Emeraude is often asking to eat snow so I thought this was a good experiment to let her see for herself why I prefer that she doesn’t. She picked up these ‘ice balls’ from the side of the road and we intend to do the experiment again with some snow from the backyard. [Read more]
Jan.19.2009 Emeraude had tried adding coffee to her liquid glue the other day to make a picture that looked like dirt but the coffee disolved and looked more like mud. We found this very interesting and I suggested that we try to see what other kitchen ingredients might disolve when we added them [Read more]
Emeraude & I joined Lloyd for night skiing at the Kiwissa Ski Club tonight for the first time this year and WOW! it was beyond words… We had gone once last year but Emeraude had not enjoyed skiing in the dark as we had gone down the Bunny (our regular run) which was actually off [Read more]
Last year, 2008, Ontario had it’s first official Family Day which was put in place fufilling an election promise from Premier Dalton McGuinty. It is great to see that, in Manitouwage, this is being taken to heart with the majority of businesses/services (including all the schools, the OEYC [Read more]
I’ve fallen ridiculously behind on my blogging. My days seem to blend in to each other as it has been necessary for at least a month now that I go to the hospital every day (sometimes even two or three times in a day) for injections for pain meds. I am incredibly fatigued and feel [Read more]
Emeraude’s weekend was quite eventful and she had a lot of fun with Daddy. Friday night Emeraude and I had our movie night, ate popcorn and cuddled on the couch as is our tradition. Lloyd had plans with friends and had opted out but only after we had supper and making sure Emeraude [Read more]
It’s been a long weekend but really good. I will come back some time this week and add to this post about what kept us busy. Emeraude’s Dad was home from work in Kapuskasing and seems to have gotten over the odd state of mind that the holidays had him in. This meant that she [Read more]
Monday the Family Place’s Gross Motor Skills Program started at the Rec Centre. I have to say that Emeraude did enjoy herself,very much. I was so impressed with her when at the beginning of the class she suggested follow the leader and then asked to be the leader and did a great job [Read more]
I realized it had been a few weeks since Emeraude had painted and thought this morning’s cold weather and my limited physical energy were great reasons to pull out the paints. We started out with the acrlic paints, brushes, a toothbrush and a straw… I wanted to show Emeraude that [Read more]
Emeraude woke up from her nap with a plan… She began listing to me the ingredients we needed for a ‘kind of craft’. As I listened to her explanation of what we were to do, I realized what she wanted and explained to her that this was called an ‘experiment’. We [Read more]
Lloyd gave Emeraude a great cloud book this Christmas which is perfect for her age and will be for years to come. It lists the types of clouds, how they are named and what weather to expect when each cloud type is seen… And I was very much looking forward to the opportunity to take [Read more]
I was in pretty bad shape this morning but really wanted Emeraude to have some fun in spite of this… I went to the hospital as early as I could stand on my wobbly legs for an injection of pain meds and then the cab was picking us up to go to the family place [Read more]
Symptoms are really interfering with my ability to have any quality of life. 8am 50mg oral prednisone 120mg ratio-morphine Lloyd had to be at school early for a basketball game and at 8am was just putting Emeraude next to me in bed to say goodmorning. I struggled to balance on my legs as there [Read more]
day 3 steroid treatment did not go so well… the treatment was okay, the results PLtheRhhh (that’s a raspberry & thumbs down). my face really is as red as it appears on the photo :S (that’s the steroids). Emeraude was sweet enough to come keep me company as I received my [Read more]
I was woken up by Lloyd this morning, poached eggs in hand and I couldn’t have been more appreciative of his efforts! Emeraude had offered to accompany me to my treatment last night at bedtime and so he had already fed her some breakfast as well. I worked at getting the two of us ready [Read more]
