RESTLESS EVERYTHING

Why oh why on the night that you need to /want to sleep.....you can't. I just don't get it at all. I've put in a busy productive week and tomorrow I go to serve in the Temple. I love being there but it's an early start to my day (6:15) NOW, it's 12:02 am and I'm wide awake. My legs are having one of there dancing nights, and I'm itchy all over like I've had a reaction to something !!  I tried reading, a snack, some medication, but as you can see nothing is working. It's like my off switch is broken. Maybe it is. 

I sometimes feel like it IS stuck ( my off switch) I can think of a thousand ( well maybe a hundred) things that I need to be doing....the never ending To Do List !!! Here it is...in no special order

1. burn down the house ( really just do some more purging/cleaning)
2.finish sewing projects so I can put away the machine.
3. finish preparing my Sunday school lesson
4.finish Christmas cards
5. check my Christmas list and shopping
6. Christmas baking
7. finish the Christmas tree
8.do more walking
9.organize photos
10.get a hair cut
11.finish quilt with......can't say...it's a surprise
12.collect pie orders
13.better scripture reading
14.massage
15.make Dr. appointment
16.do some home visits
17.write in my blog ( yay... I'm doing one thing!!!)
18.children's Christmas cards
19.clean the house some more
20.invites out for Boxing day
21.genealogy...light a fire under Bill
22.organize cupboards
23.runaway
24. pick up pies
25.decorating
26. did I mention declutter and clean
27.........this list is depressing me

and I'm not getting sleepy....what is the matter with me anyway....

Latest activities....Christmas tree went up today....first time ever before Dec.1st. ( not decorated )
working on quilts and pillowcases and Christmas Table runners.....hanging with Olivia....attended funeral For Gail's Mom ( first time in a Jehovah Witness meeting)....visiting teaching....hooked on kijiji.....card making....facetiming with Sophia and the Nelson kiddies ( I want them all back here !!!).....and a lot of little things.

I better go try to sleep. Sweet dreams everyone !

Insane

Sometimes I feel a bit insane....just saying

I have a wonderful life...full to overflowing....maybe a little part of my insanity.....blessed with miracles, and so much love. My family is everything...EVERYTHING.....I am nothing without them. I don't like that they are spread out across the country, but that is beyond my control. I do love that they all send me photos....one of the best parts of my day when I receive a photo from any of them....both near and far.

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween

Now some know that Halloween is not my most favorite celebration. I don't really mind the fun dressing up ( that others do) but I think that it's the excess of candy that really turns me off.  Having expressed that, I do still participate in the event. ( and eat way too much candy....no will power)

I arrived home late on the 30th, and Friday was spent with Olivia, and getting ready for the Bridgewater family. We did pizza for dinner, and got the girls ready to head off trick or treating. Just as photos were finished Emmy got very sick to her tummy. Oh dear !!! We cleaned her all up and she insisted that she go with the others.....three houses later and she and grandma were on their way back to settle that tummy down. While the others continued on Emmy and I passed out goodies, and entertained aunt Julie and Uncle Bill. Emmy seemed to re energize and when the others returned for a bathroom stop she tried again. (very successful this time) Oh sweet Halloween !! Finley was sick through the night....Oh sweet Halloween. The girls stayed with me on Saturday to recoup, while their Italian brother, Francesco played for the provincial soccer title (a victory)

 

 

 

Happy November 1st

October.....beyond full!!

My memory is horrible which is precisely why I must keep this blog going. ( Thank you daughters ) I rely on my camera memories to remember what I have done yesterday!!! Very sad indeed. Now I need something to help me organize my time better so that I record what I have been doing before I forget what the photos mean.  I'm in a memory funk tonight, quite bothered by it all.

There, that vent felt better. I want to do a quickie post to make myself feel better. I last posted about Thanksgiving. ( a great memory)  After that fun weekend, we returned to Calgary for some other memories. Bill and I made a journey to visit with Dave and Hazel Goble, seeing Brian and Melissa along the way. Bill and Connie returned home and I stayed to help with the Dunford move. We had a great girls ( witches) gathering at Katherine's, did lots of paper work and packing and then headed to Washington for the next saga of Laura and Jeremy and Sophia. I returned to Halifax on the 30th. What a very full month. 

Grateful.....to have been at Sophia's birth, to be there to help Laura and Jeremy, to visit with family and old friends, to see more of the west, to learn more life lessons and so much more. Grateful for family above all else....reunions and facetimes...miss not all being together.

A few photo glimpses

 

It was quite windy and Hazel was recovering from dental work....amazing view all around this beautiful home

From the front porch

 
visiting Waterton

 

 

 

Those photos are just a few ( believe me)....lots of great memories....stay tuned.