend time and not be so rushed!! We even got to SIT DOWN and drink our coffees! My lil puppy, Jazz, had a great time being smothered with love by her, her hubby and her three young men folk. I think Dean even enjoyed having her jumping on his lap. Don't tell them but I had fun with the boys too... even when I tripped over the chair! I don’t think I could have even planned that. Fortunately I had a safe landing... landed in the chair. Don't ask!
We tried to get a hold of our good buddy, Audra, even Jazz left a message on her machine. But alas we had to go shopping without her. I put together the cutest lil 'chinese takeout' dish for her (hey Audra- you need to stamp and decorate that baby yourself!). We knew she'd be bummed not going so I bought (I know, I know) one of those takeout containers at Michaels and stuffed it with some stamps, ribbon, glitter glue, puffy stickers and told her we missed her when we went for dinner so we brought back some lemon chicken... hope she likes it. It was so cute when she started opening it cause she actually believed me!! What a buncha goofballs we are!
Card class like most of them was a hoot! Nothing like the dynamic duo to keep me on my toes. And TRUDY! She was having such a tough time with the brads all we heard outta her was "This Brad is the pits!" which made us all laugh and think of Susie Q. I’m still holding on to hope that she’ll come and join us! It's amazing with the few ladies that were there that there's so many of us that snort when we laugh, right Diane?! We had a new lady join the bunch, Aunty Pammycake, from Petrolia, and she blended right in with the rest of the nuts.
I'm glad that even though there was bleach used on our cards no one went home spotted... waytogo ladies, I'm so proud of yas!
I can't wait til June! The idea of the bunch of you ladies out here in the country for a day decorating clipboards, journals, pens, boxes … sounds like a blast. I'm sure the kids will love the swim and playing a few games…
but I'm not sure who is going to act more like kids that day...
Maybe we can drag it out long enough to have a bonfire!
We tried to get a hold of our good buddy, Audra, even Jazz left a message on her machine. But alas we had to go shopping without her. I put together the cutest lil 'chinese takeout' dish for her (hey Audra- you need to stamp and decorate that baby yourself!). We knew she'd be bummed not going so I bought (I know, I know) one of those takeout containers at Michaels and stuffed it with some stamps, ribbon, glitter glue, puffy stickers and told her we missed her when we went for dinner so we brought back some lemon chicken... hope she likes it. It was so cute when she started opening it cause she actually believed me!! What a buncha goofballs we are!
Card class like most of them was a hoot! Nothing like the dynamic duo to keep me on my toes. And TRUDY! She was having such a tough time with the brads all we heard outta her was "This Brad is the pits!" which made us all laugh and think of Susie Q. I’m still holding on to hope that she’ll come and join us! It's amazing with the few ladies that were there that there's so many of us that snort when we laugh, right Diane?! We had a new lady join the bunch, Aunty Pammycake, from Petrolia, and she blended right in with the rest of the nuts.
I'm glad that even though there was bleach used on our cards no one went home spotted... waytogo ladies, I'm so proud of yas!
I can't wait til June! The idea of the bunch of you ladies out here in the country for a day decorating clipboards, journals, pens, boxes … sounds like a blast. I'm sure the kids will love the swim and playing a few games…
but I'm not sure who is going to act more like kids that day...
Maybe we can drag it out long enough to have a bonfire!
Mother's Day
I hope all of you beautiful women had a gorgeous day. My favourite part of Mother's Day is going to church... yep, we love our pastor and the message he shares with us but the special place in my heart on this particular day is that I know I will get the best Mother's day gift. I don't know who decided when kids got too old to make their mom's something in school (out here they stopped in second grade!!) but I can always count on the amazing women that teach our children the real values of life to put together something special on Mom's day. This year was even better than ever... we got a nice potted arrangement of artificial flowers but the cheesecake was to die for! MMMMMMMmmm nummy!
Pastor Ron made a lil oopsie in the service and well we wont roast him BUT I do have to check our web site to see if they were actually able to edit that lil slip!
After leaving church I think my Mother's Day of being spoiled ended. Oh did you see me mention breaky in bed (that didn't happen)? No being served lunch,they were all too hungry to help. Who am I kidding?! I did however get to go to Michaels and check out this 'Martha line' and well I'll keep my opinions to myself here on the net cause you never know when she might be slumming it and checking out blogs. After that we headed to my folks for a family BBQ with all my brothers, their wives, kids and dogs. And I forgot my mom's Mother Day card!! It started of hectic as everyone arrived, then things calmed down, we ate and the food was delicious (thanks John for BBQ'ing for us while we sat and ate!). It was nice to see all my siblings, neices, nephews, the four legged family members and my folks. Even Jonathan (who loves to tease me about the size of my dog) was very entertaining! That'll be so cool if you decide to play hockey for Chatham, but wherever you do decide to go you know I'll be there to cheer you on!! Your mom has already planned on dropping in for a glass of wine before we head out to the games bwahahahaaa.
I have no clue what transpired while I was washing the dishes, but I know there's a special member of our family out there hurting and I do hope that some mending will be done.
Oh yeah and I got so many gifts! Paige got me a rack to put my punches on & a TY baby, 'Boomer'. Jacob has agreed to get his hair cut- I can't wait! Kaisha has something up her sleeve but I'll have to tell you about that later. The love of my life actually in amongst his 'waytoomanyworkinghoursinoneday' day toured London to find a book I wanted... guess what I'll be doing today with a cuppa tea!
Pastor Ron made a lil oopsie in the service and well we wont roast him BUT I do have to check our web site to see if they were actually able to edit that lil slip!
After leaving church I think my Mother's Day of being spoiled ended. Oh did you see me mention breaky in bed (that didn't happen)? No being served lunch,they were all too hungry to help. Who am I kidding?! I did however get to go to Michaels and check out this 'Martha line' and well I'll keep my opinions to myself here on the net cause you never know when she might be slumming it and checking out blogs. After that we headed to my folks for a family BBQ with all my brothers, their wives, kids and dogs. And I forgot my mom's Mother Day card!! It started of hectic as everyone arrived, then things calmed down, we ate and the food was delicious (thanks John for BBQ'ing for us while we sat and ate!). It was nice to see all my siblings, neices, nephews, the four legged family members and my folks. Even Jonathan (who loves to tease me about the size of my dog) was very entertaining! That'll be so cool if you decide to play hockey for Chatham, but wherever you do decide to go you know I'll be there to cheer you on!! Your mom has already planned on dropping in for a glass of wine before we head out to the games bwahahahaaa.
I have no clue what transpired while I was washing the dishes, but I know there's a special member of our family out there hurting and I do hope that some mending will be done.
Oh yeah and I got so many gifts! Paige got me a rack to put my punches on & a TY baby, 'Boomer'. Jacob has agreed to get his hair cut- I can't wait! Kaisha has something up her sleeve but I'll have to tell you about that later. The love of my life actually in amongst his 'waytoomanyworkinghoursinoneday' day toured London to find a book I wanted... guess what I'll be doing today with a cuppa tea!
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