Boys' Night Out ---means Girls night out!!

The boys are going out to a hockey game tonight with 2 other boys!! Yippee! That means me and my girl get to go out and do something fun too. Hmmmm.... what to do .... the opportunities are endless, well maybe not, but there are a few. I think this will be a good night.

End of Semester

I'm always looking for a reason to celebrate. So what better reason than the end of the semester for my girl? So with a big Breyer's ice cream sundae with lots of toppings, I think we should end every Friday that way. She is very glad to be done with her French teacher. She still got an A in the class, but couldn't stand the teacher. Too bad........ it is a good life still to learn to deal with people that you don't enjoy. That was her character building lesson for the semester. Starting Monday, there will be some new courses on the schedule like woodworking and drama. That shall be interesting. I will be happy for a change. We have been only moderately happy with the new school this year, but it's not time to make any rash decisions. So from now on it looks like life will revert to being lived on a semester basis. I thought I was done that when I finished university... well that's not true, I always figured I'd go back to school sometime.





My boy stayed home with me today. He had a sore knee that has been bothering him off and on, so what better reason to stay home and keep Mom company while I sew and he watched a movie and read books? We had a great day. He is so easy going! Last night while the girl child was at youth group, the 3 of us went to the downtown library and signed out a stack of books. We haven't done that in awhile. He is worried that he won't get them all done by the time they are due back, I said he'll be done them by Sunday. 3 are done today. The quote of the week was from yesterday's parent teacher meeting. I LOVE his teacher, he is so great. He would like to clone our son and his excellent attitude and work habits. A classroom full of him would be a teacher's dream :) Makes me smile. But he's a one of a kind!! And we get to enjoy it!

Crafting

My commitment to do more crafting is sticking with me so far for January. Much better than my commitment to not eating junk food and trying to lose a few Christmas pounds, but we won't discuss that right now!!

My latest project came off the needles the other night, with the help of an episode of American Idol to keep me sitting still awhile. I have recently joined a knitting group!! There are 5 of us and we meet once a month to eat soup, knit, well and of course talk all evening. They are all better knitters than I, so I expect a lot of help :) I expect to infuse much wisdom from these women who are all a little bit older than me, knitting and life wisdom....

Remind me I don't like 2 night shifts in a row....

I'm heading in for my 2nd night shift in a row. One isn't too bad, but 2 makes me tired. Hey I could have a baby that I'm up with every 3 hours all night or something- don't worry, those days are over for me. When they phoned me to do the shifts I had just planned my girls' weekend that is coming up, so thought the extra money would be nice, so I'll be thinking that at 4 am when I'm trying to make sure I give someone the correct drugs :) The 4 of us nurses had a good time last night and the same 4 of us are on again tonight. I really like some of the the girls I work with. We had a poor old lady come in who had slipped on the ice and broke her jaw, had emergency surgery and had her jaw wired shut. Poor thing.... I thought what if that had been my Gramma?--- she was so easy to be compassionate for--- even made the 20 year old with the same surgery but from a fight seem not so bad.

For Randi and Tara- See you in 18 Days!

Just digging through some old boxes this morning and imagine what I found? Can you just imagine what would have happened if we had digital cameras back then!



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21 Days to go

I am anticipating a GREAT girls weekend s with these other 2 wackies.... Love that Pepto- Bismol pink dress I'm wearing.... Just had to post this photo too...

Painting

So I am finally taking on finishing the walls in the laundry room. After the summer's bear spray explosion in there, I painted half the walls but just lost steam before finishing, so today is the day. There is a lot of patching to do and it's going to be a very boring but warm cream. The floor is red, so that makes it interesting.

In the past 2 years since I went back to school and then back to work, I have sort of given up one of my loves and that is crafting. Well not crafts, but sewing, knitting, doing stuff. So I am regaining it now that I have more time again since I'm only working one day a week for the past 2 months.