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Mother’s Day Weekend Trip (Day 1)

by admin on May 14, 2010 in Adventure and Me, Bits Of My Personality, Life Keeps Changing with 2 Comments
EDMONTON WITH MIRELLE!

The best thing about traveling with a fellow mom was we both wanted to relax and not over do anything. The trip was a getaway more then a shopaholic vacation (that said we REALLY shopped). The most fab thing about getting away with a fellow mom was we took nothing for granted, where thankful for everything and every moment and we where thrilled about the little things!

Mirelle and I where very excited to get going. We left as soon as possible on Friday morning and made it to Edmonton by 5. We had to check out our hotel first and it proved to be spacious and really comfortable. The beds looked very inviting! This looked like it was going to be a very relaxing weekend (and it was!).Being in town so early we decided to leave Saturday free for the BIG MALL and hit Ikea on Friday for supper and shopping.

(I enjoyed catching Mirelle texting to her man all weekend. I did the same but kept bugging her by taking pictures!)

I was very impressed with the meals at Ikea. My meal, stuffed salmon with apple spice cake for dessert, was really good especially considering the affordable price! Had to take a picture. We both agreed by the end of the weekend that the food was one of the best parts of our trip. We made sure to stop at a nice place for all our meals and so had lots of pretty dishes to take pictures of.

(Got you texting again Mirelle!)

It is amazing we both weren’t busting a gut for this picture! We felt kinda silly using the timer to take this shot in one of the Ikea living room displays but we really wanted a together picture. Yes I noticed the people stopping when they heard the ‘beep beep’ count down and wondering what the heck? Yes yes we are just two silly tourists… AND LOVING IT!
When you think every bed at Ikea is FABULOUS and you want to take them all home you know you are too tired and ready for bed. I was just gonna test the bed out but then it felt so good I almost didn’t get back up!

We bought a few things but managed to control ourselves. I know Mirelle is very well behaved when it comes to shopping and I though if I could just stay close to what she spends I would be okay… little did I know she was gonna let loose in the mall…
Did I mention the beds looked very inviting? Well they where another absolute favorite little thing about our weekend. We talked a lot about how lovely they where and how fab it was to spreed out in our own big bed, loaded up with pillows!

We hit a grocery store on the way back to our hotel to get some healthy treats (Mirelle’s brilliant idea) and then got to bed pretty darn early for a trip.

I had brought some of my favorite tea and was thrilled to see I could use the coffee machine to steep it, that way I could still have my evening ritual of a cup before bed! We tried to snack and chat but both of us succumbed to sleep pretty fast.

And with that DAY 1 was over.

TTFN

Thankful For

by admin on May 14, 2010 in Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Life Keeps Changing, Mama Heart Mushings with No comments

I get tired of picking up after this bunch but the other day I saw it through a set of fresh eyes. Grams looked at the collection of dirty socks at my basement door and smiled. She thought it was cute! Cute that they shed their dirty little socks on my kitchen floor the moment they get home! Well she reminded me that once day I will miss the little mess of socks and the little feet that left them there… I am thankful for the socks at the top of the stairs because I am indeed thankful for each little person who contributed to the mess!

TTFN

Be Brave!

by admin on May 4, 2010 in Bits Of My Personality, Life Keeps Changing, Mama Heart Mushings with 3 Comments

Stand tall! Be brave!

My little woman knows what she is capable off and doesn’t allow Mommy to help if she doesn’t need it. I respect that about her!

She inspires me!

This spring I am going on two trips, YES TWO! With out the kids and even without my man! The first is only days away! A mothers day weekend away with my sister! We have many lovely plans, all revolving around relaxing! Then at the end of the month I have a friends wedding to go to and will travel by train.

I have had plenty of ‘looking forward too’ kinda years where you just imagine while you embrace reality. The reality was babies and pregnancies but life keeps changing!

For many years I thought perhaps I might just be a boring person, used to mundane and happy with the simple life… then I realized I am being content and not boring… patient, which is healthy for a mom, and although I love the little things I can really enjoy bigger more adventurous things in life too! I will be happy to awake the adventure loving woman once again once it is right for me and my family!

WELL this could be the right time!

Stepping out like this is big for me! I am feeling braver about it all as the days go by. I haven’t done anything like this since I was single and in college! I think it will be great for the kids to see Mommy embracing adventure in life instead of fear:)

TTFN

From Aunt Ruth

by admin on March 25, 2010 in Bits Of My Personality, Life Keeps Changing, People In My Heart with No comments

Years ago my pen pal, who is also my great great aunt (yes she is my grandmothers auntie so two greats for me), sent me these slippers in an envelope. She always found ways to send me little gifts in an envelope to save on package posting. They where a birthday gift from her and hand made.

It is amazing how something old can become new again…

I am an organizer, I hate excess and regularly clear out things that haven’t been used often or lately but for some reason every time I found these slippers in my sock drawer I would smile and put them back. I got them when I was a teen and never used them. I used to have such warm feet that slippers weren’t something I ever could stand wearing. The slippers waiting in the corner of my sock drawer and things changed.

My feet get so chilled now… Today I put on my leopard print slippers… after a few minutes I got too hot in them and my mind jumped to the corner of the sock drawer and I went and found these long lost slippers from my aunt Ruth. They used to be yellow but the yarn has turned more cream in color, but other then that they have gone unused and so are in great shape. Unlike my other slippers they are well aerated and so I don’t sweat in them. They are definitely slippery slippers so I have to pay attention or I will end up on my tush. I put them on and was struck by how pretty they are once stretched over my feet. They just look like little squares before you put them on and once on I felt like I had ballet slippers on…well, they are as close as I will ever get to wearing ballet slippers! I just felt so thankful for them today.

Aunt Ruth might have taken the time to get them to me years ago but today I was struck by her thoughtfulness and today I missed my pen pal. We don’t write so much to one another anymore. She is getting older and I am just so busy with kids and a husband but I really hope she knows I love her… well she is gonna know because it is about time I wrote her again. Love you Aunt Ruth!

TTFN

Lost A Tooth!

by admin on March 25, 2010 in Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Life Keeps Changing, Mama Heart Mushings with No comments
Big Boy FINALLY lost his first tooth!

His older sister had lost many by the time she was his age. This tooth was allowed to hang on for a long time. It got to the point that yesterday I barely touched it and it fell out. Big Boy was very happy that it didn’t hurt. It is so little… He is so excited and impressed. “This means I am growing up cuz I am getting big teeth!” he exclaimed. So true, the adorable baby teeth will fall out one by one… I remember how proud I was of him, and how excited I was as those sweet little teeth began to fill his baby grin… Now I am proud of him because he is growing! I am only a little less excited for the simple fact that this means he is getting older and I want him to forever be my little guy!

TTFN

And The Heart Grows

by admin on March 24, 2010 in Bits Of My Personality, Life Keeps Changing, People In My Heart with No comments
There is always room in a persons heart.
The heart is strong and will easily grow.

This growth is fertilized by love and is there for unlimited.

For ever one involved, this weekend was important. For Dad this was a weekend of healing and hope. For sure his cancer diagnosis made meeting his daughters all the more vital! I can’t speak for my brothers but for me it felt like a piece of the puzzle put into place. There was no weird feelings, they just kinda clicked with the family. My sisters are clearly and obviously blood! I am so happy for all of us, that we can have these amazing women in our lives!

Love sprang forth so quickly. My Dad is not one to gush but he had to express over and over how he was proud of them and impressed with them and ultimately how his heart had grown so much in one weekend thanks to finally reconnecting with them. I know they easily fit right into my heart as well and when we took them to the airport this morning all I could think was how I already missed them.

How much can you say about a sibling before it crosses over to vanity and self flattery? Oh I would like to go to that line for them! As impossible as it is to really compare my brothers so it is with Amber and Kathleen. They are uncomparible. Each beautiful, strong and more then we could have hoped. Saying good bye at the airport brought the love gushing forth from my heart. When Kathleen hugged me good bye I didn’t want to let her go! She is so strong and inviting! When Amber cried I couldn’t help but cry too! She is so sweet and wise! Okay, officially gushing and smacking face first into that line!

I am so happy for my Dad.

TTFN

Waiting For A Plane

by admin on March 24, 2010 in Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Life Keeps Changing, People In My Heart with No comments
What do you do with all that energy while you wait for the airplane to land? You get your kids to color a sign. Not just any sign, THE sign that will welcome their long lost aunties into our world! ‘To show them we love them.’ said Big Girl. (she has already since taken the sign to school for show and tell!)Just Big Boy and Big Girl came to the airport with me. We where so nervous we got a drink and a donut at the airport Tim’s and sat down to watch the planes landing and departing.Big Boy was thrilled with the planes and we couldn’t believe it when he actually spotted THE plane land that carried his aunties. We all rushed to the arrival gate, sign in hand and hearts in our throats.Our reunion began. This picture is of my oldest brother meeting the actual oldest child of the clan!

(Here the kids are standing behind Papa and one of the long lost aunties. My kids where thrilled by the luggage pick up area and had to be pulled away.)

We where all full to bursting when Amber and Kathleen arrived. There where hugs and lots of talking as we all dealt with the initial confusion of actually being in one anothers midst. You see these reunions on tv all the time but to have ones own was surreal. We didn’t know how to do it or plan it but it all just went on around us… all of us just moved through it and let the reunion just come and happen.

WELCOME Amber and Kathleen to our clan!

TTFN

A Touch Of Spring (Always A Good Thing For A Body)

by admin on March 15, 2010 in Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Life Keeps Changing with 2 Comments

Call it hoping… I shall officially call it reality… a body knows what spring sounds like (like chickadees and sparrows bursting in song); tastes and smells like young air; looks and feels like sunny days melting the snow into muck and rivers of water down the street!

I can’t help but take this warm weather as a sign that spring might indeed be on its way. I wouldn’t be surprised by a few more snow storms before we can dip our feet in hot sand and cool waters at the beach once again, but I will also enjoy what I get when I get it.

The doors and windows where thrown open today and the stuffy winter air was banished from our house. Even if we are snowed on again, at least we have some spring air in these walls.

Spring air is so wonderful. It makes you realize how stuffy you have been feeling all winter. It gets you dreaming and planning. My husband made me chuckle as he went on and on about summer today. I had to remind him to relax, this is just early spring, there are many months before summer yet. He was like a kid! You can’t help but feel like a kid in spring.

Speaking of kids! My children had so much fun in the yard today. They set up a table and took out some of their stuffies for the first picnic of the year… a spring picnic of snow balls and pine cones… the stuffies didn’t seem to mind the menu at all.I couldn’t help but change my blog header to a snap shot of my three oldest at play… it says it all… all about spring…

TTFN

March (A Quote)

by admin on March 12, 2010 in Life Keeps Changing with No comments

March has come in like a lamb… worried about what that might mean… decided to share two favorite early spring quotes that helps me remember, whether it looks like spring or not, March means spring WILL COME!

Springtime is the land awakening.
The March winds are the morning yawn.

~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You


It was one of those March days
 when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:
when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

~Charles Dickens

So whether you find yourself in the light of summer of the shade of winter today may you have hope springing forth from you heart, hope in SPRING!

TTFN

Career Woman, No, Involved Mom, YOU BET:)

by admin on March 7, 2010 in Bits Of My Personality, Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Life Keeps Changing, Mama Heart Mushings with 1 Comment

It’s been about 8 years since I last worked at a library… This was my field of work but when my first of four babies arrived I gladly put it aside to be at home. Now in a place where family is available and willing to help out and the older two are in a school near by I decided to start volunteering at their school library… one, to be involved in their school world and get a feel for the atmosphere they live out so much of their day in and two, to test the waters and see what it might feel like to work again.

I loved volunteering, it felt right and very familiar and the children where adorable BUT I knew almost immediately that I am no career woman. There was so much rush and restriction threw at me and my babies right away that I felt unhappy at the thought of doing this as a job. Volunteering I can still do it when it is right for me and my babies and so that is how it, ‘my career’, will remain for a long time.

If it wasn’t part of my kids world I wouldn’t pursue this, as much as the break from the home was nice I can think of better things to do FOR ME, if you will, then to return to ‘my career’. Waters tested and this Mama was assured that her heart is still very much at home with the four little eggs in my nest!

TTFN

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