Janney was given some money for her birthday from Nana and Uncle Andrew. Today I deposited the money into our bank account and headed to our special boutique - called Kids Trading Company. It's a combination upscale kids clothing - the kind of clothing you might dress your kid in to go to a wedding - or be in a wedding - or make a fashion statement. The other half of the store is second hand consignment items, many of them are last years items from the upscale side of the store. I've been in line behind a woman who bought stacks of brand new clothes in two sizes each, and didn't want to see the total. I told her that I'm looking forward to when she returns them for consignment!
So yesterday I took Janney and hit the jackpot. The size 5 section was packed full of amazing finds - Gap dresses and such.. Here's Janney wearing almost all of her new outfits (there's one pair of Hawaiian style surfing shorts not pictured).
 These two are the same dress in different fabric - and come with matching panties.
Another dress with matching undies..
And this is Little Red Riding Gal with the guys trying to get the truck unstuck behind her.
Happy Birthday Cowboy Princess. |
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We had to go to the city today. Trent drove, I sat in the front, Myles and Asher in the middle, and Rourke and Janney at the back. Half way to the city, Rourke calls out to me;
"Mummy, Janney just read this button!"
What?
"She said Puh - Ruh- Eh-SSS - press"
I'm so glad I wasn't driving, I swelled up with emotional pride, my heart was pounding, the tears flowing, I had to breath into a tissue to re-compose myself and wipe my eyes.
Now I have been working with her for the last two-three weeks on how to put the sounds together. We've probably had 4-5 sessions of "sounding out words" but this is amazing - this is all on her own and she got it right. I'm so excited.. it was the little red button on the seatbelt that she read. May I remind you, she turned 4 early last month! |
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May. 7, 2008 Was That You Mummy?
Janney and I are walking through a grocery store. I had already done the bulk of my groceries at one shop, but there were two items I needed that they didn't have, so I went to a second grocery.
I've picked up the green beans and we're heading towards the meat department.
Janney: "I smell something stinky" then "Mummy, did you fart?"
We were passing another woman who's head was tucked into a milk fridge door, I kept on walking. Not finding my cut of meat, I continued on to the cash, where Janney and I waited patiently for the short line to be served. As I finished handing the cashier my money....
Janney:"I smell something stinky again; Mummy did you fart again"
Without a smirk, I collected my change and my bag of green beans and headed out of the store.
I AM NEVER SHOPPING WITH A CHILD WHO'S NOSE IS HIP HEIGHT AGAIN!
Fortunately that was NOT my regular grocery store - and no one there knows me or will probably ever see me again - unless God is really out to get me!
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May. 7, 2008 Blogger Friend School #26 - Favorite Travels
Nancy's next assignment for the BFS is about our favourite travels, be it field trips, or family vacation or place. Check out the full details on her blog.
My favourite trip is home - I love to go home. Yes, MY home is here in Saskatchewan, but HOME is back in Quebec, back where I grew up, back where all my old friends are, back where my mum and in-laws are. We've been here 8 years this August, and only been back once. We were blessed to have many internet friends host us along the way to make our trip more friendly, and cut down on costs. We spent 4 weeks on the road, and stayed in 7 different home - there - and then again back here. Our trip took us all the way to Boston, even though Montreal was our goal.
Let me paint a better picture. We set off from our church after lunch, and traveled to North Dakota and into Minnesota. We spent a night there, then moved into Wisconsin where we spent a full day - two nights - with an internet friend in the Fond-du-Lac area. From there we traveled south through Chicago and learned all over again why we love our small city with no traffic, then under lake Michigan and into Michigan State where we stopped for a juice and a pee break at another internet friends house. Pushing off from there, we went north and crossed the St.Claire River at the Port Huron/Sarnia border into Ontario and spent the night with old friends in London Ontario. A nice long morning was spent enjoying our plentiful bounty of children - she had 5 at the time, I had 4 (now she has 7 and I'm expecting my 6th!) and we left late afternoon for Toronto, where a new friend had just re-established herself in the Beaches area along Lake Ontario. We took in some sites together, and then in the late afternoon went to Kingston for 3 days where Stuart spoke at a conference, and I visited with many old friends, and missed more than I would have liked!
The last leg was a three hour trip into Montreal, to Stuart's childhood home - where we unpacked again and relaxed for a few days. We had made plans to have Passover with his brother and wife, so after a short 3-4 days with MIL and FIL - we went an hour more east to Andrew's house and spent Passover weekend with them at their beautiful country house in the woods, far off the beaten path.
Now we were on our way again, out to the eastern townships to spend the night with my old college friend, and on the way we stopped at a new internet friends house for a few hours. My college friend married her college sweetie, and Stuart and I were at their wedding - they have 4 children, so the 8 kids and 4 adults had a great time together. Boston was next on the tour of the east, to meet my best friend. "How?" you say, can she be your best friend, if that was the first time you met her? Well, Susan and I started as internet friends, and then our friendship grew to paper and pen - and the deep intimacy of our relationship in Christ, our joys and trials as wife and mother, our love of knitting, books, nature, and babies just cruised into a natural state of being each other's bestest..
Back to MIL/FIL for another few days of family time with my mother, my sister and all the IL's and childhood friends and first church friends. And then we retraced our steps, back to Kingston for a night with Vicki and Andrew and the girls, then to London, then to Wisconsin, and then a long all nighter drive home, with a secret growing within me.. Asher had been conceived on the trip, and we were just finding out about him as dawn approached. (Funny, the trip we had taken previous to that was down to Denver, and on the way home I found out Janney was on the way too!).
We couldn't make this trip anymore, our van is full, no room for cargo, and in August, the whole family won't even fit in the one van anymore, so I think that's the end of "family" trips, unless we travel in a convoy!
Hebrews 11:8-10 By trusting, Avraham obeyed, after being called to go outv to a place which God would give him as a possession; indeed, he went out without knowing where he was going. By trusting, he lived as a temporary resident in the Land of the promise, as if it were not his, staying in tents with Yitz'chak and Ya'akov, who were to receive what was promised along with him. For he was looking forward to the city with permanent foundations, of which the architect and builder is God. |
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May. 6, 2008 This Week's Menu
Trent and Myles have a day off work tomorrow, so Trent has requested we head to the city for more rations - he says we have no lunchables - no - not the prepackaged product called lunchables, but nothing in the pantry/freezer/fridge to take to work to consume in a 30 minute sitting.
So, I handed the recipe magazines and books to hubby tonight, and we both went through and made a menu for the coming week, and a grocery list. Here's what we came up with.
Wednesday
Crispy Veal Cutlets with a colourful salad
Potato Salad with artichokes, green beans and roasted red peppers
Thursday - Rourke's 12th Birthday
Red Wine Marinated Braised Beef Short Ribs
Mashed potatoes
Some other side dish salad TBA
Black Forest Cheesecake
Friday - Shabbat Meal
Beef Slowcooked Orange Spiced Pot Roast
Saturday - take to Shabbat service for Oneg (that's the fellowship meal)
Potato salad with artichokes, green beans and roasted red peppers
Sunday
Chicken with Creamy Mushrooms
Monday
Moroccan Lamb Tangine with Apricots
Tuesday
Rosemary Chicken
Home Made Linguine
Of course, this doesn't help Trent and his lunch problem, but if I make lots, there should be enough for Trent and Myles to take leftovers..... let's just hope Stuart doesn't need lunch the same day !! Stuart normally takes leftovers to work for lunch, but with him not going into the University so much since the semester is over, he doesn't need as consistant a lunch source...
Trent also needs more stuff to fix his truck. He's got a hole in his steering fluid hose, left a lovely big spot of steering fluid on the edge of the driveway. Anyhow, he'll get some funds from the bank before we leave in the morning and we'll have to stop at Part Source for parts to fix it.
Today was Uncle Andrew's 40th birthday - we called and sang him a lovely off key rendition of Happy Birthday over the phone - then talked for over an hour - unfortunately it was his dime, as we called first, he returned the call.. oops.. Sorry Andrew! We love you though. |
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May. 6, 2008 Political Activism
I'm not generally a Political Activist, but when my sister-in-law sent me this in an e-mail, I had to get involved to stop this.. This proposed law would make it illegal for me to do all the things I'm doing to keep me alive this pregnancy - to help my family stay healthy - I had to write letters. I wrote one to the member of parliament who represents my area, and to the minister who suggested this bill. I also sent this message out to all my friends whom I know use herbal remedies to improve their health.
NaturalNews.com printable article
Originally published April 28 2008
Canada's C-51 Law May Outlaw 60% of Natural Health Products; Big Pharma Pushing to Criminalize Supplements
by Mike Adams (see all articles by this author)
(NaturalNews) A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health on April 8th, 2008, and it proposes sweeping changes to Canada's Food and Drugs Act that could have devastating consequences on the health products industry.
Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations to key terminology, including replacing the word "drug" with "therapeutic product" throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements and other items. With this single language change, anything that is "therapeutic" automatically falls under the Food and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.
The Act also changes the definition of the word "sell" to include anyone who gives such therapeutic products to someone else. So a mother giving an herb to her child, under the proposed new language, could be arrested for engaging in the sale of unregulated, unapproved "therapeutic substances." Learn about more of these freedom-squashing changes to the law at the Stop51.com website: http://www.stopc51.com
New enforcement powers allow Canadian government to seize your home or business
At the same time that C-51 is outlawing herbs, supplements and vitamins, it would grant alarming new "enforcement" powers to the thugs enforcement agents who claim to be "protecting" the public from dangerous unapproved "therapeutic agents" like, say, dandelion greens. As explained on the www.Educate-Yourself.org website ((http://educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian...), the C-51 law would allow the Canadian government's thugs enforcement agents to:
• Raid your home or business without a warrant
• Seize your bank accounts
• Levy fines up to $5 million and a jail terms up to 2 years for merely selling an herb
• Confiscate your property, then charge you storage fees for the expense involved in storing all the products they stole from you
C-51 would even criminalize the simple drying of herbs in your kitchen to be used in an herbal product, by the way. That would now be categorized as a "controlled activity," and anyone caught engaging in such "controlled activities" would be arrested, fined and potentially jailed. Other "controlled activities" include labeling bottles, harvesting plants on a farm, collecting herbs from your back yard, or even testing herbal products on yourself! (Yes, virtually every activity involving herbs or supplements would be criminalized...)
There's more, too. C-51 is the Canadian government's "final solution" for the health products industry. It's a desperate effort to destroy this industry that's threatening the profits and viability of conventional medicine. Natural medicine works so well -- and is becoming so widely used -- that both the Canadian and American governments have decided to "nuke" the industries by passing new laws that effectively criminalize anyone selling such products. They simply cannot tolerate allowing consumers to have continued access to natural products. To do so will ultimately spell the destruction of Big Pharma and the outdated, corrupt and criminally-operated pharmaceutical industry that these criminally-operated governments are trying to protect.
Join the rally to protest C-51
On May 9th, 2008, Canadian citizens will be gathering at the Calgary Federal Court to protest C-51 and help protect their access to natural health products. Call 1-888-878-3467 to learn more, or visit the action page of Health Canada Exposed at: http://www.stopc51.com/c51/what_you_can_do.asp
NaturalNews is looking to hire someone with a good video camera to film the event. We'll gladly pay you to video tape this and send us the resulting file, which we will edit and then post for NaturalNews readers. If you have a video camera (with good audio, hopefully) and can attend the May 9th rally, please contact us at (U.S.) 520-232-9300 for details. If you do film there, be sure to use the camera buddy system, where you have somebody in the distance filming YOU with the camera, so that if Canadian law enforcement thugs decide to assault you and steal your video camera in order to censor the event, then somebody else in the distance has THAT on video! You got that? So there are two cameras working, camera A is filming the rally, and it's very close to the action. Camera B is set back farther from the scene, and it's filming the person holding camera A. This is standard operating practice for filming such events, and it makes it very difficult for government thugs to shut down the video. Often, the person filming with camera B is in a car somewhere, or filming covertly so that they don't attract attention. Zoom lenses help a lot.
In any case, if you manage to get some video of this event, then we'd be thrilled to share it with NaturalNews readers. And like I said, we'll pay for footage, so call us for details. Together, we can help spread the word about this important rally for health freedom in Canada.
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I had wanted to have a tea party for Janney and her little friends last Friday when Regina's kids were here, but as you all know, that day was PACKED to the brim, so today I had a tea party with brothers for Janney.
 This is Janney's new tea set. I made chocolate chocolate chip muffins in little loaf pans. |
 This is the teapot, creamer, and sugar from her set. We had Cranberry Apple Zinger and Earl Grey (in the blue pot). |
 My mum sent me some little silver mustard spoons in a special box, they were perfect little tea spoons. |
 Asher has a lot to learn about tea time etiquette, but this was our first time, maybe next time he'll be tidier. |
Miss Janney, the guest of honour, with Myles in the background reading his Astronomy book.
And what's tea time without some vibrant conversation. There was much heated debate over this little fellow. Asher insisted it was Spiderman - he calls him Ha-man, Janney convinced he was Pepperoni. We know he's Pepperoni because he has a pizza on his shirt. It was very hard to get him in focus, this is the best I could do, but you can see, that is not a spider, it's a pizza, but Asher was accepting NONE-OF-IT!
Next time I'll be more organized so that we can have tea time with our friends. |
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May. 5, 2008 Rachel R - Colloidal Silver Making
Yes Rachel R, you can make Colloidal Silver very cheaply - so cheaply that you can use it for cleaning and disinfecting your house!
Here's my machine
 Another view
That's 4 9 volt batteries linked together - with a little on-off switch - and then wired to those alligator clips. The clips connect to the silver rods, the silver rods go through the piece of wood and into the glass jar. You put water into the glass jar, turn the electricity on so it goes into one silver rod, and through the water, to the other silver rod, ... when the electricity jumps through the water from one silver rod to the other, that's when you get the tiny particles of silver in your water. I run this for about 8 minutes, then pour the water into a filter as it fills my bottle, that way I get out the BIG pieces of silver... if for some reason I run the machine for longer than 8 minutes (like yesterday when neither Rourke nor I were paying close enough attention) then the water gets cloudy and the colloidal silver is too bitter to drink. This stuff we use to clean the house - doesn't go to waste. This set-up is supposed to last a good 10 years. (of course, I'll have to replace the batteries sometime...)
Now.. this is my home made machine - you can find directions on-line if you google it - but if you want to buy a professional kit go to www.TheSilverEdge.com.
I think my home made machine was about $45 to make (including the bars of silver - which I got from The Silver Edge) - I don't know how much Steve's machines are.... |
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May. 4, 2008 Pregnancy Pictures May. 4, 2008 Riding Lesson
I am planning on having someone come and give Janney some riding lessons, but in the mean time, Trent took Janney out today to get her acquainted with balancing while Rimmon walks.
 She's got her head down, it should be up, but her arms are out and her eyes are closed and she's hanging on with her legs to balance. Later we'll have her stick her legs out, away from Rimmon's side, and try to get balance that way too.
 Snazzy new boots tucked into the snazzy new saddle. |
 Rimmon is wearing a hackmore bridle, it has no bit, and is very gentle. She's very docile. |
 Trent is adjusting the stirup length so Janney can put her feet in properly. It doesn't go any shorter! |
 And a snazzy helmet to go with the outfit. Daddy wanted her to have it for safety. |
Meanwhile, the other horses are hanging out behind the barn. Negev came through the winter with flying colours, but Sahara had a rough time. We had to give her extra nutrition, bought her a blanket for extra warmth and put them both in the barn most nights for that extra bit of wind and weather protection.
Negev looks like she's smiling! She's got a loose lower lip like her dad..lol
Snack time for the herd. There's very little new growth in the pasture, so we're still having to feed them some hay.
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