Goodies to win

There are always nice goodies being given away if you comment on someone's blog... and every now and then I really really would like to get my hands on one of them... hence me linking to them here. So this one is from Queen & Co.... check them out and your could also walk off with your own stash.

Kids say the cutest things

Yes they certainly do... and when it's your OWN child it's even better. Last week Aaron was being his usual affectionate self ....you know the story: "I love you Mommy" and all that, and out popped this little gem:

You are beautiful

all the way to the top of the cake.

Well it had me in fits of laughter. I just had to write it down quickly to remember... now must find an appropriate pic and scrap it I think.

We're off to a good start

Aaron's Grade 2 teacher, Mrs Nelson, has a jolly good incentive/encouraging program going in her class... she is giving roving trophies out for different categories:
1. Good behaviour
2. Neat work
3. Kindness to others

Well, now I reckon you've guess it... yip Aaron got awarded this week. He was sooooooooooooooo chuffed to show me his trophy... just had to take photos too to mark this wonderful happening.

The trophy is stuck onto his desk (with prestik!) and will stay there till Friday. Well done my boy and keep it up.

Good behaviour
Neat Work

Kindness to others

I'm sure the kids will go all out now to get a trophy on their desk each week... just adds an extra excitement to the day.

Another award

Yip I no sooner posted my last three from Desire and she sent me another one... hehehe. So for a change I'm going to give this one to some of the blogs that I read/frequent. Go visit them and spread some love around.

1. Meredith at M Orginals... she has the most gorgeous template going for the 365 project

2. Becky at Page Maps... these sketches are ones that I love and will do over and over

3. Stickers 'n Fun... another sketch site that I simply can't do without

4. Liz at Sweet Digital Designs... she has freebies on her site as well as kits that she designs.... love the colours. Anyway Liz is about to pop with her fourth baby and I think needs some definate encouragement... especially after all the drama of the past weekend.

5. The Queen and the Princess... another site with freebies... lovely designs that I think are cute.

awards for excellence...

okay maybe just for friendship and jolly good blogging... but I got some awards again... and all from Desire

Thanks sooooooo much my blog-friend.... greatly appreciate them all.

Now to decide who to pass them on to....

Well I definately think I will have to be creative here and decide that I'm going to give ALL 3 to each of these bloggers, simply because I do not know 15 bloggers that I can personally give them too... oh then again I do read over 50 blogs...hehehe, but now I'm only going to pick 5. So they will go to:

Helen

Stephanie

Sophia

Creative Souls.... Lara & Stephanie

Liezel

Oh what the heck... I'll give an extra special one to Ro too as I feel very honoured that she reads my blog and comments... Thanks Ro.... keep up the amazing job that you do at ScrapGirls.

House Swap

Now don't go get all excited on me now... I'm just putting out feelers at the moment into blogland and hoping that someone who browses my blog now and then might know someone who knows someone who might just want to come from Ontario, Canada to our sunny part of the world next year for the soccer world cup (July 2010) and be willing to house swop.... yip we are looking to gap it out of here when the madness happens and go visit Keith's family in Canada.... so if you can help at all, please comment (with your email address) and I will get back to you.

(Phew that was one heck of a long sentence.... hehehehee)

Just found out....

that SIMPLE SCRAPBOOKS is closing it's doors after the May/June issue.... sad news that another scrap magazine has to do this.... you can read about it on Stacy's blog as well as at Simple Scrapbooks.

I guess I should be THAT surprised having had subscriptions belly up on me before.... first Paperkuts (got transferred to Memory Makers, thank goodness), then Creative Reflections which thankfully got transferred to Time and About ... and I've just heard that they might also go the same route... why oh why did I take a subscription out???

Well guess I'll have to find something else to read then.

Last lot of scrap pages...

I had written a whole blog post of my weekend and the scrapping I had done and was just waiting to get my layouts ready, but seeing as it is now Thursday I don't think I'll post all that stuff... just the many layouts I did... brace yourself:

I had a good weekend scrapping (as you can see) and managed to do 13 pages!!! hehehe. I haven't scrapped since then but reckon I'm still pretty much on target of a page a day... should start keeping a running total. But I have now managed to whittle my 2005 pile down to just 26 outstanding layouts... hope to get some more scrapping done this weekend, inbetween doing washing and play dates.

School pics

Grade 2 has started. Aaron was excited to go yesterday morning but also a bit scared and nervous... but the report back I got was that it was a good day and he likes his new teacher.... yippee. So here's pics from yesterday:

I wish my little guy the most fulfilled year of learning and growing in knowledge... enjoy the adventure!

Oh and for those who were wondering.... we made it with plenty of time to spare... left home at 6:50, got stuck in a small amount of traffic but went our normal back route and missed most of the traffic. Arrived at school around 7:20 with not a tear in site. Got to say Hi to other moms and kids and great old teachers too.

Another birthday wish goes to....

my cousin Liezel....
All the best for your day today... hope you have a great one.