Day 3

Seems I've forgotten how to rotate pictures on Blogger, so I tried uploading them to Photobucket first. Not sure if it saved me any time. This daily blogging is something I haven't done since 2004 when we lived in Korea and it was my primary form of entertainment and communication. Anyway, here's Tuesday....

For some reason I can't force myself to sleep in past 6:45, so I get up with the guys and watch French cartoons with Tones.
The guys' morning tickle session
The weather has taken a turn for the worse today, so no bike ride for the guys. Tones heads out to catch the school bus instead.
Please tell me those aren't snowflakes I'm seeing.
In the absence of any plumbing knowledge whatsoever, here's my "green" solution to the leaky bath tap.
Definitely a good morning for a hot bubble bath.
Nutella on toast for breakfast again.
Tuesday=waterday
A quick stop in at the bank and Wal-mart before my noon appointment
Appointment done. Now, to stop by home and pack up my m-i-l for her flight home....
Pick up Tones from school. Now we just gotta get Don from work, and it's off to Montreal airport.
Antonio's mismatched gloves. He often wears mismatched socks too. It's just not a big deal to him either way. I love my boy.
Ew. It is snow.
Seeing Don's mum off at the airport
Eeeeeeeek! Wet feet! Wet feet! This is crazy! There was no snow in Ottawa when we left, and Don was in shorts yesterday!
A rest stop in Tim's on the way home warms the heart and the toes.
Well, we're out of pepperoni, the cream cheese is expired, and no nuts allowed in school. I search the pantry for some canned ham for Antonio's sandwich as Don puts together the rest of his lunch.
We've got mail! Don ordered a book from Amazon.com, and a little gift for Antonio earning his half yellow/half white belt in Judo. Bedtime!
This night winds down as many have these past few days with the Jays.
Sweet dreams!

Day 2: Monday the 26th

Monday was actually a pretty sweet day for me. A lot more eventful than usual.


Waiting for the kettle for my morning cup of tea. Nutella on toast for breakfast today...mmmm nutella...whoever invented this was a genius...finally an excuse to eat chocolate for breakfast!


My morning computer break. Today I'm uploading pictures of New York from my m-i-l's camera, trying to keep track of my daily notes for this project on a Notepad document, and searching the boards at Skrap N' Chat for the link to the Storytelling Frames thingy, also featured on Ali E's site in a guest post from Elizabeth Kartchner. I'd like to try to do a storytelling wall for Antonio's room this summer. Need frames first.


Can't ask for a nicer day than this in April


Gettin' my one decent pair o' shoes on for going shopping with m-i-l. She wants to look for clothes and a friend's birthday gift, and I need to restock at the bulk store.


Picking up my psyllium husk in Bulk Barn


Saw this awesome deal on picture frames in Black's. They have a bit of space between the glass and the photo area and look perfect for the Storytelling frames I was pondering earlier today!


While waiting for my m-i-l in the dress store, 2 different people asked me about my frames. I directed them to Black's.


Home again. Checked the messages and ended up picking up a night shift for Thursday and another 7-11 evening on Sunday.


Preparing to reheat a cup of tea while I keep an eye on the Habitant soup me & my m-i-l are having for lunch. We originally planned to eat lunch while we were out, then we got talking teppanyaki, and maybe waiting and going with the guys at dinnertime since she's going home tomorrow and all.


I was going to say "here's where I fold Don's laundry," until I realized it's as much my laundry as it is his, and whoever starts it doesn't make it their load to finish. Hmmm, life lessons learned! (I never said I housework was my strongpoint!)


Don and Tones arrive home. Tones will soon come in quite distraight, not because of anything at school, but because he's suddenly remembered that in the big MegaBloks bin he donated to the Salvation Army months ago, he left a red Matchbox truck he'd gotten from treasure box at church. This boy has easily over 1,000 Matchbox cars and he can account for ALL of them. His dad actually promises him that if he finishes his homework and violin practise quickly enough, we can stop by the SA to check if it's still there and buy the truck back if necessary. Yes, perhaps a bit extreme, but when you only have one child, and he looks at you with those teary puppydog eyes....



(note: we did check the SA and it wasn't there. At least there was closure.)


When we parked at the teppanyaki place Don noticed the odometer was all 1's. Cool!


Don: "Hey look--it's us not flying to France!"


One of those moments....


Monday = sweepnight


Tonesy is way too involved in inventing a Canadian $1,000,000 dollar bill with a car on the back, to even notice that I'm trying to brush his teeth.


Blue Jays just scored another run. They eventually lost but it was a 13-12 game so at least it was entertaining to watch.

Day 1: Well, here we go....

So a buncha girls over at Skrap N' Chat are doing Ali Edwards' A Week In The Life project, and it looks intriguing, so I'm playing along too. I'm a bit later starting it, as Ali's was last week when I was still on holiday out in BC. Whatever.

The idea is you do 4 pages for each day and the middle 2 are baseball card protector pages with pix and journalling cards. I'll probably use Ali's template for all the pages but design my own inserts. I'm thinking turquoise and lime green...but then again I'm always thinking turquoise and lime green....

So anyways, Ali kept track of her creative process by blogging each day. I'm using a Notepad document for now, but I'm going to try and blog along with the rest of them. I'm not going to have everything word-for-word and all, but maybe it'll be a good opportunity to match up some of the pix with the matching memories. I'll start with Day 1, which was Sunday.


Sunday morning I was up bright and early riding my bike...well actually, I was on my way home from a 12-hour night shift. I like to ride my bike to work in the spring and summer on Saturdays because I get daylight on both ends of my shift.


Tonesy greets me home with exciting news about getting the silver medal in Wii Bowling lastnight after I left for work. Yay Tones! Now, it's bedtime for me.




Sunday lounging. Don's mum is out visiting...they were supposed to be in Europe while Tones & me were in BC, but with that volcano and everything they had to come up with a Plan B. So they rented a car, went to New York and came back home the same day me & Tones did.


Don's delicious dinner creation: meatless chicken with pineapple and teriyaki sauce, with noodles & broccoli. Yay Don!


Helping Don put away the leftovers. Note I haven't bothered to get dressed yet. Maybe now's a good time.


Off to the closet to scrounge up something to wear to work....


Night shifts make it hard to make it to church regularly, but I like to read a daily devotion and Bible verse once a day. The sunbeam's a good place to sit for that. Or anything actually.


Tones comes in for dinner and a drink of apple juice. Seems I've barely seen him all day.


The sunset out the front door at work was so pretty, I just kept snapping pictures and then it would get even prettier and I'd have to snap more....


Home from work and everyone's asleep, but I'm wide awake from working night all weekend. Now's when I usually call in my availability for next week.


I used my extra time this evening to upload my vacation pics to Facebook, and it was taking a while, so I turned on the TV to play some Wii, and caught the final score of the last game in the Vancouver/LA series. GO CANUCKS!!!

I have more pics of Sunday but they're taking forever to upload so that's it for now. Sweet Dreams~