Happy Birthday, My Love

By MAD21

Hi friends. Just wanted you all to know that my hubby turns 45 today! Wish him a happy day will ya? And pray his next year is filled with healthy days, joy, blessings and lots of opportunities to share the many ways that God has blessed him.

I love you hon. I'm glad to have celebrated the last ten of your birthdays together. Praying we get to celebrate many, many more.

Blizzard 2010 Day Three

By MAD21

After two and a half days of shoveling our property and helping our neighbor's, we finally got to get in some play time today.

Unfortunately, the snow is still too powdery to build much of anything. My oldest had decided she wanted to try and build igloos this time, but when we found out the the snow was so dry, we knew that wasn't going to happen. So we settled for building a snow cave, two actually. We decided we should build 'condos' for each of the girls.

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The Olympic Torch Is Coming To My Town February 2nd!!

By Kevin (Shooting the Breeze)

This Tuesday, the Olympic torch will make an appearance in Port Hardy, BC as it makes its way to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics on February 12^th.  The torch began its 106 day journey on October 30^th, 2009 from Victoria, BC.  I happened to be there that day!  Here is a short video of some of the pictures that I took:

Here are some fun facts about the torch relay:

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A Little Hard Work Is Good For Ya

By Sarah (Living Between the Lines)

If there was one thing that my Granddaddy really believed in, it was hard work.  If you don’t believe me, just ask my Dad.  My Dad spent his entire honeymoon (in mid-August 1972) helping his new father-in-law dig the footings for the little one-bedroom/one-bathroom house that my Grandparents lived in down at the coast.

When we seven grandkids came along, Granddaddy tried his hardest to pass that work ethic down to us.  Each trip to Grandmama and Granddaddy’s included some kind of project—cutting grass, raking leaves, planting flowers, painting my great-grandmother’s house, installing outdoor lights between the garage and the house….

We kids learned quickly to never make the mistake of saying that we were bored.  Granddaddy had a large pile of bricks that we used to climb and play on.  One day when one of us remarked that we were bored, Granddaddy made us move the entire pile of bricks to the opposite side of the yard, two bricks at a time.  When we’d gotten the entire pile moved, he looked at it and said, “No, I think I liked it better where it was.  Move it back.”  So huffing and puffing, we carried them all back, two at a time.

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Works For Me Wednesday: Who Goes First?

By MAD21

Picture, if you will, two sisters going into rest time. They always get a story before having to turn the lights out and be quiet. All of the things that need to be done before retreating to the bedroom get done. All is calm until... "It's MY turn to pick it out!" "NO! It's MYYY turn!" "NO! My turn!" ..... "MOoooOOOOMM!!"

It only takes so many days of this happening before you have no patience left and realize you need to find a better way to help your kids get along, and learn to take turns and share. (And be happy about it-HAHA!) Something needs to happen both for them, and for you.

Our girls are finally both old enough that they can do a lot of the same things, have a lot of opinions, and almost always want to go first or be the one who gets to choose something. I, like any parent, am always on the look out for fun ways to get things done. And this situation is no different.

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