Good -bye Gimli

Our Guinea Pig Gimli passed away last night, from what I assume were natural causes. Although this is our 2nd G.P. to have died in the last 3 years. Frodo the rabbit sure is gonna miss her, they were involved romantically. Depending on how he takes it, I might have to get him another companion. Only thing is it will have to be a G.P. 'cause male rabbits fight with each other, and we all know what would happen if I were to get a female rabbit.

BABY GUINEA PIG GURGLING!

This is just how our guinea pig Gimli used to sound when we would pet her.

CSI:NY-Chameleon Boy

This is an amzing song! i have really come to love Blue October! And as we already know adore Carmine Giovinazzo from CSI:NY, which is on tonight!!!

Happy soon to be EAsTer!

You know, I only gained 2.5 lbs during Christmas, and pretty much lost that by New Years. So, my problem is Easter. If you take away the "s"and "er" it spells Eat. So it is no wonder that this is the time for me that I go a little crazy with the chocolate. My absolute favourite are the Cadbury Mini Eggs, which I am eating right now! I love them even more than plain M&Ms. Can't wait to go Easter shopping for the kids.

LO Post

For those non-scrappers a LO is a layout (a page). This is one i did of my gorgeous niece Becca. She is at that stage in her life where she is reinventing herself. What a wonderful time, to choose what you want to be, without having to worry if what you want to be will pay the bills, work with your kids' schedule, or if you can do it. Then again I sure wouldn't want to deal with all those 14 yr old issues of teenage cliches, boys, and being unsure of yourself.

Ofcourse that unsure of yourself thing hasn't changed much for me, and I am 15 years older than she is!

What have i done?!?

The top left pic is what I looked like on Staurday morn. Then I went for a haircut Sat. afternoon, which I wasn't too crazy about. So after a couple days of trying to get used to it, I went back to the hairdresser and had her cut it again.

Its gonna take awhile for this to grow out!

General Update

Just had to post this picture of this bare tree with all the hoar frost on it. Reminds me so much of Grandma Kerr.

Trevor has been in Reno for 4 days now, 8 more to go. He seems pretty busy building the displays and what not. Him and Darren take a hot tub each night at the hotel after they have done their work for the day.

Tate and his hockey team are now in the "A" Finals of the Novice division for our area. They will play Calahoo this weekend. He has also really brought up his marks this term! I must give kudos to his teacher, she is wonderful. Understanding, but firm.

Justine, although she has regressed as far as behaviour, has started to realise the negative effect that she has when she has her tantrums. Her new teacher put it in words that she could understand. She told her that she had a bad habit of releasing her frustrations on me. As well, her teacher pointed out that I was jumping in and feeding the fire with my reaction. So "CALM" is our new word. It really has been working! Justine still enjoys all that encompasses entertainment, singing, dancing, performing in general.

Cordell is doing amazing in school all Es for Excellent, w/one 2+ in printing (he doesn't form his letters quite right). He is really enjoying his swimming lessons this go 'round, and wants to join the Leduc Otters Swim Team after spring break.

Me, I am just waiting to hear if I have a 2nd part time position at the school. Would really love to work fulltime. I get a lot of self esteem and support from the staff. I really like being part of a 2nd family there, a semi normal one. Not that it is hard to be less messed up than my family.

I had an afaire!

Yes, I had an afaire, a Scrap-a-faire! I completely ignored my husband and children for 5 days! It was just like in the beginning of a new realationship. Where you try to get on with normal day to day activities, like showering, eating, doing the household chores but all you can think about is being with them. So although I did live my regular life this weekend (laundry, showering, eating..a lot of take out!), my heart just wasn't in it. Every waking moment if I wasn't at the online scrapbooking event, I was thinking about it!

My favourite classes were Melissa Inman's School Album in a Snap and Leah Fung's Rolodex Reminder. I also found a new Scrap Designer to stalk...Wendy Reed! She will be on Scrapbook LifeStyle in April. She just so happens to live in Vegas, where I just so happen to be taking my vacation at the end of April! I might have to turn into an official stalker!

Sadly it was just that, an afaire, and now it is over!

I think I need some chocolate!