Did October happen?

 I love October! 

• I met a few friends at Coffee Culture for some over due chat time. Thanks A & M!
• I continued lane swimming. I find it to be good exercise and quality thinking/planning time.
• I volunteered for the Pink Ribbon Campaign by freezing my ass off selling ribbons outside of Sobeys one Saturday afternoon.
• We went on two weekend outings: apple picking and the pumpkin patch. Nicholas loved both! Both resulted in some yummy baking too!
• We enjoyed dinner at a friend's place. Yum fajitas!
• Nick had his monthly play date at his pal Lia's house.
• We travelled to Kingston for Thanksgiving. It was quieter than normal but a lot of fun. I have so much to be thankful for!
• We went to a few birthday parties- first for Nick's pal Cooper who turned 2 and for my friend E. Cake and pie in the same week... yes please!
• I joined my staff for a good-bye send off for a very special EA who was transferred to another school. She is already missed!
• Head colds hit our house. There is something about Halloween week that wreaks havoc on our immune systems!
• I went to E's house for a girly belated birthday get together. I could only stay a short time but it's always nice to hang out with mommy friends.
•  We celebrated Halloween! Pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating at PTC and a few special visitors made for an awesome night. Nicholas LOVED handing out candy and greeting visitors. That was always my favourite part as a kid!

 

Hope everyone had a fabulous month! Bring on November... the month Dan grows a gross mustache.

xo,
Meg

Craft Club #1

I signed up for craft club this year and we completed our Halloween/Fall craft this past Thursday. The club is open to Grade 4 students since our school is huge so we had to pick one grade. Also, students in this age group are capable (for the most part) and don't seem to suffer from the "I'm too cool for school" syndome yet. We meet for each special holiday.

I found this cute idea on Pinterest: (the picture is an actual one from our club)

 Materials needed: 

• pipe cleaners
• orange beads
• pencil crayon for curling

Step 1: Twist the middles of 3 pipe cleaners together. We used white ones but ideally orange would be best. But whole packages of orange pipe cleaners turned out to be impossible to find.

Step 2: Open up the pipe cleaners so they resemble a star. 

Step 3: Put the beads on each pipe cleaner section. We did 15 per section but you could adjust this accordingly.

Step 4: Bring all sections together so they meet at the top and then twist.

Step 5. Hide the white by wrapping a brown pipe cleaner around it. This will be the stem.

Step 6: Curl a green ribbon around the stem leaving the ends loose to look like leaves. We used a pencil crayon to make them curly.

Step 7: Throughout this activity bend the sections to make them as round as possible and to look like a pumpkin.

They turned out great! The best part of this activity was that there was minimal clean up. No one dumped beads and it was completed in less than 1 lunch recess (only took around 30 mins.)

Happy Fall!

xo
Meg

A $30.00 light.. that's right!

The kitchen light above our table was hideous! Like straight from the 80's (even though the house was built in the 90's) hideous. We wanted a simple pendant with enough light for the kitchen. Thank you Rona for a $30.00 upgrade. Woo hoo!

Before

After (no it is not yellow, it's white)

A better shot to show the colour

If anyone wants the old one for a project, let me know!

xo,
Meg

Nauman's Farm

We are having so much fun with Nicholas this Fall! We crossed off another item on our "Fall to do list" (the one in my head lol) this morning. We went to Nauman's farm. We hadn't been there before and it's fun! The only disappointing thing is that all the extras (corn maze, fun play area and pumpkin sling shots) cost extra. But we weren't leaving without trying the pumpkin/gourd launchers. So much fun! Nicholas had a blast!

Check it out!

Picking out pumpkins/gourds for launching

Bombs away!

Pumpkins make great chairs!

Nick moves too fast for our camera lol

What we brought home. Aren't they perfect?!

xo,
Meg

I'm thankful

I am thankful for so many things: my family, my job, my friends, my house... the list goes on and on.

I am especially thankful to be Mom to such a special little guy. I snuck in to his room and took a picture of him last night sleeping. Pooh bear makes an excellent pillow :)

 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

xo,
Meg

 

Apple Picking

Take a toddler apple picking! Nick was literally jumping up and down and tripping over apples he was so excited! The day was over cast but it made for some really nice pictures!

xo,
Meg

Things that make me smile!

So I love Fall. I wrote about the gigantic mum that I bought here. After a few weeks I wasn't thrilled by it. It was so big it split in the middle and hung over the sides of the pot. So I transplanted it into the garden. I am still meh about it as it has a wonky shape.

Yesterday I decided I needed a new mum in my life and this one sure makes me smile!

xo,
Meg