I'm happy to report that Sweet Pea's fever finally broke overnight. She was running a fever of 38.6 last night (and since Saturday) and now she's at 35.7. She's in much better spirits and is even complaining that she's bored. I'm relieved and it looks like we might not need to cancel or postpone our trip out west. We leave early tomorrow morning.
I'm looking forward to visiting relatives, reading, watching TV, and relaxing.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Sickness Galore and Weekend Recap
I got back home from my scrapbooking retreat on Sunday evening around 6:00. Turns out DH and Sweet Pea were both really sick with "flu-like symptoms".
Monday, DH worked from home despite being really sick. Sweet Pea missed school.
Today, our nanny isn't feeling well and DH was getting worse and worse last night, so I decided to take today off of work. I was feeling feverish and I had a headache yesterday. I'm worried that I'm next.
On the scrapbook weekend, I managed to mostly finish 17 scrapbook pages, bringing me up-to-date on Precious' album. There is no journalling on one double-page spread, and some re-touching to do here and there on other pages. Overall, I'm thrilled with what I got done and I've attached a few of the pages here. I used a lot of templates and even re-worked some pages I had made for my own album. That's what I call maximizing the power of digital scrapbooking!
Monday, DH worked from home despite being really sick. Sweet Pea missed school.
Today, our nanny isn't feeling well and DH was getting worse and worse last night, so I decided to take today off of work. I was feeling feverish and I had a headache yesterday. I'm worried that I'm next.
On the scrapbook weekend, I managed to mostly finish 17 scrapbook pages, bringing me up-to-date on Precious' album. There is no journalling on one double-page spread, and some re-touching to do here and there on other pages. Overall, I'm thrilled with what I got done and I've attached a few of the pages here. I used a lot of templates and even re-worked some pages I had made for my own album. That's what I call maximizing the power of digital scrapbooking!
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Scrapbook Weekend Friends
Ana, Sylvie and I are on a scrapbooking weekend out of town. Last night, there wasn't much scrapbooking going on, but a lot of imbibing. I was a little more tired than usual this morning. Wait a second, wasn't one of my priorities for this weekend to get some extra sleep? Note to self: don't go to bed at 2:00 a.m. tonight.
I slept in a quiet hotel room last night, had a chance to do yoga today, and not once has anyone tugged on my shirt or yelled "where's Mommy?".
I've spent a lot of quality time with Sylvie and Ana, two dear and lovely ladies. I've eaten all of my meals without having to lift a finger. There's a good variety of food here, and salad and veggies at every meal.
I've got a few pages done, but not as many as I had hoped. It takes a while to get all of the pictures retouched and ready to go in the pages. Then I have to organize them and figure out which pictures will go together on which page. Then I have to assemble the scrapbook page. I've made 4 or 5 pages in a day and a bit, but I'm on my way to finishing 4 more this evening.
Today was an all-day chat at Designer Digitals. I was so excited as I was expecting to be on the computer all day and I'd get all the freebies, participate in the 30 minute masterpiece, and do the photography workshop, etc., etc. Turns out, I couldn't log on, despite getting technical support from Ron Pertiet himself. I was a little disappointed, but what-ev-er. At least there's red wine.
I slept in a quiet hotel room last night, had a chance to do yoga today, and not once has anyone tugged on my shirt or yelled "where's Mommy?".
I've spent a lot of quality time with Sylvie and Ana, two dear and lovely ladies. I've eaten all of my meals without having to lift a finger. There's a good variety of food here, and salad and veggies at every meal.
Ana
Sylvie
I've got a few pages done, but not as many as I had hoped. It takes a while to get all of the pictures retouched and ready to go in the pages. Then I have to organize them and figure out which pictures will go together on which page. Then I have to assemble the scrapbook page. I've made 4 or 5 pages in a day and a bit, but I'm on my way to finishing 4 more this evening.
Today was an all-day chat at Designer Digitals. I was so excited as I was expecting to be on the computer all day and I'd get all the freebies, participate in the 30 minute masterpiece, and do the photography workshop, etc., etc. Turns out, I couldn't log on, despite getting technical support from Ron Pertiet himself. I was a little disappointed, but what-ev-er. At least there's red wine.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Happy Birthday Little Brother!
My brother is 37 today. He may be bigger than me, but he'll always be my little brother. Thanks for graciously enduring my annoying singing of "Happy Birthday" on the phone this morning.
Happy Birthday to you
You live in a zoo
You look like a monkey
And you act like one, too!
You live in a zoo
You look like a monkey
And you act like one, too!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Halloween Costumes
I was looking through some photos and realized that I hadn't posted any photos of the kids in their halloween costumes.
Precious was a clown. A girl in grade 9 on our street had passed it down to a neighbour who in turn passed it down to us. When the grade 9 girl came trick-or-treating, I showed her the costume (Precious was done trick or treating by that point) and she remembered the costume.
Mr. Boy was Darth Vader. We borrowed the costume from our neighbour. The mask was new. The cape was made by DH's mom when he was a child. Mr. Boy refused to carry one of the three lightsabers we have because none of them was the correct colour for Darth Vader (ie. red). The costume was about 4 inches too short in the legs, but he was wearing black rubber boots, which covered it up.
Sweet Pea was a punky witch. She decided she would rather be a 'funky' witch, which I explained meant 'smelly', but she didn't care. The fishnet sleeves of the costume were bothering her, so on Thursday night, hours before her school halloween party on Friday morning, she announced that she needed a new costume. After discovering that it was the sleeves that bothered her, I cut them out, and left her with only the elasticized cuffs with purple tulle.
GFG (Good Friend Geoff) came by with his girls to trick or treat from our house. Abbi was a spider (she wasn't wearing her headpiece in this photo), and Isabella was also a witch.
After about 45 minutes out with Geoff and me, Precious got frustrated and she wanted to take off her costume. We came home, and DH headed out to meet back up with Geoff and the remaining kids. We got such a small number of kids this year, that while I was home answering the door between 7:15 and 8:00 ish, the doorbell only rang twice.
When we got home, we let the kids each as much candy as they wanted for approximately 15 minutes. They weren't happy when the 15 minutes was over, but they were tired and went to bed and promptly fell asleep.
That sounds like the perfect Halloween.
Precious was a clown. A girl in grade 9 on our street had passed it down to a neighbour who in turn passed it down to us. When the grade 9 girl came trick-or-treating, I showed her the costume (Precious was done trick or treating by that point) and she remembered the costume.
Mr. Boy was Darth Vader. We borrowed the costume from our neighbour. The mask was new. The cape was made by DH's mom when he was a child. Mr. Boy refused to carry one of the three lightsabers we have because none of them was the correct colour for Darth Vader (ie. red). The costume was about 4 inches too short in the legs, but he was wearing black rubber boots, which covered it up.
Sweet Pea was a punky witch. She decided she would rather be a 'funky' witch, which I explained meant 'smelly', but she didn't care. The fishnet sleeves of the costume were bothering her, so on Thursday night, hours before her school halloween party on Friday morning, she announced that she needed a new costume. After discovering that it was the sleeves that bothered her, I cut them out, and left her with only the elasticized cuffs with purple tulle.
GFG (Good Friend Geoff) came by with his girls to trick or treat from our house. Abbi was a spider (she wasn't wearing her headpiece in this photo), and Isabella was also a witch.
After about 45 minutes out with Geoff and me, Precious got frustrated and she wanted to take off her costume. We came home, and DH headed out to meet back up with Geoff and the remaining kids. We got such a small number of kids this year, that while I was home answering the door between 7:15 and 8:00 ish, the doorbell only rang twice.When we got home, we let the kids each as much candy as they wanted for approximately 15 minutes. They weren't happy when the 15 minutes was over, but they were tired and went to bed and promptly fell asleep.
That sounds like the perfect Halloween.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Finer Things
My sister-in-law/brother's wife AMF has started her own blog. It is super cute, just like her! Check her out over at The Finer Things.
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