and then POW!! right out of the blue as Emeraude & I were making snack this morning the balloon in the pinata pops! only problem is that we hadn’t yet gone high enough up the balloon so we put a new one in and blew it up again until it filled out the shell of [Read more]
Great morning with my girl. Happy to be getting our mornings back somewhat (result of solumedrol I think). We started out making ‘soup’ and recipes with the beads and too many bowls/ladels/potato masher lol and then switched to some bracelets. Emeraude began working on a necklace for [Read more]
Some of the other seeds are finally coming up. The only ones still hiding are the parsnips. Wondering what to do about the ‘greenhouse’ lids with the peas touching the top, I don’t want her healthy sprouts to start leaning over but worry if I take it off the ones that still need [Read more]
It was only a matter of time apparently before Dr.Crawford would be influenced by others at the hospital in this ridiculous idea that I should only be allowed pain relief for certain amounts of time and then it’s just too bad so sad, deal with it. Or at lest that is the only thing I can [Read more]
Our sprouts are growing like crazy already! Emeraude was so excited this morning when after just 2 days (for some, 3 days for others) she already had some great sprouts coming up. So far radishes seem to be the fatest growing by far, there are also some broccoli coming up as well as some peas. [Read more]
Emeraude & I began our gardening today (March 16,09). Last year we started all the veggies & flowers early indoors as well but I got over eager and we transplanted them outside too early – they froze and her beautiful healthy plants were mostly demolished (check my facebook page or [Read more]
I was inspired this Friday morning when picking up Emeraude from Nursery School to attempt this craft. Nikki, her N.School teacher was kind enough to spare some blue cellophane which really is a nice touch. Emeraude had made other water themed crafts at school that morning which included a sensory [Read more]
Monday I decided to keep it simple. Lloyd was nice enough to realize we were loosing our day and after badminton he became a chef. When we came in from collecting our snow and before starting our experiments we were able to sit down at the table as Lloyd had even set the table perfectly in [Read more]
Emeraude is resting for 1/2 hour to give me a chance to build up a little energy… It’s a really bad day, more fatigue than I have dealt with in a long time, I think there may be stress factors contributing to this situation, hopefully some fresh air fun with my girl will help with [Read more]
Sunday, March 8th, was a beautiful day and I intended to take advantage of it and did! It took most of the day to get to the fun outside part but towards the end of the afternoon (after groceries and the hospital of course – more painwere finally on our way out into the snow. Lloyd [Read more]
My birthday was off to a great start as when I returned from the hospital (pain meds) around 7h45 the house was quiet and still… I thought maybe the kids were busy eating in the kitchen and went towards my room to hang my coat. In the doorway of my room I found Lloyd standing [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]
Monday the Family Place’s Gross Motor Skills Program started at the Rec Centre. I have to say that Emeraude did enjoy herself,very much. I was so impressed with her when at the beginning of the class she suggested follow the leader and then asked to be the leader and did a great job [Read more]
Emeraude woke up from her nap with a plan… She began listing to me the ingredients we needed for a ‘kind of craft’. As I listened to her explanation of what we were to do, I realized what she wanted and explained to her that this was called an ‘experiment’. We [Read more]
