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Personality Plus

My girl is such a character. She does something to make us laugh each and every day without fail. Today it happened long after she fell asleep, when I went into her room to shut her light off and turn her night light on for the evening... this is how I found her sleeping in her top bunk.

 

 

Happy Music

It is a sunny Spring day and I'm enjoying this beautiful free time in the quiet house as the kids sit outside coloring a cardboard box with crayons...  

I'm listening to my tunes and I thought I'd share some of my happy music that I always turn to when I feel like dancing around the house... usually though I have it on when I'm cooking supper in the kitchen.

I'll warn you, it's an eclectic mix!

Happy Tunes:

01 - Hey Stephen - Taylor Swift

02 - Things I'll never say - Avril Lavigne

03 - Already Gone - Sugarland

04 - You Belong with Me - Taylor Swift

05 - Sweet Thing - Keith Urban

06 - My life would suck without you - Kelly Clarkson (I can't say that name without yelling it like in "40 year old virgin"!

07 - Charmed Life - Leigh Nash

08 - Bruises - Chairlift

09 - Hot n' Cold - Katy Perry

10 - Daughter - Loudon Wainwright III

11 - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel

12 - I always get what I want - Avril Lavigne

13 - Need to be next to you - Leigh Nash

14 - Does your mother know - ABBA (i know... I can't help it!)

15- Sunshine and Summertime - Faith Hill

16 - Let my love open the door - Pete Townsend

17 - Come Dancing - The Kinks

18 - What am I to you - Norah Jones

19 - Follow you Follow me - Genesis

20 - Little Wonders - Rob Thomas

March Break wrap-up

We had a great March break and the week flew by.

Monday the kids started off the 'vacation' with a day at their Nana and Grandpa Lightfoots. This allowed me to finish up some work and they always love to go there. Keaton had a sleepover at his other grandparents that night. On Tuesday Chloe spent some time with her buddy Adison while I met up with Keaton and my mom and Aunt Betty for chinese food. Then the kids and I  met Kerri and kidlets at the park for the first bike riding of the season. We finished the day with a movie night and went to see "Race to Witch Mountain" which was okay but way different than the original "Escape to Witch mountain"- it was a little violent for my light-weight kids - they can't stop talking about the bulging brains alien man. Wednesday we had Erin and Curt over for a play day and the kids had a ball. Thursday I had the day with Chloe while Keaton spent a special day with his Nana Lightfoot.

The highlight of our March Break started Friday when we packed up the Pilot and headed to Huntsville in the morning. This was Keaton's first 'full on all weekend in a hotel party like a rockstar' hockey tourney. The drive was about 3 hrs and it was a beautiful day heading to the north country. The kids had 3 games and unfortunately lost them all. The first 2 were great grames though and really closely matched. The first game was against London and they lost 1-0. The second game was against Listowel and they lost 2-1 in overtime sudden death (BOO!)  The 3rd game they were up against Bracebridge who is in a different division I believe and is a great little team. They whipped us 7-0 darn it ...and that was the last game of our season.

The boys were sad that the hockey season was over but got back to celebrating at the hotel with a double birthday party the parents held for 2 of our hockey team members.

We had a great time - I'm not sure who had more fun... the kids or the parents - I will miss the comradie of this team and their terrific team spirit that never let them get too down even though we lost almost every game this year. Keaton (and all his team) has improved and grown so much this year and that really should be the focus at Novice age anyhow. I'm really proud of the whole team! Go Blues Go!

So... now March Break is over and everyone is tuckered out from the weekend away. Thanks to Mom and Dad for taking such great care of Henry the dog and I'm headed to bed early to catch up on some zzz's I missed the past few nights.

Reaching out

I wrote a post on our adoption blog asking for help with donations for Meg's orphanage. Thank you to those that have responded so generously - every little bit makes a difference.

Today I came across some photos of her orphanage and its conditions and it made me want to reach out on my public blog to see if there is anyone that would like to help and donate something. This orphanage is in such poor shape and even though I was aware of its conditions, it is quite another thing to see photos of where she is living and the lack of necessities there. More over, seeing the photos of so many babies and children that must go untreated for such simple conditions as scabies (until they have secondary and harsh skin conditions as a result) makes my heart sink.

Here are the details on my previous post for anyone interested: CLICK HERE

What is most needed is scabies medication, monetary donations for me to buy the orphanage formula and food while we are there in May 2009 (if anyone shows interest I can set up a paypal system), stimulating (non-fabric) toys for the children (must be small for me to fit in my suitcases), art supplies such as crayons, markers, etc, medicines for fever, etc.

The necessities of life, quite honestly. If you want to help and make a real difference in the life of a child just like Meg - please consider it. My email is [email protected]