Emeraude était très contente mardi, quand nous avons ppeler Grandmaman pour une marche et elle pouvait venir même qu’elle partait pour Thunder Bay mercredi matin… Nous avons pris une grande marche sur la rue Caribou, arrêtant au ‘beaver park’. Celui est un des parc [Read more]
Emeraude has felted quite blessed this week and I have been teasing her that she is a ‘lucky ducky’ as Monday we received a call that she had won Field’s colouring contest which was a beautiful basket full of really neat goodies including: chocolate markers stuffed duck she & [Read more]
I needed to stop by the hospital first for a dilaudid injection before the three of us went to play at the Lion’s beach to play (Lloyd would be heading out for NSSSAA in Geraldton tomorrow) and the kids went by the cafeteria for some sandwhiches in the meantime. After eating they headed [Read more]
...leave it behind in his locker to rot not wanting to stand out or being embarrassed (I was never on many sports teams but my freinds and I always loved extra food, as I mentioned so have his friends when I've done stuff, so I don't really understand his view on this but still try to respect it [Read more]
We walked to Grandmaman & Grandpapa’s for supper. Grandmaman made salmon pies (no meat) for Good Friday and they were DELICIOUS. After supper she & Emeraude decorated an Easter tree which Emeraude had a blast doing. Because of my Mom’s job, I don’t post photos of her on [Read more]
... have never been frightened, not when contacting editors, not about speaking to national magazines about payment details for my articles/photographs, not about pitching ideas to politicians, but this - whoa, - read more... [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]
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]
What a wonderful day! When we first arrived, I realized that the mittens Emeraude had werestill wet and Danile offered to come back to my (the kids) house and pick up a dry pair so Emeraude went along. I sat there for a while waiting before realizing this was my opportunity to go up on [Read more]
Town Councilor and friend Donna Jaunzarins had msg’d me a few days prior to invite me to lunch with Mike Brown, MPP Algoma-Manitoulin (the provincial riding Manitouwadge is in) it sounded like a great opportunity because I had been rolling an idea around in my head for Mike to host an ATV [Read more]
