Tuesday August 9 2011

Puppy love at a friend's house

playing baseball and other antics

moms have tea...blessed tea

riding on the tractor!

being introduced to kohlrabi

sprinkler games

admiring gardens

home to make cookies for neighbours

spontaneous baseball game with neighbour starts up

all is well with the world

Cinderelly, Cinderelly

Something you may not know about me is that I am a Cinderella freak.

I LOVE the story of Cinderella.

I *HEART* it.

Really. I have almost read every version of it. I have watched almost ever movie version made of it (except for cheap youtube knockoffs. A girl has GOT to have some standards!)

I love Cinderella.

There's just something about it that reminds me about my relationship with Jesus.

I was a broken mess. Fatherless and alone. Believing lies about myself. But then I met this Prince of Peace and had a radical encounter with Him that made me desperate for His love. And nothing could keep us apart. The end.

I just love Cinderella.

And so it will come as no surprise that now that there is a new version of Cinderella emerging, I am excited and stoked.

I have listened to this song (see video below) over a dozen times in the last hour. I many be approaching PATHETIC on the meter that gages COOLNESS.

This song is from the new film A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song.

Monday August 8 2011

Things that I said today:

No, we won't be having ice cream for breakfast today or any day, unless its Saturday and you catch me in one of my goofy moods.

Thank you for this Christimas gift. I always wanted a Hulabaloo game. Did you wrap this yourself?

No.

I should call Corrina.

Yes, your birthday is more than 30 days away.

Die, weed die!

Anybody want some ice cream?

I need to call Corrina.

Don't pee on the plants, please.

No.

Yes, gardening can be tough work some times. But the food makes up for it.

I was just talking to Corrina.

No.

The pool isn't that cold. Actually, it is that cold but I'm forcing you in here just the same.

Yelling the chorus lyrics to Leavin' by Paul Brandt out the window:

In a truck, in a train, in a car, in a bus
Change my luck, can't stay, going far, in a rush
Got that getaway feeling
I'm Leavin' Hey!

And don't forget to moisturize your neck. The neck never lies. If you don't moisturize your neck it comes back to haunt you in your fifties. Then you start wearing turtlenecks...in July.

I'm going to kiss the kids while their sleeping. Be right back.

Really? A remake of Dirty Dancing? No one says "No one puts baby in the corner" the same way. You can't remake that. First, they redo Footloose, now this. Don't even get me started on how no one should mess with the Kevin Bacon classic. You just can't recreate Holding Out For A Hero. They are going to mess it all up with flashy movie stuff that's used today. Now I sound old.

I'm this far away from waving my hands in the air and blaming everything on Trudeau.

Goodnight.

Weekends in August 2011

picnics

throwing rocks

blowing bubbles

building sand castles

taking in beauty

chalk grafitti on the rocks

Swimming!

Slurpees

And reading one of my favourite blog posts evah!!!! click here to read it!

Friday August 5 2011

This morning we wrote multiple thank you cards

and then made ice cream in a bag

After 8 minutes of work--it was ready and delicious!

outside for a tour of our flower beds

inside for drawings and reading stories

off to the pool--our 2nd home

Cannonball!

Flannel boards at the library

books, books, books

A walk

reading our new books: Green Noses, Emma's Eggs, Stuart Little, Curious George and Curious George goes to the movies

Drawing

Fort making for our camp out in the living room

And movie night

Watching the thunderstorm come in

and reading more books by twinkly lights inside the cozy fort

Bon nuit!

August 4 2011

Swimming

under

the

blue

blue

blue

sky.

Eating

peas

from

the

Farmer's

Market.

Great

talks

with

friends.

Summer

bliss

!

August 3 2011

On August 3 and four

we walked outside our front door

And went into the leafy trees

to spot the flowers, creeks and bees

a nature walk for the pair of us

where we found wild asparagus

and a bridge that arches over water

that made us wish we brought your father

Laughed with new friends on our walk

spit cherries from the green bridge dock

raced home to eat a feast

while listening to audios by Jim Weiss

Still life drawing for the afternoon

Reading books about the moon

playing games and neighbour talk

out again for another walk

Dinner, stories and bird song choir

Eating ice cream by the fire

Lights are out, sky is dark

Home is happy, content this heart

Tuesday August (!) 2 2011

August is here....time to soak up the sun!

The day is bright and we're off for a nature walk

A trot across the bridge

Sighing at the water

Hooray for saskatoon berries

A walk in the fields

And a swinging time at the park

making sand creations

Back home for a picnic lunch

and a run to the pool

some new books from the library

--yay! More Jim Weiss!

Restaurant games

And real ice cream:

Vanilla and saskatoon berries

vanilla and balsamic vinegar and strawberries

Yum!

And then out for a community game of soccer-baseball

August is going to be a good month!