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Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts
Thursday, July 15, 2010
2 weeks from today
We will be getting some more photos like this:
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We are going camping! Tips on what to pack for a weekend?!?!?
and more!
We are going camping! Tips on what to pack for a weekend?!?!?
Friday, May 14, 2010
1 year ago today
Can you believe what happens in 1 year? Just 365 days. It seems like such a short time. And yet so much has changed. I wanted to share a post from another blog I wrote "Our Summer Adventures 2009"
So far the only thing that is the 'same' is the weather. Aside from that we are *not* moving, *not* opening up the trailer, and *not* putting things in a storage unit!
Our plan for today is to chill out at home and maybe get together everything I need to... plant my garden! This was something I really missed last year. Hopefully I will be able to enjoy this garden!
So what about you? take a moment and try to remember, what were you doing 1 year ago today.
The day has finally come! We move tomorrow! I'm so surprised how fast things are coming along! I mean we have alot to do in the house but generally things are booking it
Yesterday I was having one of those days. I was so frustrated and I couldn't handle everything. I finally called DH and while whispering into the phone (I lost my voice this week) I asked him to come home. He did about 2 hours later. By then I managed to make him some more lunches, pack up the caned goods and some more randomness! DH came home and emptied our bedroom as well as some buckets of his. It was good to have everything cleaned up and ready to go! I love this feeling, that we are almost ready to move!
Our downside right now is that it says it will rain this weekend while we move. That part sucks ALOT! but what can you do? That and alot of our people who are coming to help us move have now backed out. I'm hoping that we can still get a few of them to come over but we will have to wait and see how it goes. I know our friends who have the truck are helping us move everything (which is good) and we basically need the 'big' stuff moved, after that we are good with just the van.
DH called the campground and found out that we can get in as early as 8am! I think we are going to aim for 9 or 9:30 instead. Then we plan on getting the trailer and tents set up and leave the kids with Mom and Dad for a bit and we will head back home and start cleaning and bringing a few loads of stuff to the storage unit. We have to pack up the beds (I have the plastic covers for them) so hopefully we can get that part done and get them by the door and ready to move. We are going to take out the car seats from the van and put them at the trailer so my parents can take the kids somewhere if needed. We are also going to take out the seats in the van so we can get a few more big things in there. I'm really hoping that most of the 'big' stuff will be done before alot of the people get here.
Next week I plan on being home on Wednesday and Friday so we are going to leave some cleaning supplies and have those ready to go for the last minute problems and such.
Tonight is our last night in this house! Wow, and I can honestly say I"m not going to miss it, that much. I'll miss the 4 hard walls around us but aside from that I"m good
Last night I got the dresser ready in the trailer. I emptied all the 'stuff' from it and packed it full of our clothes. I have a few more clothes from the boys room (I hope to grab those today while they are napping and get them out to the trailer) and then we are generally set! Mind you I got all of DH's clothes (minus his week away which I made him pack for already) in his 1 drawer, then I got most of the boys clothes in their drawers and mine... well what can I say! I'm a girl! I got my clothes in there and in.....2.... garbage bags Thank goodness it all fits somewhat in the trailer. I'm figuring we will have a few boxes under the trailer with things like sweaters and long sleeve shirts and pants and coats. Or in the tent. Who knows.
I know I have been asking alot but please say a prayer for us. We are in the final home stretch and I"m getting a bit scared about things. More so the week I spend without DH. We haven't done it that I was ever alone with the boys before. I mean I spent a month or so with my parents when K was born, and I did do from Feb to June at my parents house but I have always had help. This coming week no help and it's starting to make me worry a bit.
As soon as I get my computer back I'll post photos from before. I did manage to also get the beds made and I got a few cutes photos from the boys pretending to nap in their new beds!
So far the only thing that is the 'same' is the weather. Aside from that we are *not* moving, *not* opening up the trailer, and *not* putting things in a storage unit!
Our plan for today is to chill out at home and maybe get together everything I need to... plant my garden! This was something I really missed last year. Hopefully I will be able to enjoy this garden!
So what about you? take a moment and try to remember, what were you doing 1 year ago today.
Monday, December 28, 2009
New Years .....
There is so much coming up in 2010... It's time to make new years resolutions; to do new years cleaning; to do your 'yearly weight in'; to get ready for 2010, whatever the case maybe.
We all do different things when the clock rolls over to the next year. Last year I made a lot of different resolutions. I can honestly say a lot of them I didn't accomplish. But as I look back over the year a lot has happen to us:
We rang in 2009 at the Zoo with the kids. We had a lot of fun but it did keep us crazy busy since we all seemed to have our colds from that Christmas linger. At least this year we didn't run out of sick days by May, like we did in 2008. We did begin our packing up of the house we were in. We lived near Warden and Lawrence and we slowly packed up our house as we started to move. I also learned how to knit hats. The boys slowly enjoyed being my models for the early versions:
We had purchased a tent trailer the past August (2008) and we spent our summer living at Glen Rouge Campground. It was wonderful. After fighting with the Raccoons and any other random animal and dealing with some CRAZY neighbours it turned out to be a good summer. The boys celebrated their late birthdays that summer at the campsite and we had a lot of fun playing around and having a campfire.
I learned a lot about cooking with my crock pot, enjoying the outdoors and making meals work for everyone who came to visit. It was a crazy summer of cooking but we loved it. We also had some serious rain (which eventually was our factor on leaving so early) and it got the better of us, sometimes.
A Rain Day watching the Frog that came to visit:
lunch inside after the rain:
The Toronto Parks and Rec went on strike that year. This meant that that every parks and rec person were on strike. Normally not a big deal and it didn't seem to effect us. We were a little worried they wouldn't extend our reservation but we were able too. We stayed at the campsite from May 15th weekend until August 9th.
During that time Arnold was sent to the USA to do a conference for work. He had a lot of fun and got out of the first actual time at the campsite. He is feeling much more 'at home' at work than before and loves the new direction he seems to be working in. Arnold also started to do a great job at cycling into work. He was incredible. He would cycle in and back from work, only taking the GOBus 2 or 3 times the whole summer. That is 50KM's during the day (assuming I didn't ask him to stop for anything on the way home). And for those Americans reading 50kms is around 32 miles. He did it each day in about 1 hour or so. We only had one accident but it was enough to scare the crap out of me. He was hit by a car. He got up with a few scratches and cuts and went and reported the accident. We picked him up and I didn't let go of him for a LONG time. I didn't get any photos of him but here's one of his ouie and Q's ouie:
We did our first summer as a "soccer family" It was really cool Kyler did GREAT. He loved every minute of it. We are thinking about trying it again this summer but we aren't sure yet. Here's a shot of my Soccer Man!
August 1st we moved into the house I'm typing this message from. It's near Pharmacy and Nancy. We moved in and were able to unpack a lot of our things and have a great week of moving in. We then went and picked up Kyler, at the family reunion, after his week at Camp Heslop.
We moved into the new house and we had a great time getting settled. Wet met Kyler's new teacher in September and Kyler started JK the second week or so in Sept. I'm so proud of him. He has learned so much since starting school and helps to teach his brother every day. It is wonderful. This is Kyler on his first day of school:
We slowly moved through the year until we got to mid October. We had visits from family and friends from far and near to stay at the house and visit with us. It was wonderful to have them and to visit with everyone, esp Grandma Visser. The boys loved having her around.
In the middle of October we got news that our Land lord was getting married and we had to move. So we started our search all over again. It was very emotional as we didn't want to leave the area (we love the school Kyler is in) and we wanted to have so many things (3 bedrooms, whole house ect). Halloween came and went and we weren't close at all to a new house. But the boys were cute that year! It took Q about 2 homes to realize what we were doing then he was ALL over the trick-or-treating.
We had Arnold's birthday in Nov and celebrated it at my parents house. We had a very fun time hanging out with them and just relaxing and getting away from everything for a bit. By the end of November we had found a place. It's a few doors down from where we live now and we love it. It's nothing that we wanted but it works for us. This house is only 2 bedrooms, only the main level, and only half the garage but we love it more than anything. It will help us get our finances back on track (cheaper) and keeps Kyler in the same school. It also helps us with keeping our 'junk' down to a min. We have already brought a lot of things to my parents house and refilled their storage area again. I hate that it has happen but we have to put it somewhere and they are so sweet to let us do this.
And this brings us to Christmas. We went home for Christmas and I loved every minute of it. We have been so blessed by our family and friends this year it has been wonderful.
We are slowly getting ready for our move which happens in 2 days. The boys have been playing around in the new place today and slowly adjusting to the idea of moving there. I'm glad too because we have to get them moved over soon. My parents and our friends are coming to help us move on the 30th so we have to be ready.
In the next few days I do need to make my resolutions for 2010. Something to guide me a bit more this coming year. So far this past year I: read more; lost 20lbs; started doing meal plans every month; spent more time with the boys one on one; made it through starting a child in school; and had more time to spend with my family.
Good luck to those who are making resolutions, heck to those who are doing cleaning... or anything to prepare for 2010. May God bless you more and more.
We all do different things when the clock rolls over to the next year. Last year I made a lot of different resolutions. I can honestly say a lot of them I didn't accomplish. But as I look back over the year a lot has happen to us:
We rang in 2009 at the Zoo with the kids. We had a lot of fun but it did keep us crazy busy since we all seemed to have our colds from that Christmas linger. At least this year we didn't run out of sick days by May, like we did in 2008. We did begin our packing up of the house we were in. We lived near Warden and Lawrence and we slowly packed up our house as we started to move. I also learned how to knit hats. The boys slowly enjoyed being my models for the early versions:
We had purchased a tent trailer the past August (2008) and we spent our summer living at Glen Rouge Campground. It was wonderful. After fighting with the Raccoons and any other random animal and dealing with some CRAZY neighbours it turned out to be a good summer. The boys celebrated their late birthdays that summer at the campsite and we had a lot of fun playing around and having a campfire.
I learned a lot about cooking with my crock pot, enjoying the outdoors and making meals work for everyone who came to visit. It was a crazy summer of cooking but we loved it. We also had some serious rain (which eventually was our factor on leaving so early) and it got the better of us, sometimes.
The Toronto Parks and Rec went on strike that year. This meant that that every parks and rec person were on strike. Normally not a big deal and it didn't seem to effect us. We were a little worried they wouldn't extend our reservation but we were able too. We stayed at the campsite from May 15th weekend until August 9th.
During that time Arnold was sent to the USA to do a conference for work. He had a lot of fun and got out of the first actual time at the campsite. He is feeling much more 'at home' at work than before and loves the new direction he seems to be working in. Arnold also started to do a great job at cycling into work. He was incredible. He would cycle in and back from work, only taking the GOBus 2 or 3 times the whole summer. That is 50KM's during the day (assuming I didn't ask him to stop for anything on the way home). And for those Americans reading 50kms is around 32 miles. He did it each day in about 1 hour or so. We only had one accident but it was enough to scare the crap out of me. He was hit by a car. He got up with a few scratches and cuts and went and reported the accident. We picked him up and I didn't let go of him for a LONG time. I didn't get any photos of him but here's one of his ouie and Q's ouie:
We did our first summer as a "soccer family" It was really cool Kyler did GREAT. He loved every minute of it. We are thinking about trying it again this summer but we aren't sure yet. Here's a shot of my Soccer Man!
August 1st we moved into the house I'm typing this message from. It's near Pharmacy and Nancy. We moved in and were able to unpack a lot of our things and have a great week of moving in. We then went and picked up Kyler, at the family reunion, after his week at Camp Heslop.
We moved into the new house and we had a great time getting settled. Wet met Kyler's new teacher in September and Kyler started JK the second week or so in Sept. I'm so proud of him. He has learned so much since starting school and helps to teach his brother every day. It is wonderful. This is Kyler on his first day of school:
We slowly moved through the year until we got to mid October. We had visits from family and friends from far and near to stay at the house and visit with us. It was wonderful to have them and to visit with everyone, esp Grandma Visser. The boys loved having her around.
In the middle of October we got news that our Land lord was getting married and we had to move. So we started our search all over again. It was very emotional as we didn't want to leave the area (we love the school Kyler is in) and we wanted to have so many things (3 bedrooms, whole house ect). Halloween came and went and we weren't close at all to a new house. But the boys were cute that year! It took Q about 2 homes to realize what we were doing then he was ALL over the trick-or-treating.
We had Arnold's birthday in Nov and celebrated it at my parents house. We had a very fun time hanging out with them and just relaxing and getting away from everything for a bit. By the end of November we had found a place. It's a few doors down from where we live now and we love it. It's nothing that we wanted but it works for us. This house is only 2 bedrooms, only the main level, and only half the garage but we love it more than anything. It will help us get our finances back on track (cheaper) and keeps Kyler in the same school. It also helps us with keeping our 'junk' down to a min. We have already brought a lot of things to my parents house and refilled their storage area again. I hate that it has happen but we have to put it somewhere and they are so sweet to let us do this.
And this brings us to Christmas. We went home for Christmas and I loved every minute of it. We have been so blessed by our family and friends this year it has been wonderful.
We are slowly getting ready for our move which happens in 2 days. The boys have been playing around in the new place today and slowly adjusting to the idea of moving there. I'm glad too because we have to get them moved over soon. My parents and our friends are coming to help us move on the 30th so we have to be ready.
In the next few days I do need to make my resolutions for 2010. Something to guide me a bit more this coming year. So far this past year I: read more; lost 20lbs; started doing meal plans every month; spent more time with the boys one on one; made it through starting a child in school; and had more time to spend with my family.
Good luck to those who are making resolutions, heck to those who are doing cleaning... or anything to prepare for 2010. May God bless you more and more.
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