Congratulations once again to Ab Doyle who was presented with Citizen of the Year 2008! Here is the article which the Chronicle ran Sunday about the opening ceremonies (if you’re looking for it, it ran Sunday, Feb 22 under the title, Fun had at Frosty Days: Manitouwadge Celebrates Frosty Days [Read more]
Emeraude is often asking to eat snow so I thought this was a good experiment to let her see for herself why I prefer that she doesn’t. She picked up these ‘ice balls’ from the side of the road and we intend to do the experiment again with some snow from the backyard. [Read more]
Jan.19.2009 Emeraude had tried adding coffee to her liquid glue the other day to make a picture that looked like dirt but the coffee disolved and looked more like mud. We found this very interesting and I suggested that we try to see what other kitchen ingredients might disolve when we added them [Read more]
Emeraude & I joined Lloyd for night skiing at the Kiwissa Ski Club tonight for the first time this year and WOW! it was beyond words… We had gone once last year but Emeraude had not enjoyed skiing in the dark as we had gone down the Bunny (our regular run) which was actually off [Read more]
Last year, 2008, Ontario had it’s first official Family Day which was put in place fufilling an election promise from Premier Dalton McGuinty. It is great to see that, in Manitouwage, this is being taken to heart with the majority of businesses/services (including all the schools, the OEYC [Read more]
Well, it’s Ontario Family Day today and I am grateful to be well enough to attempt a day of skiing but after last week’s IVIg quite dissapointed not to be in better shape… Tuesday, the ISMC (International Snowmobile Media Council – yes I am a member) came through as part of [Read more]
Emeraude’s weekend was quite eventful and she had a lot of fun with Daddy. Friday night Emeraude and I had our movie night, ate popcorn and cuddled on the couch as is our tradition. Lloyd had plans with friends and had opted out but only after we had supper and making sure Emeraude [Read more]
It’s been a long weekend but really good. I will come back some time this week and add to this post about what kept us busy. Emeraude’s Dad was home from work in Kapuskasing and seems to have gotten over the odd state of mind that the holidays had him in. This meant that she [Read more]
I realized it had been a few weeks since Emeraude had painted and thought this morning’s cold weather and my limited physical energy were great reasons to pull out the paints. We started out with the acrlic paints, brushes, a toothbrush and a straw… I wanted to show Emeraude that [Read more]
It has become pretty clear that any hope of treatment options before Dr.Crawford’s return is not realistic. I have decided to lower my expectations for what I am capable of doing around the house & with the kids and therefore, reduce the need for pain meds. Yesterday I chose not to go [Read more]
Symptoms are really interfering with my ability to have any quality of life. 8am 50mg oral prednisone 120mg ratio-morphine Lloyd had to be at school early for a basketball game and at 8am was just putting Emeraude next to me in bed to say goodmorning. I struggled to balance on my legs as there [Read more]
day 3 steroid treatment did not go so well… the treatment was okay, the results PLtheRhhh (that’s a raspberry & thumbs down). my face really is as red as it appears on the photo :S (that’s the steroids). Emeraude was sweet enough to come keep me company as I received my [Read more]
I was woken up by Lloyd this morning, poached eggs in hand and I couldn’t have been more appreciative of his efforts! Emeraude had offered to accompany me to my treatment last night at bedtime and so he had already fed her some breakfast as well. I worked at getting the two of us ready [Read more]
"my IV Shunt had been put in without any gloves port-a-cath (which I have under my left side, kind of below my collar bone) being worn and I was a little concerned with the possibility of yet another skin infection (I dealt with many of these before finally having my 'picc line' and then about a [Read more]
Mom wanted it to be a ‘family’ day and I had been looking forward to plans we had for sledding with the guys at Sand Lake. I can’t say I was too thrilled about her and Emeraude spending the day with us out there… and to my disapointment i had to drive the Skandic to [Read more]
