My Nova Scotian Home

Hmmm... so many choices - which font, what colour, and oh yeah... what am I doing? I love reading other's blogs, but have no idea where to start... so let's start here, at the very beginning, a very fine place to start!

As I read a link from a friend's blog to a dear lady's page, who goes by Peggy, I fell in love with her format of "what's outside my window, what I am hearing, what I am thinking...." so here goes...

I am thinking... what a nice week we will have, us 5, as my husband is away in Alberta and I scored some great easy meals at M&M's for the first time ever!

I am thankful for... these 4 great kids, always eager to please and be loved, and for their Dad, a hard working man who loves us deeply, and for our home - which soon will be back where our hearts remain, in Nova Scotia, which we all will always call 'home'

From the kitchen... for breakfast will be Jessie's favourite (our eldest, she's 12) Pear & Cardamom Muffins straight out of my favourite Pampered Chef Muffin Stoneware! Lunch, let's see.. tortilla wraps with left-over chicken, lettuce & cheese; and for supper I imagine the Beef Sirloin Burgers from M&M's and the Wal-mart buns on sale I grabbed this afternoon when I dashed in to grab underwear with legs for our 9-year-old, Glenn, who started ball hockey and apparently these athletic support thingies work best that way.. :~}

I am creating... a blog page for the very first time... i just might love this!

I am going... to Value Village tomorrow to triumphantly drop off 5 very large bags of give away clothing in my effort to downsize before we move in 2 months! Value Village donations earn valuable cash for research in Diabetes.. give, give, give!

I am wearing... my nightie as it is a very strange time to be embarking on my first blog page and really ought to be sleeping ;)

I am reading... the new Homeschool & More catalogue that arrived today and getting excited already about all the great things we will do next fall!

I am hoping... to get the paint trays, brushes, cans, stir sticks and all manner of displaced items OUT of our living room tomorrow to get this place back in order for harmony and peace to return to the palace :)

I am hearing... the calm hum of the fish tank motor and the bubbles in the tank, ah, so much nicer than a TV in the bedroom!

Around the house... our youngest, 5, is fast asleep and after a late night bolus should be normalizing much nicer now since he ate far too many snacks and went a tad higher than he should have (oops!); the next one - she's 7 - sleeps peacefully as well in the bed underneath our eldest who, I am sure, in her top bunk is still reading or watching "The King & I" for the 5th time on a portable DVD player before it must be returned to the library; and the 2nd child lays beside me, in his father's spot, unable to sleep after a thrilling evening of ball hockey at the arena, followed by the NHL playoffs on TV... it's a great family, here, truly it is.

One of my favourite things... is to have a child creep in sometime in the night to find security, comfort & love, right here, with a parent, just as God freely gives to us each time we seek Him, just for reassurance, just to remember he cares, accepts us and loves us.

A few plans for the rest of the week... "razooing this place" as my dear Momma says - she's so funny - so that when my dear Husband returns from his week away working he walks in to peace and harmony and happiness, once again, so he's not stressed about deadlines to get the house on the market, so he looks around and feels restful, not stressful ~ that's my goal

Now I am supposed to share a picture thought.... hmmm....