another milestone

As a mother, I always wanted my daughters to have a something "special" in their lives. DD#1 didn't get attached to anything, blankie, pacifier, teddy....... But DD#2 has a doudou. A small blanket crocheted by my aunt as a gift for her birth. It all started has only in bed.....but now she has started to want it outside of bed, which I denied. But now she has started waking up during the night, asking me to cover her with her doudou. No, she is not cold! She always has on thick pj's, and other blankets cover her. So I try and put a stop to that, with hours of screaming and throwing fits threw out the night, I've had enough!
The doudou is officially gone as of this morning. She will be going down for a nap very shortly. Her first nap without her doudou. Ho! How that will go!

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update: The first night with out her doudou went without a hitch! I explained that she was a big girl, didn't need her doudou anymore, that it was now gone with her pacifiers. She understood! Said it was ok! What a intelligent little girl!

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Proud Mommy

DD#1 's first day of school didn't go as smoothly as I thought. She told me yesterday that when she got off the bus at school, no one knew who she was, what class she belonged in, or where she was supposed to go. Her name didn't appear on any of the class lists.
I had to swallow hard not to cry when she told me that. Bad enough she's going to a new school, when she gets there, she feels like she doesn't belong. How scary is THAT for a six year old little girl, having to fend for herself, in a completely new environment, and having to deal with irresponsible adults.
But I'm so proud of her. She took matters into her own hands, and got things done! Figured out where she had to go, found her class, and said "hello, i'm here!" She said she wasn't even afraid, she knew she would figure it out somehow. That's mommy's little girl!


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the weather is changing

It's cold out there this morning. +4c, everything is covered in white morning dew. The sun is getting up later and later, and setting earlier and earlier.
I love this temperature. Having a long driveway, it's always a nice, quiet walk to take my daughter to the bus. The cool air wakes you right up! Bring along the four dogs, sometimes a cat that just won't stay home, and it gets pretty noisy quickly!
I keep checking one of our maple trees that is the first to have it leaves turn orange. So far, still green, but sure won't be long 'till it turns.
Had to get our sweaters out this morning. Soon it will be jackets, hats and mitts. But it's still officially summer, so let's enjoy it for as long as we can.
I just started collecting veggies from my garden, no time for ground frost now!

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change, for the best?

Threw out life we always have important decisions to make, and the ones concerning our kids' future is always the hard ones to decided. I do believe I made the right choice, but only time will tell.
I have to explain. When DD#1 was just about one year old, I started babysitting an English boy. So DD learned to talk while playing with him, therefor learned to talk English first, even though we are completely french.
So we decided to play off on that, and send her to English school, thinking that the french she would get at home, plus the french learned at school, would be more than enough to hold her threw life. We were wrong! Her french is just horrible. Her two year old sister can speak french better than her.
She came to me one day, and told me "Mom, I think I was born in the wrong family!" It broke my heart that my kid is thinking this, but ho why???? "Because I don't speak like you do!" That made my decision easy, she is now entering french school.
I had to do it for the first grade, otherwise she would've been too far behind to catch up.
Kids are very resilient, she will be making new friends on the first day there, plus she already has three friends that attend that school.
And the good thing about french public schools????? We don't have to buy any school supplies. Right up to the pencil case. They only need school bag, lunch box and a pair of inside shoes, how cool is that!!!!!

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good friends...

In time of need, you realize who your good and real friends are. Weather it be for a ride, help around the house, or just a shoulder to cry on.
Having so much to do here, we tend to ask friends for help. But nothing worse than having a friend say they will do something, only to find out they're a no-show! While others offer their help without even you having to ask for it!
I started this blog because of a friend. I've never blogged before, and i started reading hers, and figured it would be a cool way to keep everyone in touch with our life, and to keep souvenirs of all our event.
I want to take the opportunity to thank my friend for introducing me to blogging. Even though i made serious mistakes in our past relationship, she found it in her heart to forgive me, and i learned the most valuable lesson of my life, "do not betray friends". She's had more than her fair share of hardship in her life, but she as always managed to pull threw, coming out stronger than ever. She's an inspiration to all that know her.
I wish this DF everything she's ever wanted in life, and so much more.

a summer evening at it's best!

Sunny, with a few clouds, 25 degrees, DH, DDs, and myslef! What a perfect summer day!
We are now 2 weeks away from our annual "corn festival"(the event proudly named By DD#1),
and we are getting ready. It's mostly all cleaning of the grounds that is left to do. Final coat of paint goes in the outhouse today.
I spent part of the day pulling out weeds from my garden. I let it go for a while, and now it's overgrown,oops! But I did collect my first vegetable, a red pepper! Ho what to cook with it???
Then I got on the lawn tractor, and got rollin'. The kids were well behaved, always staying within eye sight.
DD#1 figured out how to get herself swinging from a stand still on our swing set. The sun was setting behind the trees, DH was picking up branches, building our fire pit wood for our bonfire.
It was a perfect picture of a perfect family.
It's too bad that we're already mid august. School starts in 3 days. Will mean having to go into the house earlier, but back to the routine of life!


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tried, tested and true!

A mother's patience is the grandest thing that exists, or at least mine is.
DD#2 sure tried it last night! She's been waking up during the night lately for no apparent reason, other than wanting her doudou. So I finally had enough last night, and didn't go see her. HO WELL! That didn't go to well for her.
She started crying, and grew into a total tantrum. After putting her back in her bed too many times, I proceeded to place a gate in her doorway. Low and behold, it's the end of the world.......
Tantrum grew into hysterics, screaming, cryings, gagging, choking etc.....
But I held on, barely, to dear life, wanting to just go and put her back into her bed and tell her it was all OK, and to go to sleep, but it would never end!
Almost two hours later, she finally gave up! Went to bed.
Mommy gave a BIG sigh of relief, and fell asleep too.
Round one went to mommy, what will tonight bring????


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Introducing Tubby

Tubby was the first member of our pet family. He basically got here pretty much at the same time as the relationship started between DH and I, 11 years ago.
Tubby is a lab/husky mix. He is now 11 years old, and still going on strong. He's the best dog anyone could every have. Never in your way, requires a small amount of attention. As long as DH is around, Tubby is happy. Remove DH, Tubby is NOT happy! He's spent days upstairs in our bedroom, waiting faithfully for the return of his master.
Tubby "tolerates" me. He does what I ask of him because he's got nothing else better to do,lol. He loves winters, snow, and swimming in our pond during the summer months.
Is favorite thing? Riding in the back of DH's truck.
Tubby's been to a lot of places, and met a lot of people.


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Corn festival preperations

It's that time of year once again. Time to prepare our annual(in it's second year), corn festival. We've learned from our mistakes of last year, so we're a little more prepared this time around.
We pulled out this old outhouse from behind our shed. We figure it's the original outhouse, 1916. It's the cutest thing ever! It used to be a two seater, but we're converting it to a real, working toilet. There was a drawer that came out the back, so you could get rid of the waste, and we found an old vodka, some other liquor and beer bottle. Somebody was hiding their drinking.
DH got his tools out, and got it to stand up straight on it's own, and got everything ready to install the toilet. But doesn't DD#1 tell her little friends to do their business in the whole!!!!! It's not installed yet!!!!! lol, kids!
I finally got to painting the inside, with DH telling me it's a water based paint , so it washes off your hand with water. IT DOESN'T!
Now both hands are almost completely covered with white paint. Thank you DH!

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Coincidence or meant to be?

It just seems like life is full of coincidences, or you can believe in "meant to be!" if you prefer. I've known my husband since I was 13 years old. He was my brother's roommate, and I was his then almost 2 year old daughter's occasional babysitter. We lost contact a few years later, never even crossed paths even though we always lived less than 10km from each other.
We found each other again, 15 years later, over 1000kms away, amonst tens of thousands of people. Our tents were set up right next to each other.
Coincidence or meant to be?
We fell in love, and have been ever since.
In 2005, on a Sunday afternoon, our next door neighbor informed us that his sister wanted to buy our house, which wasn't even for sale. Half an hour later, our house is sold, and we are moving out in less than two weeks.
Coincidence or meant to be?
A friend puts us in contact with some people that own property, not for sale, but thinking about selling. We clicked, signed some papers, and took ownership of our dream property on September first, 2006.
Coincidence, or meant to be?
The same day we are moving in, I find out I am now pregnant we DD #2.
Coincidence, or meant to be?
I now believe in meant to be, or better known as "faith", do you?


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death of a family pet

We sure get attached to all these little and not so little creatures that become our pets. Ranging from a small pond snail to a horse, they are all cared for and loved equally.
Our beloved beta fish, Pretty Pink Purple passed away yesterday. She'd been with us since January, a birthday present for DD. Let's just say tears were flowing last night from poor DD. She cherished feeding times, watching her fish come up and eat right out of her fingers.
It's always hard to explain to a six year old the reason why her pet fish had to die. But she is reassured that PPP is now with Grampa in heaven, enjoying the biggest aquarium a fishy can imagine.


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the joys of country living

We moved out to the country, on our lovely piece of land, almost three years ago now. It was the best thing that could happen to us and our DD. Nothing like being able to let the kids go play outside without worries of roads, cars, strangers and all other dangers lurking out there.
I remember spending all of my childhood outdoors. We didn't have satellite tv, game consoles and such. We spent our days playing cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, riding our bikes or playing hide and seek. And that is how my DDs are spending their childhoods too. Surrounded by all kinds of animals and creatures.
A once ladybug terrified two year old daughter, is now an avid bug collector.
They say dirty kids are healthy kids, well, mine must be really healthy,lol.
Having a private daycare on the farm is a lot of fun. Some people are turned off and go elsewhere because of all my animals, but what a better way to end a day then to bring in the baby ducklings and geese, while trying to avoid getting boinked by Pitchounette the goat.


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