Happy Homemaker 2018-05-21

Linking up to Sandra at Diary of a Stay at home mom 

Another busy week gone by.  At work we had retirement party for my cw - Monique.  will post pictures next week when I get them - we had a photobooth and had lots of fun.  Had supper there and got home by 9:20 that night.  We also went twice to see some eyeglasses for dh.  At work had to compensate for some people not showing up and not doing their work + picking some of retiring cw's work.



The weather
should be in the low 20's this week with sun and a few showers - a nice spring week.

What I'm reading

Last week I read the pope's daughter by Dario Fo - did not like it at all.  It was about the Borgia family but more like a theater-play.
Now reading A tear has to fall by Joan Jonker

On my tv 

Am recording stuff but not watching much... spring is here!

Menu - planning

No idea - will plan it out tomorrow.

On my to-do list

Regular housechores

Laundry
Menu-planning
Bake muffins
Pick up  construction permit for the bathroom renovations
Pick up my coat at sewing lady
Pick up package at post office

Prep some overnight oats for my breakfast 
Prep gym clothes for tuesday and work clothes

Blog

I did manage to finish washing ALL windows this weekend, gazebo is washed on the outside, guard rails are all done too and swing is washed.  Almost done with the spring work!

What I am knitting, crocheting and crafting

Working on a new pair of knitted socks and a shawl with pockets - ONGOING

Work on my paint-class painting (a cardinal)
Wood-slice ornaments - ongoing.

Looking forward to

Resting tomorrow, we had a chore-filled weekend

Something interesting I watched
An easy stretching 20-min routine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGqB-y2YI88&app=desktop

From the camera

Nothing much, so here's an old picture of my grandparents with my father the one on the right (without glasses), and some of my aunts and uncles. 

                                                    

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Happy Homemaker 2018-05-14

Linking up to Sandra at Diary of a Stay at home mom 

Been a busy week but even busier weekeend.  
Saturday we had help and it took the whole day to put up the gazebo... it wasn't new so it was harder to install.  Kept everyone here for hot-dogs & hamburgers for lunch and for the ones left in the evening ordered pizza.  Then we had a 25th anniversary evening... we went from 10:45 to 11:30, quite an exhausting day... some sun but so windy it was cold!  
Sunday was more outside chores - cleaning up leaves between the stone wall in front of the house, finish washing patio guard rails and cleaning up inside of gazebo (took all afternoon... screens, double windows, etc..).  DD sent me a mother's day note in the morning.  DS bought me flowers and cooked the steak for supper.  We had invited mil, bil & sil.  I called mom for mother's day too.
Today I have a mile-long to-do list so better get cracking if I want some time in the sun this afternoon.

Summer rental is booked!  My sis booked up a hotel for 4 days at Hampton Beach :)



The weather

Mon.

24°

13°

Tue.

22°

4°

Wed.

19°

12°

Thu.

19°

7°

Fri.

19°

11°

What I'm reading

180 jours et le coeur plein - Julie Marcotte
The day to day life of a 1st grade school teacher with her own 3 children and her 20 school children who have all kind of life problems - very nice book.

On my tv 

Walking dead Season 8 - finished was was dvrd will have to look up the rest on the net.

Lucifer
Criminal minds
SWAT
Mme Lebrun
Toi et moi

Menu - planning

Monday -  Chicken kebabs with rice

Tuesday - Stuffed bell peppers

Wednesday - Spaghetti
Thursday - Smoked meat sandwiches (not done last week) for dh.  I have a retirement party for a co-worker so I might be having supper over there.

Friday- ?

On my to-do list (for Monday)

Regular housechores

Laundry (more winter clothes)
Menu-planning - DONE
Bake muffins
Call for a construction permit for the bathroom renovations

Prep some overnight oats for my breakfast 
Prep gym clothes for tomorrow and work clothes

Blog

Work on my painting for paint class - not quite finished the painting even though classes are over.
Yoga this morning.

What I am knitting, crocheting and crafting

Working on a new pair of knitted socks and a shawl with pockets - ONGOING

Work on my paint-class painting (a cardinal)
Wood-slice ornaments - ongoing.

Looking forward to

Next Monday is a Holiday, so hopefully we will finish up the outside work.

Something interesting I watched (a few months back)

Complete guide to the low-fodmap diet (Audrey Inoue)
https://www.udemy.com/low-fodmap-diet-elimination/learn/v4/t/lecture/9420972?start=166
I had it for free, was one of the people who rated the class .

From the camera

                                                    Flowers for mother's day

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Happy Homemaker 2018-05-07

Linking up to Sandra at Diary of a Stay at home mom 

A very busy week at work - a co-worker is retiring and I'm picking up half her workload and I had to take up a part of the workload of another co-worker who is absent quite alot for whatever different reasons.
Fun things
Tuesday had paint class at noon.  Wednesday dinner with work team with games - was fun.  Thursday was Spanish conversation at noon and Friday had a yoga class at noon (in replacement of a coworker).
Last weekend was spring chores inside and outside.  1st weekend with some sun and not quite as cold.


The weather

Mon.

14°

3°

Tue.

20°

7°

Wed.

18°

9°

Thu.

23°

6°

Fri.

11°

3°

What I'm reading

YELL from Mathieu Biasotto

On my tv 

Walking dead Season 8 - finished was was dvrd will have to look up the rest on the net.

Lucifer
SWAT
Mme Lebrun
Toi et moi

Menu - planning

Monday -  Sheppard's pie

Tuesday - Corn on the cob and spaghetti

Wednesday - chicken vol aux vents (not done last week)

Thursday - Smoked meat sandwiches

Friday- ?

On my to-do list

Regular housechores

Laundry (and wash my bedding)
Menu-planning - DONE

Prep some overnight oats for my breakfast (was quite good last week)
Prep gym clothes for tomorrow and work clothes

Blog

Figure out where we want to go for summer vacations

Finish washing inside windows and putting up screen windows (started this on Sunday)
Finish cleaning up flowerbeds (started this on Sunday)
Work on my painting for paint class - last one this week and it has to be done
Tuesday: (off work) go to osteopath, bank, pharmacy and get my coat repaired and lots more on my to-do list.

What I am knitting, crocheting and crafting

Working on a new pair of knitted socks and a shawl with pockets - ONGOING

Work on my paint-class painting (a cardinal)
Wood-slice ornaments - ongoing.

Looking forward to

Monday and tuesday no work!  Next Saturday evening with friends for a couples' 25th wedding anniversary.

Something interesting I watched
Home health and herbal remedies : Essential favorites by Elisabeth Heck on Udemy - it was a free class.  I really liked it.
https://www.udemy.com/
You can do a research for free classes on there.

From the camera

Pink socks I finished last week

Quote of the week

Happy Homemaker 2018-04-30

Linking up to Sandra at Diary of a Stay at home mom 

For those who don't know I work 4 days a week (32 hours), which means Monday is my day off - I try to keep some 'ME' time on Mondays.
Last Tuesday I ended up at the local hospital (almost a clinic) because my ovary was hurting and diffused pain in the kidneys... blood tests, urine test and radios.... finally couldn't quite put a finger on it so I went back home until it either passed or to go to the other hospital for further tests.  I realized it was probably another kidney stone but this one is just wondering around.  Usually when I go for a kidney stone it's stuck so it's not the same symptoms.  So I took some medication I got last Fall to make it pass.  Don't know if it did or not but whatever as soon as I took the medication I felt fine.  FYI: I have passed 3 stones at the hospital (seperate occasions), 1 while waiting (one that was not stuck) at the emergency room, 1 in New Orleans, and now this one - so it's getting quite a habit!
Yoga tune-up class with balls this week was hamstrings - yikes!  it did help alot though, but up until now my favorite one was the feet.
Since I missed Tuesday at work I caught up on my paint class Thursday at noon - so I did not get my Spanish dinner with friends.  
Friday was some errands (for wood).
My husband is making the wooden platform outside bigger because the new gazebo we bought is bigger.
Rain all weekend! And still raining alot this morning.  Oh and NO MORE snow on the ground!

So let's get this HHM started:


The weather

lun 
30 avr

7°C

Bruine intermittente mêlée de pluie

mar 
1 mai

12°C

Généralement nuageux

mer 
2 mai

18°C

Averses

jeu 
3 mai

17°C

60%

Possibilité d'averses

ven 
4 mai

17°C

Alternance de soleil et de nuages

sam 
5 mai

13°C

Pluie intermittente

dim 
6 mai

13°C

Alternance de soleil et de nuages

What I'm reading

Ongoing - The myth of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
and Gray Mountain by John Grisham

On my tv ... way too much!

La Voix

Walking dead Season 8
La liste noire
Lucifer
SWAT
Mme Lebrun
Toi et moi

Menu - planning

Monday -  Stuffed bell peppers

Tuesday - rice-chicken casserole

Wednesday - chicken vol aux vents

Thursday - ham in the crockpot

Friday- ?

On my to-do list

Regular housechores - (vaccum is done upstairs & downstairs, as well as main bathroom)

Laundry - Done (need to iron on of my son's shirt still)

Menu-planning - Done yesterday while I was cooking
Mop kitchen floor
Bake some cookies
Try prepping some overnight oats (never did this)
Basement bathroom and deep-clean the cabinets in there

Prep gym clothes for tomorrow and work clothes
One thing a room declutter

Blog

Figure out where we want to go for summer vacations
Had lots of outside chores to do but with the rain will get done on another day.

What I am knitting, crocheting and crafting

Working on a new pair of knitted socks and a shawl with pockets - ONGOING
Finished a pair of pink knitted socks.  Today I'll get the loose ends in and block it so they will be ready to add to my box for Christmas gifts.
I have taken out my acrylic paint and got everything ready on the table today... I'd like to test doing a wood slice ornament for Christmas and give the base-coat to a wooden birdhouse to make a gingerbread house with it.

Looking forward to

Balmy temperatures coming up!

Simple pleasures

Chocolate! 

From the camera

This is what the gazebo we bought 2nd hand should look like... I'm hoping it does!

Quote of the week

Happy Homemaker 2018-04-23

Linking up to Sandra at Diary of a Stay at home mom 

Hope everyone had a good week.  Work week was so-so - had the feeling something weird was in the air!
Some good moments nonetheless... a lunch with some co-workers (friends) on Wednesday, a celebratory break for our young Chinese coworker getting married on the 22nd, another lunch with team-coworkers on Friday.   Paint class started on Tuesday and then wednesday after work class of massage with balls for the feet (felt soooo good!).  Trying to find the massage balls I THINK I bought for Christmas so I can do those massages here too. 

My daughter & her boyfriend came Friday night as well as my son & his girlfriends.  Kids were here all weekend.  Had a birthday supper for dd on Saturday night.  One of my brothers and his girlfriend came too (he is her godfather) and one sil & bil (her godmother).  She seemed pleased with her gifts too ($$, subscription to Good-Eating magazine, scented candle, healthy snacks, capers in salt).  The kids had gone to the dollar store in the afternoon and bought some balloons, trumpets, bubbles, popcorn & popcorn bowls, then they got some wine, cheese and bread too.

Sunday was brunch at other sil's for my nephew's birthday.  Got there around 10:30 and I left around 3:30.  DD had left around 1:00 and DS around 1:30.  Then I enjoyed some time on the patio because we finally had some sun and it was warm!


The weather

lun 
23 avr

15°C

Ensoleillé

mar 
24 avr

15°C

Ennuagement

mer 
25 avr

7°C

60%

Possibilité d'averses

jeu 
26 avr

10°C

Averses

ven 
27 avr

14°C

70%

Possibilité d'averses

sam 
28 avr

12°C

60%

Possibilité d'averses

dim 
29 avr

9°C

Pluie intermittente

What I'm reading

Ongoing - The myth of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
and La Fabrica by Marilyne Fortin

On my tv ... way too much!

La Voix

Walking dead Season 8
Unité 9
'O
L'échappée
Survivant désigné
La liste noire
District 31
Regular programs are ending so should be able to catch up on recorded shows at some point - haven't caught up yet!

Menu - planning

Monday -  Chicken burgers on the grill

Tuesday - Spaghetti

Wednesday - croques-monsieurs

Thursday - pizza on tortillas

Friday- ?

Will also bake some muffins today and cook some hard-boiled eggs

On my to-do list

Regular housechores.

Laundry 

Menu-planning

Prep gym clothes for tomorrow and work clothes

Call knitting lady and see if I can go this afternoon to finish toes of socks

Blog

Go post dd's income taxes at the post office
Pay bills
Pay income taxes
Put away some winter clothes
Wash some boots
Wash some coats
Figure out where we want to go for summer vacations

What I am knitting, crocheting and crafting

Working on a new pair of knitted socks and a shawl with pockets - ONGOING

Looking forward to

Not seeing snow anymore!  Should be all melted by the end of the week

Simple pleasures

Reading a good book

From the camera

My daughter's 27th bday supper

Kids having fun!

Quote of the week