Happy Homemaker 2025-03-24

 Good morning

Post going out on Sunday night.

Another full week around here.  Still coughing some... this cold just doesn't want to quit.

Dad is meeting surgeon Tuesday morning to see if his pancreatic cancer is operable or not.  Oncologist said 3 choices, operation (and a big one at that), chimio or nothing.  Seems for now the cancer has not spread but dad has not been feeling well the last few days.

We had grandkids 2 days as daycare was on strike (again), then for the weekend as parents were taking a weekend off (so we had them from Friday after daycare until Monday when dh drives them to daycare).

We went to my uncle's sugar shack with grandkids.  dd and dsil met us there with the other grandkids as well as 1 brother and niece and nephew.  We were lucky it was sunny and quite comfortable.  We all had a great day - sugar taffy, horse ride, cote-à-cote ride, getting the maple water, ...

Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom . , 

The weather

Mon

-3°

-10°

Tue

3°

-1°

Wed

2°

-6°

Thu

1°

-2°

Fri

-1°

-10°

Looking around the house

Easter decor is up

The house is a mess with grandkids last weekend... lots to do but it is a working week so not much will get done.

Thinking and pondering

Dad, mom.... waiting for results, seeing all the paperwork that needs to be done quickly - same thing again this week

TV this week

• Indéfendable (saison 3)
• Stats (saison 3)
• L'oeil du cyclone (saison 4)
• Dumas (season 1)
• Cerebrum (saison 3)
• Alertes (saison 5)
• Mea Culpa (saison 1)
• Sorcières (saison 2)
• Veille sur moi (saison 1)
• Passez au salon (saison 1)
• Vestiaires (saison 1)
• L'amour est dans le pré (saison 13)
• Doc (saison 3)
• La Galère (saison 4)
• En direct de l'univers (saison 16)
• Big brother (saison 5)

A few regular programs have ended ... a good thing too.  too much tv to watch

Interesting blog I saw this week

Nothing

On my reading pile

Dans les eaux troubles - Sarah Bailey, first book I'm reading by this author.  It is the 1st one in a series of 3, will see if I like it.

On my to-do list

Last weekend

• Laundry
• Nothing else got done
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Monday

• Tai-chi class 
• Prep for in-town work tomorrow
• Vac main floor - DONE
• Laundry... lots of laundry
• Wash my bed
• Wash basement bed
• Wash main bathroom

Decluttering 

• Nothing
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Upcoming this week

Dad's results?

Tuesday - in-town work

Hoping for a very quiet week - I am tired physically and emotionally

From the camera

Sugar Shack on Saturday

Funny of the week

Happy Homemaker 2025-03-17

 Happy St-Patrick's day!

My 3rd week with the cold but it is going away slowly.  Just coughing once in awhile (mostly during the night)

Last Monday & Tuesday went to town to take care of mom with one brother while other brother was with dad for more hospital tests.  Mom is getting much worse but at times she's not too bad. Dad doesn't want to send her in residence for now.

Dad has more bloodwork this morning and is meeting doctor at 10:45, don't know if it's for his biopsy results or not.  He has gone back to a normal color (was yellow before they did an operation so his bile can go through).

DH picked up Xavier from daycare on Monday as he was not feeling well.  When he saw me (on Thursday they stayed here all day as he has another otite -earache) he said 'I'm glad you're back grandma' .  I asked him if grandpa had been nice... he said well he slept and I watched tv hahaha.

Weekend dh worked at ds' to continue kitchen renovations and I did housework here.

UPDATE:  We got the biopsy results for dad - pancreatic cancer.  It is localised but we do not have the prognostic yet.  He meets oncologist on Thursday and another hospital will view his results to see if operable or not

Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom . , 

The weather

Mon

4°

-9°

Tue

1°

-4°

Wed

3°

0°

Thu

12°

3°

Fri

3°

-9°

Looking around the house

St-Patrick's is up for the last day today.  Easter decor will go up this week.

Thinking and pondering

Dad, mom.... waiting for results, seeing all the paperwork that needs to be done quickly

TV this week

• Indéfendable (saison 3)
• Stats (saison 3)
• L'oeil du cyclone (saison 4)
• Dumas (season 1)
• Cerebrum (saison 3)
• Alertes (saison 5)
• Mea Culpa (saison 1)
• Sorcières (saison 2)
• Veille sur moi (saison 1)
• Passez au salon (saison 1)
• Vestiaires (saison 1)
• L'amour est dans le pré (saison 13)
• Doc (saison 3)
• La Galère (saison 4)
• En direct de l'univers (saison 16)
• Big brother (saison 5)

A few regular programs have ended ... a good thing too.  too much tv to watch

Interesting blog I saw this week

Decluttering

On my reading pile

Dans les eaux troubles - Sarah Bailey, first book I'm reading by this author.  It is the 1st one in a series of 3, will see if I like it.

On my to-do list

Last weekend

• Laundry
• Wash main bathroom
• Vac main floor
• Dust main floor
• Air out LR, kitchen and kitchenette curtains and hang them back up
• Top of kitchen cabinets washed and put back some wax paper up there to make cleaning easier twice a year
• 
  

Monday

• Tai-chi class 
• Prep for in-town work tomorrow

Decluttering 

• Not here, but 2 big trash bags at mom's in laundry room were thrown out and 1 big one was for giving away.  Another small bag was given away from things here and there in their house
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Upcoming this week

Dad's results?

Tuesday - in-town work

Tuesday and Wednesday - grandkids will be here as ther is daycare strike

Next Weekend - having grandkids for the weekend as parents are taking a mini-vacation

From the camera

Nothing

Funny of the week

Happy Homemaker 2025-03-10

Good morning - what a week :(  Posting Sunday night

DH is still sick with the cold but getting better.  I too came down with it and it hit me hard.  Have not seen the grandchildren this week

Then on Monday my brother texted to say my parents had dropped by to see them Sunday afternoon and sil (nurse) thought my dad looked yellow and had lost alot of weight...so dad tried to get an appointment with his doc (march 20th)... which was way too far. 

Tuesday brother was at emergency room with dad from 11:15 am to 2:00 am... dad was very tired of it all.  He had some bloodwork done and urine test.  They told him to go back Wednesday morning for more tests.  They spent the day there again as they decided to admit him and have exams on Friday (biopsy and passing a tube so the bile can go through - the bile is giving him the yellow color), he has something on pancreas.  Thursday they let him out in the afternoon saying tests will be Monday and Tuesday.  They added a 3rd test (lung RX) to be done on Monday too.  

Let's just say this has been a very hard week.  They told him it is probably cancer... and we all know pancreas cancer is quick.  So while my 1st brother spent part of the week in the hospital with dad my other brother was back home taking care of mom, she kept asking for dad but we didn't tell her he was in hospital... she wouldn't realize anyway, so he kept saying he was at work.  He stayed with her night and day.  

Since I,ve been sick with the flu I do not want to give it to them so we did not go there over the weekend (nothing to be done for now anyways).  If I feel better on Monday ddil is going there for her job and coming back Tuesday afternoon, I just might go with her.

Saturday was housechores and DH spent weekend at ds' house as they are redoing the whole kitchen with the help of ds' bil and DH.

Sunday was a day of mostly nothing.  Will post this on Sunday night as I will probably leave tomorrow at 6:00 am to go to parent's house, will depend on the night.  I cancelled my parking for Tuesday because no matter what I am not going to town on Tuesday for work.  Gave my place to another cw who had not been able to get one for Tuesday.

Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom . , 

The weather

We had a very windy week, cold, rain, yucky all around - wow Tuesday should be warm!

Mon

-3°

-10°

Tue

8°

-17°

Wed

-7°

-16°

Thu

-1°

-11°

Fri

6°

-1°

Looking around the house

Since I was alone most of the weekend I managed to do some housechores while resting once in awhile.  So the house is fine.

Thinking and pondering

Dad, mom.... 

TV this week

• Indéfendable (saison 3)
• Stats (saison 3)
• L'oeil du cyclone (saison 4)
• Dumas (season 1)
• Cerebrum (saison 3)
• Alertes (saison 5)
• Mea Culpa (saison 1)
• Sorcières (saison 2)
• Veille sur moi (saison 1)
• Passez au salon (saison 1)
• Vestiaires (saison 1)
• Le bon docteur (saison 7)
• L'amour est dans le pré (saison 13)
• Doc (saison 3)
• Les petits tannants (saison 4)
• La Galère (saison 4)
• En direct de l'univers (saison 16)
• Big brother (saison 5)

A few regular programs have ended ... a good thing too.  too much tv to watch

Interesting blog I saw this week

Nothing interesting and worth putting the link for.

On my reading pile

L'inciseur  - Fitzek Tsokos

On my to-do list

Last weekend

• Laundry
• Deep clean pantry
• Potage (recipe from FB.. was NOT good)
• Wash main bathroom
• Vac main floor

Monday

• Tai-chi class - will go if not going to Montreal, but...
• Prep for in-town work Tuesday  will not go in town on Tuesday
• Go see parents

Decluttering 

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• 
  

Upcoming this week

will see as it goes

From the camera

Nothing

Funny of the week

Happy Homemaker 2025-03-03

Good morning 

DH spent the week sick with a cold - he went to clinic and they gave him a cortisol spray but nothing else saying it has to do its time... so this morning I am starting to feel sick... hope it passes quickly.

DS was away for work a few days and ddil kept grandkids at home and teleworked as Anne-E had fever a few days too.  Normally we would've kept them here but ddil did not ask because she new grandpa was sick too.

Saturday Xavier arrived for lunch (Anne-E wanted to stay with her mom).  DS, ddil and Anne-E went to town and bought their flooring for kitchen renovations.  All came here for supper.  Xavier sleptover and dh took him back home Sunday before lunch.

I managed to do quite a bit during the weekend too... not dh he has a man-cold.

Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom . , 

The weather

Cold this morning!  Looks like a little snow everyday... we had snow almost everyday last week too.

Mon

-12°

-21°

Tue

-1°

-3°

Wed

1°

1°

Thu

5°

-4°

Fri

-4°

-11°

Looking around the house

Spring cleaning is coming along.  yay!  some things to finish then back to more decluttering.  St-Pat's decor is up.

Thinking and pondering

Paperwork to be done and have to think about what we will do for Easter.

TV this week

• Indéfendable (saison 3)
• Stats (saison 3)
• L'oeil du cyclone (saison 4)
• Dumas (season 1)
• Cerebrum (saison 3)
• Alertes (saison 5)
• Mea Culpa (saison 1)
• Sorcières (saison 2)
• Veille sur moi (saison 1)
• Passez au salon (saison 1)
• Vestiaires (saison 1)
• Le bon docteur (saison 7)
• L'amour est dans le pré (saison 13)
• Doc (saison 3)
• Les petits tannants (saison 4)
• La Galère (saison 4)
• En direct de l'univers (saison 16)
• Big brother (saison 5)

A few regular programs have ended ... a good thing too.  too much tv to watch

Interesting blog I saw this week

Nothing - but I have subscribed to a few free webinairs for upcoming weeks.  This week is The Art of Your Life Workshop .  Next week is Organized Living Summit and it April it's the Gutivate workshop

On my reading pile

Oeil pour Oeil  - MJ Aldridge

On my to-do list

Last weekend

• Laundry
• Vac main floor
• Deep clean Kitchen, Kitchenette, basement staircase, main bathroom (walls, woodwork,  furniture, ) - Curtains will be aired out when it is warmer outside.  Still need to wash chair covers.  Kitchen cabinets will be done in Autumn (and above cabinets).  Still have the big shower to do too.
• Ragoût de boulettes... tought I would have some to freeze but nope, served that on Saturday for supper and sent some to ds and family and we have leftovers for this week.  Might go buy more of the beef/porc ground meat to do a 2nd batch for freezing.
• Chocolate/pumpkin cookies (gave some to ds' family and froze a dozen).

Monday

• Tai-chi class
• Prep for in-town work Tuesday
• Work on knit socks
• Do paperwork
• Watch today's webinair
• More laundry
• Make some soup
• ... MAYBE do a few more spring-cleaning tasks but not sure... in fact not sure at all.

Decluttering 

• Some kids drawing in recycling..... we do have ALOT, they make at least a dozen everytime they come here.
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Upcoming this week

Tuesday - In-town work

Next weekend renovations start at ds' house.  dh will go.  I might go with Xavier to his ice skating class and keep him here, but we'll see as one of his cousins will be at their house.  So might not accomplish much here next weekend.

From the camera

Xavier wanted grandma to color with him, we played games and baked cookies too.

Quote of the week

Happy Homemaker 2025-02-23

Good morning 

Have not heard from hospital about the exam I was to have... at least not hurting anymore but it did hurt friday during the night.  pfff

Last week was busy... grandkids on Monday (daycare strike), Thursday for supper and they slept over and left Friday at noon.  Taichi on Monday, In-town work on Tuesday.  and lots of snowblowing and shoveling for DH.

Kids and grandkids were gone with friends for the weekend so was slower here.  I did some deep spring-cleaning.  DH had some computer coffe-meeting on Thursday, then Friday he volunteered at local ice rink to set it up for the evening with big screen - there was an activity with a film of the village 50 years ago, torch lighting around the rink, pea soup, hot chocolate, donuts and maple taffy on snow.  I went for half an hour on Friday night.

Sunday we made a quick run to costco and then spent a slow rest of the day.  Updated my DMV account.

Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom . , 

The weather

Finally warmer weather

Mon

-1°

-19°

Tue

3°

-2°

Wed

-1°

-11°

Thu

-2°

-6°

Fri

-7°

-20°

Looking around the house

So much more to do with the spring cleaning

Thinking and pondering

Wil have to call dad this week and figure out when we will be going.  What will we do for Easter this year?  Spring birthdays, gifts to buy. Work - job will change somewhat as some things I work on are almost finished and they want to give me new things to work on.

TV this week

• Indéfendable (saison 3)
• Stats (saison 3)
• L'oeil du cyclone (saison 4)
• Dumas (season 1)
• Cerebrum (saison 3)
• Alertes (saison 5)
• Mea Culpa (saison 1)
• Sorcières (saison 2)
• Veille sur moi (saison 1)
• Détective surprenant (saison 1)
• Passez au salon (saison 1)
• In Memoriam (saison 1)
• Vestiaires (saison 1)
• Le bon docteur (saison 7)
• L'amour est dans le pré (saison 13)
• Doc (saison 3)
• Les petits tannants (saison 4)
• La Galère (saison 4)
• En direct de l'univers (saison 16)
• Big brother (saison 5)

Interesting blog I saw this week

Nothing worth mentionning

On my reading pile

Avide - Myriam Vincent

On my to-do list

Last weekend

• Laundry
• Vac main floor
• Deep clean LR (walls, woodwork, fireplace frame, frames, furniture, floor, basement railing) - windows and curtains will be done when it is warmer outside as will the couches and stuffed chairs.
• Wash main bathroom
• Costco errands

Monday

• Tai-chi class
• Prep for in-town work Tuesday
• Nice and sunny out so may go for a walk or sit outside on the patio for a few minutes to get some Vitamin D
• 
  

Decluttering 

• 1 pair of socks
• 2 markers
• 1 pair of ski pants (waaaaay too small)

Upcoming this week

Tuesday - In-town work

From the camera

Nothing

Quote of the week