Paul Anka

Mike is on his way to Halifax today to cook for Paul Anka...originally I was going to go to the concert. Mike asked me if I would be upset if we didn't go and he just drove back when he was done cooking...trust me, I am not upset about that...not that I won't miss sitting there listening to such classics as "Puppy Love"...yeah, not quite. I promise I won't sleep in the middle of the bed tonight while you are in Halifax, Mike...

Not much on the weekend. Went to Connor's hockey game on Sat, the ref let those kids get away with alot especially after the whistle, so kids being kids, they will push to see how far they can get, and there was alot of pushing and shoving around. Anyway, Connor's team lost by a goal but I still enjoyed watching them play.

Did get a little Christmas shopping done on Friday. Gotta get organized this week, Tracey and the girls are suppose to be arriving on Sat and I cannot wait...I have hugs galore for them all!!

It amazes me!!

I amazes me how many little things play in your life...

We are waiting for Graham to have a nuclear heart scan to check out how the blood is flowing to his heart but now that is put off indefinitely because the nuclear facility in Ontario that produces 2/3 of the world's supply of radioactive isotopes for this test is closed. It closed for annual maintenance but has stayed close for safety concerns. These isotopes have a short shelf life so they cannot be stock piled. Now hospitals are scrambling to find more...

D-Day

It's dentist day...and I could puke just thinking about it.

Graham started his higher dose of his new medicine last night and one of the side effects is nightmares or very vivid dreams and we have never told him this...this morning he told me that he can wake himself up when he wants to, like last night, he was having a bad dream and woke himself up to start a new one that was much better...wonder if it was that Australian girl on the beach in the commercial that says "so where the bloody hell are you"...he seems to like her.

Elysia has a soccer game tonight at 7 but first we go to the school for their open house, parent night, book sale...last night we picked up the pies we sold...if my freezer wasn't full before, it certainly is now!!

Phone

We finally got our phone service back...it went out Sunday morning, then the internet went out on Monday (yes, poor Elysia couldn't get on Facebook, that's why it stormed). Anyway the guy finally got there yesterday and fixed it, something about a power thing.

The kids had no school yesterday so Josee sent Uncle Jeff to get my kids around noon. They had a great day at Auntie Josee's house, playing in the snow, going in the barn. For those who do not know, Graham thinks Uncle Jeff is perfect (aw....the deluded eyes of the child--haha). That road up at Josee's is horrible in the winter, it's not salted, it blows up there...yuck!

Winterwonderland

Lots of snow last night, I'm thinking 20 plus cms. Mike and I were up early to shovel the driveway...I'm thinking a snowblower is looking pretty good, especially after we saw our neighbor come flying out of his garage with his ATV with a snow plow attachment and Mike says "I know what I want for Christmas". Graham got up too and was "helping" and then worked on his snowman, he loves the snow. He and Elysia are home with their first "Kings County" snow day, they have been waiting for a while because they would always see no school in Kings County on the news but Halifax would still have it.

The drive to work was not great...I guess when you work out in the middle of no where you cannot expect it to be wonderful. The last part of the drive after you got up the hill in Kentville was definitely the worst. Oh well, I brought my lunch so I will just batten down the hatches and eat here. Hope the kids don't kill each other today...

Dentist

I hate the dentist...there is no other way to put it that would even remotely sound nice...maybe I don't hate the dentist personally but certainly professionally. I will put off going for as long as I can and I know I shouldn't but that's me...do as I say not as I do. So I had a filling that was cracked for a while and guess what happened this morning...it came out in a pc of Quality Street, so now I have a gaping hole in my tooth and it's Sunday...I have left messages at two offices and I will have to go. The last two times I had any dental work done, I had consciousness problems...yes, that's right I almost passed out in the chair. I have to try the deep breathing thing, it's pathetic, I know.

Went to a craft night last night with some of the ladies in the neighborhood, the company and food were great. One lady made homemade Irish Cream...OMG, it was good, I could have drank the whole thing, but that would not have been good in sooooo many ways. Someone also brought Bailey's. I slept until 8:30 this morning and that never happens, I guess all it takes is some alcohol.

It's December

It's the first day of December and that means many things

• Christmas is almost here


• It's the official start to winter for me and it snowed last night so that's definitely a sign


• My kids get to start their chocolate Christmas calendars, which is a big deal because they can have the pc of chocolate as soon as they get up in the morning so that means that Graham was up at 6 this morning, sitting on the chair in the living room waiting for one of us to come down, so when we did at 7:30, he was all excited to eat this tiny pc of chocolate shaped like a train.

Graham decorated the front window in our house yesterday, he used a pc of paper for each letter of the words Merry Christmas and taped them to the window...looks lovely. Then Elysia took his picture and printed it for him so he taped that up too...see the photo. For a small fee, you too, could have these highly sought after decorations adhered to your windows. Also included free are many small finger prints all over the remaining window.