...the Uncles and there families would not be in town on Sunday and Emeraude was adamant about wanting them to have the gifts she made on time so, we decided to put them into baskets with a little straw and some chocolate eggs (one of them also had little chocolate bunnies)...read more [Read more]
We finally planted our final tray of seeds this afternoon. Emeraude just loves playing in the dirt and is so curious about the entire process. We discussed differences in the sizes/types/colours of our seeds and tried to use what we learned from the last tray (sticking to one seed / square; not [Read more]
...recipe for the colouring solution. I melted parafin wax which Emeraude used a shishkabob stick to draw with on some eggs, we dipped a couple into it (just the ends) and also just drizzled the wax randomly on others. Lots of fun, they look great, just need to pick up some inexpensive baskets from [Read more]
This week seems to be flying by faster than I can process. I promised the EDC photos that I have not even had a chance to look through yet *eesh*, Tomorrow I have an appointment with Dave (from the EDC) to work on my cover letter for Second Story Press and I had hoped to be much [Read more]
Well, it’s been quite a bit of work but we are finally done! Yesterday Emeraude & I cut a ‘door’ into the pinata & filled it with the goodies bags we had made for her friends. We then taped the door shut and papier maché’d over that so it would be smooth for [Read more]
A couple weeks ago, Emeraude brought home a ‘dinosaur egg’ she had made at Nursery School (Her teacher, Nickie is wonderful. Obviously called to hr work and constantly finding great, creative, imaginative crafts to do with the kids). The egg had instructions to ‘let dry for 5 [Read more]
...did not think of it as Emeraude had started singing and had me enthralled lol (she makes up her own songs about whatever is going on at the time and I really just sit back and enjoy the performance - I never know what tune she might come up with or what the lyrics will be like so she has me on [Read more]
Egg Creatures and more creative crafts projects, templates, tips, clip-art, patterns, and ideas on marthastewart.com It’s no secret that I love Martha Stewart but this is even cooler than her usual crafts and a must make for us before Easter… The only question is wether to [Read more]
I am feeling very good about my recent progress towards having the Emeraude Exploring collection completed and published. Don’t let this give the wrong impression, you won’t be finding it at Chapters next week lol, but it is definitely moving forward in a very real way. This [Read more]
Well, the big skate carnival weekend has come and gone and I survived! lol… It was a lot of fun (despite one dissapointment, read ‘photo day’) Emeraude did very well as did all the skaters. At Saturday night’s show she didn’t even fall at all! Sunday she & her [Read more]
Emeraude had so much fun this weekend, it was great to see her shine and come out of her shell quite a bit as well. She received a ton of balloons, flowers and beanies from friends and family who came out to watch (Thanks everyone!) which made her feel really special. Lloyd had volunteered to [Read more]
it’s much too late, I should be sleeping and am too tired to post so… Tomorrow is a big day, Emeraude has her dress rehearsal and so here is our morning in pictures, lol [Read more]
Another day hospital free 🙂 and still feeling fairly good (a little tired but none of the fatigue I dealt with before the solumedrol treatment. Still working at controling my appetite and I do feel like I may be making some ground (very minimal but some). I delivered the letter requesting a [Read more]
Easter is quickly on it’s way and of course Emeraude’s Nursery School will be having a special day that week. At Christmas, Emeraude had wanted to make a pinata for her school’s Christmas party, we made a Santa head, it was great, alot of fun and learning in the process so we are [Read more]
