CIJ day
2
I’ve found
beautiful cards on Pinterest, some with tutorials and some without. I will put a few up during CIJ… which is the
best time ever to start on handmade cards…. says the girl who has NOT done
handmade Christmas cards but has always wanted to.
Do you make
your Christmas cards?
This one was on Etsy but is no longer available. It could be easily done and a cute craft that can be shared with your children.
CIJ day 1
Seems our 1st
day of CIJ is a Friday so it’ll be the start of Friday Night at the Movies. In staying with our team I am suggesting:
The
Christmas Card
Released in 2006: A soldier serving in Afghanistan is deeply touched by an anonymous Christmas card sent by a woman in California. Upon completion of his tour of duty, he returns to the United States on a romantic mission to find the woman who wrote the card.
Starring:
Edward Asner, John Newton, Alice Evans, Lois Nettleton
Here’s a
fun preview: "The Christmas Card" with
Alice Evans - YouTube
I rather
liked this movie and hope you enjoy it too.
Here’s a
hot drink to go with the movie: Vegan chai hot chocolate recipe |
BBC Good Food
Ingredients
Method
Pour
two-thirds of the oat milk into a saucepan. Add the cocoa, cinnamon,
nutmeg, cardamom pod and coffee. Bring to the boil over a medium-high heat. Cook for 1-2 mins.
Reduce the
heat to medium and stir in the vanilla and agave. Froth the remaining oat milk
using an electric milk frother or the mini whisk attachment on a hand blender.
Strain the hot chocolate into two mugs, discarding the cinnamon and cardamom
pod, then gently pour in the frothed milk.
Top with
whipped cream, chocolate shavings and a pinch each of cinnamon and nutmeg, if
you like.
June 30th 2022
Welcome to
CIJ 2022!
I have been
doing Christmas in July blogposts for many years now. One thing I haven’t dedicated time to are
Christmas cards.
I will also
continue with Friday night at the movies.
Hope to see you all for Christmas in July 2022. Please tell me if you are also doing blogposts for Christmas in July 😊, so I can follow you and share your links if you want
Good morning
A rainy one here but still hot.
Work
A 3-day week with my Monday off and Friday provincial holiday. Our team supervisor will be leaving for another job, the new cw that was to help us is also leaving, another cw was helping us out 2 days a week and changed job and the young girl helping me out will finish her school in December so she is starting to look for a new job for Fall. Sigh... I'll be the only one left to work for that area... All of this made me give my name in another area (doubt it will work since they do not have a job with my job title but... it would be full-time telework and a job I would like).
Had dinner at restaurant with a groupe of cw- friends... 9 of us and 6 are retired. One is not doing as well (he had brain cancer) as the others. It was so much fun!
Personnal
We had a 4-day weekend as Friday was St-Jean-Baptiste day (provincial holiday). It was a hot weekend... the 1st one since the one we had had in May.. so lots of outside chores to do.
Friday night we went to neighbors as they were having a fire outside then we went to dh's cousin who was also having a fire outside. We went to bed after midnight!
Saturday we went with neighbors to walk in the small town next to us and got some ice cream.
We saw the grandkids on Sunday (they were babysitting ddil's younger sister - 3 years old- during the weekend). Anne-E spent the day here with us (they did not have space in the car for 3 car-seats and had to take the young sister back to her house).
DH's uncle died on Sunday morning (father to his 5 cousins). He has been sick for a few years.
Sunday was also my birthday... 57! yay less years to retirement.. as you can all guess I am so over my job situation. DH gave me a big garden gnome from Costco's.
Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom .
La fille du pasteur Cullen Tome 3 by Lucy Diamond
Good morning
We had grandkids for supper and sleep on Thursday night (my son was out of town for business for 2 days and ddil had to pick him up at the train station Thursday night).
Normal work week but my promotion is finally on my pay!
We went to my parent's house over the weekend for Father's day. Tried to go see my aung (she only has a few weeks left with her cancer but she was not able to see us on Saturday as too sick and Sunday was her helicopter tour to see the place where she was raised). I did manage to empty mom's fridge of some stuff gone bad when she was in the spa with dad. We saw my sister outside as she now has covid too. I played some games with niece on Saturday and took walks with mom. My brother had us over for supper on Sunday night. We left at 8:30 and got home at 11:30 pm!
So this morning is putting away weekend stuff and regular housechores.
Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom .
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Good morning
Recap of last week:
Work was very busy as we were to be on strike all this week but there was tentative agreement that will be needed to be voted on so strike-week was cancelled which is a good thing. Since everyone thought we were to be on strike the work week was very hectic. Our parking was to be free all year to help us with our going back to the office.. all that was cancelled and it will be $7,50 a day starting in July... I am so over how things are going these days
We had grandkids (and the dog) all weekend starting Friday (dh picked them up from daycare) as kids wanted to celebrate their 5 years together in a cabin. Used to be easy to put them to sleep but getting harder nowadays... Xavier would run to go to sleep... now he wants us to stay with him until he falls asleep and it takes a long time. Anne-E is easier but she wakes up crying often. It was nice having them but I have run out of energy. We learned on FB that my son gave ddil an engagement ring during their weekend. UPDATE: they say they will get married in 2-3 years.
Saturday was a running marathon here (1km, 2,5 km, 5km, 10km and 21 km), dh was volunteering for the parking and had to be there at 5:30 in the morning. I got the kids ready when they woke up and we went to see the festivities in our street. Saturday night dh went to a party for his cousin's birthday... I was to be quiet with sleeping kids... ha! I had been awake since 3:30 (no one's fault) and wanted to go to bed early... couldn't get Xavier to fall asleep before 8:30 and then Anne-E woke up 3 times crying from 9:00 to 11:30 .... so forget the sleeping this weekend.
Sunday the grandkids were picked up at 3:00 by their parents. We then chatted outside with neighbors until 5:30.
Only thing accomplished was laundry this weekend.
Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom .
La fille du pasteur Cullen Tome 2 by Lucy Diamond
Good morning friends!
Recap of last week:
2 days of telework and 1,5 days at the office - I decided I can do like the others and do only half a day. So my husband came to town at the same time and ran errands (costco returns) - this way no need to make 2 trips into town (me and him)... saves gas! and I worked the other half day from home.
So last week was NOT a good declutter week as we picked up:
Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom .
La fille du pasteur Cullen Tome 2 by Lucy Diamond
