Another round of bloodwork. Another cup to pee into. I took the boys with me this morning to the lab, and they were quite the little entertainers. Joshua was quite enthralled that I got a needle and didn't cry!
So, I think I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I'd been asked to sing for the Canada Day service - well, that has now fallen through. The organizers didn't tell Dan (our worship guy) how many singers they needed from our church, so when he told them that he had a soprano (that would be me) and an alto (Melanie), they told him that they no longer needed another soprano. He was disappointed, as am I. I was looking forward to it. But you know what....God knows anyway. God can see what will happen this Sunday, and for some reason, I'm not supposed to be up there. It's all good. I can spend the morning at the pancake breakfast with my family, then. I'm OK with that. I love family time. I love my boys. They make this mama proud.
I must run - time for lunch (almost) for Joshua. Dustin is napping. I am desperately trying to round up some energy for the rest of the day. *sigh* I hope this ends soon.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
Labels
I did something to my blog last night and this morning - I went through all my posts and added labels to them. Then I added the labels to the sidebar. SOOOO, if you're looking for something specific (contemplation, for example), you can scroll down and you'll find a list of all the labels on the right hand side of the screen. Click on 'contemplation', and up should come a whole list of blog entries where I've thought about something! :)
Of course, this info is for the non-techy amongst you... and completely elementary for the rest of you...
Thanks for bearing with me!
I'm kinda sick today again - almost flu-ish - I don't know what's going on. Graeme actually came home for about an hour so I could get some rest. Thankfully the boys have been pretty good. A little nap helped, and after Graeme left, I gave the boys haircuts and baths. I still have to clean up from that. So far, there are no showings today, so the cleanup might just have to wait till Graeme comes home in a couple of hours. At any rate, I'm going to lay down again now. The boys should sleep till around 3:30 or 4:00, and then maybe the world will look a tad less green!
Of course, this info is for the non-techy amongst you... and completely elementary for the rest of you...
Thanks for bearing with me!
I'm kinda sick today again - almost flu-ish - I don't know what's going on. Graeme actually came home for about an hour so I could get some rest. Thankfully the boys have been pretty good. A little nap helped, and after Graeme left, I gave the boys haircuts and baths. I still have to clean up from that. So far, there are no showings today, so the cleanup might just have to wait till Graeme comes home in a couple of hours. At any rate, I'm going to lay down again now. The boys should sleep till around 3:30 or 4:00, and then maybe the world will look a tad less green!
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Time for an update
Much has happened recently, but I've just not been in a blogging mood. Not even much in a facebooking mood, either. What's wrong with me? Actually, I think I've just been so busy and pre-occupied with the house sale, constantly cleaning and shining things up after the kids have gone through *just in case* someone comes to look when I least expect it, and catching up on laundry and other things after our Victoria Vacation.
Our family - day of the wedding:
I finally have two sisters!!
Anyway, uploading pix to Facebook is SO much faster than doing it here. This is not to say that I won't still post a few pictures on here, but for BIG projects, I'll just give a link so you can go see the album at your leisure. You also get to see way more pictures for the time it takes me, if you just go to the link! As promised, here are some pix from Jordan & Carly's wedding. There are lots of people you probably won't know, but there are tons of cute pix of my own darlings, too! So, as before, click on the link, click on the first picture (it will bring up a larger version), and then click "next" at the top of the picture to view the next in order! Easy as pie!!
Jordan & Carly Wedding Rehearsal
Jordan & Carly - Wedding DAY!!
My Cool Dudes:
Joshua got to go to a Teddy Bear Picnic three days after we got back from Victoria. There was face-painting, all sorts of crafts, a big inflatable jumpy thing -and tons of other things! It was such fun - and I didn't bring my camera as I had a thousand other things to take care of that day. But I did take a pic of his face after we got home, and he's holding his sweet little "Blue" -that's his favorite "teddy" that he brought with him for the picnic.
Josh, his paw prints, and his bear-ears (doesn't he look MEAN??)
I've also included a picture from Joshua's birthday party. Unfortunately, I was so busy making pizza that night (Joshua wanted pizza for his birthday, and I LOVED making it for him!) that I relied on others to take pictures of the special event for me. However, I've not received copies of the pictures from anyone yet!! So, here's a picture of Joshua's cake, and I'll proceed to hound everyone who took pics that night to burn me a CD of J's birthday party pix!
J's birthday cake:
So, other than that, it's business as usual. Constantly cleaning house. There were about 3 or 4 showings today, and a couple of really promising ones. And two showings booked for tomorrow. I pray that this home sells by the end of the week, so I can get on with my life - the kids are getting frustated with me always cleaning!! I love a clean house, BUT cleaning to to this calibre every time I want to leave the house gets to be a bit much. Once a day is fine, but three times a day is just OCD under normal circumstances. :)
I packed 8 or 9 boxes of books tonight - books are easy and it makes it look like I've accomplished something. :) I'll get Graeme to bring them downstairs before he leaves for church in the morning.
Speaking of church - I've been asked to sing on the worship team for our community-wide church service that we're having on Canada Day! Eek! How humbling, and what an honor! Three big churches here (the Alliance Church, a couple thousand people; our church, about 500 people; and another Alliance church, about another 1000 people) are collaborating to put on a celebration service in the middle of the 'hamlet' for Canada Day - at noon. There are a few musicians from each church being asked to participate (which I didn't know till the other night), and I can't believe that I've been asked! Maybe it's just because no-one else was available...heh heh...Keep me humble, Lord!
Our family - day of the wedding:
I finally have two sisters!!
Anyway, uploading pix to Facebook is SO much faster than doing it here. This is not to say that I won't still post a few pictures on here, but for BIG projects, I'll just give a link so you can go see the album at your leisure. You also get to see way more pictures for the time it takes me, if you just go to the link! As promised, here are some pix from Jordan & Carly's wedding. There are lots of people you probably won't know, but there are tons of cute pix of my own darlings, too! So, as before, click on the link, click on the first picture (it will bring up a larger version), and then click "next" at the top of the picture to view the next in order! Easy as pie!!
Jordan & Carly Wedding Rehearsal
Jordan & Carly - Wedding DAY!!
My Cool Dudes:
Joshua got to go to a Teddy Bear Picnic three days after we got back from Victoria. There was face-painting, all sorts of crafts, a big inflatable jumpy thing -and tons of other things! It was such fun - and I didn't bring my camera as I had a thousand other things to take care of that day. But I did take a pic of his face after we got home, and he's holding his sweet little "Blue" -that's his favorite "teddy" that he brought with him for the picnic.
Josh, his paw prints, and his bear-ears (doesn't he look MEAN??)
I've also included a picture from Joshua's birthday party. Unfortunately, I was so busy making pizza that night (Joshua wanted pizza for his birthday, and I LOVED making it for him!) that I relied on others to take pictures of the special event for me. However, I've not received copies of the pictures from anyone yet!! So, here's a picture of Joshua's cake, and I'll proceed to hound everyone who took pics that night to burn me a CD of J's birthday party pix!
J's birthday cake:
So, other than that, it's business as usual. Constantly cleaning house. There were about 3 or 4 showings today, and a couple of really promising ones. And two showings booked for tomorrow. I pray that this home sells by the end of the week, so I can get on with my life - the kids are getting frustated with me always cleaning!! I love a clean house, BUT cleaning to to this calibre every time I want to leave the house gets to be a bit much. Once a day is fine, but three times a day is just OCD under normal circumstances. :)
I packed 8 or 9 boxes of books tonight - books are easy and it makes it look like I've accomplished something. :) I'll get Graeme to bring them downstairs before he leaves for church in the morning.
Speaking of church - I've been asked to sing on the worship team for our community-wide church service that we're having on Canada Day! Eek! How humbling, and what an honor! Three big churches here (the Alliance Church, a couple thousand people; our church, about 500 people; and another Alliance church, about another 1000 people) are collaborating to put on a celebration service in the middle of the 'hamlet' for Canada Day - at noon. There are a few musicians from each church being asked to participate (which I didn't know till the other night), and I can't believe that I've been asked! Maybe it's just because no-one else was available...heh heh...Keep me humble, Lord!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Not much news...
...I know it's been a while since I've blogged. I'm in a lull. I think all bloggers go through them sometime.
Next time, I'll post links to my Facebook photo album so that you can see pictures from Jordan's wedding. I got lots of great ones of the bride & groom, as well as oodles of cute kid pictures!!
Quick update - still waiting for our house to sell...it's hard keeping it clean on a moment's notice *just in case* there's a showing booked...
That's all, folks...come back soon...hopefully the lull will be over in a day or so!
Oh, hey - Joshua turns the big 3 tomorrow!! Party-time!!
G'night!
Next time, I'll post links to my Facebook photo album so that you can see pictures from Jordan's wedding. I got lots of great ones of the bride & groom, as well as oodles of cute kid pictures!!
Quick update - still waiting for our house to sell...it's hard keeping it clean on a moment's notice *just in case* there's a showing booked...
That's all, folks...come back soon...hopefully the lull will be over in a day or so!
Oh, hey - Joshua turns the big 3 tomorrow!! Party-time!!
G'night!
Monday, June 11, 2007
Amendment to last night's post...
I realized that I didn't say WHY we're opening a new chapter in our lives...and why the cleaners were coming (which they aren't after all - they were given a wrong number and have been harrassing some poor man somewhere in Sherwood Park)...
We're moving!! Yes, again. We bought an acreage two days before we left for Victoria!! We'll still be close to Sherwood Park, but we'll finally have our dream of acreage living. We'll take possession on August 1st. More on that later!
Anyway, our realtor will list our house this week, and has offered to pay Molly Maids to come in and clean for me since I'm stressed about the "quickness" of the whole process. So, the cleaning ladies will now come on Tuesday morning to get our house picture-ready and listing-ready and showing-ready!! If all goes according to plan, the house will go on the market on Thursday morning, realtor open house on Friday morning, and public open house on Saturday morning. Best case scenario is that we end up with multiple (competing) offers on our place, upping the price, and the place will be sold on Saturday! That way I won't have to keep the place spotless on a moments' notice...
Okay, I really must run now. I'll post some pictures from Jordan & Carly's wedding soon...just not right now.
Whew!
We're moving!! Yes, again. We bought an acreage two days before we left for Victoria!! We'll still be close to Sherwood Park, but we'll finally have our dream of acreage living. We'll take possession on August 1st. More on that later!
Anyway, our realtor will list our house this week, and has offered to pay Molly Maids to come in and clean for me since I'm stressed about the "quickness" of the whole process. So, the cleaning ladies will now come on Tuesday morning to get our house picture-ready and listing-ready and showing-ready!! If all goes according to plan, the house will go on the market on Thursday morning, realtor open house on Friday morning, and public open house on Saturday morning. Best case scenario is that we end up with multiple (competing) offers on our place, upping the price, and the place will be sold on Saturday! That way I won't have to keep the place spotless on a moments' notice...
Okay, I really must run now. I'll post some pictures from Jordan & Carly's wedding soon...just not right now.
Whew!
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Home from Victoria!!
WE'RE HOME!!
What a day it was. Dustin and plane rides do not get along. Joshua and napless afternoons do not get along. Graeme and the flu and the last day of holidays do not get along, as it leaves Mama to do all the packing, kid-watching, luggage-lifting, kid-and-luggage-carrying, diaper-changing, entertaining, and cleaning in the hours preceding our departure from Victoria, the ferry ride to Vancouver, the flight home, and the drive home.
I'm glad to be home. I was glad for the holiday, but returning home opens a brand new chapter for us. I just found out the cleaners are coming TOMORROW - ACK! - instead of Tuesday like we expected. Which means I have a boatload of tidying and unpacking to do before morning. And it's off and running tomorrow - J's thing in the a.m., although I might skip depending on how he does tonight (he's super-grumpy and spent a long time tired-crying before bed), etc. And Graeme doesn't think he has someone to cover him tomorrow if he's still sick. He threw up all over the airport this afternoon....eww. I'm glad I wasn't around - he had taken off in search of an emergency bathroom, but didn't make it. I'd have thrown up, too, if I'd been there to watch the whole thing go down.My allergies sprung up within about 20 minutes of touching down this evening....hmmm.....I didn't even make it into the van before starting to itch, and my first run of sneezes hit before I pulled into our driveway.
HOWEVER, all in all we had a really good trip. It rained a bit, but that's OK. We went out and enjoyed the days anyway. We went to the Butchart Gardens, the children's petting zoo, Joshua went to the bug museum (Graeme got some NEAT pictures!)...and we did some walking and sight-seeing, and some swimming in our pool at the hotel. And I made really good use of the gym. :) Oh, and we did lots of sleeping!! It was really good. Some minor troubles with the boys throughout the week, but not anything unlike what we'd see here at home.
I've posted some pictures of our trip on my facebook account. Click below to see the two sets of pictures. There are just WAY too many to upload to my blog!! You can also see quick descriptions with each of the pictures I've put on facebook. For those of you unfamiliar with facebook: If you want to see the descriptions and the full sized versions of the pix, make sure you click on the first picture in each set, then you can scroll down to see the description. You can then click on "next" at the top of each picture to see the next one.
Victoria pictures, Set 1
Victoria pictures, Set 2
Well, that's all the new news for now....must run!!
What a day it was. Dustin and plane rides do not get along. Joshua and napless afternoons do not get along. Graeme and the flu and the last day of holidays do not get along, as it leaves Mama to do all the packing, kid-watching, luggage-lifting, kid-and-luggage-carrying, diaper-changing, entertaining, and cleaning in the hours preceding our departure from Victoria, the ferry ride to Vancouver, the flight home, and the drive home.
I'm glad to be home. I was glad for the holiday, but returning home opens a brand new chapter for us. I just found out the cleaners are coming TOMORROW - ACK! - instead of Tuesday like we expected. Which means I have a boatload of tidying and unpacking to do before morning. And it's off and running tomorrow - J's thing in the a.m., although I might skip depending on how he does tonight (he's super-grumpy and spent a long time tired-crying before bed), etc. And Graeme doesn't think he has someone to cover him tomorrow if he's still sick. He threw up all over the airport this afternoon....eww. I'm glad I wasn't around - he had taken off in search of an emergency bathroom, but didn't make it. I'd have thrown up, too, if I'd been there to watch the whole thing go down.My allergies sprung up within about 20 minutes of touching down this evening....hmmm.....I didn't even make it into the van before starting to itch, and my first run of sneezes hit before I pulled into our driveway.
HOWEVER, all in all we had a really good trip. It rained a bit, but that's OK. We went out and enjoyed the days anyway. We went to the Butchart Gardens, the children's petting zoo, Joshua went to the bug museum (Graeme got some NEAT pictures!)...and we did some walking and sight-seeing, and some swimming in our pool at the hotel. And I made really good use of the gym. :) Oh, and we did lots of sleeping!! It was really good. Some minor troubles with the boys throughout the week, but not anything unlike what we'd see here at home.
I've posted some pictures of our trip on my facebook account. Click below to see the two sets of pictures. There are just WAY too many to upload to my blog!! You can also see quick descriptions with each of the pictures I've put on facebook. For those of you unfamiliar with facebook: If you want to see the descriptions and the full sized versions of the pix, make sure you click on the first picture in each set, then you can scroll down to see the description. You can then click on "next" at the top of each picture to see the next one.
Victoria pictures, Set 1
Victoria pictures, Set 2
Well, that's all the new news for now....must run!!
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