Friday, April 25, 2008
Updates on the kids
tonight the kid went to bed with little pianos, and i asked owen if he'd like a bigger one, and maybe even some piano lessons, and he was affirmative. i think it would do him some good. he also loves to sing, and i cought him trying to play on the old beat up guitare and sing this afternoon. after all, musicians run in the family. but buying just one will be tricky piano will be tricky.
an other thing Owen make sure i don't forget. he's getting a camera for his birthday hehe
i hope little tikes cameras come on sales before then. because i'll have no doubts to buy 2 of them. will be interresting to see what they come up with.
The dog days
like, what's going on? it's like it only take me looking at a dog for him/her to get adopted. but in the end, i leave it all up to God... it must all happen for a reason. If it's the right one, He'll make it possible. until then, i figure i'm going to keep a close eye on the listings because it could take quite a while to find an other one that seems suitable for our family... that same day, my best friend/msn buddy Nancy, message me, that there's a message on her intranet for a dog to give away!!! FREE!!!!!! almost too good to be true.
i still have some issues i'm worried about until i see the dog, but i know since it's a private adoption, she wont give him away on us. sounds like a good dog, although he hasn't had much contact with young kids. but he's young too, so he has plenty of time to learn. and not sure how he'll handle our 2 cats. at the SPCA the staff is used to see lots of dogs and they have a chance to do a descent personality assessment. a pet owner only know so much because they've only seen their dog in certain settings. i'm hopeful we'll bring him home, but i'm still holding back to the fact there might be some traits that we can't tolerate in our home at this stage.
What about Owen, he's excited and look forward to see the dog. wasn't sure if i'd see that day since at one point he was scared of them. he's looking forward to play catch and have a friend to play with.
I think even my mother in law is excited about it... she called me yesterday and want to follow us and bring the dog back to our place for us hehe
I know it's gonna be verry interresting and hectic for a while. our first cat, Daphne is absolutely not fond of having to share her turf. it took her a solid month to accept Misty, when whe adopted her last september. and funny thing is, when i went to pick up Misty, the rep at the SPCA asked me, "the cat or the dog" just to show that Misty the dog, that i firt thought about monday, would've been there for us then. but our Mistywas there for quite some time too, she was bored there, fed poor quality food, no room to play. she got fat, and no matter how good of a diet we gave her, with calculated portions, her weight didnt' budge, but i think it's starting to change, as she's taking a liking to the outdoors. i saw her twice springing up and down a tree at full speed, like wow. once you hit healthy weight, you're gonna be murder on those poor birds. so i'll have to get her a collar to attach a bell on it. i want to keep the birds, i even want to put more bird houses, so we can have more bug eating birds, there's so much mosquitoes on our soggy part of the woods.
I also feel that there's a chance Misty might eventualy try cuddling wih our new dog. she seems that kind of cat. if it's that kind of dog we end up with hehe Daphne? don't even think about it, we'll be happy when she learn to tolerate. might take all summer.
should make for a bit more action to talk about. and the fun of trying to find beaches where we can bring our dog too.
will post pics once everything is official
Friday, January 04, 2008
I'm still alive
my computer also been used a lot more for passive entertainment lately. i've officialy became a big fan of The Biggest Loser and the kids have been requesting to view Ratatouille many many times. so much so that now i have this obsession with finding stuff i can cook all sliced up. or just trying to be more creative with what i cook or how i present it. here are my last 2 exemples
my pre Christmas hunch came back to bite me in the rear end. i was looking at the little tyke's digital camera and was thinking it would be a nice gift for Owen, but in the end, we didn't get it. about a day after Chistmas, he started to say that my camera was his and that he wanted to take pictures with it. and he's been insisting ever since that he wants to take pictures and that i give him HIS(my) camera at once! i've tried to make him understand that if he stop having tantrums about it, we will consider it for his birthday. i'm thinking it will be a long 8 months for us all and i might just break down to surprise him earlier, earlier. i'm still thinking he should wait a few months and keep an eye for a sale. now, the only other question about this whole camera deal is, should we buy one for Vivian also?
speaking of camera, mine decided to be fussy on Christmas day, and we came close to not have any captured memories of that day. not that it was a very extravagant reception. it was just our little family and my mother. very quiet day in perspective. my mother also had her camera but it decided to take a power fuss at the same time as ours. it's a relief that it finally accepted to function so we could have a family picture after probably 2 years where there were some kids pics and some of us but not all in the same frame.
after 3 snow storms in 5 days, we are hoping to have a rest from shoveling. i'm not sure the windows in the bathroom will take an more. it was making some sound that had me scared it could break at any moments. yesterday was fairly mild and before supper, Andy was breaking off icecicles from under the glass roof of the sunroom, with a hammer and after clearing up enough of it, water started drainning. he wasn't able to give the same treatment to the bathroom section and it's probably all that water freezing again that was working the structure so much last night. it's now 20 below zero degree Celcius. (-4 degree F) and i'm some glad we finaly replaced the insulation that was removed last summer. we had a hard time maintaining acceptable temperature at minus 10-15 degree C (+5-14 F) and in the process burned a lot of wood. by the look of it, we won't have enough to last till the warmer days. we had ordered twice the amount of wood we ordered the year before, but we got a fair bit of crooked logs and hollow ones too. once cut, it almost look like we got just as much as the year before. that is not good. we will probably look into finding an other supplier for next year. hopefully one day we'll be able to pull the wood from our own land, but as long as all we have to transport the wood is a wheelbarrow, it's not a realistic option.
that's about all i can think for now. I don't have a new year's resolution list, it's just business as usual
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Pancakes in a can?
of course, it's still a product i wouldn't go for, because a. there's soy, and i think of it being healthy is a big deception and b. there is wheat and wheat has gluten :( but if they believed in health enough to care to select organic ingredients, and if it become popular enough, maybe they'll come up with other healthy varieties.
i so miss pizzaaaaaaaaa! dairy is an other big no no here. even more so then gluten. *sigh*
Friday, October 26, 2007
Hey Little Lulu
do you remember the little Lulu? she had her own TV show when i was a kid, but apparently she's much older then thatLittle Lulu first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935 in a single panel comic strip, appearing in her debut as a flower girl at a wedding, strewing the aisle with banana peels. ~ Wikipediaso she was already stirring controversy back then.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Here are the rules:Once tagged, you must link to the person who tagged you. Then post the rules before your list, and list 8 random things about yourself. At the end of the post, you must tag and link to 8 other people, visit their sites, and leave a comment letting them know they’ve been tagged.
Wow 8 people? you gotta be kidding me Nancy, i don't even know that many bloggers at all, i'm not even sure what random stuff would be worth blogging about me here. anyway, here are 8 random things about me :
1. i don't like my toes toutching each other.
2. i will probably stare at the monitor for the next 20 minutes trying to think of something else to write. sometime it takes me very long to write a short e-mail or what ever else.
3. as a child i used to have dreams where i'm flying in the sky, seems that i lost that ability and i miss it.
4. i have a terribly hard time remembering people's name
5. my first pet was an iguana i named Akea
6. I can't play first person shooter games, i can't coordinate in it, i have this tendency to get stuck in walls. i tried to play unreal tournament once, for 20 minutes and had to lay down for 2 hours because i was too motionsick.
7. *random blank*
8. i used to enjoy watching little Lulu as a kid, and jumped on the dvds when i saw them in a discount bin, after watching a few episodes back, i changed my mind about her and the show... it's violent and sexist : i didn't remember her being that way, do you?
sorry i dont' have 8 peoples to tag back, but you're welcome to take it at random and leave a note in the comments to say you did :D
Monday, September 24, 2007
The New Cat in the House
Monday, September 17, 2007
Mice inc.
so we're waiting to be aproved for adoption. that could take up to 48 hours. and then hope the cat we felt would have the best personality for our family will still be there.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Bread Machine is History
for many weeks it did make good breads and i got in a groove of mesuring several loafs at once so on lazy days, i only need to dump a bag and the wet ingredients together and it goes fast. the machine does most of the job and i only need to make 2 quick check up on it.
the last 3 loafs turned out differently, they were not as dark... the last one, i even felt it needed to have an extra 10 minutes added at the end and still i think it wasn't quite well baked. so my guess is that the convection fan gave up
so i dug for my receit, get my info together to figure out what course of action i would take. and it just happened that there was about 7 days left to the store's exchange/refund policy... i figured i'd exchange it for a new one... would be quicker then sending it to the repair shop. but there was none in stock. they gave me my money back. and that's not that bad either, because if i decide to get an other one... i'll have a new warranty to go with it. i can't complain with that hehe
the only thing is now, i got to get used to do it the old fashion way... in the oven. we'll see what catastrophe i mannage to wip up this time hehe
then again, if it turns out well enough, i might just save the counter space and forget about the machine. get a few bigger bread pans and use the rest of the money for something else
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
The Urge to Paint


and also this sweet artic flower garden toutch you can find here
now, i'm not gonna spend hours trying to find what i have in mind for Owen's because it apear to be even more difficult to find boy's bedroom decore images. but i had a few ideas:
- the beach/sea, nice blue sky, some clouds, a plain, birds...
- a night sky with the planets, a rocket, the moon...
- or, 2 tone blue with this kind of effect. maybe some fireflies and wild life/nature accents.
i like the glow in the dark stars idea so much, i'd put it in every bedrooms, cause i'm sure Vivian would like it too and so would I *grin*
i just have to figure out how to make the night sky as acurate as possible with all the constelation and what not.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Easy going can only go so far
I don't have to worry about her falling off the bed, she does fine in her bed or mine. she's mostly gentle and non intrusive sleeping buddy. but what happen before she goes to sleep, while i'm out of the room is a different ball of wax. and she knows when she's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong. because last night after hearing a lot of uncommon noise, hubby decided to go take a look and as he opened the bedroom door, she was rushing to her bed.
couldn't find anyting incriminating at the moment, just layed in bed while she fell asleep in hers. then came back down. when came time for me to go to bed. i didn't notice anything while stumbling in the dark to get under the covers. some times later. it was getting a bit brighter. i guess it was around 5-6 am, hubby was getting ready for work, and i came to realise that something was stuck on my tigh... a termometer case? what? hmmm, it should be in the baby care hard case in my drawer... with a safety lock. and the thermometer was, beside the bed on the floor. *sigh*
then i found the bottle of Holy Water... finaly empty! again, was stored in a drawer with a safety lock on. and she had gotten her hands on it once before. that's why i say... finaly empty. i was taking my temperature, as i always do in the morning when i picked the Holy Water bottle and showed it to her... she turned around and started crying, even though i had not spoken a word.
and also found a tube of tootpast completely flat in the same drawer as the baby care kit... not suposed to be there? hmmm, did you eat this? a muffled yeah, came out of her. not sure if she really did, how much there would've been originaly in it when she found it(we did not notice any unusual symptoms from her)... but i was not a happy camper. maybe it was a snack form the night she had that smelly poop durring the night(usualy she doesn't poop at night) but i wrote it off as too many goji berries, cause there was a lot of seeds in her poop... to many unsafe behaviors in one session. no child proof devices are safe with her... the ensuite bathroom door in our room has a safety door nob, that she can open, and then she can climb to reach what ever she feel like. although we don't keep much that could seriously harm her in there... facecloth, Q-tips, electric razor, comb, hair elastics...
we had started thinking about getting her into her own room for a bit, but figured, we should get a closet organizer first, and with the chelation therapy comming soon, for probably 6 months, it's no time to risk getting pregnant, so co-sleeping with 2 years old daugher was not a rush to terminate really, until last night. i'm kinda sad, because i really enjoyed co-sleeping with her... I love my son dearly but when it comes to co-sleeping, it was only good when he was fast asleep, cause when he'd wake up before me, especialy after he mannaged to sit on his own, i would often have him bash his head straight on my nose as a wake up call. very fidgetty and rough. still to this day, it's nearly impossible to cuddle with him without getting hurt, unless in the lazyboy, that minimized the hurts. no refinement in cuddliness what so ever.
now, this is only first night, and it seems to go well so far, but i'm not making myself any illusion. i'm expecting some resistance at one point or an other. hopefully, we'll be able to address it in a way that makes everybody happy.
now it's my turn to go to bed and see how i'll adjust to the new arrangement. it's been over 4 years of co-sleeping with the kids, now back with hubby. hopefully, we'll last at last a year hehe
Friday, August 24, 2007
Lead Head
since my msn buddy is gone to NY for the weekend. i think i'll just go find something to do now.
by the way, I want to thank you Nancy for your weight lost tip... no carb in the evening might be what i needed... on top of my walk.
i'm off to go make some facecloth and cotton pads. look like i'm seriously getting allergic to disposable ones (TMI)
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
First time at the beach
ok, now to the fun stuff. it was so long since i went to the beach myself that i had forgotten how good it feel to walk on the sand. we were so limited in time, because Owen had therapy that afternoon. so we only spent 30 minutes at the beach and i didn't have much time to enjoy it myself because i was too busy taking pictures of their first experience. and that evening i stayed up late to compile it in a video. i wish we could've stayed longer but i realise that anything more and we would've burnt.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
My birthday in history
For this meme, you go to Wikipedia and check your birthday - then post 3 events, 2 births, and a holiday. And, of course, tag 5 people
August 18:
events:
- 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus (mythology) was founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica
- 1775 - The Spanish established a presidio (fort) and the town came to be called Tucson, Arizona.
- 1868 - French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
- 1938 - The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1941 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests.
- 1969 - Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.
- 2005 - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
- 2005 - Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
Births:
- 1587 - Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America (d. 1588)
- 1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825) (if you saw the Mozart movie, he was the movie narator)
- 1992 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
celebration:
- saint of the day: August 18 St. Jane Frances de Chantal (1562-1641) but according to wiki it's Roman Catholic Saints - Saint Helena of Constantinople, and Saint Alberto Hurtado
- Australia - Long Tan Day (also called Vietnam Veterans' Day) named after the Battle of Long Tan
- Buhe in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
euh, sorry i couldn't help myeslf and went overboard hehe, it was interresting and ...
woah, good thing blogger started saving drafts automaticaly... i would've lost everything. for some odd reason, my computer crashed.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Happy Mother's Day
it was getting quite far by the time i was able to grab the camera, it's not a very clear picture.Thursday, May 10, 2007
Wildernes Bliss

This sunday afternoon, i was gearing for my afternoon nap, when i realised all i was able to do was stare at the ceiling fan and wonder at the beautiful blue sky outside. so i got up and we went for a walk on our trail. not much eventfull, Vivian was tired and couldn't walk straight on the way back so we carried her for part of the way. but i did see a hoof print, and i thought it was a dear track, but my mother thought it was more the size of a moose. now that got me worried about going back on the trail by myself. I was hopping to start walking every day and use our back wood trail but with the prospect of seeing a moose. i opted for the road the next day.
on my way back from my walk the second day on the road, i came across one of my dear neybor. we talked for a while and she reassured me not to worry about moose or even bears for the most part. they're usualy shy and will get out of their way to avoid us if we make some noise, like singing hehe
so the next day i went on the trail again. it was nice but it looks much shorter when walking it without the kids. i didn't see the hoof print again, but i remembered to bring my camera this time and took a few pictures of nature.
this is what i think is an animal track beside my foot
the river looking upstream
the river looking downstream, the tree across is the dandy work of a beaver
you can see again, the tree across the river, that one was down when we went for our walk on sunday. the one across the path, blocking access to the river was fell since then... busy beaver
and this is our trail with the river at my back... facing my way home
so i'm planning to walk everyday as much as possible. although, there's also the garden that will require some of my time soon. there's a man that came with his tractor tiller yesterday and started tilling when he realised the soil was too wet, so he'll have to come back a bit later. we hadn't really decided how big to make it, but after putting sticks near the spot where the grape vines and the asparagus were, the man ended up ripping up a patch 20'x50'. i think it will be big enough hehe
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
The Winter of Snot
Yet, I've heard Owen is not the only one to suffer the sneezes. Since we can't get away from it, some peoples decided to make a little orchestra with it.
We had planned to start an other round of ozonation, this time in the attic, scheduled for tomorrow morning. it was the soonest we could find a convenient time for it... Owen's booked to attend his ABA at the center, i have a chiro's appointment and Owen also have to see the ortophonist... i hope it's not too demanding for his snot filled head. it will complete the full house ozonation... we have mice and ants in the attic and hope that it will deter them from feeling home.
we didn't think much last night about leaving the attic trap open, but we can say today that there are 3 mice fewer up there now. i heard some noise upstairs and Andy went to check and our cat was playing with one and so he cough it in a jar. today, she was guarding my lazy boy as one had made it it's refuge and one didn't survive our mice hunter. we first thought about letting it open again tonight and let Daphne go at them for an other round, but she might still be tired from her last crazy night and kids not letting her sleep through the day. and i also was wondering about the risk of letting them migrate before the "O3" day.
we were hoping to keep a live mouse in a trap. we heard that it help attract the others in the trap, but the first one we cough last week, escaped, and today, the other one died. there's the young mouse left but it's the one Daphne injured. don't know if it will affect its longevity. the other problem is that it appear the mouse are escaping the trap... not much of a trap then is it?
Saturday, April 14, 2007
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
I found a new addiction
it's so good, my hubby had to go buy the 3rd bag of it today. we can't keep em in stock. at least, i'm not the only one who can't get enough of em. i know the kids love them too. then again, if they didn't like them, there would be more for me. ah well, at least, it's full of good nutritional stuff.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
What would you do?
i'm asking that because it just so happened to me last night. i stumbled on this (look at the foot), and it imediately reminded me of some pendent i made over 10 years ago in college, while taking a jewelery making class.
theirs is cheap and full of lead and mine is sterling silver though. so mine is worth much more then just $1. and i'm not selling it. i've got a hunch my daughter might want to ware it someday
Chantal, standing on one foot





