Friday morning school

Friday morning school

Thanks Mom Tougas for the domino game. This morning we played it for the first time and both the kids and I enjoyed it lots. It's a basic domino game, matching the ends. There's a 2nd part that involved collecting tokens, that are placed on the dominos, and then adding ...

Big girl bed

Big girl bed

Today we dismantled Brienne's crib and set up the toddler bed. I remember very clearly the day we bought the toddler bed - a steamy hot New Jersey July day. We noticed the bed in a yard sale near our house and after driving by drove back to check it ...

One winter's day...

One winter's day...

Woke up around 6:00 as Damien was coming home from his walk and getting ready to go to Boston. Probably should of got up to have quiet time in my journal and bible reading but slept till 7:00am. Got up and started oatmeal, kissed Damien and bade him a safe ...

And now, the rest of the story

And now, the rest of the story

Seeing as we chronicled the first part of our December trip to Alberta I thougt I should share the rest of it. Hope I didn't forget some special thing we did with someone. I'm already forgetting what we did. We had such a good time and I don't want to ...

Home for the New Year

Home for the New Year

We are safely home, as most of you would have assumed anyway.

Christmas holidays...

Christmas holidays...

We've been in Alberta for 10 days now. Damien worked last week (telecommuting) and now has the remaining time off. We've had a fun, activity filled yet relaxing time since we arrived. Firstly, the day after our arrival my mom had a party to celebrate Brienne's and my birthday. It ...

Sick... agh....

Sick... agh....

Well, inspite of taking echinacea or maybe because of it the kids and I all got sick this past weekend! Damien has been skeptical of echinacea all along and now he's convinced it doesn't work! He wasn't taking it and he was affected the least with a cold. I started ...