Sunday, 26 January 2020
Christmas 2019 - Crafts
Some crafts I made for Christmas 2019:
Guinea pig for Anthony and seahorses for Naomie and Océanne
40 crochet angel wing ornaments for friends and family
I also knitted some socks for my daughter and an infinity scarf for Naomie (didn't take pictures).
Monday, 20 January 2020
Happy Homemaker 2020-01-20
Morning!
Last week was regular 4-day work week.
The weekend was super cold - brrrr
We went back to Cap-de-la-Madeleine to help assemble more IKEA furniture for my daughter and put up her new shower rod and curtains. Left at 7:00 and back by 3:15. Daughter-in-law and grandbaby Xavier got here 15 minutes after us (with Zach the dog). My son had an activity with his coworkers at his boss's cabin. He came home around midnight and they decided to sleep here.
Sunday the kids spent the day as my son had a hockey game at 2:30 and daughter-in-law had yoga at 4:00. They left after supper around 7:30.
So I had lots of baby hugging over the weeknd.
Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom .
The weather (in celsius)
How I am feeling this morning
I am achy and sleepy but will do some yoga stretches and eat breakfast afterwards then I'll start my day. Lots to do as almost nothing got done during the weeknd.
On my mind
My to-do lists... chores, crafts, happiness journal to work on.
On the breakfast plate
Green tea with toasts and cooked pork slices with mustard
On my reading pile
La Santé repensée de Dr. Gaétan Brouillard
Yamaska - Réjanne de Anne Boyer
On my tv
Les Américains (Season 6)
Cerebrum (Saison 1)
Bull (Saison 1)
Walking Dead (Season 7)
L'Échappée
La fugeuse (Saison 2)
L'Académie (Saison 2) Decided I have enough to watch and am not crazy about this one.
L'heure Bleue (Saison 4)
Épidémie (Saison 1)
Léo (Saison 1)
Le Bon Docteur (Saison 2)
District 31
Lacher Prise (Saison 4)
Une autre histoire
Les Pays d'en haut (saison 5)
Toute la vie (saison 2)
5e rang (saison 2)
L'Amour est dans le pré (saison 8)
More Christmas movies on dvr
On the menu this week
Monday - egg rolls / rice / spare-ribs
Tuesday - Spaghetti
Wednesday - Pork tenderloin
Thursday - grilled cheese sandwich and soup in the crockpot
Friday - ?
From the camera
Looking around the house
chaos! Need to finish ordinary chores. At least it's warm and feels lived-in haha!
On my to-do list (chores)
To relax this week, I will
Knit and crochet
Hoping medical research will find a way to get rid of Alzheimer's disease and inflammatory bowel disease.
Last week was regular 4-day work week.
The weekend was super cold - brrrr
We went back to Cap-de-la-Madeleine to help assemble more IKEA furniture for my daughter and put up her new shower rod and curtains. Left at 7:00 and back by 3:15. Daughter-in-law and grandbaby Xavier got here 15 minutes after us (with Zach the dog). My son had an activity with his coworkers at his boss's cabin. He came home around midnight and they decided to sleep here.
Sunday the kids spent the day as my son had a hockey game at 2:30 and daughter-in-law had yoga at 4:00. They left after supper around 7:30.
So I had lots of baby hugging over the weeknd.
Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom .
The weather (in celsius)
Mon.
-12°
-21°
Tue.
-12°
-15°
Wed.
-4°
-6°
Thu.
-1°
-8°
Fri.
-2°
-9°
How I am feeling this morning
I am achy and sleepy but will do some yoga stretches and eat breakfast afterwards then I'll start my day. Lots to do as almost nothing got done during the weeknd.
On my mind
My to-do lists... chores, crafts, happiness journal to work on.
On the breakfast plate
Green tea with toasts and cooked pork slices with mustard
On my reading pile
La Santé repensée de Dr. Gaétan Brouillard
Yamaska - Réjanne de Anne Boyer
On my tv
Les Américains (Season 6)
Cerebrum (Saison 1)
Bull (Saison 1)
Walking Dead (Season 7)
L'Échappée
La fugeuse (Saison 2)
L'heure Bleue (Saison 4)
Épidémie (Saison 1)
Léo (Saison 1)
Le Bon Docteur (Saison 2)
District 31
Lacher Prise (Saison 4)
Une autre histoire
Les Pays d'en haut (saison 5)
Toute la vie (saison 2)
5e rang (saison 2)
L'Amour est dans le pré (saison 8)
More Christmas movies on dvr
On the menu this week
Monday - egg rolls / rice / spare-ribs
Tuesday - Spaghetti
Wednesday - Pork tenderloin
Thursday - grilled cheese sandwich and soup in the crockpot
Friday - ?
From the camera
Looking around the house
chaos! Need to finish ordinary chores. At least it's warm and feels lived-in haha!
On my to-do list (chores)
On Sunday I washed main bathroom. Also did a little laundry and repaired one my husband's shirt pocket. Filed papers in my bedside table. Reorganized and decluttered 2 drawers in office desk and 1 drawer in corner armoire of the office. Baked muffins
- Post here - DONE
- Menu-plan - DONE
- Laundry - ongoing
- Prep gym clothes for tomorrow - DONE
- Prep work clothes - DONE
- Prep ziploc bags of crafts I want to do this year (not done last week)
- Prep a Rudy day basket (books I want to look at that day, a Christmas cup, ... my Rudy day notebook ....) - not done last week
- Yoga
- Print my 'deep cleaning' list for the year
- Vaccum 1st floor
- Dust 1st floor
- Declutter
- Make a recipe with frozen bananas
- Decorate 3-tiered tray
- Craft
Knit and crochet
Sending positive vibes to
All in need.Hoping medical research will find a way to get rid of Alzheimer's disease and inflammatory bowel disease.
Quote of the week
Monday, 13 January 2020
Happy Homemaker 2019-01-13
Good morning friends!
Last week was back to work (3 days), sure had alot of work to do ... would have taken 4 days at least, ah well, ...
Had lunch with Mrs. President at work (won a prize) with 4 co-workers of my choice. We had a good time, wasn't too intimidating and the food was very good (Le Charbon Steakhouse in the same building as the office).
Saturday we went to Cap-de-la-Madeleine with sister-in-law and brother-in-law to help my daughter move. Lots of IKEA furniture to set up, ugg! She is now settled in her new appartment... some things will have to come here as she has less space (she had a 5,5 room appartment and now it's a 3,5 room). She seems to be happy with her choice. It rained ALOT all day.
Sunday was a snowstorm... a foot of snow and VERY windy. My brother and sister-in-law were in the area so they went to see the baby and we met them at my son's house. Me and my husband had supper there with them (my brother left around 4:00).
Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom .
Here are the new categories:
The weather
How I am feeling this morning
On my mind
On the breakfast plate
On my reading pile
On my tv
On the menu this week
From the camera
Looking around the house
Chore I'm not looking forward to today or this week (I will put my to-do list here instead)
To relax this week, I will
On my prayer list (postive vibes list)
Devotional/Bible Verse - will put a quote here instead
The weather (in celsius)
How I am feeling this morning
Was feeling tired and achy when I woke up, but did some yoga stretches (easy ones), had my breakfast and have started laundry and rice is cooking so feeling ready for the day to begin!
On my mind
I chose my word for 2020 - it's BE NICE... to myself, to others, to the planet, in my words.
Do good things and good things will come back your way.
On the breakfast plate
Green tea with a toasted english muffin, butter and peanut butter.
On my reading pile
La Santé repensée de Dr. Gaétan Brouillard
Erreur 403: accès refusé de Cristina Rodriguez
On my tv
Les Américains (Season 6)
Cerebrum (Saison 1)
Bull (Saison 1)
Walking Dead (Season 7)
L'Échappée
La fugeuse (Saison 2)
L'Académie (Saison 2)
L'heure Bleue (Saison 4)
Épidémie (Saison 1)
Léo (Saison 1)
Le Bon Docteur (Saison 2)
District 31
Lacher Prise (Saison 4)
Une autre histoire
Les Pays d'en haut (saison 5)
Toute la vie (saison 2)
5e rang (saison 2)
L'Amour est dans le pré (saison 8)
More Christmas movies on dvr
On the menu this week
Monday - rice / chicken / mushroom casserole
Tuesday - pasta with homemade meat-veggie spaghetti sauce
Wednesday - Tourtière (leftover in the freezer from NY's eve)
Thursday - grilled cheese sandwich and soup in the crockpot
Friday - ?
From the camera
(hoping I haven't posted these before)
Looking around the house
Feels spacious after the business of Holiday decor.
A puzzle on the kitchen table.
LR - yoga mat on the floor, chocolate and salted peanuts on the table, my notepad and pencil,
books (yoga for the face, Harry Potter unofficial cookbook, my goals notebook, a Gooseberry Patch cookbook, my sketchbook, a sketchbook how-to), a heated rice bag (dh had a sore neck last night), controller for propane foyer. Lighted fairy lights on the mantel.
Kitchenette - cans of mushroom soup, mushrooms, pasta, spaghetti sauce (defrosting), on the counter with my 3-tiered stand holding Hot-chocolate bar (received the stand at Christmas, now I need to decorate it a little).
On my to-do list (chores)
To relax this week, I will
I received a book on face yoga so I'm trying this out while watching tv at night.
A friend at work who is waiting to know if she has a 4th cancer
The son of our friends who is having kidney problems
Last week was back to work (3 days), sure had alot of work to do ... would have taken 4 days at least, ah well, ...
Had lunch with Mrs. President at work (won a prize) with 4 co-workers of my choice. We had a good time, wasn't too intimidating and the food was very good (Le Charbon Steakhouse in the same building as the office).
Saturday we went to Cap-de-la-Madeleine with sister-in-law and brother-in-law to help my daughter move. Lots of IKEA furniture to set up, ugg! She is now settled in her new appartment... some things will have to come here as she has less space (she had a 5,5 room appartment and now it's a 3,5 room). She seems to be happy with her choice. It rained ALOT all day.
Sunday was a snowstorm... a foot of snow and VERY windy. My brother and sister-in-law were in the area so they went to see the baby and we met them at my son's house. Me and my husband had supper there with them (my brother left around 4:00).
Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom .
Here are the new categories:
The weather
How I am feeling this morning
On my mind
On the breakfast plate
On my reading pile
On my tv
On the menu this week
From the camera
Looking around the house
Chore I'm not looking forward to today or this week (I will put my to-do list here instead)
To relax this week, I will
On my prayer list (postive vibes list)
Devotional/Bible Verse - will put a quote here instead
The weather (in celsius)
Mon.
-9°
-14°
Tue.
-9°
-10°
Wed.
-3°
-9°
Thu.
-8°
-21°
Fri.
-15°
-24°
How I am feeling this morning
Was feeling tired and achy when I woke up, but did some yoga stretches (easy ones), had my breakfast and have started laundry and rice is cooking so feeling ready for the day to begin!
On my mind
I chose my word for 2020 - it's BE NICE... to myself, to others, to the planet, in my words.
Do good things and good things will come back your way.
On the breakfast plate
Green tea with a toasted english muffin, butter and peanut butter.
On my reading pile
La Santé repensée de Dr. Gaétan Brouillard
Erreur 403: accès refusé de Cristina Rodriguez
On my tv
Les Américains (Season 6)
Cerebrum (Saison 1)
Bull (Saison 1)
Walking Dead (Season 7)
L'Échappée
La fugeuse (Saison 2)
L'Académie (Saison 2)
L'heure Bleue (Saison 4)
Épidémie (Saison 1)
Léo (Saison 1)
Le Bon Docteur (Saison 2)
District 31
Lacher Prise (Saison 4)
Une autre histoire
Les Pays d'en haut (saison 5)
Toute la vie (saison 2)
5e rang (saison 2)
L'Amour est dans le pré (saison 8)
More Christmas movies on dvr
On the menu this week
Monday - rice / chicken / mushroom casserole
Tuesday - pasta with homemade meat-veggie spaghetti sauce
Wednesday - Tourtière (leftover in the freezer from NY's eve)
Thursday - grilled cheese sandwich and soup in the crockpot
Friday - ?
From the camera
(hoping I haven't posted these before)
Me at work Christmas lunch
My son and his family
Me, my sister and my brothers
Looking around the house
Feels spacious after the business of Holiday decor.
A puzzle on the kitchen table.
LR - yoga mat on the floor, chocolate and salted peanuts on the table, my notepad and pencil,
books (yoga for the face, Harry Potter unofficial cookbook, my goals notebook, a Gooseberry Patch cookbook, my sketchbook, a sketchbook how-to), a heated rice bag (dh had a sore neck last night), controller for propane foyer. Lighted fairy lights on the mantel.
Kitchenette - cans of mushroom soup, mushrooms, pasta, spaghetti sauce (defrosting), on the counter with my 3-tiered stand holding Hot-chocolate bar (received the stand at Christmas, now I need to decorate it a little).
On my to-do list (chores)
On Sunday I vaccumed main floor and washed main bathroom. Also did a little laundry.
- Post here - DONE
- Menu-plan - DONE
- Laundry - ongoing
- Go to my son's house to hold the baby while daughter-in-law takes care of some other things.
- Prep gym clothes for tomorrow - DONE
- Prep work clothes - DONE
- Prep ziploc bags of crafts I want to do this year
- Paperwork to file
- Prep a Rudy day basket (books I want to look at that day, a Christmas cup, ... my Rudy day notebook ....)
- Prep the chicken-rice casserole
- Prep the pasta casserole
- Do dishes
- Yoga - DONE
To relax this week, I will
I received a book on face yoga so I'm trying this out while watching tv at night.
Sending positive vibes to
Mom - so that she remembers moreA friend at work who is waiting to know if she has a 4th cancer
The son of our friends who is having kidney problems
Quote of the week
Monday, 6 January 2020
Happy Homemaker 2020-01-06
Happy New Year!
Have not posted in the last few weeks because I've been super busy with the holidays.
We spent Christmas Eve at my parent's house (27 people for the evening), was very nice - traditions! My son was not there as he had his father-in-law's family at his house (and baby is only a few weeks old) - my daughter wasn't there either, she was working at the hospital. 25th was brunch at my sister's house, then we came home (3 hour drive) and had supper at my sister-in-law's with my husband's family and my son came by so they could see the baby.
On the 30th, my parents, sis & brother-in-law arrived for lunch. My son came over with the baby so they could meet him for the first time. My daughter got here on the 31st after working - she left on the 2nd. The 31st was prepping and receiving my family and my husband's family for supper (24 people). It was mother-in-law's 92nd birthday. We then played games and had a cold buffet after midnight. My family sleeps over when they come since it's a 3-hour drive.
Jan. 1st the family left before noon. I picked up a bit while my husband went to his uncle's house and then my son came back with Xavier and my daughter in-law. We gave out the Christmas gifts (was waiting for the kids to be here at the same time). For supper we went to another sister-in-law's house and ordered supper (everyone pays for their lunch) and spent a quiet evening there.
My daughter left on the 2nd in the morning. She broke off with her boyfriend of almost 7 years. She visited some appartments that afternoon and found one. She will be moving out soon.
We have seen our grandchild almost every 2 days since he's been out of the hospital :) He loves being in our arms!
Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom
Looking around the house
Everything is back to normal - Christmas is packed away and every room, bed, bathroom has been washed (there were people sleeping everywhere on NY's Eve).
A puzzle is set out on the kitchen table for fun.
On the living room table
It has chocolates (individually wrapped ones that don't need to be eaten right away ;) ), a pot of sugared nuts, a knitting bag, a yoga for the face book, my notebook, a 'sketch your day' book, a pen and my yearly goals notebook as well as the telephone and a computer... finally will be buying a new one tonight at costco's. The one I have now keeps shutting off every few minutes.
The weather (in celsius)
We had a balmy month of December after a cold and snowy November. Just little snowpatches on the ground for Christmas
What I am reading
Une mémoire pour la vie de Alain Sotto... mom is starting to have memory problems, so....
On my tv
Mr. Mercedes
Christmas movies
New programs start tonight so will be a full roster next week
Menu - planning
What I am knitting, crocheting and crafting
Have not posted in the last few weeks because I've been super busy with the holidays.
We spent Christmas Eve at my parent's house (27 people for the evening), was very nice - traditions! My son was not there as he had his father-in-law's family at his house (and baby is only a few weeks old) - my daughter wasn't there either, she was working at the hospital. 25th was brunch at my sister's house, then we came home (3 hour drive) and had supper at my sister-in-law's with my husband's family and my son came by so they could see the baby.
On the 30th, my parents, sis & brother-in-law arrived for lunch. My son came over with the baby so they could meet him for the first time. My daughter got here on the 31st after working - she left on the 2nd. The 31st was prepping and receiving my family and my husband's family for supper (24 people). It was mother-in-law's 92nd birthday. We then played games and had a cold buffet after midnight. My family sleeps over when they come since it's a 3-hour drive.
Jan. 1st the family left before noon. I picked up a bit while my husband went to his uncle's house and then my son came back with Xavier and my daughter in-law. We gave out the Christmas gifts (was waiting for the kids to be here at the same time). For supper we went to another sister-in-law's house and ordered supper (everyone pays for their lunch) and spent a quiet evening there.
My daughter left on the 2nd in the morning. She broke off with her boyfriend of almost 7 years. She visited some appartments that afternoon and found one. She will be moving out soon.
We have seen our grandchild almost every 2 days since he's been out of the hospital :) He loves being in our arms!
Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom
Looking around the house
Everything is back to normal - Christmas is packed away and every room, bed, bathroom has been washed (there were people sleeping everywhere on NY's Eve).
A puzzle is set out on the kitchen table for fun.
On the living room table
It has chocolates (individually wrapped ones that don't need to be eaten right away ;) ), a pot of sugared nuts, a knitting bag, a yoga for the face book, my notebook, a 'sketch your day' book, a pen and my yearly goals notebook as well as the telephone and a computer... finally will be buying a new one tonight at costco's. The one I have now keeps shutting off every few minutes.
The weather (in celsius)
Mon.
-8°
-11°
Tue.
-6°
-11°
Wed.
-3°
-17°
Thu.
-12°
-16°
Fri.
0°
-1
We had a balmy month of December after a cold and snowy November. Just little snowpatches on the ground for Christmas
What I am reading
Une mémoire pour la vie de Alain Sotto... mom is starting to have memory problems, so....
On my tv
Mr. Mercedes
Christmas movies
New programs start tonight so will be a full roster next week
Menu - planning
Monday: Pineapple chicken (from frozen), rice, egg rolls.
Tuesday: potatoes and ground beef with veggies and gravy
Wednesday: spaghetti
Thursday: grilled cheese sandwiches
Friday ?
Tuesday: potatoes and ground beef with veggies and gravy
Wednesday: spaghetti
Thursday: grilled cheese sandwiches
Friday ?
On my to-do list
Everything has been cleaned the last few days, so now I can relax a little.
Everything has been cleaned the last few days, so now I can relax a little.
- Post here - DONE
- Menu-plan - DONE
- Craft
- Pay cell phone bill
- Make a few calls
- Finish writing down 2020 goals - DONE
- Find word for 2020.
- Go see the baby this afternoon as ddil has a conference call for work
- Unsubscribe from lots of emails
Tuesday (have taken an extra day off for vacations)
- Prep gym clothes for tomorrow
- Prep work clothes
- Go to get a pair of gym pants hemmed
From the camera (there will be a special post just for Christmas as there is too much to put on here)
Xavier meeting his aunt (Joannie) for the 1st time
Xavier with his great-grandparents
Xavier and his dad
Xavier with dad and grandpa
Xavier sleeping on grandma
Quote of the week
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