G-- was reading F-- her bedtime story on Friday night -- The Queen Who Stole the Sky. The Queen charges the people in the land taxes. F-- asked what taxes were. G-- explained that the we give money to the government for our hospitals, schools, to fix the roads and so on. F-- thought about it or a minute and then said, "So they steal it."
Out of the mouths of babes.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Sunday - in Lent but not of Lent
So, G-- and I have given up our various vices for Lent. He gave up alcohol and I gave up sweets (yes, chocolate too!). but, the silver lining in this for us is that Sundays are "in Lent not of of Lent". In other words, as G-- said, "I'm going to spend Sunday's completely blitzed." :)
Grandparents Day
It was Grandparents Day yesterday at F--'s JK class. Gramma and Grampa M-- came up for the event, which included crafts, a gift, and cupcakes made be the JKs. (F-- ate two...well one and a half and Grampa got the other half.)
Gramma stayed on at the class for the whole morning (F-- wouldn't let her leave). Then they got to go out to Tim Horton's for "the usual"--bagel with strawberry cream cheese, NOT toasted, chocolate milk, and a chocolate and a vanilla timbit. While sitting in Tim's, a guy with a shaved head, earrings, and lots of muscles sat down next to them. F-- thought this very strange and leaned over to whisper in Gramma's ear, "Gramma, that man has earrings!" At least she whispered.
They also hit the Dollar Store in town, where F-- "cuted" her way into a new doll, a bracelet, hair bands, and hair ties. When I asked why the new doll, Grampa said, "Well, she looked at the dolls and said 'How cute!', and what could I do?" Sucker! :)
We also had a nice fish dinner last night in honour of Ash Wednesday. I pretty much smothered the fish in cheese, tomatoes, onions, and garlic so they were well hidden, and G-- and I actually at them.
Mom and I got started on her Australia/New Zealand trip scrapbook. Soooo many pictures (and soooo many stories for Dad to tell). :)
Gramma stayed on at the class for the whole morning (F-- wouldn't let her leave). Then they got to go out to Tim Horton's for "the usual"--bagel with strawberry cream cheese, NOT toasted, chocolate milk, and a chocolate and a vanilla timbit. While sitting in Tim's, a guy with a shaved head, earrings, and lots of muscles sat down next to them. F-- thought this very strange and leaned over to whisper in Gramma's ear, "Gramma, that man has earrings!" At least she whispered.
They also hit the Dollar Store in town, where F-- "cuted" her way into a new doll, a bracelet, hair bands, and hair ties. When I asked why the new doll, Grampa said, "Well, she looked at the dolls and said 'How cute!', and what could I do?" Sucker! :)
We also had a nice fish dinner last night in honour of Ash Wednesday. I pretty much smothered the fish in cheese, tomatoes, onions, and garlic so they were well hidden, and G-- and I actually at them.
Mom and I got started on her Australia/New Zealand trip scrapbook. Soooo many pictures (and soooo many stories for Dad to tell). :)
Sunday, February 26, 2006
The Apple Dumpling Gang
It's been a little crazy around here for awhile, so I've been woefully bad at keeping up with the blog.
Last weekend, F-- and I headed home to hear stories about Mom and dad's trip to Australia and New Zealand. We didn't hear all 60 hours of Dad's new stories, but we got a good start on it.
G-- survived the two days without us. He's totally swamped with work as TAX SEASON is now here. As F-- says, "Poor daddy."
This weekend, I introduced F-- to the movie "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (an old Disney movie with Don Knotts and Tim Conway). I remembered really liking this movie when I was a kid, so I picked it up from the library. At first she thought it was pretty boring. Then she asked to watch it again. :)
Today, we watched the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. At the point where they were talking about the summer Olympics in China, F-- smirked and said, "Mommy, they said a bad word on TV."
"What?" I asked.
"They said China!" she replied.
It took me a second to clue in. "No, they said China...that's a country. You're thinking of va-gina."
What a kid! :)
Last weekend, F-- and I headed home to hear stories about Mom and dad's trip to Australia and New Zealand. We didn't hear all 60 hours of Dad's new stories, but we got a good start on it.
G-- survived the two days without us. He's totally swamped with work as TAX SEASON is now here. As F-- says, "Poor daddy."
This weekend, I introduced F-- to the movie "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (an old Disney movie with Don Knotts and Tim Conway). I remembered really liking this movie when I was a kid, so I picked it up from the library. At first she thought it was pretty boring. Then she asked to watch it again. :)
Today, we watched the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. At the point where they were talking about the summer Olympics in China, F-- smirked and said, "Mommy, they said a bad word on TV."
"What?" I asked.
"They said China!" she replied.
It took me a second to clue in. "No, they said China...that's a country. You're thinking of va-gina."
What a kid! :)
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Jesus and easter eggs
Faith's latest thought: "If Jesus died at Easter, he didn't get any Easter eggs."
Mmmmmm.
Mmmmmm.
A whirlwind holiday season
OK...we survived the holidays!
The big news for our holiday was the big trip to Florida to see G's parents with P and K, and the kids. Yes, we survived with 4 adults and 3 kids on a 29 hour road trip. Lots of DVDs, coloring, books, and frequent pit stops helped!
Florida itself was great. Mom stuffed us full of food (but we didn't gain 7 lbs this time, unlike our last trip!). Dad showed off his ability to blow up balloons using his air compressor. The girls also extracted a promise from him to bring up the RV in the summer to go camping again. They cornered him while he was trying to take a nap.
It was definitely strange having Christmas in Florida...no snow on the 25th, and walking around in shorts. And of course, swimming on Christmas Day. Strange but definitely nice.
The girls had a fun time playing with each other...there was much squealing and playing with dolls.
The kids even left out hay and carrots for the reindeer on Christmas Eve (thanks Dad!), and cookies for Santa. They got a huge kick out of this. Santa liked the cookies, and was good to everyone and showered the kids, as usual, with presents (as did mom and dad).
We had a great time and enjoyed the break from the normal cold, snowy Christmas.
The big news for our holiday was the big trip to Florida to see G's parents with P and K, and the kids. Yes, we survived with 4 adults and 3 kids on a 29 hour road trip. Lots of DVDs, coloring, books, and frequent pit stops helped!
Florida itself was great. Mom stuffed us full of food (but we didn't gain 7 lbs this time, unlike our last trip!). Dad showed off his ability to blow up balloons using his air compressor. The girls also extracted a promise from him to bring up the RV in the summer to go camping again. They cornered him while he was trying to take a nap.
It was definitely strange having Christmas in Florida...no snow on the 25th, and walking around in shorts. And of course, swimming on Christmas Day. Strange but definitely nice.
The girls had a fun time playing with each other...there was much squealing and playing with dolls.
The kids even left out hay and carrots for the reindeer on Christmas Eve (thanks Dad!), and cookies for Santa. They got a huge kick out of this. Santa liked the cookies, and was good to everyone and showered the kids, as usual, with presents (as did mom and dad).
We had a great time and enjoyed the break from the normal cold, snowy Christmas.
Friday, December 02, 2005
A holiday weekend....literally pigging out!
This past weekend was a whirlwind that pretty much involved non-stop visiting coupled with non-stop eating (with a little drinking thrown in for good measure).
On Friday night we held our annual Tree Trimming party. This year, we added a little twist. C-- had a pig, we had a party, so we combined them and turned it into a Tree Trimming / Pig Roast party. We had about 36 adults and 15 kids in our house, along with a 70 lb pig, baked beans, amazing potato salad, scrumptious coleslaw, and desserts and snacks brought by our guests. The pig was amazing...and took up almost the entire length of my island. Oh yeah...and we had two kegs in the garage.
The kids did their usual excellent job of decorating the tree...at least the bottom 3 feet. They did so with great concentration...it was my favorite part of the evening as they plucked decorations from the containers and placed them very deliberately on the tree. And it was great fun having people from so many different areas of our lives finally meet each other (like F--'s old babysitter and my parents).
We had a full house to sleep over as well, which made the next morning fun. It was Mom and Dad, Uncle, Aunt, and Cousin. We all slept in, at least as much as possible with the kids up early...even though they didn't get to bed until almost 11:00.
Saturday, we took F-- and A-- to see Max and Ruby. Although the kids enjoyed it, I could only think that there was probably some sort of tell-all movie possible about this production. Guys running around in big bunny suits obviously have some issues. And, it came through in their "performance" or lack of it. Oh well...live and learn.
Saturday night, D-- stayed over, and we had family trivia (after transporting the kegs over to K-- and R--'s for a party they were having.
Sunday was our last party day. Because the parents are headed to Australia for 9 weeks, we had early Christmas with my side. Gramma and Grampa and Aunt M-- came and we at a huge brunch together...with lots of pork products strangely enough.
Then, Santa rang the front door bell and brought in a whole bunch of presents! F-- ran to the door when she heard the bell and was shocked to see Santa. She immediately ran over to stand with Aunt M--. She wasn't really sure what to make of this but once the presents started, she quite enjoyed the whole situation...although she never sat on his knee. When Santa left through the upstairs fireplace, she was concerned the fireplace might be on.
The, Sunday night was the Grey Cup, so R-- and K-- came over with the kids, and we ate leftover desserts, and drank beer (well, the boys drank the beer, we had tea).
And, that was our crazy, but fun, weekend. Merry Christmas!
On Friday night we held our annual Tree Trimming party. This year, we added a little twist. C-- had a pig, we had a party, so we combined them and turned it into a Tree Trimming / Pig Roast party. We had about 36 adults and 15 kids in our house, along with a 70 lb pig, baked beans, amazing potato salad, scrumptious coleslaw, and desserts and snacks brought by our guests. The pig was amazing...and took up almost the entire length of my island. Oh yeah...and we had two kegs in the garage.
The kids did their usual excellent job of decorating the tree...at least the bottom 3 feet. They did so with great concentration...it was my favorite part of the evening as they plucked decorations from the containers and placed them very deliberately on the tree. And it was great fun having people from so many different areas of our lives finally meet each other (like F--'s old babysitter and my parents).
We had a full house to sleep over as well, which made the next morning fun. It was Mom and Dad, Uncle, Aunt, and Cousin. We all slept in, at least as much as possible with the kids up early...even though they didn't get to bed until almost 11:00.
Saturday, we took F-- and A-- to see Max and Ruby. Although the kids enjoyed it, I could only think that there was probably some sort of tell-all movie possible about this production. Guys running around in big bunny suits obviously have some issues. And, it came through in their "performance" or lack of it. Oh well...live and learn.
Saturday night, D-- stayed over, and we had family trivia (after transporting the kegs over to K-- and R--'s for a party they were having.
Sunday was our last party day. Because the parents are headed to Australia for 9 weeks, we had early Christmas with my side. Gramma and Grampa and Aunt M-- came and we at a huge brunch together...with lots of pork products strangely enough.
Then, Santa rang the front door bell and brought in a whole bunch of presents! F-- ran to the door when she heard the bell and was shocked to see Santa. She immediately ran over to stand with Aunt M--. She wasn't really sure what to make of this but once the presents started, she quite enjoyed the whole situation...although she never sat on his knee. When Santa left through the upstairs fireplace, she was concerned the fireplace might be on.
The, Sunday night was the Grey Cup, so R-- and K-- came over with the kids, and we ate leftover desserts, and drank beer (well, the boys drank the beer, we had tea).
And, that was our crazy, but fun, weekend. Merry Christmas!
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