School is back in
Now that school has started up again it will be so nice to get back into some sort of a routine here. Cory, Joleen & Jordyn are all off to school full days while Alexis and Johnathon will be off to afternoon kindergarten. Kenzie and Dayne are getting back into the routine of the older kids going off to school. Justin has started daycare and is having a wee bit of trouble letting mom and dad leave, after having been with them all summer, but I am sure that will come. Once he settles down he does fit right in and plays well with the other kids here.
Crystal is back at ACC and is enjoying it. Her and a friend have the same lunch break so they come here to put in the time and eat.
Ryan is doing well and is trying to work out everything to do with them moving. Him and Tammy are off to Nanaimo this weekend to look at apartments/basement suites etc and for Tammy to put out some resumes. Yesterday Ryan was phoning moving companies to get quotes so he can give them to the company and they can get on with that. Someways it is hard being here and him there but I guess it is time for this mom to realize that he is 23 years old and can take care of these things himself.
We will continue camping till the end of the month, when we have to take the trailer out. We have decided to store it at a place in Virden this year. This is where it was last year when it was getting the hail damage repaired. We figured we could afford to pay them to store it rather than burn all the gas hauling it home, then out to our friends and then reversing it in the spring. I am starting to look forward to camping being over with and getting some things done up at home. I really do need to devote a full weekend to a deep cleaning of my house, you know those corners and nooks and crannys that get neglected. The surface doesn't look too badly, but I know what those places are like! We are working at setting our den up nice and cozy for the winter months again. It was totally taken apart this spring when we did the painting and the carpet. We have gotten rid of the old hide a bed couch that was in there, replacing it with a fouton, bought a bigger tv for there so it is almost ready to curl up in, watch some movies and knit!
We are planning on going to Winnipeg the first weekend in October to celebrate our anniversary and Gary's birthday. I also hope to do a bit of Christmas shopping at the time, as I do not want to be near those malls in November and December. Christmas will be so different for us this year as Ryan will not be able to be home for it. Tammy and him are planning to come in January and I do hope that with the move etc that that will still happen. I keep telling myself that it won't be so hard knowing he has Tammy and Rawley now and won't be alone, but still will be hard I am sure.
I have not cast on another WW yet and I really must get at that. I finished up my wrap from the Creative Knitting and will take a picture of it once it is washed and blocked. I am pretty happy with it. Found a patter for a cute crocheted hat in a Creative Knitting as well and did up a couple of those. This morning I showed one of them to Jordyn and her eyes lite up and she put it on and ran to the mirror to check it out! She came back saying it was so neat. I asked her if she figured she would wear it and her eyes got even bigger as she nodded yes. I told her that she could have it them and she ran to put it in her backpack! I must go through my odds and sods of sock yarn and pick out which ones I will use for daycare socks for Christmas and get started on them as well. Now that our temps are getting lower (although you wouldn't know it today, suppose to be 31 with a humidex of 35) I am starting to get more in gear to knit again. Yesterday I thumbed through magazines waiting for something to 'jump' out at me, but nothing did. I do have some yarn for a couple of projects but they are both projects that require concentration and certainly not something that I could pick up and work on while kids play.
Crystal is back at ACC and is enjoying it. Her and a friend have the same lunch break so they come here to put in the time and eat.
Ryan is doing well and is trying to work out everything to do with them moving. Him and Tammy are off to Nanaimo this weekend to look at apartments/basement suites etc and for Tammy to put out some resumes. Yesterday Ryan was phoning moving companies to get quotes so he can give them to the company and they can get on with that. Someways it is hard being here and him there but I guess it is time for this mom to realize that he is 23 years old and can take care of these things himself.
We will continue camping till the end of the month, when we have to take the trailer out. We have decided to store it at a place in Virden this year. This is where it was last year when it was getting the hail damage repaired. We figured we could afford to pay them to store it rather than burn all the gas hauling it home, then out to our friends and then reversing it in the spring. I am starting to look forward to camping being over with and getting some things done up at home. I really do need to devote a full weekend to a deep cleaning of my house, you know those corners and nooks and crannys that get neglected. The surface doesn't look too badly, but I know what those places are like! We are working at setting our den up nice and cozy for the winter months again. It was totally taken apart this spring when we did the painting and the carpet. We have gotten rid of the old hide a bed couch that was in there, replacing it with a fouton, bought a bigger tv for there so it is almost ready to curl up in, watch some movies and knit!
We are planning on going to Winnipeg the first weekend in October to celebrate our anniversary and Gary's birthday. I also hope to do a bit of Christmas shopping at the time, as I do not want to be near those malls in November and December. Christmas will be so different for us this year as Ryan will not be able to be home for it. Tammy and him are planning to come in January and I do hope that with the move etc that that will still happen. I keep telling myself that it won't be so hard knowing he has Tammy and Rawley now and won't be alone, but still will be hard I am sure.
I have not cast on another WW yet and I really must get at that. I finished up my wrap from the Creative Knitting and will take a picture of it once it is washed and blocked. I am pretty happy with it. Found a patter for a cute crocheted hat in a Creative Knitting as well and did up a couple of those. This morning I showed one of them to Jordyn and her eyes lite up and she put it on and ran to the mirror to check it out! She came back saying it was so neat. I asked her if she figured she would wear it and her eyes got even bigger as she nodded yes. I told her that she could have it them and she ran to put it in her backpack! I must go through my odds and sods of sock yarn and pick out which ones I will use for daycare socks for Christmas and get started on them as well. Now that our temps are getting lower (although you wouldn't know it today, suppose to be 31 with a humidex of 35) I am starting to get more in gear to knit again. Yesterday I thumbed through magazines waiting for something to 'jump' out at me, but nothing did. I do have some yarn for a couple of projects but they are both projects that require concentration and certainly not something that I could pick up and work on while kids play.
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