LAUGHTER FOR ALL WOMEN!!!

For all of us who have read the secret, listened to positive motivational tapes, read those books and who exercise (or try to get into a solid routine... ) this one is for you. Be prepared to laugh out loud. I did!! ENJOY!!

This is hilarious!

Just click on the pic....

Watch Episode 9: Motivate for Only in A Woman's World.

I am so "BLESSED"

Today as I sat on my front porch reflecting upon my day, my mind wandered to my kids.

Let me tell you about my day:

First off I slept in until 7.30 am which is a huge sleep-in for me. I wandered downstairs to start my day. A typical morning of letting my dog out, making my coffee, bringing the dog back in, giving her breakfast, pouring my coffee, grabbing my books, my dog and journal and then off to my covered porch. But this am, my oldest daughter Jamie popped by at 8.00am with her coffee in hand and we both went to the porch to enjoy coffee together for about 30 minutes. We had a great chat.

Shortly after that, my youngest daughter Chelsea woke up and we chatted until she was off as well. Always fun with the Chelsea.

After a long coffee morning, I went out to garden to putter around. This, by the way, is my perfect moment - my perfect place. I am at true peace each and every time I am in my garden.

Then the men to remove the old dead tree in my backyard showed up which was fabulous because I have been wanting them to come for a few weeks. I watched them take down the tree and then my 2nd daughter Brittany arrived. We watched the tree come down together, made a sandwich and off to the porch we went. I think we sat out on the porch for over 1 hour chatting about our futures until it was time for her to go to work. It was wonderful.

I went back to my gardening and then I cut the grass

Then a black truck pulled up and out jumped my son Jason and his new girl friend. Jason was just checking to see if everything went well with the tree removal and if I was happy with it. My wonderful son - just checking in to see if the "MOM" was happy with everything. I was so off he went again.

I returned to cutting the grass, finished up my work, showered and have returned to my porch with my dog, some gardening magazines and my journal.

Ahhh.. Yes I am reflecting. My kids. I am simply blessed. There is no other way to describe it. Despite the fact that so many times I was exhausted with having 4 young ones to look after, the reward is clearly here now. Fortunately, we are all living in close proximity and therefore this pop in for a quick chat with the "MOM" is the normal routine. I love it. I simply love it.

TODAY, I am expressing my gratitude to my kids. I am so blessed to have the 4 kids that I have. I wouldn't have choosen it any other way.

Love to you all...

The "MOM"

JUNE 25 2009

TODAY....

The Heavens are enjoying beauty and music.

The Angels are singing backup for Michael ...just for tonight

There is a pain free life for Farrah and her beauty has returned,

Brighter than ever under God's magnificent Light.

TONIGHT....

The moon walk may truly be on the moon.

Rest in Peace

And may we all realize just a little bit more that tomorrow is never for sure.

the "MOM"

THINGS ABOUT ME

To my kids:
One day I asked myself "what was my mother's favourite season?" and I didn't know.
So for those years to come when you wonder...
What was my Mom's favourite season?























My favourite season is without a doubt... summer time.
I love to be warm and in fact I still sleep with a duvet in the summer and in the winter 2 duvets some nights. Yup... I love to be WARM.

I love...

summer drinks,















sunshine
gardening
cutting the grass
making things beautiful outside
fresh vegetables













fresh strawberry jam











flowers boxes

COLOUR in nature and lots of it
outdoor rooms













no coats,
no shoes
bathing suits
(and of course bathing suit cover ups lol)
a golden tan
bbq food
ice cream











cold beer
going for walks
swimming
talks on the porch outside
beach
golfing









the breeze on my face













the sounds of nature
windows open rather than AC.
waking up to birds chirping
covered porches
and Watermelon... lots of it.













I love summer the best.
Love the "MOM"

Books & Memories featuring "Love you Forever"

Here is my favourite Children's Book.

All of you kids will recognize it as we read it over and over and then some more.

All of you have your own personalized copy from me for your keepsake box.

And I have a copy too thanks to Jamie who gave me a copy of it back one year!!

The books is about love and the cycle of life.

It's about 'I look after you then you look after me.'

It is about looking after your children to the fullest, giving them all of you - support, unconditional love, kindness, forgiveness, being there for them regardless of their circumstances, their friends, their spouses, their life style, their decisions or their choices.

then.... they will do the same for you.

I promise that to my kids.

I now know how important it is to have a parents unconditional non- judgemental love and support. I know that I am the best Mom that I can be. And I also know what kind of grandparent I want to be and will be. I will be an active participant in their lives. I will be generous with them, share with them, love them and support them. They will adore their grandma and I will adore them even more. But most importantly, I am so glad that this is different than how I was raised. I am so glad that I have been taught an invaluable lesson this past year.

So to my kids, as the book goes...

I'll love you forever,

I'll like you for always,

as long as I'm living

my baby you'll be."

Here is the history of the book. Who knew that such a book came from such heartache.

Here is Robert Munsch's story:

"I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead. The song was my song to my dead babies. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn't even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn't sing.
For a long time it was just a song but one day, while telling stories at a big theatre at the University of Guelph, it occurred to me that I might be able to make a story around the song.
Out popped Love You Forever, pretty much the way it is in the book.
My regular publisher felt that it was not really a kid's book and I ended up doing it with another publisher.
One day the publisher called up and said "This is very strange. It is selling very well in retirement communities in Arizona. It is selling in retirement communities where kids are illegal. This is supposed to be a children's book. What is going on?"
"Grownups are buying it for grownups!"
In fact, it turned out that parents buy it for grandparents and grandparents buy it for parents and kids buy it for everybody and everybody buys it for kids.
As a matter of fact, everybody buys it for everybody. "

I look forward to reading "love you forever" to my 'grand kids' some day... over and over again. How wonderful!

Kids... remember these?? Other books we read over and over again. I STILL HAVE THEM!!

"Love you Forever"

the 'MOM'

The event of the week June 2009

Where did she go?

Here is my daughter. Her name is Chelsea and this week she is no longer my little girl. She is no longer needing to depend on me for everything.

This week, this little girl no longer needs her tricycle, or her bicycle or her roller blades.

This week my little baby has her Drivers License and is able to hop in the car and go wherever she needs to go.

Oh, she is still sporting her big beautiful smile with those large gorgeous blue eyes but she has much more hair and much better coordination!! She has traded in those pink rubber boots for flip flops.

I am very proud of Chelsea especially how she took it upon herself to ensure her success.

She graduated from Drivers Education much earlier than her actual testing day so she asked her instructor for extra lessons closer to the day of the exam. In fact, the instructor even gave her a lesson the morning of the test. I didn't even know about this until the lessons started up again. Chelsea planned this herself. This extra preplanning and forward thinking is nothing short of brilliant. So many people do not have this foresight.

On the morning of her test day when her instructor and her were doing one final parallel parking, Chelsea didn't know it at the time, but the car waiting behind her turned out to be her testing instructor. So he saw her do a perfect parking even before the test began!! Now that gave her confidence for sure.

So, for me, where did my baby go? Where did the time go? Well it went... working, playing, teaching, training, raising this baby and driving her around. Now I can stroke off "the driving around" part. And yes maybe she's not my baby anymore.

I think she still needs me though lol.

Hmmm.
Congrats Chelsea

You did awesome but I knew you would.

love ya forever

THE MOM

Sand Sculpture Treasure Island Florida

IT'S 5:00 SOMEWHERE!!!

Enjoy the weekend everyone!