Halloween

       "You walk deep into Myth and into Mystery, you see a locked chest and a key, you open the lid to find the ultimate treasure, IMAGINATION!" The brothers Grimm

I love Halloween, I love dressing up, I love seeing all the kids in costume having the best night of their lives, I love the pumpkins, I love a good haunted house, and I love Halloween.

So far for Halloween we have had our own special Witch School, were the girls learned how to be the best Witch they could be, Here are some Highlight :)

Chanting in the woods at night

3 sneaky witches learning how to sneak up on little children!

Digging in the ground for bugs for potions

witches sticks that were collected to make their own brooms for flight

Witch Alli La Forest

Witch Ella Le Chat

Witch Hail Du Bat

     Then we got to party party at a friends 5 birthday spooktacular, We enjoyed a night of games, food, laughter, and crazy kids stuff. All the photos I have to share are of us dressed up in what we went to he party in :)

Ella won Best Costume

Alli was the warmest kid there

Had lots of fun with my costume this year!

     Today I got to teach a fun Sunday School All Saints / Hallows Eve party, kids came in their costumes and got to learn all about how Halloween started, here's an article I wrote in my church newsletter about it...enjoy!

Halloween is a exiting time of year. We spend Halloween walking the streets of our small town, Enjoying seeing our Neighbours, friends and family. What other night all year around do you get to see everyone in your community. We walk around teaching the girls all about Halloween. How Halloween is a night that people used to believe was the night that ghosts would walk the earth and play tricks on the people, on their livestock, even wreck their crops. Because the people were so worried about the ghosts, they started wearing costumes to fool the ghost so they would leave them alone, they would set out treats so they wouldn‘t get the trick. We get dressed up we go door to door. Then the real lesson of Halloween begins the next morning when we wake up. Its November 1 and All Saints Day. We teach our girls that we do not become ghost that can walk about the earth playing tricks on people, but we go up to heaven with God, just like the Saints. We spend the day celebrating death in a good way, remember all those we love who have fallen, and made their way up to heaven. We celebrate all the blessing we are given here are earth, and in afterlife in heaven. We spend the day organizing all the candy, making little gift baggies to give out to our friends full of all their favourites. We teach them the lessons of Heaven, and the value of celebrating the life a person lived as well as mourning their death.

     And Now Tomorrow the count down is over, Its Halloween.....so Stay tuned for more spooky Adventures for Halloween day!!!

25 years of Fostering

     "They stayed involved in the childrens life long after their fostering job was done"

     25 years ago my parents started on a journey that would change the course of not only their lives but as well as their families. 25 years ago my parents decided to open their doors to children in need. Once they made the decision  to start taking in foster children, the agency delivers me :) I was only 2 years old and was coming from a bad situation. I was sent to their agency through another agency and this simple meant that at 2 years old I had already been taken from my bio mother and placed in a few foster homes.
     I can still remember-crazy as that sounds- when I first got there, I can remember standing in the kitchen after Susan had changed me out of my dirty cloths into a beautiful home made dress that belonged to her family. I remember being so happy to have such a pretty dress on, it had little bunnies all over it and it was my favourite colour-pink. Susan asked me if I would like to go outside and meet the rest of the family. I walked out the back door onto their deck and stared down at these 4 boys all filling up water balloons in a mini blue pool. I put the best smile I had on my face and nervously walked down the stairs to meet the boys. I don't even think I got a hello in before one of them through a water balloon at me (and it wasn't the one of the older boys). I went running back inside thinking to myself who are those crazy boys. Upon getting inside I was scooped up and cleaned up with more care than I ever had before, while learning my first lesson from Susan on boys being boys. I truly believe that from that day I was a part of their family.
    Unfortunately just after 6 months, I got settled in with this wonderful family, we got word that my bio mother had straighted out and I would moving back with her. But the demands of a small child was still too much for her, and she ended up failing me again and having me wind up back into foster care as quick as 2 months after leaving the Moores.
     You would think then that I would once again get lost in the system and just be another child being bounced from home to home always searching for my forever home, like so many foster children face. Nope not me, I was the 3 year old girl who won the lottery. The Moores soon found out that I had been dumped back into the system, and upon finding this out went out to the agency I was in and requested to have me back in their care. Then they came all the way down to get me and bring me back with them. My Father told me that when they first got there I was keeping my distance from them not too sure what to do, but then when they passed me a pink poodle stuffy, I looked right at him and said "I want to go home" and then leached myself onto his leg and was bound to never let go.
      My new family did everything they could to make their home my forever home, they went above and beyond to make sure that I became a Moore. It can be stressful going through an adoption case, they had to attend meeting, court dates, and still wake up every morning with me in their life but not knowing if they were going to end up having to give me up again. Finally once I was 4 years old I became a Moore and finally found my forever home.
     I might of been the first to call their home mine, but I was not the last. My parents continued to foster all through my life, we have seen every age of children coming from every kind of bad situations. My parents continued to show those kids the same love they showed me. Our home became known through the agency as the place were kids run away too. Every foster child that walked through our doors would say the same thing, this is my home, I will no longer run away.We became known as the family most requested by foster kids, everyone who had been with us wanted back and everyone who know anyone who had been with us wanted in. This is still in affect today, My parents are still fostering and will hopefully fill 30 years of helping children,  I am proud and honoured not only to be a part of their family but also for being the one to kick start of an amazing 25 years of care. I love my family and that includes every child that has stayed in our lives and became more than just a foster child, but became our family.
     If you ever want a way to impact the area you live in, It would be a wonderful idea to become a foster family. Over the years the number of foster homes are dropping compared to the number of children in care that is rising every year. These kids are not someone who is going to come into your home and mess up your family with their criminal acts, they are just kids that have lived through more of a tough life that you will ever understand. They are just kids trying to calm the storm in their life enough to grow up and live life like any other kid. They are just kids who if giving the chance will teach you more about life and help you grow into the best that you can be. Trust me I know, I see it in my parents eyes every time a new foster child comes to their home. There is nothing more amazing then being there for a child in need, and I am very grateful to have been lucky enough for them to have started that journey with me!

What are friends for?

"For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends."

     Wow, I can't believe it's been a whole week since I wrote anything. I had the bussiest week ever, and I am thankful for every moment of it. I know, I know here it is another writing about Thanksgiving, but this won't be, it might end up being the moral of the story, but not the main focus.
     I am thankful for Friends. I am thankful for the company I was in this week. I am thankful for the oppurtunity to spend my days with people that matter to me.
      My brother informed me that I needed to keep this a little bit short, rather than writing a novel, so this is for you Stephen.
     

      Life without my friends would be a world full of black n white, Life with my friends is like finding that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
     If I lived a life without the people I have in it, I would not of spent a Saturday with my friend talking at his kitchen table, I would not of learned from him to treat your life like you treat your house, If you house were to burn down you would jump in to save it, do the same for your life, it you start to smell smoke jump in to save it. Thanks
     I would not of spent an amazing a night out at he movies Tuesday, with two freinds I haven't had the chance to spend a night out with. Getting to watch "The Help" and learning all about the freindship between a white woman and a coloured, and learning the powerful inpack that freindship made. Thanks
     I would not of got the chance Wednesday morning to go to a new playgroup with a freind and enjoy an early moring coffee on an early morning drive, always getting the chance to learn something from a friend that always has good advice. Thanks
     I would not of got a surprise visit from my freinds and her little one, getting to spend a night in chit chat and coffee, learning all about the never ending joy of looking after the precious one year olds. Thanks
    I would not of got to invite my friend and her little daycare kids over for a wonderful morning of fun and yes more coffee and chit chat, learning lots more good advice about body, mind and soul. About enjoying your life. Thanks
     I would not of got out and enjoyed a morning of talking with my moms at playgroup, I would not had a chance to bring a little surprise present that I saw for one of my moms and just had to get for her, and would not of had the chance to meet a new mom at the playgroup who I hope to get to know and become friends with. Thanks
     I would not of got to spend a day with my girls and a friends, along with her friends and parents carving pumpkins, and learing the lesson of remembering that the pumpkins seeds were put in the oven. Burnt seeds still can taste good, and at least we got alot of really good pumpkins all carved, and had a blast doing it. Thanks
     I would not of got the chance to spend Thanksgiving morning with my Church friend teaching Sunday School. I would not of learned the wonderful lesson from her of being thankfull even for the bad, becasue you know what, after the bad happens there is alway a good thing left behind it to be thankful for. And I would not of got to watch my girls spend their moring having fun with their friends. Thanks
    
     Lastly I am of thankful for best friends of all, My love and my wonderful girls, who without them day to day living would be a bore. I love you guys I love enjoy every day with you in every single way!!!

 Highlight of the Day: having fun in the Leaves with Gord & the girls

Our Thanksgiving 2011

Funniest thing said over thanksgiving Dinner

For some reason we were talking about being in love with someone, Allison all of sudden blurst out and says, "Oh I can't wait to find that one person who is like, Oh I love you, please don't leave me" as she reaches out her arms dramatically, "I want you to stay with me forever"

Rant Of the Day

HUSBANDS, this seems it is going to end up being the rant of the day alot. We love then to death, just really don't understand why they have to be so funny. I had candy corn ready and waiting for Sunday School to make a Thanksgiving party mix, After days and days of telling the children they could have any, I discover that he has eaten some. It would not of been bad if he just ate some and admitted it, no insted he breaks into the container so the seal is still not broken and tries to blame it on the store not filling the jar full. Too bad that he gets a goofy smile on his face with he thinks he had gotten away with stuff! It is Thanksgiving so I have to be thankful for him though :)

my goofy husband

What I could not live without today

Catsanova

 he follows me around everywere, like a small dog, without barking, he is sleeping in my lap as I type right now.

Goodnight......Stay tuned.....

Get to know me better

1. Name someone with the same birthday as you. My Nephew Tyson

2. What has been your favourite age so far? 19, when I lived out west J

3. Where did you meet your husband? At his work, he worked with my brother

4. How many children do you have? Two

5. Have you ever sung in front of a large number of people? Nope, just with in front of kids.

6. What’s the first thing you notice about your preferred sex? Muscles, nice ass

7. What really turns you off? people who act fake.

8. What do you order at Starbucks? nothing, not a fan of Starbucks….I know crazy right.

9. What is your biggest mistake? Not finishing High school

10. As a child, what did you want to grow up to be? psychologist

11. Say something totally random about yourself. I love to talk

12. Do you still watch kiddie movies or TV shows? Yes…..I am a Disney girl

13. Did you have braces? Nope lots of fillings though

14. Favourite Social Network? Facebook

15. What is the most romantic thing someone of the preferred sex has done for you? Ran away with me across the country J

16. When do you know when it’s love? When you feel yourself tethered to another and you never want to let go!

17. Do you speak any other languages? A little French

18. Have you ever been to a tanning salon? No

19. What magazines do you read? Today’s Parent

20. What is playing on your iPod right now? Led Zeppelin, All of your love.

21. Have you ever ridden in a limo? No never L

22. Has anyone you were really close to passed away? Papa, Grandpa, My good friend Jason

23. Do you watch MTV? Yes I love it!!

24. What’s something that really annoys you? Lies, and Stupid people and these seem to go hand in hand

25. Which television show you were sad to say goodbye to? Justice, it was a lawyer show who always showed the case at the very end.

26. Can you dance? I don’t think I can, But I have been told I can

27. What’s your favourite place in the world? Outdoors in Nature

28. Have you ever been rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room? Nope never have.

29. If you could meet anyone (dead or alive) who would it be? Sigmund Freud. Just one day to have a coffee and conversations

30. If you could change one thing in the world for your child, what would it be? For the world to slow down, to not be so right now, a place were people knew what comes with waiting and still waits!!


 Cute highlight of the Day:

Catsanova helping me with my Laundry

Rant Of the Day:

So it must be Monday, because everything the girls need for school is missing, stuff is in the way of the stroller and everyone is cranky from Daddy having them out late. My rant today is about HUSBANDS, mine never seems to have a care about Mondays. Mondays we get back to school, and always have cranky kids, daddy keeps them out late. We are always missing a hat or some boots or a coat, maybe there are in the car maybe they are missing all together. There always seems to be something stuck in front my stroller or the kids bikes from something he was working on and had no time to put away. And never once are we aloud to get mad about it, because that is seen as ranting on them....lol..but what would happen if we flipped the shoe around. If we were to take a tool and not return it so they had to go hunting for it right in the middle of working on something, or if we put are strollers and bikes in front of the tool box or behind the car, or what would happen if we kept them out all night on a work night only to be tired and cranky the next day. Well I don't think they would be very happy either. and expecially not if that day was a Monday.

Things I could not live without today:

My kobo, I am really into this book!!! love having the Kobo to read on!

　

Why did I get up again today?

"I'm coming one min, ohhh, noooo, OH MY .........!!!!!"

     This is exactly how it sounded earlier today while trying to get kids ready for school. I wanted to head into the kitchen and while crossing the living room the dog did not get out of my way so I tripped over Jaz's foot only to step right on the the baby kitten, then after stepping on Catsanova I almost fell and landed on the baby. This was so my cue to call it a day.
     This is one of my moments that I though to myself  "who's idea was it to get a pet?". Have you ever had one of those days were everything that you try to do just does not work. My whole day carried on like this. I was almost ready to head out the door to playgroup when Teaghan fell asleep, so we ended up changing our plans and going late. After playgroup we were biking home and My breaks pulled out and could not stop very well, and ended up practically running over Ella on her bike. Ella just gave me the weirdest look, as to say " slow down Evil Kineville" then motioned me to go ahead of her. Once we got home my light bulb burned out overtop of my kitchen table so we had to eat in the my really dark kitchen.
     Ahhhh finally nap time. I truly believe that if I did not get that hour and a half to just relax and enjoy my new book I would not of been able to withstand the next part of my day!!!!
     While I am nicely drinking my tea and reading my book in my lovely lazy boy, I notice outside that it is raining out now, and not just spitting, but pouring. I think to myself OK I am going to drive down today no problem. Once we get down to school and get a good parking spot I turned the car on so that I could defog the windows, needed to see Alli when she came out. She gets out of the school and I have her bike in the back of the car (were I already smashed my shin on the trailer hitch while loading it). We get in and get buckled up then I start the car.....opppps I mean I DON'T START THE CAR!!!! the car is dead. Everyone I know has left the school so not only do I not get a ride home, I don't have someone I can boost my car off of.  I took 5 very long deep breaths.....why did I do this, because now I have to walk Alli,Ella and Teaghan home, and wonderful me didn't think to put Teaghan's shoes on her so I have to carry her the whole way home in the pouring rain.
     Now I had many, many, many, many options to how I could of responded to this. After my whole day, I did really consider crying like a baby. I also considered just giving up, just sitting in the middle of the side walk giving up. I could of got angry and started yelling at everything, but instead I put a smile on my face because I had to carry baby Teaghan in my arms, and it sure wasn't her fault I was having a bad day!!!
     We started out on our walk home in the rain. Alli got her bike out of the car and road it home, Ella walked beside me and Teaghan in my arms. I know I have to not think about how much this totally sucks, so I just decide to stay quite and walk. That's when Teaghan brings a good idea to the table, here it is poring rain and all she has on is her coat, hood and mittens, and she starts singing and dancing the boogie right there in my arms just like she started in the movie "singing in the rain".  I can't help but have one of those ahhh moments, here this poor baby gets caught in the rain, but she is not going to let that damper her spirits. We spent the rest of the walk home singing all our favourite songs together ( even the new bananna song we learned at playgroup). I have to say my day got a lot better after that. Well I don't know if the day got better or I just developed a way of seeing over the problem.
     I needed not to worry about the car either, one quick call to my girlfriend Katy and her hubby Dwayne, and they ran right down to the school and boosted my car and very nicely delivered it home. No worries things always have a way of working themselves out especially if you act like a rock when that big storm comes in. I am sure glad I didn't go and get angry or cry and make a big fool out of myself. I used to be like that, back when my kids were wee babies. I would loose my cool over something small, I would cry over spilled milk, make a total fool out of myself and always wind up feeling awful after the fact. I made it home safe a little wet, but really lets be honest I'm not the wicked witch of the West, I will not melt if I get wet!! Thank -you Teaghan for reminding me we can always sing in the rain, life is to short for being upset all the time, we should be enjoying our day, in every single way!


       Quote of the Day:
The soul is healed by being with children.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky~

      Funny Highlight for the day:

Allison got a new Principal at her school this year. About a week back she said that she really liked him except that he always wear this really goofy smile on his face and she found that just weird to be so smiley.
Today at school they had a dress like the Principal day. Alli had her tie, white shirt and jeans picked out to wear to look like him. As she named off all the stuff she was going to wear she blurts out at the end,
"Oh and I guess I have to wear that goofy smile he always has on his face"
I just love that girl to pieces.

Allison impression of the goofy smile

Allison dressed up as principal, even got a blackberry

Best Saying of the day:

So after I told my wonderful Love Gord not to take the car he took it downtown to get pizza, Ella later comes running in the house and Yells, "The car broke again and now Daddy is really PISSED OFF" maybe if he would listened to me or  of read my blog he would not of got mad......lol

Rant of the Day:

Why can't we all see everyone in the world as equal. I am reading "The Help" and wow what a powerful book, I think to myself I can't believe what they had to live with many years ago, and find myself wondering how far have we really come. I got another topic brought to my attention today, Homosexuality and Marriage. How can we say that we have come so far. All I think we did is pass the treatment on to others. Yes it is more excepted today then it ever was, but when you live in a small town you do seem to notice that it is still seen to some as wrong. I have a gay brother, and I love him to pieces. He is far more of a man then half of the dog men I know. I would feel honoured and privileged to stand up in his wedding, all I want for him is the same I would of wanted for him even if he wasn't gay. I want him to fall in love, get married and have a family. I am sure that back in the day when we asked coloured people to use a separate bathroom there were people out there who too just wanted to see these people happy and being able to go were they pleased. But I know just like now there was 10x more people who think it unacceptable.

Two good things in my day.

getting to read my new book

Nice picture my 5 year old Ella took of me, now I have a new facebook pic. and I learned how to clean up the background!!

What I could not live without today:

Dwayne & Katy for rescuing my car!

Stayed tuned tomorrow for.......A Get to Know me better quiz!!!

To Blog or not to Blog

"what are you doing? when are you going to be done? Is this new blog thingy going to happen every night?"

     Night after night we move through our routine with the kids, super time, daddy time, bath time, story time, teeth time, bedtime, and then Mommy and Daddy time. Night after night we sit and watch T.V, sometimes we talk, sometimes we play video games like we are teenagers, sometimes we just call it a night and go to bed. This has become our routine. Men love the routine they love knowing what your are going to do, without that routine they would have not a clue what we are doing, thinking, or planning. Woman on the other hand might like the routine, but we have these things called emotions, once the routine sets in for us we start to think, "He doesn't even know I am here, he could do all this by himself without me and he wouldn't even notice that I wasn't here."
     I thought this, I thought oh good I can sit here in the same room as him, do my blog work instead of waiting till we are in bed and writing in my journal. I thought what does it matter he is watching his show, and If he needs to talk to me I'm right here, he is an adult. I think he made it like 30 min into the show when the winning started. I could not help but think to myself, "Really the kids are in bed and here I have to deal with another one"  I found myself thinking should I continue to Blog, or just stop to make sure I spent time with him.?
     I think that us woman need to realize that men have a child like nature at heart. Its normal for them to want to watch their shows, play their video games, be in the middle of a conversation and keep leading it back to their bad day at work, and they need to do all this-just like a child- with you sitting right beside them. It might not be like this in your home, But I find in mine and lots of my friends homes, the men are just like The Man Child.
     Basically they like to unwind by spending their time, much the same way as they did when they were boys, that's why they can't help but need us lots more then we think they do. Just like a child needs some one-on-one so does your man. Give you Hunny some time today, think of all the funny boy like things he enjoys doing, take a note from his page, enjoy yourself like your a child again. 
     I once read a book with a great saying that fits this good.
"Boys are competitive, like to play rough and do goofy things, they grow up to be Men who are competitive, like to play rough and do goofy things"
    

This started out as just a quick ride for the girls, Well you can see it ended in a competitive way. I once witnessed Gord race my 9 year old Nephew on their bikes. Gord was carrying a kids scooter on his back, and suddenly his foot slipped off the petal and he did a header over the handle bars. that stunt left him with road rash right across his face, and he was proud of it....lol

Like to play rough, and rough it was that night, both keep going until they hurt each others arms. crazy boys

Then the kids joined in and thought it great :)

Goofy things, we all think he looks goofy, but if you read his shirt closely it says, "This is what cool looks like"

I own like 3 pictures of Gord and I that are nice, I have a million pictures of us with him making goofy faces ;)

   I always looked at it like having to raise an extra child, Men however look at it differently, they love YOU, want to watch T.V with just YOU, wants to play video games with YOU, want only YOU to vent to and make them feel better, and want to brag about their day with nobody but YOU.

I think I will still Blog, I will just make sure I get a good 30 mins in with him before I set to the computer for Blog time!

I Love you Hunny!

~My Man Child~

Quote of the Day:

A man's home may be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery. ~Clare Booth Luce~

     So I though about this all through out the day, and while watching my girls I began to ponder a interesting question.
     Do you think we as woman every really grow up either? Can you remember back to when you were a little girl and all the stuff you loved to play with? Chances are you are remembering a lot of memories filled with, dress up, playing dolls, fake make up, cooking supper and tea parties, all the things we do now that we are older. I watched today and snapped pictures of all the things the girls were doing that I do now!

Addison loves changing the baby

she was actually singing while cleaing these dishes

and look at the consintration on her face while cooking! 

Ella playing the airplane game while feeding her little girl

Girls love to play dress up to look like mom

And look how proud she looks with her kids on a walk

Girls can't wait to wear make up

They want to text with their friends already

they love to dream about the doggy or kitty they will get to take care of someday.

I wonder though is it that we have never really grown up in life, or is it maybe that we had our priorities straight at a very young age....lol.

There is one difference I did notice about Men from woman and how our mood changes as we become older. I noticed that men love to do what they did as boys, they still love to get dirty and be dangerous, and usually you can find them doing this to try to unwind from their stressful day. We as woman do grow up and love running out households, but I don't think we often enough see it as unwinding. We complain about dishes were we used to sing while doing them, we never get dressed up as much as we should these days, and when we do its usually complaints about our hair or are ever ageing faces. We love our pets with all our hearts, but there has been times were you though to yourself "who's bright idea was it to get a pet". I guess before we go judging our husbands for their childlike ways, we should be looking at our old childlike ways, and do like the men do and have fun with it. Dishes can be fun, its a great way to calm down when your angry. Remember you are your toughest critic when it comes to your appearance, men love the way you look always even when you wake up in the morining, and who else will snuggle with you, even though you yelled at them for eating garbage. We spent our whole childhood dreaming about evey detail of our lives, we more often need to act like a person who is living their dreams, everyday in everysingle way!

The Cuteness of the Day:

Teaghan's First taste of a Chocolate Chip Cookie, almost looks like the cookie monster :)

Rant of the Day:

Why in the world do websites have to always be changing the way their pages are set up? and no I am not talking about Facebook, at least with Facebook they keep all the options present. I spent over 30 mins of time I didn't have trying to download a book onto my ereader. Of course I had to take the new version option and it changed my whole page around and I could not get the book loaded. 20 more min on the phone with costumer service and at the end I learn it was a simple difference of having to have ereader pluged in before signing into account because it starts syncing books right away now..... grrrr.... I just don't get why they can't just let you know that before you upload a book. I had to delate my whole account and start again..... Only good thing out of it, I did at least get my book in the end!!!

Things I could not live without today and Why:

Addison for Reminding me what all little girls dream of being a mommy!

Ella for Reminding me how much fun you can have living your childhood dreams :)

Also could not of lived without my Vacumn today, I think I used it about 8 times today in one room it was a messy kid kind of day!!

Don't forget to tune in tomorrow.......were anything can happen !!

 

    

Autumn Glory

" oh no Elizabeth, you just spilled your milk all over the floor, and where is Allison she should be out of bed by now, Addison you better eat up quick or we will be late, Hailey....Hailey what are we going to do with you, that cough is soo loud I worry the school will just send you home, Oh hello little Teaghan oohhhh wow you have a little stinky present for me as we are just getting ready to leave!!"

     I am completely amazed that all 6 of us made it out the door in one piece today, Usually our breakfast table is spent all together snacking away and talking about everything under the sun. Unfortunately today everyone was crazy and lazy and the morning was spent with all us running around like that headless chicken. I thought to myself WOW what is in store for today if this is the start we all have.
     That's when Mother Nature decided to help us out, once we got outside the sun was shinning, the leaves were showing off all their new leaf colours, and a nice peaceful setting fell over our small village. I thought to myself, this is how I need to set the pace for my day. It shouldn't matter how chaotic the day can become, because 15 mins spent outdoors in the Autumn Glory can take away that 1 hour of chaos.The life we live is so right now, so busy, so worried about getting to were we need to go. If you find yourself going crazy and feel that headless chicken coming on, take a break, take a walk think about all the things in nature to be thankful for. After all October is just around the corner. As soon as we got settled and ready to walk you could just see the biggest smiles on their faces, they are in no hurry, they don't care to get were they are going. We need to take a note from their page and enjoy life every single day in every single way!

Teaghan & Addison

Happy and smiling, Teaghan is all cleaned up and fells better.

Addison is still in her P.J's, I warned her she wouldn't have time to get dressed!

Elizabeth & Allison

Elizabeth made it without spilling herself off her bike, everything else is another story :)

Allison got ready in record time today and was quit pleased with herself.

Hailey

Poor Hailey, Decided to go to school today, even though she spent all morning coughing out that frog. I would of enjoyed her company at home today,we taking about Autumn the whole way to school!

Quote of the day:

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
~William Shakespeare~

As the day went on I made sure to set that thankful calm pace. The 3 older kids went to spend their day at school and then the afternoon at the Terry Fox run. Me and the little ones has a good idea to spend the afternoon in the Autumn Glory, so once playtime, snack time, craft time, lunchtime, nap time were done we headed out and about to explore Autumn. We went with some Friends to the Restaurant to have a snack, then spent the afternoon outside.

Cleaning up the leaves

Discovering the leaves

Playing in the leaves

Watching the leaves

Couldn't of asked for a better afternoon

Lesson learned about her beautiful hat, Bee go crazy for that flower, especially during out Autumn Glory Days!!

But it is ohhhh sooo cute :)

Time to go I Love Teaghan's ride to go pick up girls from school!

Our day is coming to a close, we get home from school, and I find some time to get my pictures loaded onto the computer to see what I got.

Allison approaches me and begins the broken record of asking over & over & over again if she can have a mini mint chocolate on my computer desk.

"No thank-you Alli you may not, you were kinda being rude by bugging me like that" 5 mins goes by and here comes Alli approaching me from the other side, I don't even really notice her until she is leaning her head on my shoulder, she then leans in to give a sweet kiss on my cheek....But out of the corner of my eye I spy her little hand reaching for the chocolates. She fooled me, she totally figured that she would just kill me with sweetness while she grabbed the sweets. I took this wonderful opportunity to tell her how she could of just tried to wait patiently and ask nicely and maybe she would get the chocolate. Then offered her a rewind....she then approached me with the crab walk, waited and then asked nicely for the chocolate, and received it.

Allison's Crab Walk

Taking a note from her page, I decide to try something new. Every night I send Gord a text saying "When you home" and I always get just a one time texts back. Today however I decided to wait to text him till later and then ask him with my nice words, I wrote "Hey Hunny, do you know yet when you will be home xoxo" this time I got a better return text,

"6:00, hugs & Kisses-xoxoxo"

But believe me when I say a few good words go a long way, both me and Allison learned to not just use our words, but use our nice words.

The rest of the night when on like clockwork, super time, daddy time, bath time, snack time, story time, teeth time, bedtime. Now here I sit for Blog time :)

  

Now for the funny Highlights of the day:

Addison & Daddy saying goodbye to each other 5 o'clock today

"You be a good girl today Addison"

"You be good today too Daddy"

I can see why she says this, ask her what Daddy did the last time she was at home she will tell you "Daddy broke the kitchen" her family is rebuilding their whole kitchen.

Later that day while Auntie Nikki talked to Addison about kitchen.

"were does mommy do her dishes"

"giggle, giggle, outside"

which isn't true, but Addison sure thought it was and though it funny too, Oh how I would love to think like a kid :)

Things I could not live without today and why!

My Phone for my wonderful text today, and my camera for giving me wonderful Autumn Glory Pictures

My Rant for the Day:

So somebody please tell me why If a unfixed, unleashed male dog stalks my property because my unfixed leashed up female dog is in heat, why is it up to me to get my dog fixed or at least up to me to catch the little bugger and hold him put until the dog catcher can get here, I am not the person who didn't care enough to leash my dog. Wake up and smell the coffee Dog Catcher I am never going to catch that dog and neither are you. So listen if you have a brain in your head to get a dog have a brain in your head to keep it on your own properety, everyday all day long visits off a leash will not buy you the prom king and queen vote in your town. Be smart, Have a heart, nobody wants to hit your kids dog today....Leash your Dog 

Goodnight All......and tune in tomorrow for.....????