I have got to come up with a new Sunday routine!

We usually start off our Sunday with a healthy breakfast of French Vanilla Cappucino's and donuts from Tim's...that's probably part of the reason why I'm maintaining this figure of mine. LOL! And then we peruse the Sunday paper and go through flyers...
So, today, I'm reading the paper (it's the only paper I read all week so I tend to read it cover to cover) and I come across the classified announcements and read that one of my former students is being petitioned by the courts for permanent custody of her child born in Dec '05. At first I thought it must have been an error but she had a rather unusual name and then I started calculating how old she must be now. I think I have it figured out that she's 16 or 17 now. I used to work with her on reading skills and must admit she was one of my 'pet' students. Mom can attest to how devastated I was when she ran away from home, I think I cried for the entire time she was gone. You just never know what could happen to a young girl these days. I always hoped that I'd have some impact on her life or the lives of the other kids I've helped out over the years but not in this case.
Maybe I'll skip those ads from now on, it was a little more disturbing than it should have been. Aaron's mom also worked at the elementary school that I worked at and it's being closed this year due to low enrollment/poor structure so the school is having a reunion party for former staff and students. Hopefully there are some real success stories!
Bargain Baby Shopping has officially begun (once again). Aaron told me to hold back and we'll buy something big for the Christmas baby but I thought I'd take a peek at Superstore to see what they had and I found a vibrating bouncy chair on clearance for $9. You just can't beat that price, and that is one of the things I gave away already...like so much other stuff...but this one is nicer than the one I had (which I thought was pretty hot stuff). And all babies deserve some new stuff to go with the shared goods. Now I just need something for the Mommy to be...H always bought me these wicked massage cocoa cake thingys to help moisturize to prevent stretch marks (which worked quite well) but unfortunately for H the store that sold them isn't around anymore. Guess that could be my next quest, to find a good belly jelly.

Happy 200th Post Everyone!

Finally! Someone will call me Auntie Lesley !

I won't say it's about time but you know that's what I'm thinking! Congratulations Heather and Jeff! Aaron and I are pretty thrilled to be official aunt and uncle to your wee little babe! I'm sure the boys will be excited to have another cousin to play with!

What a great way to kick off the weekend!

Bunco night was just as fun tonight as it was last month! Heather missed out but I must admit that Christina was a pretty good substitute!

Here's an Alex video shot by Joseph

By forewarned - it's a little shaky and Joseph spun around in a few circles. Gotta love the kids' viewpoint sometimes!

Joseph being Joseph

Today seemed like a prime time to shoot a little video, Joseph was being his typical silly self and then I let him take a video of Alex which I'll try and post tonight.  It's a little shaky, you may need to take some gravol first!

Thank goodness it's almost the weekend!

It's been a rather uneventful week but I'm ready for the +24 weather we're supposed to get this weekend. Hopefully they'll start up the water fountain in our neighbourhood in the next few days, now that Alex likes the hot tub I'm hoping he'll like running through the water too. One of my dayhome boys is finished on Friday and I've decided not to replace him until September, that way there'll be two less kids (one of the parents is a teacher and has the summer off) so maybe just maybe the rest of us can be more adventurous and do more outings. We have two parks we visit all the time but it would be nice to walk the extra 2 blocks for something different. We've got Joseph enrolled in a one week zoo camp for the last week of July and we're hoping to enroll him in an outdoor camp for the second week of July. I think with our holidays and two weeks of camp that should keep him stimulated enough this summer.
Bunco night's tomorrow and poor Heather's going to miss it.Oh well, I'm sure she'll have fun at Mom's too.

Cinderella really wants to go the ball...

but unfortunately Aaron's schedule doesn't work in our favour. I'm sorely disappointed! Kathryn and Jeff invited us to the Regimental Ball and Aaron has to work so we can't go. Mom pointed out to me that the last really formal do we've attended was our wedding. We've gone to many weddings and Christmas parties but this is a ball we're talking about. So, poor me will stay at home and hope Kathryn takes pictures and gives me a complete play by play of the evening including fancy dresses and 'dos, my favourite part!
Tonight was the usual dayhome meeting, we're having it monthly now, so in theory they should be short and sweet meetings but it still managed to be over two hours of talking about potty training and different ways to get kids to eat. Being secretary turned out to be not much work because we didn't really talk about anything worth recording, except the next date and who was hosting.
We are planning a Ladies Night though, but I'll see it to believe it. I go out quite a bit with stamping, bunco,dayhome meetings and school stuff so I'm not sure how receptive Aaron would be to me adding another night out...just wait until Kathryn moves to Cochrane (as early as June) and we start with the wedding plans. Maybe Jeff and Aaron can start a poker night?! Oh wait, that would interfere with my nights out wouldn't they?