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!