A friend of ours is a fantastic hobby artist who paints alot. Our daughter asked her to do a mural, with animals and nature. She also wants faeries hiding in her room! Thankfully, our friend agreed to paint this mural and let my daughter watch and learn how it is done. She started her work yesterday, and it is wonderful.

Here are a few quick snaps of the work in progress:

She is coming back soon to complete the tree in the corner. then the faeries will appear, as if by magic.

Have a fantabulous day,

Life has gotten very crazy.

Here is a post of random comments and thoughts, since I feel so disjointed with all the craziness!

How in the world did we accumulate so much stuff?

Moving went smoothly enough, if you count the fact that our buyer’s lawyer didn’t feel like closing the deal on that day! We had to wait until 4PM before even moving into our new home due to his shananigans. My lawyer was incredible and even sent out a “runner” at the other lawyer’s office to speed up the process.

The kids have changed schools and are making new friends. They now all take the bus. No more walking for some and busing for others. Plus, they are all in the same school. None of the middle school thing here.

One of the reasons we have been busy (besides the whole moving/unpacking/setting up/redirecting bills and services/etc…) is the fact that we had to build a 96 foot fence to close off the property, tear down and relocate the rotten shed, put siding on our garage and shed, build a little enclosed porch for the front of the house. Oh, and the painting of rooms too!  We had to buy furniture for the extra bedrooms, set up the kids are comfortably as possible before school time started and gotten to know our neighbours a bit.

We also have a pool now, and that is quite time-consuming! Hubby has cleaned it every time we wanted to go swimming, then adjust all the levels of chlorine,ph and alkalinity.

The house square footage is almost double in size to our old one, so that means more cleaning, more fixing and just generally more of a busy schedule for us.  Thank goodness the kids are helping out with doing laundry, dishes some age-appropriate cleaning.

Our dishwasher broke last week, and the repair guy can only come next friday. The hand dishes alone are taking up so much time! The first day was 3 1/2 hours of washing to catch up to the full dishwahser and 1 1/2 days of dishes. Last night my two older girls did the catching up of dishes. Today should be faster, as they are all in school except for the youngest child - it means less dishes.

I have started teaching two nights a week again. One class is something I haven’t taught in more than 5 years, so it has been alot of work to prepare, especially considering the book is now in a new edition with loads of changes. It is also a higher level FSL, so I need to up my game a bit - remember all the exceptions, rules and verb tenses that I rarely use in everyday conversation and haven’t studied in depth since high school ( a wee while ago ;)  ).

That is about all for updating the crazy bits of my past few months.

Hopefully next time won’t take so long!

Have a fantabulous day,

This is the view on my front lawn! 

The craziness is over, the relaxing begins {yeah, right, lol}.

This weekend, hubby and I are gone to photograph a wedding, but expect a longer, more regular postings very very soon!

Have a fantabulous day,

{My Favourite Photograph from the Bride last Sunday}

{Mister Crinkle-Nose was not impressed with his food}

{Miss Cutie-Pie stays bundled up before the snow falls}

Due to my sparse blogging posts, I am doing a multi-Photo Friday. This is also to combine the Octamom request of showing off our children’s eyes. Who said Mothers weren’t efficient?

Brown eyes:

{brown eyes with greenish hue}

{brown eyes with tiger stripes}

Green eyes:

{Bright green eyes with a shot of brown in the middle. I realize that it almost looks blue with the natural light, but it is very vivid green in real life}

Blue eyes:

{light blue eyes}

{light blue-grey eyes with slight green shots in the middle}

{bright and very light blue eyes with a darker line}

Multi-Coloured:

{blue eyes, with green shots and a large dark brown spot at the left edge. On his other eye, he has a pie shaped brown spot on the upper right edge. Sorry for the out-of-focus shot, the baby was moving while I tried to do this!}

There you go, all of our children have a variety of eye colours. It does seem sometimes that the colours are off a bit, but I used window light for all of them. When I look into their eyes, the colours are very obvious.

Oh, it all started with two colour combinations: Hubby has blue-greyish eyes and I have green-brown eyes.

Have a fantabulous day,