tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79428707397540789312024-03-05T02:54:21.121-08:00My Grace-full LifeSuzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923100333923201619noreply@blogger.comBlogger335125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942870739754078931.post-28350831872226369412017-04-28T19:49:00.002-07:002017-04-28T19:49:40.608-07:00Christmas 2017<span style="font-size: x-large;">Looking for the perfect tree in Grandpa's back field</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So, we don't do Elf on a Shelf. I'm just not comfortable with a little elf spying on children reporting all their misbehaviours back to Santa. So instead we do "Elfie" our own version. Elfie comes around the beginning of December, just like Elf on a Shelf and Elfie gets up to mischief each night, well, at least each night that I remember to do something with him!!! Elfie however, looks for all the good things Grace does. He leaves notes each morning telling her what he noticed. So far, it's working great for us! One little gliche this year however. Mommy misplaced Elfie. I don't know where he went because he wasn't in our Christmas decorations like he should have been. So I had to think fast and create Sparkle, Elfie's friend! On this particular evening, Sparkle got out Grace's homework and got busy! Everyone thought he did a great job, even the teacher!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Celebrating the Feast of St. Nicholas with chocolate letters at Grandma and Grandpa's</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Decorating the tree with our favourite ornaments</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Setting up the Nativity. Grace moves the characters around regularly, setting up sorts of interesting arrangements!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Christmas baking can get a little messy!!!!lol</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This is one of the ornaments Grace made at school this year. I love its simplicity! And I love that it's totally her own creation!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Sprinkling reindeer food out on the snow on Christmas Eve. Oh the excitement!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Grace participated in the pageant for her first time this year. She was beside herself with excitement all day and was a fantastic angel!!!! Such a precious moment for me, I was so proud!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So I figure I only have a few more years where Grace is truly into parades and various Christmas festivities offered by the communities around us. I know that 6, 7 years from now she will be busy with her own independence, hanging out with friends, doing her extra curricular activities, whatever is going on in our lives at that point. So, for now I take full advantage of all the wonderful Christmas activities we have going on in our surrounding communities. Most of them are cheap or free which makes them all that more appealing. We go to parades, Christmas in the park, and street parties. We do it all. Here's a few highlights, including of course the hot chocolate!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Funny, for Grace, the highlight of the night was playing at the park... in the dark! She loved it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Waiting for the Tractor parade in our town to get started. Grace found a friend from school and they passed the time running around in the dark</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So, after spending a few hours wandering along the streets, watching the short Santa Claus parade, I had no intention of staying for the tractor parade at the street festival. It wasn't starting until after 8 and we had already watched our own town's parade of lights with the farm equipment. However, Grace was having such a good time listening to Dan the Music Man and dancing and catching bubbles and hula hooping that by the time we started to head back to the car people were already lining the streets waiting for the next event. I had the wagon and there was NO WAY I was going to get through that crowd and make the long trek back to the car. So we decided to stay and wait it out. Neither one of us was overly happy about it but there wasn't really another option. Just as the first tractor was making its way past us, I glanced down at Grace and saw this...</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I had a new gazebo put up this Fall with the help of my niece and nephews. Everybody had to do their share, including Grace!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Some of the hard working men in my family!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Planting tulips with her class mascot</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The bird bath in the backyard had a thin layer of ice on it and with the leaves sitting under the ice and the sun shining on it, it created a really beautiful effect. I however couldn't get the angle right to avoid shadows on the photo. Need to keep working on my photo skills!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">My beautiful girl</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A beautiful Autumn afternoon in my most favourite place in the world.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This is her Advant garde shot!!! How creative (it may or may not have been on purpose! lol)</span></div>
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<br />Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923100333923201619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942870739754078931.post-54020906349647864502016-11-09T19:40:00.001-08:002016-11-09T19:43:12.190-08:00And suddenly she's 5<span style="font-size: x-large;">And suddenly she's 5. When did this happen? I swear just last week I was changing diapers and warming up milk in a bottle. My girl is growing faster than I can believe and while I'm proud of every accomplishment she makes, I so want time to stand still, to keep this moment from passing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Grace had a great birthday, or should I say birthdayS. Actual birthday, family birthday, friend birthday, anticipating the birthday, planning the birthday. She pretty much gets the month of August!!! lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Grace was so eager to wear her princess dress for the party. What a fashionista!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">On the "real" birthday day, we took a trip to Santa's Village with Grandma and Grandpa and cousin K. What a great place for young children! Santa was great. Walking around the village all day, we bumped into him several times making it so much more comfortable for the kids when they finally got a chance to see him in his house and while Grace still wanted me close, she confidently went up to Santa and shared her wishes. For months now, she has not wavered on what she wants Santa to bring her for Christmas. A microphone and a violin. Yep, a microphone and a violin. She can't play a violin yet, but my music loving girl just loves her music!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ice cream for breakfast of course!!! How else would one start a birthday??</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We are so lucky to have great neighbours. They are like a second set of grandparents for Grace and they love it when she comes for a visit. Grace was so proud to be able to go next door by herself to bring them over for cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Time for the chicken story. Sometimes I feel like there are things that happen in the world that could only happen to me. Seriously. The chicken story is one of those things.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Let me set the scene. It's relatively early in the morning, the day of the kid party. Grace is finishing breakfast, I'm getting a few things out and ready. I peer out the kitchen window and there it is. A chicken. Like a real live chicken in my back yard. Now, we live on a small property but we are by no means in farmland. Yet, there it was, a big beautiful chicken wandering around my back yard! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">After trying without success to coax the chicken to move on to a neighbour's yard, I decided to try to make the best of it. All I had to do was tell the kids not to go near the chicken and the chicken will leave them alone.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">So, Grace had invited one boy, an energetic, quizzical, curious boy. He's well known for his energetic curious ways and I had all my teacher tricks ready to go to keep him on task at the party. What I didn't plan for was a chicken. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">And it couldn't have gone better! That chicken was a blessing in disguise for that little firecracker of a boy. He chased that chicken around, fed him his hot dog bun and "played" with the chicken for 2 hours!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">(before anyone who might be concerned for the chicken's well being gets bent out of shape about this post, rest assured, the chicken was perfectly fine and safe)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">For all the work I put into planning games and activities for the kids to do, what was the big hit? Grace's dress up basket! I</span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">could have saved myself some time and money if I had just let kids be kids!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">All the princesses and decorating their own cupcakes</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Doesn't that look yummy?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So I feel old. Really old. I have a nephew that is married. Aunts who have nephews who are married are old, right? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This was a big summer for our family. My nephew got married to a great girl and they've bought a house and are settling in. As well, my sister and her husband celebrated 25 years of marriage. And to top it off, someone in the family turned 50!!! shh, not saying who!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Here are the highlights of the wedding festivities, leading up to the actual wedding and the ceremony. More photos of the celebration party to come in the next post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Heading off to the rehearsal.... M looking calm and collected. Me, not so much!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Pretending to look emotional I think??</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The morning of the wedding. Once again, M looking calm!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Getting her hair done for the first time, she did amazing sitting through it all</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A couple of very cute flower girls waiting for the bride....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">My other handsome nephew and his mom!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It's almost time.....!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Having a little fun with the magic wand after the ceremony</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Told you he was handsome!!! And ladies, he's single!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">At the K-man's 4th birthday party, Grace met up with a little girl, K's cousin from his dad's side. The girls have met before but now that they were a little older, they were much better able to interact and be friends. So, Grace took it upon herself to be "best friends" and both girls thought it was just hilarious to run away from me and my camera!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Father's Day was hot, much like this entire summer has been (and I love it!!!) . We did what we could to keep the kids cool, including running through the sprinkler!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I know I am just so behind on posting! It's seems to be getting harder and harder to find the time these days. Grace no longer naps (sort of) and so the precious little time I get after getting her to sleep just isn't enough to keep up with life and a blog! I will keep going as best as I can, I just may be a little behind all of the time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A while back Grace and I headed out to enjoy our town's blues and jazz festival. She kept calling it the Blue Jay festival! lol It's run by a friend of mine and every year we've been Grace has had a blast. She loves music as much as I do and so we make a good team for the weekend's festivities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I also make it a "free for all" weekend. Pretty much whatever she wants, she gets. She wants ice tea to drink? I say OK. Bubbles? New necklace? Sure! She wants a hot dog and ice cream for lunch? I say OK. French fries? Juice? Corn on the cob? Another ice cream? OK, OK, and OK! I consider it a wise move on my part because while she is munching away on her French fries or admiring her new necklace, she is entertained and happy. I'm able to enjoy the music without distraction and that makes me happy. I see it as a win - win!!!</span></div>
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<br />Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923100333923201619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942870739754078931.post-80208390156591083702016-06-02T20:41:00.000-07:002016-06-02T20:41:04.831-07:00Mother's Day 2016<span style="font-size: x-large;">Someone should have told me that Mother's Day gets better and better as your kid gets older! Grace was so cute this year trying to keep secrets and hide her present. When we woke up Sunday morning, she insisted I stay in bed and pretend to sleep. She snuck out of the bedroom to search for her golden bag (school communication bag), which had her present tucked away in it. She had hidden it in her room on Friday when she came home from school ( I of course knew exactly where it was, in her laundry basket!) So, she came back into the bedroom with a smile a mile wide! She was so proud of herself! She sang her Mother's Day song for me and we snuggled together while I opened my gift. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Grace and I enjoyed making a great pancake breakfast together and just hung out, skipping church for once to enjoy each other's company. We then headed out to my parents' for lunch. It was a pretty cold day but we made the best of it, taking a few family pictures and of course playing soccer in heels!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The two young ones have such a good time hanging out together at Grandma and Grandpa's. Oh to be a kid again, completely entertained by a stick and water!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Here's Grandma's Mother's Day card, filled with quotes from Grace about Grandma. This may be the first time Grandma has been described as a princess and having hair like cotton candy but how sweet! I love the one about chicken noodle soup. "Grandma makes good chicken noodle soup. The kind with no vegetables!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A little bit of living room gymnastics before heading home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">My girl, my joy, my life. I say it again and again..... I can no longer remember my life before her nor imagine my life without her. We've become one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Finally on Easter Sunday the weather cooperated and with the sun shining brightly both young kids were able to get outside for an egg hunt. My sister was nice enough to put it all together for them and both kids had a blast finding their loot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Wednesday night as I sat watching the snow and then later listening to the freezing rain, I knew I would not likely be leaving town tomorrow to get to my school. Buses would most definitely be cancelled if this kept up. Sure enough, not only were buses cancelled but schools were closed, a surprise treat for both of us!!! Grace and I spent the day hanging out, getting a few things ready for Easter. Thursday night, as the weather worsened, as Grace and I listened to the freezing rain start up again, I knew the power would be going out. I watched TV, listening to crash after crash, watching transformer after transformer lighting up the sky out my back windows. What I didn't know was that that power would go out and not return until sometime early Monday morning. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Friday was easy enough, a long day when you've already been house bound the day before, but we survived fine. My dad was kind enough to come over and get the generator going, but it really only helps to keep the sump pump running and eventually keep the food in the freezer and fridge from spoiling. It did get very cold very quickly in the house however and by Friday afternoon we picked up our elderly neighbours and headed out to see what we could find to warm us up. We ended up at Wimpy's diner, not my favourite choice of restaurants but anything warm was going to make us happy at this point! It was busy at Wimpy's but not as busy as everywhere else in town and we settled down to a warm coffee and a bite to eat. As we were finishing up the hydro at the restaurant went out and we were left paying cash. A drive through town revealed all the damage from the storm, trees and branches were down everywhere. I don't ever remember seeing so much damage from one ice storm. I had several down on my own property. If one could past the damage and past the cold house and no water, the ice really does make everything beautiful. In the sunshine of Friday afternoon, everything truly looked beautiful glistening in the sun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So onto the Easter part. By Friday night, the house was down to single digits so Grace and I packed it up and headed to Grandma and Grandpa's to spend the night. Aunt Lynda and her family were expected to be taking the other spare room but their hydro came on long enough for them to stay the night at home. Over at the grandparents, they still did not have hydro but at least they had warmth with their wood stove and a generator powerful enough to use a hot plate to cook a little. Grace enjoyed the adventure and kept telling me it was like camping!!!!lol</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">By Saturday night, it was occurring to Grace that the Easter Bunny was on his way and that we were not going to be home! This was a major concern and rightfully so. How would we let the Bunny know where we were? Grace got out her paper and pencil crayons and began writing a letter to the Easter Bunny, the gist of which was:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">We are not at home because we have no power. We are at Grandma and Grandpa's house in ________. Please come there. Love Grace</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Now, normally this might be enough to appease both the Easter Bunny and a young child, but not my Grace! It also occurred to her that the Easter Bunny might go to our house first (before coming to Grandma and Grandpa's). She was quite concerned that he would wander around our house calling her name, and not know where she was. So..... we had to call our elderly neighbours and ask them to write a short note to the Easter Bunny and post it on the front door!lol Lovely lady never missed a beat on the phone when Grace called her and she agreed to do us the little favour of posting a note.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Easter Bunny left some nice treats for Grace, including a lot of eggs all over the house!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Of course, no Easter party would be complete without a few decorations! No point putting them up at our house, we wouldn't be there to appreciate them, so we packed them up and brought them over</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Part two coming soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Grace and I took advantage of the free ski day at a local park. First time ever on skis for Grace and it's been many many years since I've donned cross country skis too. We both had a blast, we both fell a lot and we both never even made it onto the trails! The flat area just past the chalet was more than enough! Not for lack of wanting to try out the hills though, Grace was all over that idea! She tried and came down on her butt all the way smiling!</span></div>
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Here's how she felt after our tobogganing. As it turned out she was coming down with something and ended up quite sick Monday and Tuesday. Was feeling a little mommy guilt for having her outside like this but she had a blast!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Lots of</span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">fun and festivities again this year to celebrate the Lunar New Year. We're a little Chinese fooded out (even though that's not really a word, you know what I mean!). We're so lucky to have friends who include us in their celebrations as well as the ones Grace and I plan for ourselves and family. This year started with a trip to the Mandarin Restaurant with Grandma and Grandpa. Grace loves the Mandarin. Well to be honest, she mostly just loves the soup and the ice cream and the cotton candy, but it keeps her entertained to eat these while we enjoy the rest!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We also got the opportunity to visit with a lovely group of people, most who have adopted from Vietnam with a few of us China families thrown in for fun. I don't see them very often but Grace and I always have a great time and they always make us feel so welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Finally we hosted our own Chinese dinner for family. Grace loves to help with the preparations, taping up all sorts of Chinese themed decorations all over the walls. She puts the appetizers out and usually has a few samplings before the company arrives! lol </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Notice the outfit. I would love to say please don't notice the outfit, but I know it's hard not to notice the outfit. What you can't see is her beautiful Chinese dress hanging at the top of the stairs. She was supposed to put it on after her nap, before family arrived. Somehow that didn't happen and so here she is, at the party in her play clothes, which she chooses herself, as much as it kills me to let her do so! So, please don't notice the outfit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Showing off our yummy dinner!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Thanks to Danny and Julia for hosting another great Lunar New Year party!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Grace and I spent much of the Family Day weekend preparing for Valentines and Chinese New Year, waiting for the Bell guy to show up to fix our home phone, and just hanging out. More Family Day photos to come but here are the Valentine highlights. I know I'm a little biased but I swear, every time I think Grace is at the cutest stage ever, she just gets cuter! The heart scarf in the hair was her idea!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Christmas Eve, Grace was beside herself with excitement. We went to church at the Children's Mass where we watched my students participate in a Christmas pageant. The priest there is so inclusive of the children in the congregation and invites them to participate in the celebrations as much as possible. So when Grace was allowed to carry up a sheep to the altar to display at the crèche, she was thrilled! We finished Mass and headed over to my brother's house for dinner and a short visit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Once home, it took some coaching to get my munchkin up the stairs and into her bed. She had many questions about how the whole "Night Before Christmas" would unfold. I tried to answer them as best I could but she was concerned. She wanted to be sure that Santa would not be coming upstairs to our bedrooms and that the reindeer would stay outside. These were worrisome moments for her and I reassured her that the night would be fine as I laid down beside her on her bed. Once in bed however, her excitement returned and the minute her head hit the pillow, she bolted upright. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I almost fell off the bed laughing!!! "Well Grace, it's only 8:00 and Santa only comes when everyone is asleep." She asked again several more times, telling me she "thinks she hears something" Too funny! These were precious moments that I'm glad to have recorded here so the memory stays vivid!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Christmas morning was early but not too early thankfully! Grace and I spent a bit of time admiring the presents, checking out our stockings and her trying on her new high heels! Here are the photo highlights</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just before Christmas I arranged for Grace to go to the Dollar store with a friend's daughter. I gave her some money in her purse and off she went to do her Christmas shopping for Mommy!! Secretly I watched through the window a bit, seeing her at the check-out, handing up her gift, getting out her money. It was all so grown-up and I was so excited to see what she might choose for me. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Here she is holding her present that she wrapped herself, so proud of herself!!!! I loved my Christmas themed water cup!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Don't mind the chocolate face... she had been into her stocking treats obviously!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Boxing Day hike through Grandpa and Grandma's forest. It's becoming an annual tradition, everyone that's hanging around heading out for a winter walk. Or at least everyone that can be convinced to leave a couch! The past couple of years it's been so mild and snowless it's been more like an Autumn walk. I don't mind snow, really I don't, enjoy it on a sunny February day for sure, but secretly I have no problem with a green Christmas. I don't know why, I just like it, cool weather but dry. So I was happy, no snow, just frozen ground and bare trees!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Christmas is such a busy time of year, it takes two posts before we even get to the actual holiday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Grace and I don't do Elf on a Shelf but we do get a visit each year from Elfie. Elfie helps Santa at the North Pole but comes to visit us for a few weeks before Christmas. He gets up to all sorts of silly adventures, watches Grace and finds all the great things Grace does. Then each night while we sleep, Elfie leaves us a note telling us what he noticed. Unlike Elf on the Shelf, he doesn't report to Santa and we can cuddle him all we want! Here's some of the silly things Elfie got up to over the weeks before Christmas.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Funny idea from my friend Catherine.....Grace woke up one morning to find all her socks and underwear on the tree! Elfie up to his antics!</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So we kept up our tradition of making a birthday cake for Jesus, however Mommy forgot to buy enough eggs. So off we went next door on Christmas morning. Grace loves visiting our elderly neighbours, Dan and Erna. She was adorable, wearing her chef hat and apron, knocking on their door asking for an egg! Of course we had to go inside for a few minutes and visit, wishing them a Merry Christmas.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Our first attempt at a Santa visit this year. Here we are at the fundraising fair at the hospital. I was excited thinking we might have success. Santa was in a room all by himself, no loud noises, no lights, no other people. No line up and only $2 to take your picture with the big guy. Mrs. Clause met us at the doorway and that was it. She was just so unhappy to be anywhere near him! Thankfully it got better as the weeks went on!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grace and I went to a Christmas festival in a small town. It was a very mild evening which made it so enjoyable. Grace's favourite part of course was the music. She danced the night away on the street!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So, I feel like I've waited my whole life for this moment. My daughter's first Christmas concert at school, a rite of passage for any mom. It was so worth the wait! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">For weeks Grace has told me about the upcoming concert, where I was to sit, who should come, how it would all go down behind the curtain before the show started. One thing she was a little confused about however was when her opportunity would come to talk with the microphone. She repeatedly informed me that she would be talking with the microphone, demonstrating what she would say to the audience. Naturally as you can imagine I was a little nervous as the curtain opened but thankfully Grace was no where near a microphone!!!lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">You may notice a few things throughout the video - she knew exactly where my mom and I were sitting and looks right at us, especially when she felt she needed to point out our friends sitting in another part of the gym. So funny to see her trying to talk to me while on stage, pointing. Eventually she joined in the singing of the Hippopotamus song!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We ended the evening with a trip to "Old McDonald's" for a coffee and treat. Grace was exhausted falling into bed late, but still had a hard time getting to sleep as she was so excited about her stage debut! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Thanksgiving weekend. So much to be thankful for, beautiful weather, good food, my parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and of course all the blessings that have passed through my life in the past year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">On the Saturday, my parents celebrated 50 years of marriage with a get together and dinner for the original wedding party and our family. Almost everyone made it and it was funny to think of the ring bearer and flower girl, now in their fifties!!! Reflecting on 50 years of marriage is a little mind boggling in this modern world. Walking down the aisle is the easy part. It's the walk through life, with its ups and downs that makes 50 years of marriage such an awesome adventure. Thinking of the joys and struggles they have surely faced together, those we may know about and those that are private to only them, and they have stayed strong through it all. It is a testament of their love and their commitment to each other and our family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Like usual, Grace was up to her typical antics, climbing and refusing to actually pose for any of what in my head were going to be great shots. She certainly makes me work for my photos!!!lol Here's a snapshot of the weekend below minus the family photo because of course we were all in it! Hopefully I will figure out how to scan it wirelessly and post it sometime soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We were so lucky to be invited to a couple of Autumn Moon celebrations this year with friends. Grace is getting better and better at socializing and while she still needs to know where I am at each moment, she is doing really well. She plays in the basement with the other kids, comes up to check on me every 10 minutes or so but then goes right back to playing in the basement, a big big step for her. Not sure how things will play out over the years as Grace gets older but for now I like to keep some of her birth culture in our lives. Grace and I don't have a huge connection at this point with other Asian or adoptive families. There are only a handful who live in our town and all have children much older than Grace so I'm so thankful to be included in Julia's get togethers (plus they are fun for mommy too! The highlight of the festivities this year? In the past Grace was terrified of the dragon costume. The first year, she screamed hysterically, the second we couldn't be in the room or anywhere near the dragon, this year, success! She actually wanted to be the dragon in the walk around the block!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">School nights are exactly that, school nights. The whole night feels like it is spent getting ready for school the next day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">School mornings are a lot easier than I thought they might. be. I keep waiting for the ball to drop, for us to be scrambling but we're not. Probably because of the school nights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The bus will never arrive at the exact time it is supposed to nor at the same time it arrived yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is very tiring to be a JK student. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is very tiring being the parent of a JK student.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Those cute little songs we sing all day long in kindergarten classes are just as cute at home all night long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I almost hate homework (almost) at least for a few fleeting moments here and there. Just practising her name, reading poems, and library books and looking for signs of Fall or S words, it all takes too much of the little bit of time we have together between getting home and bedtime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Your counter will always have plastic containers on it. Plastic containers in the sink waiting to be washed, washed, waiting to be dried, dried, waiting to be put away, on the counter waiting to be filled with snacks, you get the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">One should never try trimming your daughter's bangs for the first time ever, the night before picture day. What was I thinking!? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is very important to put your shoes in the same place every night when you come home so they are in that place you know when it's time to go. Same goes for backpacks, lunch bags, keys and sunglasses. Back to the above statement about school nights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Overall, September was a success. Let's hope the road continues uphill!</span><br />
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