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A New Day

April 19, 2007

With the great Spring weather today I wanted to post my new banner.

This most amazing banner was created for me by Secret Agent Josephine, otherwise known as SAJ. SAJ was one of the first bloggers I ever read. Dani being my first and the one to introduce me to this addiction. From Dani, I got a link to Ann Douglas’ blog and Ann had this great section titled “artists that inspire me”. From there I clicked on SAJ’s blog and have been hooked from that day forward.

I can truly say that SAJ inspires me daily. Not only does she live in sunny California, but she we all got to watch her go through her first pregancy and this wonderful year with Baby Bug. SAJ is so honest about the things that make being a Mom hard as well as most rewarding that you just can’t help stopping by to see what it going on. As I sat here all winter, not wanting to leave my house, I got to enjoy walks on the beach, trips to Starbucks and watch SAJ amuse Baby Bug all winter long. It made my days much easier to take.

I want to thank SAJ for adding some colour to my blog and making a such an approprate banner for me. I have another one that I am going to save for a later date. Be sure to stop by and visit her and see some of the other wonderful creations she has going.

Thanks SAJ!

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How do you spell relief??

April 19, 2007

S..U..N!!!

Yesterday the skies opened and the sun shone through. The temperatures soared and all was well in our little world again. Today is supposed to be hot, yes hot! I better wax the legs and pull out the capris, we will be spending most of our day out in the sunshine!

Will take photos to share.

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And this is what we woke up to…

April 16, 2007

Is is really April 16th??

I am sure if I check in on other blogs from the Eastern US and Canada, I will find similar photos or rantings at least, but I mean, come on already! The last time I saw snow this late in the year was when I lived in Winnipeg and that, at least, was expected.

Not only did we wake up to the snow, but we woke up because our power went out. Just before 6am the power shut down, which in our house, results in beeps and blurps filtering through the fire alarm system. This in turn makes our Huskey, Mickey, howl and whine because it is so high pitched that he hears more than we do. One of the alarms actually wouldn’t stop bleeping, so we had to shut that breaker off completely. What a way to wake up.

The good thing about no power was that J had to survive until 2:20pm without TV or computers. I know, imagine having to play all day long! Once he got past the fact that there was nothing I could do he seemed alright. He would play for a while, then have a mini melt down, play again, melt again. This went on for most of the morning. We did go to the grocery store, but the roads weren’t exactly stellar, so I didn’t want to go far from home. And with the breaker off, if the power did come on I wanted to be able to flip it back on right away because it also controls our water heater.

The afternoon went quite well, the fireplace was still able to flip on and I could cook on the gas stove so we were doing alright. J wanted to go outside and play so I dug out his winter gear and let him out to play. He was trying to make snow angels, but the snow was so heavy you can’t really tell where the angels were. The power came back on while he was out playing but I let him stay out for as long as he would stay, just because.

His reward was some curly fries and a kids show. Which he has already abandoned for his Lego. I have to admit that it was so quiet in here that the noise from the TV and refrigerator is really bugging me.

The only thing I missed during all this… my computer. I did grab a magazine at the grocery store and got some reading done.

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