Happy Homemaker 2019-10-28

Morning!  

Last week was a busy one at work and I had a half a day of the suicide prevention training. Had paint class, spanish and posture 101 during my lunch hours and the remaining lunch hour was a fund-raising bingo for Entraide (I work 4 days so all lunch hours were busy this week).

My daughter in-law's baby shower was on Saturday - she had a nice group of friends and received lots of gifts.  My daughter and I were there too and we all had lunch at a nice restaurant.  Afterwards the girls had games but me & my daughter left (as did her sister and mother-in-law) because we had a family supper at my sister-in-law for my niece's 19th birthday.

I finally decorated a bit inside and out for Halloween and started making Halloween bags (I ran out of bags though).

Did odds and ends but no regular housechores.

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

The weather (in celsius)

Sun.

6°

3°

Mon.

8°

7°

Tue.

13°

9°

Wed.

13°

4°

Thu.

7°

0°

Fri.

4°

1°

Nice forecast!  My son (who lives just 5 minutes from us but higher up had his first snow on Sunday)

What I am reading
Les plains pouvoirs by David Baldacci 

On my tv 

Rewatching the watching dead - season 6
L'échappée
District 31
Un zoo pas comme les autres
Discussion avec mes parents
Toute la vie
Une autre histoire
Ruptures
Alerte Amber
L'heure bleu
5e rang
Les invisibles
Le bon docteur
New Amsterdam
Mr. Mercedes
Prodigal son
Killling Eve

Menu - planning

Monday: Hot-chicken sandwiches with gravy and fries
Tuesday: Omelette with ham and cheese
Wednesday: Ragoût de boulettes
Thursday: grilled cheese sandwiches
Friday ?

On my to-do list 

• Bake muffins - DONE on Sunday
• Bake a zuccini, chocolate, walnut bread - DONE on Sunday
• Laundry - DONE during the weekend
• Prep gym clothes for tomorrow - DONE
• Prep work clothes - DONE
• Menu plan - DONE on Sunday
• Wash main bathroom 
• Vaccum main floor (might skip a week depending if I have time or not, anyhow on Thursday with all the kids coming in for Halloween it'll be full of dirt).
• Post here
• Wash and switch entryway closets (winter vs summer coats)
• I need to craft too... some things have got to get done soon
• Climb up in the attic and get a few Halloween decorations and maybe a doll (to measure the head for the crochet hat I am making for the baby)
• Call mom
• 
  

What I am knitting, crocheting and crafting

Knitted wool socks  - both pair of socks are up to the easy parts so it will be put aside for awhile.

Crochet baby blanket (on my 4th ball of yarn).. this is not going well... think I might've switched crochet size halfway through.. might have to redo the whole thing.

Start baby hat (Ninja turtle)

A simple pleasure

Watching the rain fall

From the camera

Florence's 19th birthday

Baby shower pictures 

Quote of the week 

Happy Homemaker 2019-10-21

Morning!  

Busy weekend - we went to my parent's house (3 hours drive) for supper on Friday (we got off work at 2:00) and slept there.  
Saturday we went to Gatineau (2,5 hours drive) to see my daughter in her first body-sculpting competition (from 1:00 to 6:00) - she won 1st place in her category (trophy, flowers and a bag of supplements) as well as the best swimsuit ($100)   We left around 7:30 and drove back to my parents' house to sleep (my daughter stayed there another night with one of her friends and her trainer).
Sunday we had a family brunch (my dad's cousins) in Drummondville (1 hour from my parents' house).  Got back here at 4:00 pm.
Phew! lots of running around.   Today will be busy with housechores as it's been 2 weeks that I don't have time to do anything.

Last night had a kidney stone moving around - painful!  seems to be ok for now though.  Got up at 6:00 am to start my humongous to-do list.

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

The weather (in celsius)

Mon.

14°

3°

Tue.

11°

7°

Wed.

9°

5°

Thu.

9°

3°

Fri.

8°

1°

Sat.

7°

-2°

Today should be nice and sunny ... so will try to do some outside work

What I am reading
Beloved by Toni Morrison - taking me longer to read this one.. not sure I like it right now even though it's won lots of awards.

On my tv 

Rewatching the watching dead - season 6
L'échappée
District 31
Un zoo pas comme les autres
Discussion avec mes parents
Toute la vie
Une autre histoire
Ruptures
Alerte Amber
L'heure bleu
5e rang
Les invisibles
Le bon docteur
New Amsterdam
Mr. Mercedes
Prodigal son
Killling Eve

Menu - planning

Monday: Dumplings, egg-rolls, rice
Tuesday: pizza on english muffins
Wednesday: sloppy joes
Thursday: grilled cheese sandwiches
Friday ?

On my to-do list 
A very long to-do! 

• Wash main bathroom - DONE
• Bake muffins - DONE
• Laundry 
• Take out screen window in bathroom and wash window inside/out - DONE
• Prep overnight oats - DONE
• Prep yogourts with fruits for me and dh - DONE
• Prep gym clothes for tomorrow - DONE
• Prep work clothes - DONE
• Vaccum main floor
• Post here - DONE
• Menu plan - DONE
• Pizza on english muffins
• Wash outside windows (back of the house)
• Finish cutting flowers out front - only a few left to do
• Start decorating for Halloween
• Send competition pictures to my daughter
• Wash my daughter's bedding (she will be coming next weekend)
• Pick up everywhere
• Dust office - DONE
• Dust rest of main floor

What I am knitting, crocheting and crafting

Knitted wool socks  - both pair of socks are up to the easy parts so it will be put aside for awhile.

Crochet baby blanket (on my 4th ball of yarn)

Start crochet items for the baby

A simple pleasure

Looking at Gooseberry Patch cookbooks (received some from a friend last week :) )

From the camera

My pictures are awful! :(

Quote of the week 

Happy Homemaker 2019-10-14 - Canadian Thanksgiving

Morning!  It is our Thanksgiving today so will be posting late.  It's a vacation day for us.

The weekend was at a camp we rented for the whole family to celebrate my parent's 55th anniversary.  
We had a great camp and the view was fantastic with all the Fall colors.  My parents had no idea it was for their anniversary.
Came back home Monday around 1:00 pm, and washed outside front windows... we gotta start winterizing.


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

The weather (in celsius)

Mon.

16°

3°

Tue.

12°

3°

Wed.

14°

8°

Thu.

9°

6°

Fri.

12°

3°

What I am reading
Beloved by Toni Morrison

On my tv 

Rewatching the watching dead - season 6
L'échappée
District 31
Un zoo pas comme les autres
Discussion avec mes parents
Toute la vie
Une autre histoire
Ruptures
Alerte Amber
L'heure bleu
5e rang
Les invisibles
Le monstre
Le bon docteur
New Amsterdam

Menu - planning

No idea whatsoever... no time to think about that this wekend

On my to-do list 
The only thing that got done was washing windows in front of the house on Monday afternoon

What I am knitting, crocheting and crafting

Knitted wool socks  - both pair of socks are up to the easy parts so it will be put aside for awhile.

Crochet baby blanket (on my 4th ball of yarn)

Start crochet items for the baby

A simple pleasure

Fall colors!

From the camera

Grandparents and grandkids

Parents with us (brothers and sisters)

Mom, me and my daughter

View from camp patio

Mom and me

Quote of the week 

Happy Homemaker 2019-10-07

Morning!  October is here

A regular 4-day work week.  We had our fire-alarm exercise at work on Friday.. and it was cold!  Also had my 1st 'sentinelle' job to do... had to tell a coworker to go make her personal calls in a room and not in front of everybody - I wasn't there when it happened but I was told I had to go tell her because she disrupted everyone - she was talking very loudly with her daughter (I've heard her before and it really is disrupting).  

Had a spanish dinner on Thursday and posture class on Friday.  Friday we ran errands after work - got a new kitchen faucet as the other was leaking and did groceries.

Over the weekend my husband mowed the lawn, put the wood structure inside the gazebo so the roof doesn't crash with the weight of snow during the winter, changed kitchen faucet, and cut a few branches off the tree.


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

The weather (in celsius)

Mon.

14°

8°

Tue.

15°

2°

Wed.

16°

4°

Thu.

16°

5°

Fri.

15°

6°

Sat.

13°

8°

Sun.

It's raining today but I love a rainy day.

What I am reading
Faith by Peter James

On my tv 

Rewatching the watching dead - season 6
The Good witch - season 5
L'échappée
District 31
Un zoo pas comme les autres
Discussion avec mes parents
Toute la vie
Une autre histoire
Ruptures
Alerte Amber
L'heure bleu
5e rang
Les invisibles
Le monstre
Le bon docteur
New Amsterdam

Menu - planning

Monday - Chicken stir fry
Tuesday - Chicken dumplings with something else
Wednesday - sloppy joes
Thursday -  Grilled cheese sandwiches
Friday - ?

On my to-do list 

Saturday:

• Stretching
• Vaccumed main floor
• Vaccumed basement
• Washed main bathroom
• Laundry
• Dusted and picked up all main floor
• Got ebooks on a usb key to mail to one of my friends
• Paid bills

Sunday:

• Stretching
• Bake muffins
• Cut and freeze some bell peppers
• Bake a pear/blueberry cobbler
• Cook 2 dozen sausages wrapped in bacon and freeze for the Holidays
• Wash my bedding and add winter blanket
• Go to my son's house and help daughter-in-law dig holes for tulips... but we couldn't find the buds afterwards ☺ - we did find a figurine of a carpentar wrapped in saranwrap in one of the holes!
• Tons of hand-washed dishes
• Load and unload dishwasher
• Take the length of a pair of jeans to hem on Monday.
• Menu plan 

Monday: 

• A few minutes of stretching
• Post here - DONE
• Call mom
• Prep work clothes - DONE
• Prep gym clothes - DONE
• Cook rice
• Prep stock to go to cabin next weekend
• Pumpkin / chocolate cookies
• Hem pants
• Have a long list of to-do's to pick from depending what I feel like doing (crafting or chores).
• ... 

What I am knitting, crocheting and crafting

Knitted wool socks  - both pair of socks are up to the easy parts so it will be put aside for awhile.

Crochet baby blanket (on my 4th ball of yarn)

Start crochet items for the baby

A simple pleasure

Making lists

From the camera

2 autres 'passages insolites' de Québec

Avec Marie-Josée Taillefer (local star)

Quote of the week