LUNCHTIME ENTERTAINMENT

This afternoon when we picked up the mail, there was a parcel for the girls of some back to school clothes they had ordered. So, of course a fashion show had to take place. I tried to get them to do some model stances, but no luck - teenagers you know!!

Hannah is modelling the lastest in fashion shirts for teens.

Hannah shows off a crop jean jacket - it has embroidery on the back. Very chic!

Naomi is showing off a fitted jean jacket. A must have for every wardrobe???

Naomi is wearing the latest in jogging suits - black with pink accents.

Are these actually designed for jogging?

Every girl needs a black hoodie in her closet.

Modelling camoflauge evening wear - your choice of green or pink.

Naomi is very stylish in this black sequinned top.

One of my personal favourites - can be worn everyday by some people.

Josh has the typical male reaction to all of this - "will this never end???"

A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING

1. The Case of the Evil Hand

I have been having a lot of trouble with my right hand lately. I think it is from all the hammering, etc at the house. Anyways, I think it is carpal tunnel syndrome, but the doctor will not give me a firm diagnosis either way at this point. In the meantime he has given me a splint that I wear at night. This is kind of like a childhood dream come true. I remember playing with my friend, Adrienne, and we would often pretend that we had broken limbs and would wrap them up in cast-like things. I've never had any broken bones, so this is as close as I've come. Anyways, it holds my wrist in the right position so that I don't have the problem of my entire arm going painfully numb at night. It has made a big difference - actually allowing me to get some much needed sleep. The only problem now is stiffness in my wrist in the morning after a night of no movement. Hopefully I won't be needing it for too long. Fortunately for Brian, I haven't yet clobbered him over the head with it.

2. Our New Pet

This little guy has adopted us. Little does he know Brian is currently planning his demise because we need to seal up the bottom of our house and he keeps making tunnels through the dirt.

This is the fattest gopher I have ever seen. He is obviously fattening himself up for winter - he has been getting fatter everyday (kind of like Oscar). He is actually pretty cute, but he can't stay. Sorry.

3. Garbage

We have made innumerable trips to the garbage dump in the past 2 months. Hopefully this will be close to the last. It's a very good thing that we do not have to pay to dump garbage - or we would be seriously broke.

4. Furniture

Here are the long awaited picture. Unfortunately when I took the camera to the house to take these I didn't realize that the kids had been camera happy and the batteries were almost dead. I only managed to get this one picture before they died completely.

"WE'VE GOT THE POWER"

Exciting news!!! When we arrived at the house after work yesterday - with our new hot water tank - we found out that they had hooked up the power. We were ecstatic. Now all we need are some light bulbs!

Pictures soon, I promise!

PEOPLE "IN THE KNOW"

For those of you who want to be "in the know", but aren't, I will rectify the situation for you: our septic tank has now been installed, we are just waiting for the power and phone to be hooked up, then we will be all set to move in. Our furniture just arrived today - maybe tomorrow I will take some pictures - I was too tired today to bother. Lame, aren't I. Here's my excuse: I took the girls in to Whitehorse this weekend. I took a personal day on Friday and we left in the morning. I spent Friday afternoon running around to appointments and going to Walmart. Saturday morning Hannah went to the orthodontist at 8:00, then the girls had their hair done, then it was shop, shop, shop. I spent some stressful moments trying to secure things to the roof racks on the truck and bungee cord the back of the canopy closed over things that were too big to fit in with the door closed. On the way home Naomi drove for over half the trip. Normally it is great to have an extra driver, but we haven't yet hit the stage where I can just sit back and relax. Let me tell you - it's hard being the "co-driver". But she is turning out to be a very good driver. Although I did have to remind her to keep her speed down a few times. Needless to say when we arrived home at 5:30 I was already exhausted and we still had to unload the truck. I put away as much stuff as I could, then just collapsed. I have since noticed that some other kind soul in this household has put things away. Thank you from the bottom of my poor, tired, aching feet!
As is this was not enough for an aging mother of three - these three all decided to have friends sleep over. We ended up with 7 kids here for the night including ours. I just looked at them, said "lights out by 1:30. Please don't be too loud", and went to bed. Today was another day of working on the house. Brian was working on the septic drain pipes - he had to join everything together and bring it out to meet up with the pipes going into the tank. I spent the day working in the kitchen - the cupboards used to have linoleum on the bottoms????? When we took it off we had a terrible time trying to get rid of the glue. Sanding was taking way too long. So, I bought some birch veneer and I am putting that on the bottom of all the cupboards. It is looking very good. But my hand is so bad right now that I can only do a bit and then have to rest my hand because it has gone numb again. Oh well, more on that another time, or not. So, now you are among the people who are "in the know." Hope you are satisfied.

BACK TO SCHOOL!

So, today we all went back to school. It was a great day. I always love the first day - the kids are so excited to be there. The grade 1 and 2's are especially fun. They are a little nervous, but so cute! My kids are not so excited to be going - school is not cool when you're a teenager. Brian is happy about his class this year. It looks as though he will only have 7 kids in his class - a welcome relief after the last 3 years. He has some fun things planned for the year - he has an ant farm and they are going to have a greenhouse. It will be a great year for them. Naomi is in grade 10 this year. She will be working really hard, preparing for provincial exams at the end of the year. They have made some changes to the high school this year and they will have the opportunity to do some neat science experiments. Hannah is in grade 9 and Josh, grade 8. They are hoping to just coast through the year - little do they know that I have other things planned (such as homework!!!). LOL. Actually I am sure we will all have a great year. It's great to be paid to go to school.