Been Pretty Quiet Lately ...

Hi There

I have been pretty busy lately so have been really quiet on here, sorry about that but in all honesty, there hasn't been much going on.

I have been subbing at Jades school quite a bit, not in her class but in the 2 year old class, it's been fun but they now found a permanent sub in that class so thankfully I won't need to go in as much as I was. I am still on their sub list so they will call me whenever they need me. Even though I wasn't in Jades class she has gotten a kick out of me being there, every time their class goes potty to to the playground or even to chapel, they pass my class and I hear her all the way down the passage 'did you see ... that's my mom' !!!

Other than that I have had a good amount of jewelry training on lately which has kept me busy, this past weekend they had a big roundup of over 700 people at the Cabarras Arena for a training session, our founders Andy and Joan were there too so that was a good treat. I was out from just after 8 Saturday morning till 5h30 the evening and well when I got home, I realized Dave had gotten a good dose of Jade and he was worn out !!! Welcome to my world :-)

October and November are going to be busy show months for me since we have a wonderful Christmas promotion on and I have a ton of booking, how exciting :-) it's going to be tiring though, one weekend I have a Thursday, Friday and Saturday party scheduled ... gosh !!!

Jade and I have both been battling the sniffles the past two weeks, it's just the season for that, too warm for sweaters and well the mornings are getting almost too cool for just T-shirts. I have packed all Jades shorts and Summer clothing away, hopefully some of it still fits her next year but most of it has been packed aways since for the most part she has already grown out of them. So with this weather that is so confusing right now, the sniffles had to happen, it's also a bad allergy season for me so I am hoping it won't be too bad.

With the weather being cooler the kids are all outside again which is great, I cannot believe that because Jade didn't ride her bike much in Summer since its way too hot, she has almost forgotten how to ride, hopefully with lots of practise she will be back on track again soon and will be having less falls.

On the cycling note, Dave has bought a mountain bike and has been cycling with some guys at work, not as much as I think he would like but it's too hard for him to cycle every night when we still need to do dinner and bath time etc. before bedtime for Jade at 7h30. Maybe he needs to get up earlier in the morning and go out but it's dark early in the morning now, so I don't know how much time he would really have, also I don't like him going out there on his own. He had a really bad fall the other day, thankfully he didn't break anything but he was well grazed up, poor guy so yeah, that's why I don't really like him going out there on his own, it's not like he is on the road that if he falls people will see him, he is on a trail but if no one takes that trail when he is out there, no one will know he is hurt if he is badly hurt. It was enough for me to get him to take his cellphone, what is it about men that they don't take their responsibilities in life that seriously, anything could happen, Heaven forbid of course.

This weekend we are going to the Renaissance Festival, I can't remember if we went last year, I think we did, yeah I definitely think we did, we have been a bunch of times and it's really a wonderful day so I am hoping the weather holds up and even though we need rain desperately, I hope it doesn't rain that day. I will as usual take lots of pics, ok now I know, we did go last year coz Jade rode the elephant and our camera battery died or something but we didn't get her on the elephant, maybe this time, we will see :-)

I guess that is me for now, oh yeah, I wanted to add three pics to show my Fall creativity which I have had fun putting together :-) The first one is for our front door, the second one is just outside our front door and the last one is a centre piece I put together but I have it in front of the fireplace right now, these are nice because I can swap out the flowers ever season to make it look different :-)

Oh and I almost forgot, we had another milestone birthday recently, Jessica, Dave's sisters child turned 13, wow, a teenager. Happy Birthday Jess !!! So this year we have had Dave's Mom and Dad turn 70, My Mom turn 60, David and his brother in law Sion turn 40 as well as my folks celebrating their 40th Wedding Anniversary, My Brother turned 30 and now Jessica turned 13. It's been a big year for us !!! Oh and Jade will be 5 soon too, not that that is a milestone but still :-)

That's all for me for now.