My Life – Page 13 – a hippie with a minivan

I need to get out more…

With the price of Gas in the last year being so high I have not been going out as much…

Montreal is the place to be for homeschooling in Quebec. But Montreal is about 90 km away… about an hour driving or more depending on the location… Which means that as the price of gas went up I went out less and I am feeling more and more like we are missing out on stuff… There are groups that get together on a regular basis, that do things and go places together… that just hang out and talk at least once a week etc..there are also English home schoolers/kids there… which is something I think that the kids need…

Of course, the price of gas is not the only reason I don’t get out much… I am a homebody… I like to be at home… and sometimes going out with the three kids was a lot of work and it was not something that I looked forward to all of the time… but as the kids get older that is changing. Xavier is getting to be less intense and the other two follow more…. It is actually getting fun to go out again…

So I have decided that we are going to change this… I need to change it… so I am going to be joining the Montreal Homelearners group every week…. They meet on Thursdays at 11am-3pm which means that we don’t have to leave the house too early to get there and we don’t have to come back in the dark and we can pick up Simon who works about 10 min away from there and see him a bit earlier also…

just had to share…

My mom and Grandma came over today…

My Grandma doesn’t come often so it was really nice to see her…

I took some pictures of her because everytime I see her I just think she looks amazing…

She will 85 next month….

with my mom…

Getting Published…

well… it is official…

Simon and I both gave in some texts about our experiences with breastfeeding…

me from the experience of nursing one.. then two.. and then three…

and Simon wrote about his perspective also…

We found out a while ago that they had been accepted but now everything is official and we have been invited to the book launch on Oct 5th…

it will be in book stores after that!

Pretty cool… it’s even on Amazon!

Près du Coeur

Cathedral Grove…

Today the two families went to Cathedral Grove to see the majestic Douglas Firs… What an amazing place…

The walk was not too long but just long enough and the views were amazing…

Here you can see just how big some of the trees are….

playing in one of the trees…

It was a bit of a tourist trap even on a rainy Tuesday morning but I am so happy that we went…

yay! I have internet again!

I left my moms on tuesday the 29th of July and headed to Nelson BC where I grew up… We left at 6:30am and started driving and only made a few stops on the way… We got to Nelson, eager to get out of the car and stretch at about 5:30pm…

In Nelson we stayed with my godmother and godfather… it was a bit weird staying there… both of them are very abrasive with kids… at least with younger kids. My godmother works with at risk teens and knows all about attatchment and has read many of the same books, she uses attachment to get through to kids and get them on a better track and I know that she has done some amazing work… but she can’t seem to get that attachment needs to be worked on with a small child also… I did get her to see that time-outs are not the answer for certain (all) children as they hinder attachment which is the reason that they work…

I wish I would have talked to Annie more while I was there because talking with her gave me a few ideas of what I should have responded… I was in awe though that she could understand everything so well for older kids but not realize that you have to work on the attachment when they are young so that they do not end up like the teens that she works with.

Anyway… we camped out in their backyard and everyday did something different… went to the beach, went shopping, to parks and saw friends.. over the weekend of the 2nd there were a series of parties that were a reunion of sort of friends that met in Nelson in the late 70’s… 3 parties to be exact that were all pretty cool…

Then the rest of the week was meeting with other friends and beaches and more parks and fishing and canoeing and amazing sceneries…

On Friday we left Nelson at about 6:30am and headed back to Vancouver… well… we decided that it would be easier to not stop in Vancouver but head directly on the island to Nanaimo to Annie’s… after traffic, a wrong turn and waiting one sail we got the 7:30 ferry to Nanaimo…

Now I am at Annie’s and loving it!!! and I have internet access again!

A bit of a relax time before Simon heads home without us on Thursday (which I am completely nervous about!)…
I should be able to update a bit more often now and I need to get more pics up again!