Our Little Man's 3rd Birthday

Yes I am still bloody sore... and yes I am going back to the doctor to get something more then what I am taking now because I am not getting through the night at all... but that is about it with me...
Yesterday Rebecca and Matthew celebrated Phoenix's birthday at the Bowlarama if that is spelled right... and here are a few of my favorite photos... the rest can be seen on my facebook account...

Phoenix and Dad... look at those lips ...

he he caught him in a mid suck LOL

Son and Dad enjoying a moment... with Uncle Chris...

Of course Mom and Son...

they always take such great photos..

And I would like to introduce you to a cousin of ours and I didn't know that until the second time I met her... she is a great friend of Rebecca's... and is becoming Phoenix's god mother...
Meg McLean is the daughter of Nancy Kenny who is the daughter of Paul Kenny who is dad's nephew... lol figure that one out ... very small world...

Well I am off to do Project 2009... have a good one.. come back sometimes today or tomorrow and get photos of our celebration of Pat's birthday.. that is happening this afternoon at lunch...
Joanne

Snapping Away

Early Saturday morning and I am up... not sure why because there is not all that much going on today that I have to be up at this hour of the morning.... Yesterday morning was one of those perfect days at the kitchen window... the birds were coming, we had not only one but three Mr. Nutty around the yard... and though we have only see one up on the new feeder this is still one that can manage to get on the smaller feeders... I am sure that the peanuts that are on top of the roof have been driving all three of them crazy because they can't get at them.... Chickadees are the ones that are here the most...every once in a while we have a couple of Gross Beaks show up... a moose bird was here but we were eating lunch and didn't get a snap off.... though there are only a few kinds showing up it is always interesting to take photos of them... I found Carl at the table yesterday morning... and couldn't resist I had to go get mine... to join him... so this is what we came up with....a few little problems though one they should have been taken outside instead of through the window and secondly the windows need a good cleaning and not sure if that will happen soon with the cold weather but hoping ...Hint Hint Carl LOL.... the snow looked like it was filled with diamonds... and the icicles were just as beautiful as ever... I love icicles as the shine when the sun shines on them....

It was not the only thing we did yesterday but it was the nicest thing we did together...

Have a wonderful Saturday people.... Joanne

INTERVIEW ME

The rules:

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Here are my questions from Earth to Danie (Not as bad as I excepted)

1) What types of crafts do you do and what are you working on now?

Crafts I do … knitting, scrap booking, sewing, and crocheting
Usually when I get into the knitting mood I basically make cotton dishcloths but this year I didn’t want to and started making scarves… actually the first one I made was for Rebecca for Christmas…..I now have 10 others on my table where I sit and watch television…. I thought of making mitts for Craig’s little ones well the first pair turned out the other one didn’t… so that got undone… socks I only got ½ a pair done… then I went looking for another pattern for socks and came across chemo caps... and thought what a great idea to use up the yard that I keep buying and never use… so that is what I am working on now… if this works out I will make several others… we have a new oncology department at our hospital which I go to every month with mom to get her port a calf done so hopefully when I take her in February I will have several caps done to give to them…. …

2) What’s your favorite book and why?
My favorite book is by Erma Bombeck called Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession…because she had things in this book that made me laugh, “I was one of the luckier women who came to motherhood with some experience. I owned a Yorkshire terrier for three years” “There will be other Mother’s Days and a parade of gifts that will astound and amaze you, but not one of them will ever measure up to the sound of your children in the kitchen on Mother’s Day whispering, “Don’t you dare bleed on Mom’s Breakfast.”… cry “When God Created Mothers” and do a heck of a lot of thinking… “God Choose A Mom for a Disable Child”…throughout my years with my boys so young there were many times I went back to this book and read it over again…to give myself a kick to keep going… being thankful for the health of my children and appreciate the little things that I will one day come to smile about of them which I do now…the book was lost for a while Harold had given it away but I found it at the barber shop where he had taken it… and was return back to the house…is now stored away with its cover missing never to be lost again… It was given to me by Annie after saying that I would like to have a book or two on motherhood when I found out that I was having Robin… so the book is 28 years old this year… (I put links to these stories instead of printing them out... I know I am long winded but not that long LOL)

3) What is the worse food on earth?

Liver, diet pop and Becel

4) Tell me about the flora and fauna in your backyard.

My backyard is the place I go to get some sanity back in my life…now you know why I am this way in the winter… no backyard to work in…. I have two sections of three level of flower beds…on the side of the house all made by Carl and I which start at the front of the house and goes to the back yard… in them are mostly perennials…I have bleeding hearts, climatic, burning bushes, rose bush which is part of my Grandmother Melanson’s…. so Danie if you are doing a flower bed at your place make sure your mom gives you a piece, Columbines which is another plant that I took from Nanny and Papa’s place that Grandmother Melanson planted years ago… and anything else in there I would have to look up… because I can’t remember all the names of them…. three sides of the house also have flower beds…Daisy, a white bleeding heart, etc. I have another three in the back yard…the one closest to the house has my Daily Lilies, hens and chicks, and a lot of annual flowers for color… We started a pathway through the wooded area which Carl has been cleaning since he came here… we put most of our hostas through out the path and continue to look for more as we expend the pathway…. There is another bed by the garage and a climb rose bush close to the pathway…

The yard though out the year has some kind of birds (Bird Jays, chickadees, Gross beaks, mourning doves, woodpeckers) coming and going from the feeders we have out in the yard… of course several Mr. Nuttys, In the winter time we have our feeders in front of the kitchen window but come spring and summer they are moved closer to the woods… every once in a while I catch sight of a deer or two, a fox or a rabbit crossing out path as they continue on their journey through out the woods…. We have had a grey owl come looking for a snack… and an hawk land onto the feeders…

5) What’s your favorite recipe? That means you have to share it with us ;)

In all honesty there isn’t one that is a favorite any more because I don’t bake any more… baking means I am going to eat it which everyone knows I am not allow… The most favorite one of all times when the boys were growing up I called Whatever Casserole…. Why you would wonder I would name a casserole that… well it was whatever I had in the house at the time to make it… left over roast beef or pork, chicken, turkey or the couple of burgers that didn’t get eaten the night before… some macaroni or rice, tomato or cream chicken, celery or mushroom soup, a handful of frozen peas or corn….some carrots or cabbage, peppers, mushrooms and onions if they were on hand… topped with cheese (which was always on hand) and cracker crumbs… bake in the oven serve with rolls, garlic bread or just plain bread…. (actually I still make it every now and then)

Just Another Thursday

Come evening in this house it is almost as quiet as getting up.... once in a while as I move around the house you will hear a cuss or ouch out of me when the leg gives me a problem ...

Maggie is trying to find a comfortable spot on the bed only take off in a minute or two when she hears Carl coming back into the house... he is taking the bin to the road I think... Kodak is standing at the door guarding it... while he watches me type away at the computer... wondering what is so wonderful in this thing that I am on it several times a day....

Today I thought I would try my hand once again at sock making... I bombed got ticked and tore the whole thing apart instead of just the part I messed up... I think I will stick to the scarf making... they are easier though I seen some chemo caps online last night ... I may try my hand at them... I am sure the department here in Bathurst would appreciate a few of them....they don't look all that hard to do... and they call for circular needles... so it really can't be all that bad....

A stop at mom and dad's a trip to the mall for a walk that almost killed me today... can't do the whole mall yet with this leg of mine... have to do 1/2 tomorrow... and back home to watch the snow come down...

Well off to the shower if Carl got the chair in it for me...so I can put some heat and cold on the leg... maybe it will help it a bit.... have a good night... catch you Later... Joanne

Nerves and Chicken

There are times when you think you are doing good for things that happen to you but later on you find out that you are actually making a mess of things.... and that is the case for my sciatica nerve....

Two weeks ago I sneezed and did something to my sciatica nerve... and tonight when I got up around midnight quite wide awoke because I have slept most of the afternoon and evening I thought it was time for me to look up what this was all about since I didn't get a lot of information from my doctor... so what did I learn...well this can go on for a few days (which is well passed that) or several months...(which I really don't want at all).... on this site that I went to it showed me a simple exercise to do to help with this problem... very easy and simple as I said before... cross your leg over your other leg and bend from the waist as far as you can... the lower you go the more pull...hmmmm now that I can do since I love crossing my legs ...besides that the anti-inflammatory that the doctor gave me and of course the pain killers will work ... but the one thing that I didn't know was the less I do the more this sucker is going to act up....so going to bed for the day is not something I should be doing because I can tell you it is painful as heck when I try to get out of bed... it seems that the less I move usually make the pain worse... because the regular movement is necessary to get it back to where it was before the sneeze...so in the next days I will be exercising and stretching a little more then normal so it will not take months to get over this...

Though we are not really dieting we try to stay away from greasy foods namely deep fried ... but for the last few days Carl has been wanting some deep fry chicken that we sometimes go get upshore...tonight since he was making dinner while I was in bed he thought a trip up to get his chicken would be a good idea ....which I thought it was until about 30 minutes after eating it ...I thought I was going to die for a while ... guess someone is going to finish up the chicken on his own because I am not going near it again....he is on his own for the next craving...

So now I am going to try and get my butt back to bed because it is way too early to be up for the day... have a great one all... Joanne