SNOW!!

So I am sitting here at 1:30am watching the snow fall ... and wondering why am I still up???

Chaos Reigns

So my life is feeling prety chaotic lately, but I have to wonder, is it really that nuts, or am I just a big baby???  School is back in full swing, so that always makes things a bit crazier, but so far this year we only have karate to worry about, which is less than usual (Jaedyn switched from hockey to karate, nobody is curling, and Rya got kicked off the school volleyball team...yep, you read that right!!)  So really, what do I have to bitch about??  I guess my big stresses right now are the fact that the house is not done and my job. The job sucks!!!  I swore that this year I would stick to supply....1...because I wanted to get this house finished and settle in...and 2...because I am doing bookkeeping work on the side which occupies my evenings and weekends.  But, of course, somehow I have managed to get suked into an LTO.  And to make it even worse, it is 3 English classes.....so far from my major it isn't even funny!!  Definately my least favourite class to teach.  I am all about facts and figures....not interpretations!!!  Uuuuggghhh...I hate it soooooo much!!!  So the question remains....suck it up and deal...or keep bitching about it???

My Kitchen Renovation

I know it's kinda late to be posting about this, especially since I no longer live in this house, but I put alot into this kitchen and I really love how it turned out.  So lets start at the begining...

When I bought my little house in 2006 it looked like this

Don't you just love the wallpaper??  And it looks so good with that patterned backsplash.  I won't even talk about the lovely shade of orange...yet.

 Hey look...more of that fabulous wallpaper!!  And what about that flooring.  I can't even tell you what it is, but it looked and felt dirty no matter what.  I would also like to point out the strange orange glow coming from the side wall.  Pretty isn't it?

There is the orange wall.  Seroiusly, what kind of colour is that?

Anyway, before I even moved in, and on an extremely tight budget, I turned it into this...

Love the new floors... thanks dad!!

Apparently, I didn't take any other pictures of the kitchen (Eitheer that or I lost the pics in one of my many computer crashes...lol)

But here it is after living in it for a few years.  Definately not enough cupboard or counter space.

So after 3 years I'd finally had enough and decided on a bigger renovation.  Of course, it has to get worse before it gets better...

Don't you just love the plywood countertop?

But eventualy it got better, and I absolutely love the final result....

Then this year I moved...and started all over again.  I'll share that with you when it's all done.

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Birthday Wishes!!



From my little baby....



... to simply crazy!!! 

Happy 6th Birthday to my baby girl!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fail :(

Uuuugghhh ... has been 2 1/2 months since last post ... definately a fail!!  This house remodel has completely consumed my life....

Summer Update

Wow ... once again I have fallen behind ... lol.  Oh well, it's summer, things move at a slower pace around here!!  Had an amazing time in Greece.  Such a beautiful place with such an incredible history. 

Still waiting to get possession of my new house.  Was supposed to be June 15th ... still hasn't happenened!!  Not exactly happy about that :( 

Will keep you posted...

Summer Vacay!!

Well, I've decided to try and forget about all the house crap going on around here and try to enjoy my vacation!!  Yep, going on vacation.  Heading to Thunder Bay in about an hour and getting on the plane in the a.m.  First, off to Toronto.  From there, hop a flight to Paris.  Next, off to Athens, Greece!!!  Woohoo!!  3 days in Athens followed by a 4 day cruise of the Greek Isles, back to Athens and then home.  Sooooo excited, but I better go finish packing!!! ;)

Graduation Day!!

My baby girl graduated SK today!!  Just makes you wonder why time seems to go so fast :(

Scents of Spring

My absolute favourite smell in the spring.....

Unfortunately, not too many blooms this year and they are almost done already...boo :(

Falling...

Well look at that, I've fallen behind yet again...lol!!  O.K., guess it is time to face facts, I suck at this kind of thing.  So from now on, I will update when I think of it, or have something exciting to share, but I will definately stop feeling guilty about not posting more often!

So anyways, what's been going on these past few weeks....hhmmm
Well, Rya and Devon both completed their karate grading and both earned their orange belts.  So proud of both of them!!! They worked so hard for it.  Twice a week for 8-9 months and countless hours of practice definately paid off!!

the whole group....

...acting goofy!!!

Despite the fact that karate is over for the summer, there is still something going on every single night!!!  Devon and Jaedyn have swimming lessons monday, wednesday, friday ... Rya has baseball on tuesday ... Devon and Jaedyn have soccer on thursday!!!  Could really use a night off durung the week.  Oh yeah, and I have baseball on either monday or thursday ... seeeesh, no wonder I never get anything done around here!!

So I finally have a project completed!!  Remember this one....

It finally looks like something other then a pile of wood!!  Wooohoooo!!  Here's the progress ... it definately took longer than I planned :(

Built...

... primed ...

... done!!!  (don't mind the mess in the background)

Project 1 of about a million done ... which to do next...hmmmm

Till next time, still trying to stay above the chaos...

Slacker Excuses :)

Ok, ok ... I know, it's been a week.  But I have a ton of excuses!!  I've been working, the weather has been nice, I had to go to Thunder Bay to pick up my new truck (woohoo!!), baseball started, we had a community clean-up day, went to the lake!!  Whew ... getting tired just thinking of it all!!

Happy Mother's Day

It's Mother's Day so I am taking the day off ... oh, who am I kidding!!  I have already made breakfast, did the dishes and two loads of laundry....nuts :(

I love flowers!!  Can't wait to see what I grow this year.

Oh yeah ... my big and exciting project that I mentioned last week ... I bought a new house!!!  Woohoo!!!  Can't wait.  It's going to take a fair amount of work to get it to where I want it to be, but ... and here's the best part ... everyone will have their OWN room!!!  Finally!!!

Weekend Update

So the weekend was sooooo busy and just seemed to fly by.  I can't believe it is Tuesday already!!  Karate tourney was a definite success.  So proud of Devon.  He was fifth in his kata, fourth in his team kata and SECOND in kumite!!!  Wooohooo...silver medal.

Then there was sunday.  Power outage was scheduled for 8am until 2pm ... but I had a plan.  If I got up by 7:45 I could still have coffee, because if there is no coffee, they day is a total write off!!!  But they ended up turning the power off at 6:30am.....aaarrrrggghhh!!!!!  Are you kidding me!!!  No coffee ... going to be a bad day!!!  Anyway, I made it through the day but somehow had to get ready for Jaedyn's hockey banquet with NO POWER!!!  Nothing says like redneck like an extension cord out to the truck so that I could plug in my straightener ... hehehehehe ... yep, used the truck to straighten my hair!!  Wish I would have taken a picture of that.  I did take pics at the banquet though.

What a nut!!  Till next time.....