FREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

If you are trying to squeeze out the last few days of summer vacation, we recommend these:

 

 

On Wednesday evening Breton, Daphne and I took in Kontinuum .  It is almost done so if you have not had a chance to go it  is something interesting to do while wandering around downtown.  We pre-booked our FREE tickets and when we went it was not busy at all (around 4:45pm).  Don't forget to smile when they scan you:)

We then walked down Sparks St and took the bridge over to MOSAICANADA in Jacques Cartier Parc.
And it was all free...even the parking:)

 

Breton is starving in this pic. We went over the dinner hour and hadn't planned to be gone so long.  Poor man-boy:(

 

It was amazing the sculptures they made incorporating all the different kinds of plants.

 

 

Breton @ Scotiabank Place!

For all the hockey Mom's warming up for the new hockey season, i hope this doesn't happen to you:


“But Officer, my son is playing at Scotiabank Place for the first time and he forgot his left skate.  I am just trying to get it to him before his game is over!”  This is what I would have told the police officer if I had gotten pulled over this past Saturday.  I would have been pulled over for speeding.  Yes that was me, the dark blue streak going by you on the Queensway and running up your rear end on Eagleson or Terry Fox and Fallowfield.  

As I was waiting with Daphne, my in laws and other family members of other players, Jeff calls me on my cell to inform me that they can only find one skate.  “I’ll call you back in 5 minutes; we’re going to search the change room.”  Even as Jeff hangs up I head to the door to go back to the parking lot and jump in my car.

Rewind, ½ hr before Breton & Jeff leave…Breton shows Daphne and I the new blue laces that his Dad put on his skates.  Very sharp looking.  As Breton packs his hockey bag, for whatever reason, he got distracted and leaves one skate on the couch.  This is where I find it when I finally get home.

Long story short, I raced to get the skate to Breton, who was sitting on the bench.  He went out and got an assist.  His team is the #1 C level team but they lost to the #1 B level team.  Final score 9-2.  No matter what, it is a story and a half we will never forget.  And we got to hear B’s name said out loud in Scotiabank Place: Breton Paris…no Breton Perras (the “s” is silent) They’ll get it right by the time he is there playing for the NHL.

Thank you to all Breton’s fans that came out to watch esp MollyJ thanx for keeping me warm.

Daphne"s Camp

For 4 years Daphne has participated in a camp at the Agricultural Museum. This year Daphne got her own calf to care for, as the main focus of her camp.

This is Goober, Daphne's calf.

She also got to stay late one day and help with the milking.

We highly recommend the camps at the Agricultural Museum.

Team G comes for a visit

 Well not all of Team G, (Team Georganas) came to the cottage but Molly & Stella did.

 We swam, we tubed, we toured the lake, we roasted marshmallows,

Paulie setting out a swimming challenge

and we kayaked.

Annual Bike Ride

Breton and I have a tradition. A bike ride tradition. The week Daphne goes to camp @the Agricultural Museum, he and I do a long distance ride.  The past two years we have biked to Carleton Place from Stittsville.  It is a straight route on a former railway track.  We then have lunch at A&W and cycle back.  This year we decided to bike downtown from Bells Corners.

The Carleton Place route is fun because we go under HWY 7 and behind the Canadian Golf Course and other places we see while driving on the highway but this new route, in Breton's words "was so scenic". 

Travelling along the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway there is lots to see.  We stopped at Remic Rapids and sat in the red Muskoka chairs for a snack break.

We locked our bikes up and walked along Sparks Street.  For some reason B didn't want his picture taken in this chair...??

But he did stop for this photo.
And after we biked back to the car, we went for lunch @A&W😄

Please read

I wanted to share a story with you from Ottawa Citizen:

This is my friend Susan.

She is a fierce Mama Bear, trying to help her son.  Connor is a fun loving and active man-boy:) who just wants to get back to having fun.

Click, read, share and even comment :

Young hockey player faces long, painful wait for hip surgery at CHEO
When Connor Cose-Manuel turned up ice with the puck last year during a hockey game with the 'AA' Nepean Raiders, he felt something in his right hip go "pop.
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/young-hockey-player-faces-long-painful-wait-for-hip-surgery-at-cheo

Happy Anniversary Paul

 We have had many adventures, with many more to come,

We've shared many, many laughs together and some tears,

 No matter the season or the distance between us,

I Love You

Happy 2nd Anniversary💗

Quote Of The Day

Do unto others as you'd have done to you.

Quoting my Mom today. 

She use to say this to us all the time,

probably when we 3 sisters were fighting...

She would also say "Do as I say not as I do."

Hmmmmm.....

Mama wisdom!

I don't know if my children could quote me with any familiar sayings...
Well none that I would want them to repeat! Yikes!

 

What's going on?

My house is a disaster zone or perhaps a construction zone?

After considering moving, for a brief minute or two, I gained/earned some paint so I decided to...

PAINT!

Goodbye shades of blue...

Hello custom created gray 

Can you spot my breakfast of apples and peanut butter?

One of my favourites

Click below to view one of my favourite TED Talks.  

It was a bit of an AWHA moment, a little mind blowing going on and a few chuckles...

Click here

Enjoy

TED Talks

So lately I have become a fan of TED Talks.  For a long time I resisted.  I didn't want to be told how to live my life...
but now I watch them to be informed, inspired or even for a laugh.(most of the Talks have some humour in them).

You can search for any subject and they are brief, so you can listen to them when you just have a little down time. 


Click here to see some of the more popular ones:


https://www.ted.com/playlists/171/the_most_popular_talks_of_all


Let me know if you find a good one :)

Oh SNAP!

I am going to sound old but I just don't get Snapchat:(

I do enjoy the filters and at first thought that was the main feature of it but I have been told by my offspring...that this is how everyone is "connecting"? "chatting"? um... "communicating"?

Look who came to visit:

 

These guys came by last Wednesday.  The video was shot by Thomas, Breton's best buddy.  That is Breton in the background exclaiming. 

 

That is the part that makes me laugh.

Love this!

Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio .

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written.

My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short – enjoy it.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye, but don't worry, God never blinks.

16.. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19.. It's never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative of dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you want .

42. The best is yet to come...

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Painting

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My sisters and I, when we were younger, use to colour all the time.

We even had a cupboard in the kitchen full of our colouring books and crayons.  We also did lots of arts and crafts. 

Recently, in the adult world, there has been a resurgence in colouring for adults as a stress reliever... a lot of adult colouring books out there (a lot of stress out there?).

Why did I ever stop colouring? Drawing? Painting?  I have to admit that as part of my job, working with young children, I still get to create art and crafts.  

It was mentioned, that when we were younger, we never coloured to get paid, or worried about being judged...we just coloured for the pure pleasure.

So I recently got back to my childhood activities. 

No I do not have a kitchen cupboard full of colouring books and crayons but I was inspired by Sam Zuppardi's art in  Nobody's Perfect.

I am drawing and painting.
It is pleasurable.

You have to try this!

What is your personality? 

Did you know there are 16 different kinds of personalities?

Learning what kind you are and the important people in your life are, can help immensely in relating and understanding each other.

Click here for your personality

Very accurate for me.

This is MOI

she did it!

Daphne has been growing her hair out for a very long time.  I do not even remember the last time we went and got it cut.  Today she cut it!

She was growing it in order to donate it for the making of wigs.  You need a minimum of 8 inches, Daphne donated 9.  We are mailing it to the Canadian Cancer Society via Pantene

She is a real Beauty! Dazzling Daphne all the way through!

43 that's ME!

A lot of these still looking to check off:


Here are 43 things I would like to do:

1) Spend more time with people I really really love. ✓

3) Write more

4) See Adele in concert

5) Get more defined muscles

6) Be hairless

7) Make porta potties pretty

8) Be healthier

9) Be in a Hedley video

10) Have more followers (social media-wise)

11) Write permanently for YMC

12) Get a new tattoo--really: fix the robin on my shoulder

13) Keep my hair at the length it is now

14) Sleep in more - very hard for me to do:(

15) Swim more✓

16) Travel to Australia

17) Travel more in general

18) Go to the circus school in Montreal

19) Go ziplining again

20) Have a lavender farm

21) Create art

22) Own an old truck, Jeep and maybe a Bugatti

23) Cook better and enjoy doing it

24) Therefore: Do more cooking classes

25) Make a difference in a parent's life

26) Give my kids more great memories✓

27) ....and the right advice

28) Travel in First Class

29) Do a train tour up North in the territories or in BC

30) RV across Canada

31) Ski Whistler

32) Sleep through the night

33) Read more✓

34) Relax better✓

35) say what's on my mind

36) Swim in an ocean✓

37) Go see Elle King live

38) Run another triathlon and 1/2 marathon ✓

39) Get my Victimology diploma

40) Go to Bali or Bora Bora or Iceland or Greenland 

41)  Cry less and be regulated 

42) Be on the Amazing Race

43) Own a dwarf goat and meet the PM

Another good one

This is another great post i just read. 

 Right here

Everybody Poops

So "pooping" is one of my least favourite discussions. I can clean up my dogs, I have no problem cleaning up babies or small children's accidents (I can hold my breath for a real long time) but adult #2s...

It is super important: whether you are doing it or not, the frequency and what it looks like (gag) .

EVERYBODY POOPS!

This is what I try to remember anytime I am feeling anxious, intimidated or stressed out about new situations and the people involved.

Remember your worse "pooping" experience and know that that person has probably had a similar situation or worse!! 

Pooping: a common denominator that levels us all.

Oh wow wisdom from the nest  by Robyn...Or I am full of it and it just stinks!

Hahahahaha laughs Robyn hysterically 

Interesting posts I have read recently:

Many posts on this blog have been helpful

Amen!  I have noticed this too over the past 20+ years working with children but I think with more posts like this one on parenting, there is a happy medium coming (and when everyone stops getting a medal in sports: just the winners plz:) 

Click here

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My past two 1/2 marathons I have run under someone else's name...good thing I am not that fast hahaha