Ah! Speech time again!

Once again! Speech time at Maelie's school! Maelie worked hard for weeks on her speech. Once she got going there was no stopping her! Initially, she had written enough to make her speech over 6 minutes! So we had to cut some parts out :) She read it to me over and over and over! This is one project that is both a student and parent homework! Yes the student has to memorize, but the parent has to listen and make suggestions along the way! I think I heard her speech over 200 times!! but I wouldn't change it for the world!

Maelie did a great performance at school. The speech was in French and you would easily believe French was her first language. She won 2nd place, and I was extremely proud of her! Even if she hadn't won anything, I would have been more than proud. She has a great, expressive stage presence!

On another note, I discovered why I don't post on my blog as often anymore. I notice that every time we change Windows, things change, all the programs change... and I discovered that when you change my usual way of doing things, I don't always adapt easily. So I end up disliking the uploading of photos and then the viewing, editing and loading of the pictures! UGH!  I wish that nothing changed with the programs ! once it works.... don't change it!!

So I will try and post more. Maelie actually is the one who commented on me not posting much. I did tell her though that the fact that she doesn't want her picture taken, or that she says "this better not go on your blog" affects my decisions too!! I will try and post more often, for the simple fact that she enjoys reading the blog when she gets older. I wouldn't want her to miss out on this season of her life simply because I hate windows 8! LOL

March not-so-break

The March break started off with Maelie going for a sleepover at a friend's house. She came home and wasn't feeling that well. Her friend's sister had the stomach flu... so that's what happened to Maelie Sunday night! I am really afraid of puking. I hate it with a passion!! SO out came the cleaning products. I bleached the washroom SO many times for the next 2 days. I used hertel with bleach to wash the toilet after every single use. I sprayed Lysol to kill germs and Javexed the toilet and floors. I was determined to NOT get the stomach bug!!

By the time the germs were all out of the house,  realised that perhaps I should have worn gloves... I washed my hands SO often and of course had all kinds of harsh chemicals on them... so I literally burnt my hands!! I ended up with stinging skin, and the got a crusty layer on both hands. The picture doesn't do it justice! It was horrible. Hopefully I didn't permanently harm myself!!

We babysat Peluche at the end of the break. He is a fun distraction to have around, though he keeps us close to home. He seemed to take a liking to one of Maelie's fish! He didn't want to give it back!

I took Maelie shopping on the weekend since that is what she is into right now. It also compensated for the days where she did nothing during the break!! We managed to find some good sales and she was extremely happy :)

The March Break came and went and now we are just starting to think of Maelie bday in April... and the grad plans for June!!