Just An Other Normal Day

This last week has been a bit blah, I have been caufing since the first week of November and getting pretty tired of it. I am missing having snow big time, I am still not over the fact that Christmas is in Ontario this year. No beautiful Québec, watch out next year we'll go for 3 weeks :) I went to Terra Greenhouse ( a beautiful nursery here in Milton ) last week to pick up a small wall hanging with my gift from Maman et Papa ( it was my B-day) Bartley put it up today and it looks beautiful. I don't know why I love cast iron so much? I spent the day with Bartley and that was a really nice change to my monday morning. I usually don't babysit on mondays, but I did today and we had been really busy again over the week-end so it was nice just to be together.

10 random things about my day... 1) Watch world vision and cried ( again) 2) Got kicked out of the house by my husband for an hour walk ( the kids were sleeping and the sight of me crying while I was folding dish towels was probably a bit depressing. 3) Came back from my walk to cleanned floors and kitchen ( hubby is nice) 4) Manage not to cook, all the leftovers are gone :) yea!!! 5) Found out my washer is leaking again :( 6) Started to clean out the garage. 7) Had a really hot shower after all kiddies left. 8) I am drinking my second diet coke. 9) Had a slow day , but good with my man who did tons of little things around the house. 10) well I don't have one yet but it's just 6:20 the day is still young :)

My Baby

Just a cute picture of Maggy in the morning... She's like a cat that curls up on any confortable surface she finds. She's turning 11 in one month, I still can't believe how fast life has gone buy. Soon I'll be singing some sad country song as my baby leaves for University...

Happy Moments...

Well it has been a quiet week in the Sawatsky home. Lots of gloomy weather again. I was reading my sister's post this morning and we do have to remember daily what God has blessed us with, so let me share the happy Sarah moments for the day: Waking up with the men I love, being able to turn on my fire place, putting on my new Sarah McLaughlin Christmas CD ( who my sister had suggested was amazing), we do everything together she's my twin born seven years later who now lives in Ottawa but I like to think we share all of life's great moments together :( now that make me sad, not fare...Ok let's go on with my list of HAPPY moments, having 2 wonderful cups of hot tea ( I pretend I drink hot beverages), we should do a study some days on how many time coffee and tea can be reheated before something weird happens ( just an other random thought I thought I should share). Being able to be with my son as he discovers life ( he was coloring for an hour this morning), My four beautiful kids who are all very healthy, knowing tomorrow if Friday :) no more babysitting. Did I mention my wonderful and patient husband ( just kidding :) He is very YUMMO though!! I'm just getting back at him for letting the whole world know that I blog By the way I don't really blog... I keep my family updated via internet ( that works for me) So that sounds good for now , God is good and we are SO blessed even when we feel gloomy.

Slow work...

Last night I was telling my great friend of a blogger Angie, that I found it really challenging to get work done quickly with Joe basically coming behind me and undoing everything I did. Well here was the perfect exemple. If you see a role of toilet paper in our house that hasn't been put on the hook, it as probably been stuffed with dirty old pieces of toilet paper that the kids have used to blow their nose on. One of the kids wonderful habbits ( I don't buy kleenex boxes a lot) is to blow their nose and then proceed to stuff the used piece into the middle of the role. So all that to say Maggy and I were cleaning the upstair bathroom and refilled the cupport with more roles. As I moved on to cleaning something else I noticed Joe had taken ALL the roles back out and was ripping a piece off each one, blowing his nose ( or he thought he was) and then stuffing each role. He must have thought they looked way to weird all nice and clean!!!! I'm starting to think I should get my cleaning done during the night while everyone is a sleep, maybe then I could pick up the pace a bit, but I might have a problem finding time to sleep during the day.

Sisters...

The girls spent the whole day playing together yesterday, sometimes they both get so busy with all their own friends that they don't spend much quality time togther. Well yesterday, I made them hang out. Sure maybe Maggy wasn't trilled when I said "please hang out with Emma a bit". As always though by the end of the day they were making pancakes, painting ... having lots of fun, Emma became really frustrated when they were painting because of Maggy's MORE developed skills saying: " I don't want you painting with me because you're better" . Later on I walked by and Maggy had drawn a line down a big sheet of paper and was teaching Emma one step at a time how to paint a nicer, flower, butterfly... I just pray they will always remember to invest in their relationship as they get older and maybe move ( If I let them of course). So that's my DEEP thought for the day, now back to cleaning right...

Les Amours !!!!

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It's All Over!

Well the dark suppers have started and gloomy days with empty trees, It's too sad outside today :( We've had two dark days, warm but dark and I have to say, I'm really looking forward to some snow, but I don't want to get my hopes up to much, I just LOVE Christmas time, probably because I love my family so much and that's when we hang out until we can't stand each other anymore. ma belle Marie, mon amour de soeur. Well I should go and prepare dinner for the family I guess they have to eat. Emma it hidding all around the house while Joe is chasing her, It's nice for him to be playing with someone else. He has been glued to me all week. Have a great evening all of you bloggers out there.

Nice Compliment

Well today I had the cabinet guy come for my kitchen ( might be getting some work done) we got talking about kids, and I told him that I had 4. Well his response was shocking, WOW you look so young ( never heard that before) but then he goes and you don't look PRIMITIVE at all ???? Whatever that means. I have to say a LITTLE scary. He was saying it's a good thing you know what I mean right? NOOOOOOOOP I have no clue what he meant but I guess it's suppose to be good, so great I look young and not too primitive. It's all good :)

Definitions of primitive on the Web:

crude: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
archaic: little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"
a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn He's obviously not met the primitive kids :)

An 8 Year Old's Point Of View.

Well I don't think I've ever been good at doing things in moderation, it's more in excess when it comes to me, I can't believe this whole blogging thing is actually getting to me, I need help, or I will become one of them :( I have to say sharing my babies with you is fun, I love this whole digital picture thing.

So here is my first post that contains more then 4 sentence, hope you enjoy. Yesterday as I was getting ready for church I peaked in the boys room to see if it was o.k to run for my 1 minute shower? So I opened the door a crack to see the 2 boys sitting on Jake's bed and facing each other and jake was holding a ripped piece of paper. He was saying to his brother, "joe now you know you will not do this again right!" and Josef's response was...well nothing so jakob thought he should repeat himself, so he takes his brothers face in his hands and says: "Josef you will not rip my paper again right!" But then he goes ..."Now come over here and hug me, give Jakob a kiss now...". You know I love you right!". Well a mommy has her moment of pride and that was a very cute moment to see on a very stressful Sunday morning. I often wonder if I have been to hard on them, or if they GET IT, but seeing that, made me realize that Jakob totally understood the" OFFICIAl" steps to take when he had to dicipline is 22 month old baby brother. :) :)

If Life Was Always That Simple!

My beautiful Joe discovering bugs is enough to put a smile on my face when the day has been rough, and a cup of Tim's coffee...

Halloween Night

Est-ce que les citrouilles sont pour les papas? Ou pour les enfants?...



Les petits monstres... Il est mangeable juste un peu mon beau joe hein.

Why Should I Blog?

Marie if you don't mind I thought I should give my post a brand new start since the pictures you had put of me were soooooooooo bad. I feel people should know the real me, who I am deep inside, actuslly who is that, besides someone who can't spell properly in either French or English which actually gives me the right to post in whatever language I want. Maybe I should give this blog a serious start but then again what would that be? Hello, I am Sarah mother of 4 and yes I can change diapers and potty train children. We'll see I have to do some deep reflexion.

Oh by the way here is my daddy no resemblance at all. Maman tes photos seront plus belles :) Je vous aimes gros becs