Happy Homemaker 2026-10-05

Good morning, a cool 11C with rain

Busy week last week, 1 day work in town, going to sewing lady, osteo appointment, gastro appointment, esthetician appointment, financial advisor appointment, dh worked 2 days at anticipation votes for the polls. I took Wednesday afternoon off for financial advisor (in another town) and 1 day off on Friday (have too many days accumulated and need to use them up before retirement).

Saturday was housechores and supper at McD's with neighbors.

Sunday went to Xavier's hockey practice at 7:15 am, followed by groceries and a few more housechores and cooking.  Afternoon outside chatting with neighbors.

Woke up with a headache today, took a tylenol.  should pass soon.

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

Weather this week

Mon

12°

7°

Tue

11°

4°

Wed

10°

5°

Thu

14°

7°

Fri

12°

4°

Sat

11°

4°

Looking around the house

DH has got the heating started (Saturday night went down to 4C outside).  Have picked up getting ready for Thanksgiving weekend next week.

Thinking and pondering

Have met financial cousellor - waiting for him to make me a retirement plan, with that will decide if I stop in December or continue a few months at 3 days a week

Photographer confirmed date of Oct 12 for the family photo session but time and place to be confirmed the day before.

TV this week

• Big brother
• Rewatching the old Dexter series (season 6)
• MasterChef saison 4
• Les armes
• Belle-fleur (saison 2)
• Stats (saison 5)
• Indéfendable
• Anti-gang
• Dumas
• Big brother - le piège
• .... and lots more

Interesting blog I saw this week

Nothing.

On my reading pile

Petite Lisa - Rachel Mourier

On my to-do list

Weekend

• Vac main floor
• Dust main floor
• Deep-clean basement bathroom (walls, ceiling, woodwork, window, light fixtures, floor, shower, toilet,....) 
• Make onion soup to freeze
• Cook, slice and brown italian sausages to freeze
• Make some meatballs to freeze
• Laundry
• Vac basement
• Send osteo bill to insurance (they pay 30$ out of 120$ :( )
• Change frames and pictures in kitchen for Fall ones.  with those new frames I can change my pictures everytime for seasonal decor.
• Pay car registration
• 
  

Monday

• Post here - DONE
• Prep for in-town work tomorrow 
• Wash main bathroom
• Make space for coats and shoes in entry closet before next weekend
• See if we have winter clothing to donate to winter-wear drive this week.
• DH will be couting votes tonight for a few hours - tonight we will have a new prime minister for our province.
• 
  

Decluttering

• 4 pants
• 4 children's books
• 1 sweater
• 1 black dress
• 1 child snowsuit
• 1 grapevine wreat
• 1 bathroom fancy glass with deer on it
• 2 1lb weights
• 1 kitchen ustensil
• 1 pen
• 1 under the counter radio (had got rid of it but dh had put it in garage)

From mom's but was waiting nearer to Christmas to give to thrift store

• 1 lighted Christmas scene
• 1 set red Christmas lights
• 4 nativity set personages
• 1 bag small town Christmas figures
• 1 lighted wooden house
• 1 box Christmas crackers
• 1 set scrapbook santa wear
• 1 Christmas towel

Simple pleasure

Being alone in the house once in awhile, nice!  A good tv program with some tea.

Upcoming this week

Tuesday - in-town work 

From the camera

Maxime's family

Anne-Élizabeth writing her name (kindergarten)

Ely at start of 2026 hockey season

Fall picture of the week

Picture taken during a walk on Sunday (colors are not the sharpest on my phone but they were beautiful)

Happy Homemaker 2026-09-28

Good morning, a cool 12C here this morning

Last Wednesday ds dropped off grandkids at 7:00 pm as he was leaving early with ddil next morning (she was going out of town for work and to pick up their new-to-them car) and he was working in town.  

Grandkids slept here and grandpa took them to bus stop on Thursday.  After school dh picked them up and they had supper here.  I went with Anne-E to her dance class where ds met us to pick up grandkids but Xavier wanted to spend another night here so he stayed.  

Friday they had a pedagogical day and I had taken a day off (had some sick days to take).  Xavier spent most of the day here; he did go home for 2 hours with dh who went to mow the lawn, so he played with his sister - ds was in telework.  Anne-E wanted to stay home to see her mom when she got back but Xavier came back here.  He loves the ipad but I'm don't agree with him spending lots of time on it so have to keep him busy which means I did nothing on the homefront but we played cards, colored, painted, took a walk, looked for bugs.  He said he wanted to stay another night but it was Hockey pool night with his dad (at one of our neighbor's house), so off he went with his dad.  He came twice in the evening and told him no later than 9:30 to come back and go to bed because he had hockey practice Saturday.  He finally decided to go back home with his dad.

Saturday we all went to his hockey practice and then we all headed to dd's (2 hour away).  Had lunch there and in the afternoon we all went to local Fête with carrousel and rides for a few hours.  DS and family stayed for supper but we left around 6:00 pm and had supper on our way home.  Was nice to have all family together.

Sunday dh worked at the polls - anticipation vote from 8:30 and got back home 8:45 pm.  I spent whole day in housechores.

Today dh is working at polls again so more housechores for me (yay! ;) ) and I do have some paperwork to do.

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

Weather this week

Mon

13°

11°

Tue

15°

10°

Wed

16°

10°

Thu

18°

13°

Fri

18°

7°

Sat

17°

7°

Sun

13°

7°

Looking around the house

Warm and cozy, just fine.  I need to make it guest-ready for our Thanksgiving in 2 weeks (Oct. 12).

Thinking and pondering

Need to work on my procrastination list, starting with retirement date and meeting financial cousellor - still to do ;) still procrastinating... told dh to get me an appointment for asap - still waiting for appointment but will prep the papers this afternoon (hopefully)

Photographer confirmed date of Oct 12 for the family but time and place to be confirmed the day before.

TV this week

• Big brother
• Rewatching the old Dexter series (season 6)
• MasterChef saison 4
• Les armes
• Belle-fleur (saison 2)
• Stats (saison 5)
• Indéfendable
• Anti-gang
• Dumas
• Big brother - le piège
• .... and lots more

Interesting blog I saw this week

Nothing.

On my reading pile

L'été des aurevoirs - Les demoiselles d'Oxford T3 - Rosie Clarke

On my to-do list

Sunday

• Vac main floor
• Wash main bathroom
• Wash oven
• Deep-clean 1 basement bedroom (walls, ceiling, woodwork, window, curtains, light fixture, furniture, floor) - only closet left to do at a later time
• Mop high-traffic areas
• 
  

Monday

• Post here - DONE
• Prep for in-town work tomorrow 
• Deep-clean 2nd basement bedroom
• Prep papers to meet financial advisor
• 
  

Decluttering

• 3 bracelets
• 3 sets of earrings
• 8 necklaces
• 3 sweaters
• 5 pairs of pants
• 1 sports bra
• 1 bag of mixed pieces of earrings and beads

Simple pleasure

Cool nights.  Getting house ready for winter.

Upcoming this week

Tuesday - in-town work 

Helping out with grandkids as they only have 1 car this week and ds has to work in town a few days.  DDIL will be going out of town Thursday and Friday for work and to pick up new car.

From the camera

I can't download the little videos, not working

Web picture of the week

Happy Homemaker 2026-09-21

Good afternoon,

Work:  last week was busy, they changed a system and instead of taking me 1/2 day for a file it now takes 3 days for the same thing, have to do everything manually.  Had fun with cw at Joe's smoked meat on Tuesday for lunch.  They changed parking from midnight to 8:00 pm on the 20th, with a waiting list on the system... pfffff.  I finally got mine but never made the waiting list at 7:30.. 2 cws never got their parkings ... system is NOT working well.

DH picked up grandkids Thursday and they stayed for supper.  Helped Xavier with his homework then picked up ddil and dropped her off with Anne-E to her dance class. (they sold their car and will pick up new one at the end of this week.  DS was at work with other car)

Thursday went back to dentist she says it isn't my crown that is hurting when I eat it's the other back tooth.  so for now just let it be for a while and use sensodyne.  If it hurts too much she will change the filling, but she says it should be ok for awhile.

Saturday was houschores in the morning then we went to an outside corn on the cob (and hot-dog) party for the local snowmobile association.  There were some blowup games so grandkids, ds and ddil spent part of the afternoon there too with some friends.  It was free but voluntary contribution.  DH also bought tickets for the prizes.  I left around 5:00 and dh stayed with sil and bil until 8:00.  It was cold in the evening outside!

Gastro called for a phone appointment on oct. 3rd... but no time scheduled in the day - when she has time ... I do have an osteo appointment at 9:00 am that day.. Hoping she won't call while I'm there.

Sunday was Xavier's 2nd hockey practice at local arena at 8:00 am so we went there and then stopped to get gaz and pick up some groceries.  DH still working on the paint in his garage (he managed 2nd coat on ceiling but was nauseous again with head bent - he says last time he paints a ceiling).  I made a tomato (with neighbor's tomatoes), bell pepper, leek creme (soup) and dh made american stir fry in the afternoon.  Bought tickets for supper and retro show at our local white geese festival Oct 10 for us, sis, bil, uncle and aunt.

Got some plastic thingies to put inside my armoire door to hang some necklaces and earrings, instead of all mixed up in the big (but nice) box on my bedroom dresser.

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

Weather this week

Mon

16°

4°

Tue

16°

5°

Wed

18°

5°

Thu

21°

6°

Fri

21°

8°

Looking around the house

Loving the Fall decor.  Got some plants on bay window.  Usually they all die, now I've got 4 there that seem to be surviving.

Thinking and pondering

Need to work on my procrastination list, starting with retirement date and meeting financial cousellor - still to do ;) still procrastinating... told dh to get me an appointment for asap

Trying to get an appointment with photographer for our Thanksgiving weekend in October as dd will be here with kids.. but it seems complicated.. of course the session is already paid for (gift I received last year), so I guess she is less interested with us as it is her big Fall weekend with families.  Had 2 leave 2 messages at 1 week interval before she answered.  told her have a hard time having all family here as dd lives farther away.  

TV this week

• Big brother
• Rewatching the old Dexter series (season 6)
• MasterChef saison 4
• Les armes
• Belle-fleur (saison 2)
• Stats (saison 5)
• Indéfendable
• Anti-gang
• Dumas
• Big brother - le piège
• .... and lots more

Interesting blog I saw this week

Nothing as I watched ALOT of Get Organized HQ webinairs last week as it was a free week.

On my reading pile

L'année des fiancailles - Les demoiselles d'Oxford T2 - Rosie Clarke

On my to-do list

Over the weekend

• Laundry
• Vac main floor
• Dust main floor
• Wash main bathroom
• Make soup
• Organized some jewelry
• Put aways some shorts (summer clothes)

Monday

• Post here - DONE
• Prep for in-town work tomorrow 
• Try on and put away some more clothes from my armoire and dresser in basement.
• Sphaghetti sauce if dh goes to buy meat , if not will do later in the week.
• 
  

Decluttering

• 3 pens
• 12 printed recipes

Simple pleasure

Cool nights.  Getting house ready for winter.

Upcoming this week

Tuesday - in-town work 

Helping out with grandkids as they only have 1 car this week and ds has to work in town a few days.  DDIL will be going out of town Thursday and Friday for work and to pick up new car.

From the camera

Nothing

Funny quote of the week