Sweet Saturdays - Lindt Chocolates

Good morning and welcome to another Sweet Saturday! We're still eating our Easter chocolates, these Lindt milk chocolate eggs are K's favourite and they are creamy and delicious.

Paint Party Friday - Rockies

Welcome to Paint Party Friday! I drew one of my screensavers for you this week. I think it's a (simplified) scene from the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

Can't wait to see what everyone else has done. Tears in my eyes as I catch up with the Royal Wedding fairytale. Sniff...so beautiful.

Awesome and the rest of my day

The author of 1000 awesome things was on a radio show yesterday morning talking about his blog and bestselling book. He said he was at an awful point in his life, his wife had just told him she didn't love him anymore, his best friend had passed away from depression. He started the blog listing awesome things in his life and it helped make him happier. His book is now a number one best seller in North America. He now has a girlfriend and is quite happy these days.

Later at the gym I found myself talking about voting in the upcoming May 2nd General election. K has a school project on the topic, so normally very unpolitical, I felt I had at least a comment to make. Then we talked about the upcoming Royal Wedding, what else?

Then I was in a store listening to this young boy in a stroller: '10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1'...'1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10' I had to ask his mother how old he was because he sounded pretty smart and didn't seem to be much more than a baby. She said he was 2 1/2 years old, but learns a lot from his older brothers.

Then K terrorized me with his over-confident driving skills and loud blaring music when I picked him up after school.

Hope you had a 'good' day too!

Baked Nachos

L came home for the long Easter weekend. We brought most of her stuff home and spent time visiting with extended family on both sides. She has one more exam left and then she will be home for the summer. She made us some delicious baked nachos on the weekend:



It's really easy to do these. You just sprinkle chopped tomatoes, sliced green onions and shredded cheese on top of some tortilla chips and bake at 400F for 5 minutes. You can serve it with salsa sauce on the side.


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Creative Tuesdays - Short and Tall

Here's my entry for Creative Tuesdays "Short and Tall" theme. I have been looking at office chairs for L's off-campus housing in the fall. So I immediately thought of doing different sized ergonomic office chairs. I found a nice one on wheels and I think we'll give her our old, shorter one and keep the taller one at home. Some of these chairs are quite beautiful and come in a variety of fabrics.

Please stop by the other creative participants to see what they came up with for this theme.

Was he ever angry!

Our brickwork outside was finally able to be completed last week, the bricklayer managed to find a clear day. He was complaining that he had lots of work, but the weather is not co-operating and of course, he has to 'feed the family'. He did a wonderful job, even took the trouble to match the grout to the brick. We've had repairs done before that didn't have that attention to detail.

The morning the brick layer came by, it was 3C and sunny. M popped outside wearing his coat and shorts, to have a quick word with him. They went around to the back of the house, and meanwhile, K and I drove off to school in a hurry. That's our regular morning routine. My cell phone starts ringing...we've locked M out of the house! He was waiting by the front door by the time I got back some minutes later with the key. Was he ever angry!

Anyway, he went off to work and I went about my day. By the time he returned home, he was in a much improved state of mind. I apologized and inquired as to how he was feeling and took the trouble to explain that it was an honest oversight. (I made sure to text K to treat the matter seriously on his return home, because his dad was not amused at the time!) M rarely loses his temper, but there are certain things that tick him off, freezing and locked out of your own house being one of them! He must have had to borrow the bricklayer's cell phone to call us.

Sunday Sketches - Beluga

Happy Easter! Play this cute little card called "The Chicken".

Good morning and welcome to this week's Sunday Sketches. I drew this Beluga Whale from a photo in Canadian Wildlife magazine. It's an endangered species.

Please visit the other participants to see what they did today.