It is good to be back....

but I miss home. I just wish that I could visit more often. Hey wait a minute that will soon be happening, Lord willing.

While I was a home, Mom, Dad and I drove to the new city to scope out the neighbourhood that we hope to make home. It is nice, but not too high class. It is close to lots of things, and by close I mean within a 20 min walk or a 5 minute drive. It is close to a mall with a grocery store, close to library and community center, close to the church we hope to be attending and a school if we ever need one. It seems like a pretty good place and the homes are affordable as long as we get a decent price for this one.

I have enjoyed my home here, it is lovely and in a beautiful setting but I have missed the conveniences of having every thing close by. I guess I am a city girl at heart......wonder if there is someway to countrify my small space in the city, then I can have the best of both worlds.

Making my Home a Haven Week 2

Tammy's post this week is about setting a bed time so that we will be better able to function/ thrive the next day. She asked what would be a good bed time considering family, schedule and individual needs. I came up with 10 pm. I am going to endeavour to stick to it this week. That means the t.v. and the computer should be turned off earlier in the evening and the knitting must also be put down. Can I do it? I'll report back next week and let you know how I did.

I'll be away

I'll be back in a week, going to visit my mom and dad. :) Leaving Michael here with the boys, they should have fun.....a week with no school, no sturcture and loads of fun with dad.

Making my Home a Haven

Establishing a morning routine goes a long way to getting my day off to a good start. Tammy at TammysRecipes.com is hosting a weekly feature to encourage us to make our home a haven. She suggested a simple list of 5 things that we can do each morning that will give us a good start. Here is my list:

1. have my Quiet Time with the Lord
2. do my exercises for both physio and cardio
3. shower and dress, do hair and make up
4. start a load of laundry
5. do school with the boys

This list isn't too exciting but I think if I gave it a consistent effort it would go a long way in helping me be a more peaceful person and therefore giving my family more peace. If you'd like to see what other people have on their lists check out, this post over on Tammy's site.

John sees the Dentist

I've been meaning to up date but this weekend has been crazy and I am trying to get ready for my trip on Wednesday.

John had some urgent dental work done this weekend....I wouldn't call it emergency but it needed to be done quickly because he was complaining and quite uncomfortable. Poor kid, when our family dentist's colleague looked at him she said that he needed a tooth pulled that she didn't think that it could be fixed. She referred us to a pediatric dentist in the city (1 hour away), the appointment was for Saturday morning. Michael had to take a couple of hours off work, I was thankful for his company. It was kind of funny, they gave him, "sleep juice" which was a strong sedative, it made him completely loopy. They sent us out to the waiting room to read him a story so it could take effect. When they came out 10 min later he got down from his chair and promptly smashed into the coffee table and said "Whoa, I'm dizzy dad." Michael had to carry him into the chair. It took a lot longer than we expected. He ended up having a tooth pulled, it was abscessed and a real mess. The one we thought would be pulled was filled, one they put a silver crown one and then he had 5 more fillings. Poor kid, I don't know what is wrong. My mom wondered if it could be because of all the drugs and stuff I was on while I carried him, that somehow interfered with the enamel formation on his teeth. I don't know but we now have to be a whole lot more vigilant with the brushing and flossing of his teeth. I hope we don't have to go through those drugs again, the coming down off of the was tough....it was like an emotional roller coaster, one minute crying the next laughing and you never knew what was going to set him off.

We had promised to take him to McDonald's after the appointment but with all the extra stuff he had done, he was in no shape, so we went after church on Sunday. It was kind of funny because none of us could remember the last time we were at McDonald's. I guess our new spending habits have really taken hold. It was a nice treat, made nicer by not having been in such a long time.

housecleaning

I got to sleep in today, it was so nice. I made sure the TV was set to PBS when I went to bed last night so when John woke up this morning he just went down stairs and turned it on to something appropriate and I got to sleep. When Wallace got up he got himself and John some breakfast and then played on the computer. I think I have a fine system going.....I'm sure there will be a monkey wrench thrown into it....like early morning swimming lessons.

When I did get up I made myself a list and set out to do some housecleaning. I am usually very lazy on Saturdays but I was determined to try to be more productive than usual.

Here is my list:

1. washing
2. clean up stairs bathroom
3. make a cake
4. make date squares
5. call Jen
6. vacuum main floor
7. dust house
8. mop kitchen floor
9. clean lazy Susan cupboard
10. make granola

How did I do? Well I didn't get a cake made, nor the kitchen floor mopped, nor the lazy Susan cupboard clean and I only got the upstairs dusted, but it was a deep dusting not just with a feather duster. So I guess that make for a 6.5/10, could be better but could have been a lot worse.

We had fajitas for supper and now we are sitting down as a family to watch Wall-e, we've seen it before but that is what John chose so we'll be watching. I think I will go to bed early tonight, I know I say that all the time and very rarely do but I'm going to attempt it.

Is it school?

If you are 5 years old and spend an hour or more working on a hundred piece puzzle all by yourself is it school?

He was so proud of himself.

Way to go John.

It did help that it was a StarWars puzzle,his favourite subject matter of late.