so ends March

I haven't really taken anymore pictures as I've been just trying to make a futile attempt at catching up on housework and getter the garden ready while still sick with a nasty viral infection. We managed to make it through church. Again I can't help wondering do we really need church to be 3 whole hours long??? I have a strong testimony of the principles of the gospel, but sometimes I really get to wondering about all these meetings, and activities and etc etc. How much of it is really necessary? anyway, I really am not feeling that great so I'm going to go to bed early tonight. hopefully by next sunday I'll have completley recovered and have more exciting things to share.

more pictures from women at the well

here are some more pictures to go with my previous post

March update

So here's my tardy update. As I was not feeling well, I didn't do much of anything on sunday, but now i am trying to catch up on the ever piling up work that I ignored for the first half of the week. I spent all of march break working on the decorations for the big RS party called Women at the Well. I had to completely put any other tasks on back burner, and was very relieved that help came when I sorely needed it. Well the party went over really well. the food was great, and well i'm biased on the decorations, but the visiting RS stake presidency annoyed me a bit when she commented on everything except for the decorations during her toast. Well, whatever, I was very happy with what i managed to accomplish, so what she thinks doesn't really matter that much after all. I wish i could comment on the program but i didn't really hear it very well, but based on what everyone else was saying they all liked and enjoyed it. I took lots of pictures, and here are a few of them, more to come in a little while. right now though, I have a cranky 5 year old who doesn't seem to understand how difficult it is to type with her hanging on my arms....

no puppy afterall

so,..the puppy plans fell through, although I can't say I'm overly disappointed. I guess there won't be any pictures until sunday now. but there are lots of things going on this week so I'm sure to have my camera out.!!! I'm changing the subject here to something somewhat related...The truth is even though I want to be done having kids I keep having this nagging feeling that I'm not. It is annoying the hell out of me as I am perfectly happy with our three girls. And that's partly why we t hought on the puppy,...all done with the kids have a puppy now. Its not that I plan to get pregnant anytime soon or anything like that. I don't feel like now is at all the right time, its just that I get the feeling that a few years down the road there is more to come. How do you even explain the feeling? I so want to be done but yet deep down I don't feel like I am. Anyway I'm actually relieved that we're not getting a puppy even though he was very cute.

Weekly Update

so I've made a decision that I'm going to try and blog on sundays as my day is crazy busy during the week. I am not going to be babysitting anymore, but its march break, and we've decided to give dog owning a try again. Tomorrow we will be adding a little yorkie poo to our family. So, the reason for no pictures today is I am going to quick post some pictures tomorrow after we've picked up our little bundle of joy. So far it looks like his name is going to be Max but that's not written in stone. This is going to be also a busy week because i've got to finish up all my art/decoration projects by friday night...although I've made a desperate plea for help to the RS sisters today at church. I should have plenty of pictures to post soon though as there is lots going on this week/weekend!!!

What A Weekend!

So I started thinking on thursday that maybe the gods weren't against me afterall, when i got a message that amber's hearing aid appointment needed to be pushed back due to a mix up. so now, I have plenty of time to get her to the dr and get the form signed. then, friday it was so warm and inviting out that I couldn't resist doing some gardening. I have plenty of prep work ahead of me so I try and take advantage! well, I pulled a weed out and it came out too fast and poked me in the eye. My eye hurt like hell all day long so by the time matthew came home from work at 8:30 I had made babysitting arrangements so that I could get to the hospital and check my eye out. we waited for just over 4 and a half hours. I had scratched the cornea but nothing was stuck in it thank goodness. that kind of messed up my whole weekend though because it didn't feel better until sunday morning. The kids had a blast outside though. little Tabitha is addicted to the great outdoors and throws tantrums when its time to go inside. I spend sunday making up gardening plans. I must admit my plans are ambitious, but I know i won't get it all accomplished in one season.

the gods are against me!

I apologize in advance for this being another pictureless post!! Yesterday was actually a good day! I took Emilie and Tabitha to the park since it was sunny and above 0. I went to the Library too. I found some amazing gardening books and have been devouring them. One of them is called Fresh Food from small places and is actually available at chapters to buy (i went there this morning) I gotta tell you I am sorely tempted to buy it I LOVE the book. I am stoked about all the possiblities for vegies and other edibles!! IT actually has instructions for a DIY self watering container using the big storage containers from a department store and a few other cheap supplies. I am going to try to make a couple and don't worry Lesley, I'll take pictures of it when it's done!!! As for the title to my post, I went out this morning to go to my DR who is temporarily doing walk in clinic so no need to make an appointment right? I was going to get the form signed that Matthew graciously looked for and found (the one that I need for AMber's appointment tomorrow to get her new hearing aid) Well, the doctor is on vacation this week and the clinic is closed!! I suppose I could have gone to a different walk in clinic, but I'm attached to my family doctor now and perish the thought of going somewhere else. Anyway, since I was out I decided to go to the book store, which wasn't open yet...grr a morning of disappointments. I ended up chatting with a lady who was just trying to pass time by going to the book store because she was planning on going to Little Soles and take advantage of the closing out sale. appearantly not opening stores until ten is popular in Tecumseh... So I ended up going to a small department store near the shoe store to pass time until ten. they had seeds on sale for 39 cents so I picked up a whole bunch. then I went to the shoe store. I spent 90$ there on 3 very good quality pairs of shoes for chloe, to hopefully pass on to amber and tabitha. (i've once before gotten shoes there, and they are very well made and hold up well) Tabitha LOVES being out and about and every time we tried to leave a store she kicked up a fuss!! By that time it was only an hour to kill before picking up Emilie so i headed back to the book store where Tabitha happily crawled around looking at all the colors. I ordered the book carrots love tomatoes!! I'm so excited about that book too!! Anyway I need to stop rambling!! Chloe should be home from school soon, and i haven't done a lick of housework!!!

Terrific Tuesday!

It's tuesday already! well after spending the morning doing housework, I picked up Emilie at noon. She is the 5 year old I babysitt. After feeding everyone lunch I got my camera out. Today we decided to see how tall we could build a tower with blocks. I made a roast chicken and roasted potatoes for supper and I got it all done before picking up Ella at the bus who is Emilie's sister. then after supper, while waiting for the girls mom to pick them up we played with balloons. As usual everyone had lots of fun. Tabitha's already in bed all tuckered out from a busy day of playing.

Ramblings

I really need to start taking my camera with me more often so that I have some pictures to post on here. Today was a typical monday. I get up with the kids and make sure they all are ready to go. Then I drop Chloe off at school and take Amber to Speech. Right after that, I drop her off at school. After that I took a trip to CHS (Canadian Hearing Society) because I have a new hearing aid on order for Amber, but in order to get the government to pay for some of it, I have to have my family Dr sign a form. Well, my form seems to have disappeared, so I thought maybe I could quick get another one before the appointment on Friday. I wasn't so lucky though. her audiologist is away until friday and the form has to be signed by the audiologist before its signed by the family dr. Hopefully it will turn up otherwise Friday is going to be a fun day...After that I went to my neigbors house for our daily hot chocolate. Her name is NAncy and she has a little girl named Rachel who is 2. We actually just painted for a while too which was kind of relaxing. Then Tabitha got cranky so I got her home and ready for her nap. I tried to rest for a while but my mind was going going going. I was formulating this idea for getting the kids to help with the chores more often, and I ended up getting out paper and pen and making up a new reward system, which I'm happy to report is going super well! Today, Chloe unloaded the dishwasher twice, dusted, cleaned her room, and practiced her piano!! Amber saw her getting stickers and wanted one too, so soon, she was washing all the mirror doors on the closets! (I'll have to redo those, but she really put in a good effort!!) Amber was so proud of herself for getting a sticker too! By the time all that was over with it was supper time and piano lessons. Chloe did awesome! she is really starting to catch on!! On the way home from piano lessons, amber was practicing her writing and doing an excellent job in writing her name! It was so cute to see how excited Chloe was about this. she immediatley decided she needed to give Amber writing lessons!! After getting Tabitha to bed, I peeked in on their activites and saw that chloe had done a whole alphabet in dashes for amber to trace, and Amber was happily obliging. The cutest thing about amber's writing is her "E's" which have far too many sticks on them. After a day like today I feel so incredibly lucky to be a mom. I really enjoyed my kids today! Well now, it is time to get those darling children of mine off to bed! I promise to start using my camera more tomorrow!!!!!!