Snow's here!

Mornings sure have changed since October

Wordless Wednesday, Morning Views October

And Now for something on the lighter Side

Today I feel like this!!!

Thank to the uploader on Youtube.

Catholic Guilt Revisited

Some of you may remember back in March? Let me find it. here Where I talked about my disappointment in myself and my lack of regular mass going. Well this week was no different. This Sunday I went alone! It felt great, it was uplifting but you know? I missed my kids. It was also Sign up week for Religion Classes (Sunday School) so I signed all 3 of them up.
There was a lot of "new" going on in mass this week. The church opened a new Website (no I'm not linking there), and they held the sign ups, and the priest made a huge effort to encourage everyone to be a part of the parish. It's impressive. I like my priest. He's nice, he's friendly and he's "with it". So they're talking of taking the Altar off the "stage" haha (Altar off the Altar?) and moving it down into the parish, with the chairs. We have individual chairs for our pews. It's nice because you can move your chair out of the line or shift a bit so your kids can see. So his new idea is with the Altar down in the seating area, we are part of the mass; and he is part of the parish.
On the way out of mass I had 1 question... Where do we genuflect then if you move the Altar? He said "we haven't genuflected in years, since I was a child" interesting I said because uh all of The Island is still Genuflecting when entering pews or going up onto the altar. Small changes take time it seems. I guess that's what we will find this coming week.
With the boys all signed up, we will be trying to get to the early mass. Another plus? this is 1hour between mass 1 and mass 2 where I'm home alone with Hubbie? I wonder if I should be Thanking God for this one?

I put this post over here because it's ME that wants the Catholic Mass in  our lives. Hubbie isn't at all interested, and that's a bit difficult.  1 mom and 3 boys is hard enough when Dad doesn't want to be there either? It's really difficult.

Linking up for Boost my Blog Friday

Happy Friday all. This week I'm adding my link for this blog over at Designitchic.

So I'm in, and you will notice if you scroll past all those lovely links of friendliness, you'll see the question she asked.

What's your favorite autumn desert?

 So I read her answer and she's talking all kinds of APPLE PIE! and then it came to me, Loaves! I love love love loaves. Apple walnut loaf? Yummy. And just because I wont leave you hanging here all cravish? I'm going to print out a recipe.. yummy!

1/4 apple sauce, 

1/4 cup softened margerine ,or butter (I'm on a budget.. I use margerine)

2 Eggs,

vanilla 1tsp

1 cup sugar (3/4 cup works too)

1 Cup Grated Apple (with or without peelings, if you  have braces? unpeeled)

2 Cups of Flour, I can replace 1/2cup of that with whole wheat, no one notices... shhhh)

1tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda (hahah almost put in the sofa)

1/2 tsp salt 

and 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts (or not) 

Mix and shove in the oven on 350F for an 50-60minutes, but I usually have good luck with 61minutes. a toothpick or Kabob stick make s good tester. 

So happy Friday all, go on link up it's a friendly place over there at

DesignitChic

VGNO, Home with Littlest Dude Cheap Week.

So it's Saturday and I'm sitting here with Littlest Dude MJ he's sick. :( He started out the day with a bit of a bug in his belly, but after some Gravol (Dramamine to those in the USA) he's feeling much better. We went BBQing and Beaching Lastnight. The water was wonderful, but I stayed ashore with the BBQ and the towels and I was on duty as warm hugger.

The boys had a great time. I did too. Today Hubbie took TJ and AJ out with him and some friends back to the beach. I'm manning the house, so what better excuse for a VGNO then being HOME! Also i'm BBQing Supper between my typing. Yep posting on the fly. That's me!

Link up,keep reading and hopping.





Since I'm BBQing and talking about food, I should offer you up something? Tonight its salad and some small and cheap Steaks. I marinaded them today with the recipe off the McCormicks, Montreal Steak spice. Oil, soysauce, and Montreal Steak spice. Moosh moosh moosh a few times while it was sitting in the fridge in a zipper bag. The fridge smalls like Montreal Steak Spice. I wonder though where did they get that name?



How about some drinks? Again it's on the cheap here, Powdered Peach Juice from the local Grocery store and water from the tap. The boys tell me this stuff is AWESOME? (my brain knows better so it might be a bit weak, hehe )


well I guess that just leaves the music... let me see... Trooper is coming to town in September. Do you think if I mention them enough, they might (even without being listed in the great Googly) find me? and give me free tickets?

Seeing A theme here? Cheap. Some Free internet games?


Maybe I shouldn't be allowed to Party this heavily?Where did I put that Rum... yeah Rum and Grocerystore Brand Soda it is. diet of course...
Happy Saturday Everyone.

Nothing for Me

I didn't get up early this morning and take any pictures. I lazed in bed, trying to get me just 1 more hour of sleep for "ME". It didn't work. It's very difficult to find "me time" lately. I find every little thing I try to accomplish that is just for me? Isn't. I'm giving the last piece of toast to someone else. I'm waiting for someone else to finish eating, or go to bed. ME is very hard to find lately.
That might just sound a bit selfish but sometimes I want to just find me.

Me are you there?... too many mumble Answers from everyone but me!

My Morning View

This is what I can see while sitting on my front step out in front of my house.  The Dew was So pretty, I had to take a picture. I didn't quite get what I saw, as I'm using a "point and shoot" camera.
This is what came out. It's beautiful. I only need myself my tea and my book but instead I went back in the house to finish getting Breakfast and People out the door.

Good Morning!

Kyooty: Proms of Many moons ago

http://www.spriteskeeper.com/my_weblog/2010/05/spin-cycle-grab-your-favorite-guy-cuz-the-slow-songs-are-starting.html

Proms of Many moons ago

This is what a Prom looked like for my School in the Early 90's! This was the last year that all the Grads wore white. I think 1 girl wore all black? but I could be mistaken. There was a "grand march" which was a bunch of girls walking in a pattern around the Gym and finally arriving at the center in the form of our Grad year.

The reason for the white?We were an All Girls Catholic School. This school? is now closing. The Sisters of Notre Dame are no longer funding it's operations. While I attended it was rented out to the local school board. While I was attending it was the only all girls public school east of Montreal Canada.  In the school there are pictures dating back from as early at 1920's( I think) just like this one. All the girls in white. I think part of the reason was it was like a coming out party?
Also the year after this was taken, they started doing the Grand Marches in the Local Hockey Rink/Civic Center. Of course, some schools in the area were bigger and had the "only bring a fellow student" to the Grand march rule. That didn't work out so well when we needed dates. We needed to find a date and bring him to the school. We also had to put him through the Grand March Training so he knew where to stand. The girls walked first, and then the picked up their dates on a walk by, and in the end it was very pretty. I don't know if anyone has a photo of the final shot. In the end it took us 3 rounds of  This Trooper Classic for all the girls to arrive at the final spot, and all our parents, grandparents, and so on to get pictures. They also had a Father Daughter Dance before our parents all vanished to let us have our party!


Our Physic Teacher built us a Gazebo for having pictures taken in too. I wish I had a picture of that!


Yes I'm in there somewhere, but I'm not telling which one is me. I am standing near my friends. Mrsbigbluepete is in there too. shhhhh!!

This post has been written for The Spin Cycle.
Click along read some more Posts about Proms, some newer then this memory.

Please Stop

Texting and DRIVING!!! you can live without a cellphone I promise. I've been doing it for 4yrs. You can also live without reading your email, FB or MSN until you stop your car. The world wont end.
 Thing that will happen while you are being Aware:
The car will drive straighter and stay in your own lane.
You will notice more people walking in  or out of cross walks before they land under or over your car.
You will notice the person pulling out of their driveway into traffic.
You will notice that Driver from the not quite like the rest of us province cutting you off because well there was a cm clearance.
You will notice how fast your Speedometer says you are going and the sign that said you were in a certain speed zone.
You will notice the  idiot in the other car is texting and not paying attention.,
You will hear your kids talking to you from the back seat or your spouse sitting right beside you.
You will notice that MOOSE on the side of the road heading for your car.

Please notice what you are doing and not what the person that's on the other side of your phone is doing. Look up and Look about please. I might be driving out there.

Catholic Guilt

It's a Week before Holy Week, next Sunday is Palm Sunday,  and where was I this morning? Sitting in my pjs thanking God I wasn't in church? This is a huge struggle for me. I grew up in the every Sunday even if you are on deaths door, you go to church family.  I know I should be there, I know that  part of me wants my kids to know a Genuflect from a Kneel but the other part of me says I'd rather be home lately watching them run around and enjoy a lazy Sunday morning. No pressure to get out the door on time to catch a bus or rush to here and there. But why is 930 am now early in my mind? Why is 1015am for Sunday school early? Why is the 1130am mass early?
I will struggle with this I'm sure for the rest of my life because my "backup" parent here, doesn't bother. It's not something he ever gave any weight to, I knew that almost 19yrs ago but still I wish that someone would say "are we going" because really it's easier to go as a whole family then just me. 
When I had my first son, I really enjoyed Mass on Sundays because it was an hour (drive to and from included) that I wasn't being needed for something. I got to sit and think and feel great after I got out. There are people at church, real live not inside a computer people.  I can "shake hands" (when it's not Flu season) and smile and nod to my fellow Catholics.
The boys learn to sit still, but yet I still fight the urge to drag them out of their by their ears some Sundays. That feeling that all eyes are on us, as I say "SHHHHHHHHH, I can't hear the priest" or "We'll talk about it in the car, and boy will we talk" and the evil eye! My kids know the evil eye, that was something I learned well and use often for many sitations.
Next week we'll be there, it's an important week, we are not going to the Island so I'll be in mass here in town. I think some of the locals will be in shock. We'll see.

Canadian Pride

I'm sitting here with the snowy TV playing in the back ground. I can hear the interviewer talking to someone (sadily I didn't catch this name), about Patriotism. Do they think that this feeling will change, will our confidence in being Canadian change? I didn't know honestly that it wasn' t there to begin with. I guess it comes from being part of the eastern coast of Canada vs anywhere west of that?
I think I've definitely come to the conclusion that if you haven't grown up within the Maritimes of Canada, you don't see what I've always seen.

Go Canada GO! 

You've always been a country to be proud of, if you haven't been a flag waver before now? I didn't see it.  My Aunts and Uncles had Canadian Flags at their cottages all my childhood. My Grandma had red and white stones along her driveway, painted beach rocks leading the path to her door and her driveway.  I guess one could argue it was a colour scheme that just happened, but why?why was it red and white?
When I came back to Canada for a visit after living in the USA for 2yrs, my parents pulled out a flag. They hung it in front of my then 8month old son, so that he would know what a Canadian Flag looked like. They did worry we wouldn't teach him anything about Canada while we lived in the big USA.  They sang Oh Canada to him while they rocked him. I guess some of that sunk in because I came back to Canada before my oldest started going to School. We felt the pull to come back to Canada. Maybe we came for the family or maybe we came for that deep down pride that's still within us to BE Canadian, Live Canadian and Bring up little Canadians. Sure there were days that I call the older two sons my little Americans but it's a dig for my family. My boys know they are Canadian, their citizenship cards say so! My youngest was born here.
The Schools here in New Brunswick are definitely full of Canadian Pride, you can see it when you walk in the doors, and you hear it when the kids sing their Oh Canada. My kids know the words, and it brings me back to my elementary School years when everyday in Nova Scotia started with Oh Canada. We live in a beautiful country, and I always have and always will be proud of my country, with or without Olympic Games in my very very very far off back yard.

Learning Continued and Continuing

Life is definitely a learning experience, I've been learning since the day I was born, I learned my Parent's voices, my family's love. I learned to walk, and bike and talk and talk and oh did I mention talk? Today while talking to a friend, I learned again. I learned that I miss my years of taking Business courses.

When I left University to go get married, I know it sounds like I'm a woman of the 1940-50's? no I was a woman of the 90's. I left my Business Degree program and got married.

My Hubbie was living 19hour drive away from me while I was going to University before the wedding. I had enough of school and wanted to be with him. I told my mother that I'd continue going to school. I promised I wouldn't let my education stop, so I signed up for a Business Diploma program in my new town. I worked part time in retail, I went to school part-time and I learned to be a wife, and cat mommy. We moved out of there before I finished my Diploma, so now I hold in my trails of learning 1/2 of a Business Degree and 1/2 of a Business Diploma. I had thought I'd do Human Resources. I didn't. We moved out of the country. I wasn't allowed to work in the new Country, I wasn't allowed (visa restrictions) to go to school there either. I could have fought hard to get a student visa but... I almost didn't mind but I had a back up plan. I did some distance education. The courses were interesting, the timing was all mine, I did it on my and my cats time. Hubbie travelled for work, he was away, the cat and I read our training books, we played Warcraft, we found IRC and ICQ and many friends inside the computer. The computer, I was susposed to be using that for my papers, and my learning. I found a way to talk to people, not just the cat. I continued to learn but those courses? While doing distance education I didn't keep on a time line. I could ask for extentions, I could blame that new baby that showed up, I could blame gallbladder surgery, I had excuses. I was still learning.

That was between 12-15yrs ago. Today I have 3 growing boys, they are learning daily. I'm learning daily how to parent and keep them interested in continuing their learning. Homework isn't fun but it can be... Some days I have more fun helping them then they have doing the work.  I haven't finished any of those degrees or diplomas. I thought about being a Lactation Consultant but I realized that my personality just wasn't going to be the best help to some newly learning parents,(pushy isn't always wanted)  that was something I was still learning. There are many ways to parent, many ways to build humans and keep them on the path to learning.

Today when talking to my friend on the phone and reading over her homework with her I remembered so many things I thought I had lost. Just because the university says your courses will not be transferable after 10yrs, doesn't mean the information isn't in there. It does stick, you can retain some of it, it just can come up and surprise you what you have learned how much you can keep on learning and adding to the pile of Learning. I'll continue to keep on learning, and growing being Me.

Some Saturday Evening Thoughts

Why is it so hard to "do" anything on the weekends?  See now that would totally be enough of a thought to just tweet, but I've got to expand.
I'm struggling to get my butt out of this chair on the weekends. I do the bowling thing in the morning for the boys, but what do I do for me? So far today? Not to much. I've been sucked into the vortex that is FB games. I'm so very totally addicted and with all that white snow out there? Why would I leave the house? I could have gone for a walk today? nothing important was on the books, but what did I do?

Starfleet Commander
Country Life
Farmville,
My poor Farmtown is not working out so well anymore, I got my mansion yes there's a manor to get but I haven't been there in a few days, my desktop died and I dont' want to face dead crops.
Petville
101 Eggs
photos to comment on,
Bra colors to post
discussions to have,
blogs to read, did that too, but me?? what did I do for me?

well I think that's it, I'm off to get my chicken suit on and fly my way off wuhu island on the wiifit plus, atleast those games feel a bit more active. I don' think clicking my mouse is going to get this weight off or my waistline any trimmer.  Oh but first I have to send my Starfleet on some missions....

Happy 2010

I found this yesterday and wanted to post it but wanted to ask 
http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialMrFunguin  before just borrowing  it.