Je suis malade

Sucks.

Epiphany

Celebrating Epiphany at mass this morning. Our church is tiny, but has beautiful vaulted ceilings, painted in aqua and gold.

52 Fridays - unplugged (Jan 6, 2012)

I'm a scrapbooker and a story teller, but by always being behind the lens there is so much of the story that I'm not telling. So I've joined the one self portrait a week movement - to add some of myself into my albums and my family's story.

Aaaaand this first one is pretty raw. I have a new computer, and my photo editing software isn't installed yet. Where I would normally photoshop my ruddy complexion and get rid of the mole on my nose that makes me look like the wicked witch this one I'm forced to post unadulterated. Me, unplugged.

In the glow of endless brakelights

Freezing rain for our drive home tonight. Everyone was driving slowly and carefully, but oh so very very slowly, and it made the trip home exhausting.

Back to the grind...

Christmas holidays have officially ended for C and me (the kids still have one more week). Back to work we went, but the days are getting longer and the sun was rising during our drive in. (Blurry sunrise through my dirty car window)

So much for healthy eating...

Good thing it wasn't one of my New Years resolutions :) Out running errands, we stopped at McD's for lunch. Little J really wanted to try a Big Mac. We were surprised when he managed to finish all of it! (The fries, however, did not meet the same fate, but he's not the biggest fry fan anyway so I'm not too shocked that he didn't eat them)

Project 365, 2012

Yeah, I think I'll try this again :)

My darling C, cutting our yummy New Years ham with his new electric knife.

My little bits

They just rip my heart right out of my chest :)

Burger!

C's favourite food, home made and dripping with cheese :)

2011-01-20

Swimming lessons... the blur in the centre is little J. We're not actually supposed to take pictures in the pool area, but since you can't make out anyone I'm not too worried.

The pool area is SO HOT. So so so disgustingly over hot. They pride themselves on keeping the pool hot for the seniors who take Aquafitness there during the week, but my goodness it's tough to breathe sitting in there watching (and there's really no other place to sit but there on the deck). Only 7 more weeks...

2011-01-16

First skate on the canal this season. Man it was cold. During the summer I delude myself into thinking I'm a half decent skater, but the first time on the blades each winter reminds me that I'm actually quite terrible :)

2011-01-15

Family twosome bowling tournament. Thank goodness the kids are decent bowlers because their parents sure weren't today!

2011-01-14

New mittens, a gift from Mary. I drove Jeff nutty by staging puppet shows over the cube wall with them... Friday fun :)

2011-01-12

I have literally dozens of things on my to-do list, but tonight instead of tackling any of them my little guy and I sat down and put together a 250 piece puzzle.

2011-01-11

Kids eat free on Tuesdays :)

2011-01-09

Chili that's been bubbling away in the crock pot all day, with a dollop of sour cream and a chunk of home made bread.

This is the life :)

2011-01-04

Elvis Stojko, at the Rock the Ice show in Peterborough. The tickets were my Christmas gift from James (who even came with me, what a great kid!)

(I had such a crush on Elvis in the early 90's. He's totally still got it!)

2011-01-02

The boys have been busy in the kitchen.

2011-01-01

Hockey game, Sens vs Leafs, 3 rows from the ice.

We got trounced :(

(I'm restarting the Project 365, the 'picture a day' project. We'll see how far I get this time :) )

Sweet sister

Katie decided to make little J breakfast in bed. She's such a sweet little thing. He enjoyed it too.