new park

Who knew you could always find a new park with funky new toys just about anywhere in your neighborhood?

the boyfriends

Since you asked, I will let you know which kids are Maelie's boyfriends on the class picture. For those of you who didn't know, you can click on the class picture and it will get bigger, so then you can actually see the kids.

Theo, the first love, is the little boy in the back row right in the middle. He is wearing the blue shirt. The little boy to the right of him, Mathieu, is Maelie's good friend, but she has not considered marrying him yet.

The other potential husband is Sebastien. If you look at the middle row, he is the little boy in the white shirt right below Mathieu (who has the plaid shirt). He is kind of trying to look up in the picture. He is right on top of the little girl with the pig tails.

It is so funny for Maelie to talk about these little classmates.
Angelina and I are not friends anymore. She did this... or did that...
Heather is my friend. But she bosses me around. So she isn't my friend anymore (huh?)
and it goes on and on and on....!

Kath: I was wondering about what you mentioned. I keep looking at the little girls and try and see which one will she be friends with in 27 years! :)

ribbons & fudge

"ewww gross mom. peanut butter fudge is disgusting"
"try it Maelie... you may be surprised"

Results:



Please tell me I am not the only one who gets completely excited by a bunch of Christmas ribbons?

let me get this straight

"Mom, this girl in grade one would like to come back to kindergarten"

"oh really? who?"

"well she is the sister of my new boyfriend, Sebastian"

pause.

"oh, so what about Theo? is he still your boyfriend too?"

"well yes. I don't know which of the two i'm gonna marry"

"oh, how come?"

"well, Theo has a new girlfriend. you know, Heather. the one that bosses me around"

I guess that little Theo likes controlling women! Heather and Maelie really have strong personalities. And that little boy is so sweet and quiet.

Who knew kindergarten was so complicated!

Christmas is coming

Little by little... it's time to take out or winter stuff!
I find that if I wait until December to take it all out, I have no time to enjoy it. So Halloween night, off went the Halloween curtains and tablecloth and on went the winter ones....!




My internal Christmas clock is ticking. My goal for this year would be to enjoy making things to give. Edibles being the number one gift! :) It is hard in a commercial world to focus on simplicity for the holidays, but once again, I will try my best not to fall in the trap!

Back from our weekend away

For those of you who are curious to know, I survived one night without Maelie, and with no problems at all. I love going places. anywhere really. I am not afraid of driving anywhere, no fear of getting lost. Perhaps that is just part of me, part of my personality. I enjoy the adventure. I know I can't get permanently lost, so I just enjoy finding new places.

I didn't even take pictures in Montreal! How unlike me....

When we got to my moms though, I did take pictures of the new little additions to the house. (soon to find new homes however)





Three perfect little bundles of energy. My allergies went crazy with all this baby fur flying in the house. Two of the babies have really long hair, however one has a little bit shorter hair. One is the exact replica of his mama. The yellow one is a boy and the others are girls. They are really hard to resist...!

Maelie's swimming lessons

At Maelie's last swimming lesson, I took some pictures, but didn't have a chance to post them.



She really enjoys her classes. She tries really hard and even if she is afraid of something, she will do it to show the teacher she can... ! A people pleaser already... poor kid! :)