tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572288664998135742024-02-20T10:37:51.172-08:00My little worldJuliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07322166393958405201noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957228866499813574.post-40178246905120788792014-06-20T14:33:00.000-07:002014-07-08T07:41:33.907-07:00Broadway night, Les Miserables<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, it really has been a long time since I've posted. The past few months have been hectic to say the least. Ontario had a Provincial election last week and for four weeks prior to that I worked in the election office as a recruiter. I do this every election. It is four weeks of long hours and hard work, but it's worth is in the end. (More on that later).</div>
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Our finale of the Broadway event went off really well. Wendell was Jean Valjean, Rebekah played Cosette and Andrew & I were in the chorus (Andrew was the flag waver as well as singing!) Here is a photo. I had been through makeup already, but Wendell hadn't. They did a great makeup job on him and he looked so old and sick!</div>
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Wendell let his hair grow and also grew a beard for this performance. I don't know who was more anxious for him to shave it off - him or me!! But it did add to the character though.</div>
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It was a lot of fun to do and I was very proud of my husband and daughter for their performances. Wendell nailed it and so did Rebekah!!!</div>
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So regarding the election work.......the money earned from it is paying for a two week trip to England in October/November, for our anniversary. We always go to Maine for our anniversary, as many of you will know, but we found a little fisherman's cottage on the Yorkshire coast (in Staithes) online a year or so ago and said that one day we would love to go for our anniverary. Well this is the year!! We also have a place booked for a couple of nights in Derbyshire and we will also stay with family. We are so excited about this and feel like a couple of kids. We are busy planning the itinerary already! Of course, our two weeks in Maine at the end of August comes first. Can't wait to see Norah on the beach this year!!</div>
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Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07322166393958405201noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957228866499813574.post-82611904382834167212014-04-24T14:12:00.000-07:002014-04-24T14:12:15.524-07:00Spring has sprung.......finally!<div style="text-align: center;">
After weeks of reading British blogs and looking at all your lovely flowers in your gardens I can finally say that Spring has come to Ottawa. We are no longer looking at white, but things are beginning to green up! It feels like it's been such a long winter. Oh wait a minute - it has been!! We have had snow on the ground since <a href="http://julies-little-world.blogspot.ca/2013/11/a-winter-wonderland.html">this post</a> (please note the date of Nov 27th!!) That's a few days shy of five months! This has been a long winter for more reasons than one as well. Having this frozen shoulder really set me back a few months and I felt caged in for most of the winter. Now don't get me wrong - I do love to hibernate in the cold months, but I like it to be on my terms - not the fact that I CAN'T drive or go out.</div>
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But all is getting better every day and with physio it continues to improve. At least I can drive now and have a lot more mobility. I cleaned the house from top to bottom in the last two days and the windows are getting a good clean inside and out on Saturday. We have the kind that pop out to clean so I won't be climbing any ladders (I wouldn't do that with a good shoulder!)</div>
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To celebrate this lovely sunny weather we're having, I decided to whip up some new napkins yesterday. I like the bright sunny colours</div>
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I put some lighter bedding on our bed too</div>
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Gotta love Spring!</div>
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We love basketball in our family. All three of our kids played it when they were younger and Wendell coached all three as well. Each March the NCAA has a tounrament which is televised and it has been a long standing tradition in our house..Andrew & Kelsi don't have cable TV so they move in for three weekends in a row so that Andrew can watch with his Dad. We have a lot of fun and this year Norah was old enough to watch a little and cheer the teams on. Here she is on her Grandad's lap.</div>
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And on Grandma's lap looking out the bedroom window (See all the snow)</div>
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She came into our room every morning and joined us in bed. Then after I'd made it one day she played in the pillows!</div>
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For Easter weekend we went to Palmyra in upstate New York with Alex & Rebekah to go to our temple there. It was such a nice weekend. The sun was shining and we enjoyed being together. I love Easter and the newness of life it brings. How grateful I am for all that I have because of the events of Easter so many years ago. An event that changed history forever. I hope you enjoyed the weekend however you celebrate.</div>
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I have heard from a few of you through email and I think you were wondering where I'd got to. Well it's been a combination of life things. Mainly I just haven't got around to blogging for a while, but here I am now and we'll see how we go.</div>
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Our stay in Maine was wonderful. We originally had planned to leave Ottawa on Thursday and stay in Vermont overnight before arriving in Maine on the Friday for three nights. Well, as it happened, Vermont was due for a huge snowstorm on the Wednesday (18 inches to be precise!) so not wanting to drive through that, we decided to leave on the Tuesday and get ahead of it. We stayed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights in a Marriott hotel in Concord , New Hampshire. Our church has a temple in Boston which is only a little over an hour from Concord, so we went there on the Wednesday and when the storm hit Concord (not nearly as badly as it hit Vermont) on Thursday we hit the exercise room, and hot tub and played board games all day while the snow fell. It was very relaxing. When we arrived,our fridge wasn't working so they upgraded us to a deluxe room with a jacuzzi tub right in the room. That was nice.</div>
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Friday we left for Maine and below is the view from our balcony.</div>
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We had our own private hot tub outside on our balcony and it was wonderful.</div>
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We lay in it nice and warm while the temperature outside was slightly cooler to say the least!</div>
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It was so good to see our litle town in winter at last!</div>
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Even more deserted than the Fall.</div>
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The Billowhouse puts fresh cookies in your room every day and when we arrived, Judi had left this little message for us - it truly is our second home!</div>
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We just booked today for three nights in our lovely Billowhouse!</div>
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Two weeks from today!!</div>
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February may be the shortest month of the year, but in Ottawa where we don't see grass from December (or this year, late November) until mid to late March, February seems pretty long. In October I bought snow pants so that I could go play in the snow with Norah. However, with this frozen shoulder of mine, that will have to wait until next winter. We had Norah for a sleepover on Friday and Granddad took her out in the back garden on the toboggan. We have a small hill in our garden and he even built her a snow fort!</div>
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P.S. For all of you who have been asking (thank you so much), my shoulder is improving slowly but surely. It is a long raod, but the cortisone shot really helped and now we can start the rehab.</div>
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I love the Olympic games. Last Summer's in London was wonderful. The last winter games in Vancouver were excellent (didn't hurt that Canada killed on the medals!!) I'm not sure if I prefer the Summer or Winter games. I love them all really. I do enjoy watching the figure skating. As a young child I loved it as well and loved to pretend that I was a figure skater. We had an open area at the back of our living room which was my "skating rink". I would put talcum powder on the floor to make it slippery and slide around. I never learned how to skate as ice rinks were few and far between in Manchester in those days (don't even know if we had one). But in my imagination I was a champion!</div>
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Thank you for all the comments about my shoulder. I did see the Sports medicine specialist yesterday and after much deliberation, had a cortisone shot. It can take up to a week to feel any difference in pain, so we will just have to see. I am still able to do things around the house if I am careful. Vacuuming is harder and also ironing, but I do it slowly. I am not even able to drive Wendell's automatic transmission car, as it is still too painful. I will be glad when I can drive again as I feel very dependant on Wendell to get me places. He is so good about it though and doesn't mind.</div>
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It feels like forever since I wrote on my blog, but in actual fact it's only been a litle over a week! I feel there's been little to write about actually. My shoulder has become gradually worse and has turned into full blown frozen shoulder. I have never experienced pain quite like this and it is debilitating to say the least! I am seeing a specialist on Tuesday so we will see what he recommends. From all I've learned about this, it is a process that the body has to go through and it takes time. I am in the acute or freezing stage right now and that is the most painful (tell me something I don't know already!!) There is some eveidence that a cortisone shot may help, but I am not convinced of that yet. We'll see what happens on Tuesday.</div>
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Why the roses? Just because it's February and we are in need of some warmer weather! Wendell was in Toronto for most of last week, which meant that it dragged. I was so happy to see him on Friday! We both needed a hug by then!</div>
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I have been reading my usual blogs though, even though I may not have written myself. Hope everyone in England is coping with the wet weather there. The poor folks down south have been blasted pretty badly! Hurry up Spring!<br />
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I have done most things inside the house this past week as it's been so darn cold outside!</div>
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On Saturday we had Norah for the day and had such fun with her. She is quite the little character and a real chatterbox.</div>
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Just like Motherhood for the first time, nothing could have prepared me for the wonderful feelings of being a grandparent. The sheer joy I feel when she comes into the house and runs for me with open arms is something I can't even begin to describe! We love her to pieces.</div>
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She loves her books and has her favourites. When we came in the house, she ran straight to our reading chair and got out "Peepo" and started on it before I had even taken off my coat!</div>
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Her Daddy was exactly the same as a child and loved to read. I taught him to read with Ladybird books by the time he was four and he loves to read to this day!</div>
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When we get out the camera and tell her to smile, this is the face we get! Sorry, if I'm sounding like a doting grandmother, but that's exactly what I am so really no appologies there then!</div>
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I have had some discomfort in my right arm since last summer. I first noticed it in July when we were at the airport and it hurt to pull my luggage, so I had to push it instead. I just didn't repeat the movement and thought little of it. But since then it has increased in intensity and it is a lot more uncomfortable to do more things. After a normal ultrasond and x-ray, I have been told that the muscles are fine, but it is in the nerves. On Monday I went to meet the physiotherapist who was wonderful. She did some accupunture and gave me some very small exercises to do as she doesn't want to aggrevate it for fear it will turn to frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis). I don't want that as it is very acute and chronic pain and can last for up to two years! So I am doing what she has asked and limiting my activities to below shoulder level. It's amazing how many things that prevents. I can't even drive my car right now as it has a standard transmission and the movement of shifting is painful. Luckily Wendell's car is automatic so I can use that. One thing I CAN still do is sew, so I have been chain piecing my quilt which I showed the fabric for in the last post. There a lot of sqaures here, but it will move quickly.</div>
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I had a very rude awakening this morning. Wendell left for Halifax, Nova Scotia yesterday on a business trip. It never fails that something happens when he is away. At 5.30am this little baby....</div>
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I am driving a friend's children to school this week for her as she has broken her wrist and can't drive. We are in the middle of what is being called a polar vortex at the moment with the temperature this morning at -36 degrees Celsius. That is mighty cold when it hits you in the face as you open your front door. I felt a lot like our car door this morning - very stiff and creaky!</div>
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I haven't tried this recipe before. I should have put grated carrots in it, but didn't have any in my frdige as I blanched and froze them all last week, but it was still delicious with just the coconut, orange zest, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and raisins.</div>
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A lovely warming breakfast! Recipe found <a href="http://joythebaker.com/2014/01/morning-glory-oats/">here</a></div>
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Would you like to see the fabrics for my next quilt?</div>
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I still need to cut a lot more of the beige squares as there will be many more of them to add to the colours. This will be a queen size and I am going to try and quilt it myself. I want a very old fashioned look, so we'll see how it goes. Watch this space!<br />
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I forgot to mention my cookbooks in my last post on books. Here they are if you're interested. These are the ones I use most<br />
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And these are in the cupboard above the microwave.<br />
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Wendell is working from his hotel room today as they are in the middle of a blizzard in Halifax, even though their temperatures are way milder than ours in Ottawa. The sun is shining through my window making me feel its warmth, but outside it is freezing! Stay warm wherever you are!<br />
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P.S. My neighbour across the street is having new windows installed today. -36C and the instalers are on ladders outside - madness!!</div>
Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07322166393958405201noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957228866499813574.post-51041677281867109592014-01-15T16:24:00.000-08:002014-01-22T09:43:49.902-08:00Books, books and more books!<div style="text-align: center;">
CJ from <a href="http://cjabovetheriver.blogspot.co.uk/">Above the river</a> mentioned in a comment earlier, that she would like to browse through my bookshelves. So I figured I'd do a post on books. We love to read and have quite a number of books throughout the house. When our children were small we had even more as I have never felt that you can have too many!</div>
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Here is a peek at some of them.</div>
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My sewing books which I make good use of'</div>
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Some classics</div>
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Good old Harry Potter - some of my favourite children's fiction!</div>
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More classics</div>
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Poetry and historical</div>
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My collection of Miss Read</div>
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CS Lewis collection and reference books</div>
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I love books and can't imagine a home without them. I am very picky about what I read though. I don't use bad language and therefore don't like to read it in my books. This is getting harder, which is why I stick with the classics and some old standbys which I will read over and over again. I must admit to liking British authors above others (slightly biased there!) I also have a Kobo reader and have quite a lot of books on that. I love the convenience for travel and sometimes in bed I will read from it, but nothing beats holding a real book in my hands. I love the feel and the smell of books. I could get lost in a used bookstore for hours. Our middle son Andrew is exactly the same way. Whenever we would go on vacation he would always want to spend lots of time in bookstores, much to the chagrin of the others!</div>
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Beef & vegetable stew for dinner tonight and leftovers in the freezer. Love winter comfort food!</div>
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Just mailed off the baby quilt to its new home. I chose a striped fabric for the binding which incorporated all the colours in the quilt. Our local quilting shop has a sale on this week and I found a panel of labels, so decided to use one of those this time. </div>
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I did very simple quilting on it as I am not one for free motion quilting! I am pleased with how it turned out and plan on making a lot more items this year. </div>
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Do any of you read <a href="http://down---to---earth.blogspot.ca/">Rhonda's</a> blog? I have been enjoying her writings for a long time now and bought her book a while back and have finally made the time to read it. I am enjoying it very much. While we have no desire to have chickens and such, I very much want to live a simpler life, spend less and get back to basics. Rhonda is an inspiration and I recommend her blog to anyone wanting to make this change.</div>
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Off now to have a read at what everyone has been up to!</div>
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Yesterday, as it was cold and damp and I was busy with a church meeting and sewing, I decided to use up some of the meat in the deep freeze and make a soup for dinner.</div>
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We both love soup and just finished the remains of the turkey soup earlier in the week. I still have a few containers of turkey stock left in the freezer, so I will use that later. I also froze two double servings of the beef barley soup so we have some on hand. Sometimes life gets busy and it's good to have something to grab if you don't have time to throw supper together. We have company for dinner on Monday and I have a very busy day, so I made a lasagna today and put it in the fridge for Monday</div>
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It has been raining all day (it's just like being in Manchester!). We went out to a funeral this morning and freezing rain was falling, making everything like an ice rink again. We are getting too much of this all at once for my liking - I hope it's not a sign of things to come! </div>
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I am just sewing the binding on the baby quilt now and will show the finished result on Monday. Have a great weekend!</div>
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Like a lot of people this time of year, I have been re-organizing our home as we have put the Christmas decorations away and life has returned to "normal". I am a born organizer and love nothing more than a good clear out and organizing session. Last week it was the food storage area. I have been purchasing some freeze dried food for the past few months and wanted to get it all organized into categories. The shelf life of this stuff is 25 years if not opened and 1-2 years when it is opened. I have used the vegetables in soups and chili and they are fabulous! It sure makes for a great last minute meal from scratch.<br />
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My sewing machine has seen some use again as I am making a baby quilt for Alicia's new little nephew who was born Dec 27th. This is a very easy quilt and I put the top together yesterday afternoon. Now I just need to quilt it, which I will start on today.<br />
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I have a cross stitch project which is ongoing. I started this for Kelsi when she and Andrew got engaged! It sits beside my reading chair in my sewing room and I guiltily look at it every day. I enjoy doing cross stitch, but I find that it is so hard on my eyes these days and I can only do a little at a time. So it will be a slow going process, but I am determined to finish it this year!<br />
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I have just finished Susan Branch`s new book, "A fine romance" about her trip to England last year. It has been my bedtime reading since Christmas and I have really enjoyed it. Being the Anglophile that he is, Wendell wanted to read it after I had finished, but he couldn`t get into it like I did so gave up, which is very unusual for him. I think Susan writes in a way that is easy for women to relate to. <br />
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Monday was Rebekah's 23rd birthday and as Alex had to work that evening, we all headed over to her apartment with Lebanese food and a birthday cake. We had freezing rain that day and the parking lot in her building was a skating rink! I wear spikes on my boots in weather like that, but even so it was dodgy. As we neared the steps up to the entrance, a huge dog came bounding out of the door with its owner. Trying to keep our balance while holding a platter of food and a birthday cake and having a hungry dog staring at us was a little unnerving to say the least, but we managed to stay upright! We had a lovely evening all together and playing with Bekah's little kitten Sammy. Did you notice that Bekah & I coincidentally had the exact same sweater on? We bought them last year at LL Bean but have never worn them at the same time!<br />
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We have had a wonderful Christmas time together and have just hunkered down and spent it playing games and eating (way too much chocolate I might add!). The kids came over for dinner on Christmas day and we all exchanged gifts. We got a spa gift certificate, a breakfast gift card and a "painting" from Norah (on Canvas, no less) a fundominoes game which has seen lots of use this week. Settlers of Catan card game and DVD's of all of Andrew & Kelsi's videos of Norah since she was born. We've loved looking through all these.</div>
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We kept Christmas really simple this year and it's been way more meaningful than ever. </div>
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Norah had fun opening her gifts and was more interested in the chocolates than her other gifts!</div>
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We got her another apron to wear at her house and a matching one for her Mommy!</div>
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We skyped with family in England and my brother said that Wendell looked like he was ready to tee off at Gleneagles!!</div>
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Can you tell that we love board games in our family? Everyone got one. Bekah & Alex loved their game of life!</div>
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Alex loves bacon and when we were at the Christmas markets in Toronto earlier in December we saw a stall that sold chocolate covered bacon on a stick, so that had to go in his Christmas gift! He loved it1</div>
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I must admit that New Year has never been a huge deal to me. As a child in England I remember we always watched Andy Stewart's hogmanay show. As I've grown older and married it has been an evening to cuddle up with Chinese food and watch a movie (quite often the BBC Pride & Prejudice - yes, all five hours of it!). Last night we watched season two of "The Paradise" (almost all of it as 8 hours in front of the TV is too much for anyone!!) We are usually in bed before midnight, but last night it was later. Wendell gave me a kiss and wished me Happy New Year at midnight and I thought to myself that it just doesn't get any better than this! To be with the one you love more than anyone else in the world, in your own home, snuggled up together. I know New Year is a time of new beginnings, but I feel that every day is a new beginning really. Another chance to choose well and be kind to others. May 2014 be a year of constant new beginnings for you and may it bring happiness and contentment.</div>
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I have so enjoyed reading all your blogs in the build up to Christmas. Now it's time to sign off for the next little while and enjoy the time with family. I do wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope you find joy as your celebrate. I would like to leave you with this little video which brings it all together for me - enjoy!</div>
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Merry Christmas everyone!</div>
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We had a Norah overnight last weekend. We got to play and have fun. For some reason, she thinks my folding alarm clock is a cell phone!</div>
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She got out the Andy Pandy toys and made them a little picnic. She really loves playing with her toy kitchen and delights in making us all kinds of treats!</div>
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We took a drive out to Ikea and Wendell picked up the rocking Moose, which he quickly assembled when she went to bed so that it was all ready for her in the morning. She was a little apprehensive at first, but once she got on she loved it!</div>
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In all the busy stuff at this time of year, it is nice to have gentle reminders of why we are celebrating. This past Saturday night we had our church Christmas party. We usually have a big turkey dinner followed by some carols and children singing. This year however, it was very simple. Everyone brought soup, or dessert and rolls & butter were provided. It was a lovely meal and a lot less work for so many people. After dinner we watched a program which took individual characters from the Nativity and they each spoke and explained the symbols of Christmas.</div>
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Rebekah was Mary</div>
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The simplicity of it all brought to mind how simple His birth was. Yet that simplicity impacted the world in a way that meant it would never be the same again. Whether you believe in the Christmas story or not, I hope you will be touched by the special spirit which is abundant at this time of year - the spirit of Christ. May we all think on this as we scurry around to prepare for Christmas and take time to ponder the birth of the baby in Bethlehem.</div>
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This year, as well as our tree in the living room, we have also put a little tree downstairs in our family room.</div>
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It's such a cute little tree. Wendell finally convinced me to get this little beauty from Ikea. I had bought some vintage baubles at a garage sale in the summer for a steal (four or five little bags for $2,00) so we bought a few more Ikea ornaments and up she went. We didn't plan a red & white decor scheme, but that's how it worked out. I love these little ornaments.</div>
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This is Norah's favourite ornament and she is allowed to play with it when she comes over. She loves finding the Mommy & Daddy and baby.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Speaking of Norah, let me show you what we did with the area of our family room which used to house my sewing space. It's a play area for Norah and future grandchildren. She loves to come down here and play.</span><br />
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Here is her little table where she colours and does puzzles</div>
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This little book was one of my favourites when I was a child</div>
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Can you see Andy Pandy, Bear & Looby Loo? They were an Ebay find last year. We sometimes called her Dad Andy Pandy when he was little, so I simply HAD to get these!</div>
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And this is her little kitchen where she makes us "sandwiches" and of course, her little baby which she rocks and sings to (it is so cute!)</div>
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My Christmas quilt which I made last year</div>
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And Poinsettias (not real this year as they are poisonous!)</div>
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It feels cozy and warm around here and that's just how we like it!</div>
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I was going to use the random number generator to chose a winner, but at the last moment, decided on the good old fashioned way and wrote everyone's names on slips of paper and put them in a bowl.</div>
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And the winner is ...drum roll please....... Kathy from <a href="http://oursimpleandmeaningfullife.blogspot.ca/">Our simple and meaningful life</a></div>
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So Kathy, if you'll get your address to me, I will ship this lovely little book all the way to Brisbane, Australia. Congratulations! I wish I had a little gift for everyone, but there will be other getaways I promise.</div>
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We got back last night from our trip to Toronto to see Adam & Alicia. We had a lovely weekend helping them decorate their house and tree.</div>
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We also went to the Christmas markets in the distillery district. They have these all over England and Europe and I have always wanted to go. It was a lovely evening even if it was cold! But Alicia and I bought matching mittens to keep our hands warm, as my leather gloves just weren't cutting it. I even bought a hat!</div>
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And finished the evening off with some good English Fish, chips & mushy peas at a restaurant Adam discovered which makes the real article!! Then it was back to their place for a couple of games of Settlers of Catan (one of our family's favourite board games!)</div>
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We woke up this morning to this....</div>
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This is a huge snowfall for November. It came from the U.S. and I think of all those poor people who are travelling for American Thanksgiving tomorrow. This will play havoc with the airports, to say nothing of the roads!!</div>
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But isn't it beautiful?! This is our shed at the bottom of the garden - It looks like someone just planted a perfect layer of snow on the roof.</div>
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Remember the big maple tree I mentioned that is in our front garden? Well here it is in all its flocked glory!! Leaves are long gone I'm afraid.</div>
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I'm not sure how much we got, but from the look of Wendell's car, I would say about a good 25-30cm.<br />
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Our front porch looks even more "Christmassy" now.</div>
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These were my footprints as I went out to take some photos. I don't know if you can really see how deep this snow really was!</div>
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We leave for Toronto tomorrow to go and spend a few days with Adam & Alicia. The roads will be fine by then and we are looking forward to a nice visit.</div>
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Isn't blog world great?! Thanks to <a href="http://frenchvillagelife.blogspot.ca/">Elizabeth</a> (check out her blog - it's lovely!), I did a label for the quilt in cross stitch. Don't know why I didn't think of that before as I have done many a cross stitch project. I did some binding on it and then hand stitched it to the back of the quilt. </div>
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I have been enjoying reading so many lovely blogs lately. When Wendell and I were first married we told each other how we used to look at young families and dream of the day that we would have a little family and home of our own. Family was, and still is, something that is very important to us and dear to both our hearts. To this day, if we go for a walk in the early evening and the lights are on in people's homes, I love to peek inside and see the coziness of a home. Call me nosy, but I just love to see people at home enjoying all that goes with family life (I don't mind seeing how they decorate either!). I think that's one of the reasons I love to read blogs. People often say that they are writing just mundane, everyday stuff - but it's the everyday stuff that makes up our lives. At the end of it all, it's what we do with our time here that matters. If we have spent it trying to serve others, we will find that in doing so we have found true joy. A great King once said that "When ye are in the service of your fellow beings, ye are only in the service of your God". I believe that with all my heart. As women and especially as Mothers, we serve a lot, and I think that's why we love our families so much. We love those we serve. So don't get bogged down by your everyday responsibilities. Especially young Moms, remember that you are doing the greatest job in the world. Enjoy every day and find joy in the simple things in life. </div>
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Now, because I have had so many lovely comments on my blog lately, and have been introduced to many new people, I have decided to have my first giveaway. So I have a copy of this little book for someone.</div>
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There are some really cute projects in here. These wrist warmers are lovely (I actually love the bag!)</div>
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I'm feeling a little under the weather today. Sniffles and itchy throat so I thought a day in would be good for the soul. The wind is howling outside and was really heavy during the night - enough to blow down one of the little Christmas trees on either side of our front door!</div>
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It's that time of year again at the Wagner home!</div>
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We had our annual tree trimming party last Sunday and invited our family and friends (who feel like family!)</div>
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The dining room table is covered with the ornaments and everyone takes their pick and starts to decorate.</div>
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This year, Norah was old enough to put the star on the top of the tree (with the help of Uncle Alex!)</div>
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She was a little overwhelmed at the number of people, but sure enjoyed the treats afterwards!! As you can see, some of the younger ones had their PJ's on for the evening - maybe we should all do that next year - don't you think?!</div>
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This is the quilt I started for Rebekah & Alex before their wedding. She chose the fabric and it is a mixture of two lines from Bonnie & Camille for Moda called "Marmalade" (you'll love this one Anne!) and "vintage modern". She also chose the design as she wanted something very simple (that's Bekah's taste). I put it aside for a while with the upheaval of moving her stuff out and getting my sewing room moved upstairs. But once that was done there was no excuse and I got stuck in again.</div>
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This is a large quilt and measures 95" x 95" and is made for a queen size bed as shown here on our bed. It was way too big for me to quilt on my little sewing machine so I took it to the quilter and chose this scroll type design which is actually called "surf" (is that appropriate for our family or what?!)</div>
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I love the soft flow of the design and am very pleased with how it turned out. I am trying to come up with a label for it. In the past I have sewn on a label with a personal message in a permanent washable marker, but the time and money put into this quilt deserves something more and I don't know quite what to do. It also has a white plain background so I don't want to do something which will stand out too much. Any suggestions from any quilters out there?</div>
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For our 32 years of married life we have tried to have some food storage put away in case of emergencies and use and rotate it.</div>
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We have a large supply of wheat and basics as well as day to day food.</div>
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Throughout the years we have "inherited" wheat that has been given as people have moved or downsized.</div>
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As you will see here, we are using wheat from as long ago as 1978 (before we even got married!) Wheat is a wonderful thing to store because if stored properly, it will last indefinitely. So what do I do with all that wheat you may ask?</div>
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Well, I have a wheat grinder and I grind it into flour.</div>
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Then use it in my baking. While we don't eat a lot of bread anymore, I still love to bake it. On Friday I did just that and thought I would take you on a step by step process. The kernels are passed through the grinder</div>
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To make this delicious flour. If you have never smelled freshly ground whole wheat flour you are missing something special. Whole wheat flour has the most nutrition if used right away, so I only grind as much as I need. If I do grind a little extra I will freeze it as that prolongs the nutritional value.</div>
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These little granules are lecithin and I use it in my bread dough. It has many uses but in bread dough it helps the even distribution of ingredients and is an enhancer to the dough.</div>
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I buy this in bulk and keep it in my freezer.</div>
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I love my Kitchenaid mixer for any baking, but it really comes into its own when making bread. Years back, I used to do all my kneading by hand and it was labour and time intensive. This little beauty does the majority of the work!</div>
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When is comes out of the mixing bowl, I simply divide the dough</div>
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Shape it into loaves and let it rise for an hour</div>
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Then bake and enjoy the wonderful aroma throughout the house - not to mention the delicious taste!</div>
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There is something very rewarding about making bread. It is a staple of life and being able to provide it for my family has given me great satisfaction over the years.</div>
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