Signs of Spring...

1. fat red breasted robins hopping across my lawn
2. fellow Canucks sporting shorts, tank tops and flip flops on the first sunny, not
nessecarily warm, day.
3. I shave my legs...
4. I forget I've left the sunroof open and it rains
5. locals are frightened by the day-glo of my pasty exposed skin... I think I might be part vampire.

HOLY PLEDGES BATMAN!

YOU'VE DONE IT!

We hit the goal! We busted the goal! We blew the goal wide open BABEEE!
Ok, so the goal was fairly low compared to more zealous individuals, but I was truly amazed and pleased as the generous doantions and support I received from my friends and family - and it's not over yet!

I am so lucky to have all of you there for me!

Thank you thank you thank you!


... and while I'm here

Ode to blue

1. blue skies
2. blue velvet
3. blue eyes cryin in the rain
4. Frank's blue eyes, Phil's and Sara-genevieve's, Dad's, Bill's, Annie's, Pepere Pierre Paul's, Pepere James's all deep and blue too.
5. blue gingham
6. THE blues
7. the wild blue yonder (kinda the same as #1)
8. baby blue
9. blue ribbons
10. blue-jean blue
11. lavender blue
12. Kate's, mine and my mom's special brand of blue and green and gray too.
what else???

Having an Awwwwwwwww Moment...

MUST SAVOUR IT WHILE IT LASTS AAARRRGGGHHHH (done in tones of one who is lifting
a truck off a senior citizen while wearing red tights and a cape....)

Look at my beeeautiful babies!

Quick quick, before thier screaming drives another spike into my already throbbing temple...

1. baby head smell - you know, the one that can make you hyperventilate trying to suck it all in.
2. the way Phil's thick, dark eyelashes stick together when they're wet.
3. missing teeth smiles and brand new "deux dents" teeth smiles.
4. full-belly giggles that turn into full-belly laughter.
5. the small bones under the soft stretched skin that cover them...

*sigh*

A Walkin We Shall Go...

MS S-U-C-K-S!!!

Five years ago, whenI was pregnant with our first baby, my husband Francois was ickily diagnosed with MS.

"How would you feel if this was yer di-ag-noooosis?" (Maritimers who have seen the commercial I am referring too will insert chuckle here.)

Since then he has been pretty much asymptomatic - Thank God - but you always have in the back of your mind is the unsettling question, "Is today the day?" We've since learned you can't spend every moment wondering about that kind of thing, you just have to live live live. Really, everybody could spend thier lives that way...

" I could have a heart attack today...."

"Maybe a piano might fall on my head or maybe blue ice..."

"I better not go the grocery store I might get into a car accident..."

" I can't use that ATM, I might get robbed by that shady guy over there..."

"If I run with these scissors I may fall and not be able to get back up and soil my new carpet.."

What I can do is get off my slug-butt and try to do something about it! So, little ole me, is going to "Walk for MS" this coming sunday - rain or shine (for those of you close to me who know how very much I enjoy exercise, let alone in the cold wind and rain of an april morning, you will appreciate that I love my husband and want to help stop MS... A LOT!).

I've bugged pretty much everybody I know for MONEY$$$$ and I was pleasantly surprised by how truly supportive my friends and family are! Thank you so much everybody who gave! Hopefully - WARNING: I'm now going to sound either like a charity commercial or a beauty pageant contestant - with research and support all the labbie guys and girls can whip this thing and selfishly I can have my husband back! And you know, he, and so many others, can reclaim thier body as their own not left to the whim of this unpredictable disease. (May contain content from my fund-raising website).

OK, maybe not so much like a beauty contestant...

If you know anyone who is walking on Sunday, please give - it's a good cause.

My website is:

https://msors.mssociety.ca/WALK2006/Sponsor.aspx?&PID=844900&L=2

Love and Vaseline on my teeth, (beauty pageant contestant)

Leslie

With Deepest Apologies....

It always seems like feast or famine with me and keeping my blog up to date. Either the cyberworld knows how many diapers I've changed that day or seasons pass without a word from yours truly.
Honestly, sometimes and sometimes for extended periods of time, I feel like I have nothing valuable to give.
So, here I am. Spring is here, I think. We thought it was here two weeks ago and then .... WHAMO! or more fittingly "WAAAHHHH-MO!" I call the above piece.... "Almost".

Yeah, Mom was coming for a visit and the night before called to inquire about wardrobe choices and area temperatures. "Awwww yeah, it's spring here - it was 21c on friday Blah blah blah..." When she landed in her "spring attire" we were, ah, yeah, having what one might call, um, a mini-blizzard complete with the cutting, whipping winds of April! So, sorry Ma. We were as disappointed as you.

We had a great visit. Didn't get anything I had planned to get done while I had the extra help, we just ended up chatting and catching up instead - which I was most definitely not opposed to! She brought gifts from the recent trip to Mexico with Grampy! Everyone was thrilled with what they received.

At the very top is Nana and her two Mexican sweet sinoritas! I really wish I could figure out how to place the pics on here without looking like a complete computer-illiterate moron.

Spring cleaning is in full-swing!

Awww, who am I kidding! The list of spring cleaning is hanging in the back of my mind like a dirty secret I don't wanna remember exists. Truth be told, I have my husband at my disposal for 30 days. Count 'em - 30. Do you really think that I can get him to help me accomplish everything I would like to get done before he abandons me for working life again??

Not likely.

I will just end up frusterated, hopefully not divorced, with my stupid, stupid, stupid list mocking me! I hate this time of year sometimes. I want to spend, spend, spend. My dreams for a beautiful backyard and garden surface. All the new spring clothes in their riot of colour chant my name as I walk through the Bay. Ohhhh, I NEED a lavender raincoat and new polka-dot rainboots.. and and and.... Yeah.

Pbbblllttttttt.

I guess I should get the groceries instead, Huh?

Maybe I could sneak in a snappy set of spring napkins?

Ode to Green

1. greening up of the grass
2. the bright green of certain budding trees
3. my green sweater
4. green lime jell-o
5. my green contact lenses

what the hell...

6. green apples
7. sea-green
8. sage-green
9. Baby green
10. green peppermints
11. the green of twenties
12. green thumbs
13. the jolly green giant
14. green peas
15. green grapes
16. "le grand vert" - our old van RIP