... so DD#1 is in 7th grade and there is a trip to Ottawa - conveniently about 5 weeks after we get back from Ottawa!
Ottawa trip #1 occurs just after chrsitmas and goes till january 3; it is a hockey tournament. over the chrsitmas holidays... when DS made the A team, we were told about it at the first parents meeting way back in april ... no problem...i love ottawa - there is tons to do there for a week.
Ottawa trip #2 occurs on february; found out about 3 weeks ago; costs a FORTUNE!! literally.
i am not happy about this trip for a number of reasons : i feel like i am being blackmailed by the school - this $500+ trip would NOT fly at many other schools! there was no consultation w parents about it before it was announced to students; there is a huge assumption by my childs school about the average mean income of families ... basically i get to be the bad cop.
DD#1 was in a panic because i was complaining about the cost and the redundancy of the trip. if it was up to me she would be one of the 3% (which is 1.8 students) who didn't go ... finally i suggested that she contribute some (like HALF) of the cost and she agreed (!) ...
well. she has sold batches and batches of cookies to her friends at school, she is making cards of all kinds and selling them to her friends at school and is trying flog some home-made gifts to HER FRIENDS AT SCHOOL ... heeheehee!
my DAH is a bit weirded out by this but i am quite pleased. a special thanx goes out those parents of DD#1's friends - the gargantuan allowance you pay little sally sue is finally going to something useful! LOL!
GO DD#1!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
newly reformed glitter JUNKIE...
for a few years now i have been philosophically opposed to GLITTER ... i LOVE the way it sparkles ... it fills ALL my requirements for shiny-ness but it is a FREAKING nightmare of a mess maker! and when you have small kids who like to "help" with projects and do crafts and work on THEIR scrapbooks, glitter is a BAAADDDDD idea all wrapped up in temptation!
i am pretty sure i have an un-natural need to make things sparkly (my therapist thinks its my lack of engagement bling manifesting itself into my art ... BA-HAHAHA!!!!!)... even DS's books have bling-y sparkly bits in them ... but i digress ..
to solve my need for sparkles i invested - yes INVESTED - in every colour of Stickles (tm)... they check all my boxes AND they come in a liquid glue medium so no GLITTER clouds or burned out vacuum motors (yup, too much glitter has been know to blow up a Kenmore Elite canister vac motor!)... the little people can also use them without too much trouble and when spilled can (eventually) be cleaned off my antique wooden kitchen table.
soooo, a few weeks back we had a few requests for GLITTER RITZ ; the Scrapbook Queen ordered it, it arrived and we decided to demo it; i played with it a bit yesterday morning before we scheduled the demo ... HOLY HANNAH that stuff rox!!!!! wows! easy, CLEAN, glittery ...! Thanx to Ms Shelley for showing us even more awesome things with the Glitter Ritz! (you can layer it, you can stamp on it, you can touch it and it doesn't flake off) .... i may have a new addiction ...
if you missed the demo, we still need more ornaments on our tree so come in Tuesday between 10 and 3 and i will enable you to also LOVE Glitter Ritz!
i am pretty sure i have an un-natural need to make things sparkly (my therapist thinks its my lack of engagement bling manifesting itself into my art ... BA-HAHAHA!!!!!)... even DS's books have bling-y sparkly bits in them ... but i digress ..
to solve my need for sparkles i invested - yes INVESTED - in every colour of Stickles (tm)... they check all my boxes AND they come in a liquid glue medium so no GLITTER clouds or burned out vacuum motors (yup, too much glitter has been know to blow up a Kenmore Elite canister vac motor!)... the little people can also use them without too much trouble and when spilled can (eventually) be cleaned off my antique wooden kitchen table.
soooo, a few weeks back we had a few requests for GLITTER RITZ ; the Scrapbook Queen ordered it, it arrived and we decided to demo it; i played with it a bit yesterday morning before we scheduled the demo ... HOLY HANNAH that stuff rox!!!!! wows! easy, CLEAN, glittery ...! Thanx to Ms Shelley for showing us even more awesome things with the Glitter Ritz! (you can layer it, you can stamp on it, you can touch it and it doesn't flake off) .... i may have a new addiction ...
if you missed the demo, we still need more ornaments on our tree so come in Tuesday between 10 and 3 and i will enable you to also LOVE Glitter Ritz!
Friday, November 26, 2010
Tag Make and Take
come on down to SCRAPBOOK QUEENS tomorrow around 11am to try this demo for yourself! Better yet, sign up for the PRINCESS CROP and hang with us for the whole day! call 905-542-8811
sleepovers .... like em? hate em?
... hmm, i am personally not a fan - i would like everyone in their own beds thank you very much ...
when i was a kid i LOVED them ... with good reason - i am an only child (or Lonely child as i used to describe myself...); i had a couple of friends who i would regularly have sleepovers with - mostly at THEIR houses cause they had cable tv and mums who bought junk food ... i did have one friend, Michelle who was not allowed to sleep away from her house... i always felt sorry for her. she missed out on all the fun... mr and mrs ferranato, i owe you apologies - you are NOT the meanest parents on the planet - you were the smartest!!!!
it would appear the 2 eight yr olds are NOT going to sleep ... EVER .... *sigh*
when i was a kid i LOVED them ... with good reason - i am an only child (or Lonely child as i used to describe myself...); i had a couple of friends who i would regularly have sleepovers with - mostly at THEIR houses cause they had cable tv and mums who bought junk food ... i did have one friend, Michelle who was not allowed to sleep away from her house... i always felt sorry for her. she missed out on all the fun... mr and mrs ferranato, i owe you apologies - you are NOT the meanest parents on the planet - you were the smartest!!!!
it would appear the 2 eight yr olds are NOT going to sleep ... EVER .... *sigh*
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
i think i am in trouble .... pt II
( HAPPY THANXGIVING TO ALL OUR AMERICAN FRIENDS AND TO THOSE CANADIANS LIVING IN THE U.S. AND BEING FORCED TO EAT ANOTHER TURKEY - lucky buggers!!)
...so here is what i hope is DD#2's favourite chicken ....
VIETNAMESE CHICKEN
3lbs of chicken (skinless boneless thighs are my fav but orig. receipe calls for breasts)
4 tablespoons light soy sauce
4 tablespoons fish sauce
4 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon black pepper
5 cloves crused garlic
2 tablespoon canola oil
2 cups water
* combine all ingredients except chicken in a small bowl
* place chicken in the slow cooker
* pour sauce over chicken
* cook on low for at least 5 hours
Serve with steamed broccoli and Jasmine rice.
This serves 5 and there are never any leftovers!
ENJOY!!!
...so here is what i hope is DD#2's favourite chicken ....
VIETNAMESE CHICKEN
3lbs of chicken (skinless boneless thighs are my fav but orig. receipe calls for breasts)
4 tablespoons light soy sauce
4 tablespoons fish sauce
4 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon black pepper
5 cloves crused garlic
2 tablespoon canola oil
2 cups water
* combine all ingredients except chicken in a small bowl
* place chicken in the slow cooker
* pour sauce over chicken
* cook on low for at least 5 hours
Serve with steamed broccoli and Jasmine rice.
This serves 5 and there are never any leftovers!
ENJOY!!!
i think i am in trouble ....
... NO! not that kind of trouble!!!!!
....i love it when my kids request a specific food for dinner. i love to cook stuff they like to eat!
now keep in mind i don't eat red meat ... for about 10 yrs before i had DS i didn't eat red meat and very little foul i was almost a vegetarian ... mostly it started out cause i was POOR and when i came back to Toronto after uni, i had lots of debt and cut out lots of stuff....i was a bit over weight and quickly needed to lose weight ... it was a good balance... i lost weight, felt better, and ate better..(DS wrecked all that cause when i was PG with him, i could have eaten a whole cow at one sitting...)
...and nor am i a particularly GOOD cook ... i would love to learn. i have a slow cooker that could easily replace my oven (in fact mostly our oven is a storage unit) ... i am not sure how people with busy lives cope without a slowcooker (or crockpot for you yanks! LOL)
SO when i get this, it isn't always so helpful : " mummy, can you make that chicken in the slowcooker that i like??!!!??" hmm, i use the slowcooker 5 out of seven days and cook ALOT of chicken ... "sure, what did it taste like??" .... " oh, mummy! you know... GOOD!"
.... i may just be up a creek today ...
....i love it when my kids request a specific food for dinner. i love to cook stuff they like to eat!
now keep in mind i don't eat red meat ... for about 10 yrs before i had DS i didn't eat red meat and very little foul i was almost a vegetarian ... mostly it started out cause i was POOR and when i came back to Toronto after uni, i had lots of debt and cut out lots of stuff....i was a bit over weight and quickly needed to lose weight ... it was a good balance... i lost weight, felt better, and ate better..(DS wrecked all that cause when i was PG with him, i could have eaten a whole cow at one sitting...)
...and nor am i a particularly GOOD cook ... i would love to learn. i have a slow cooker that could easily replace my oven (in fact mostly our oven is a storage unit) ... i am not sure how people with busy lives cope without a slowcooker (or crockpot for you yanks! LOL)
SO when i get this, it isn't always so helpful : " mummy, can you make that chicken in the slowcooker that i like??!!!??" hmm, i use the slowcooker 5 out of seven days and cook ALOT of chicken ... "sure, what did it taste like??" .... " oh, mummy! you know... GOOD!"
.... i may just be up a creek today ...
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