Well, it has almost been a week since Bec left for Vancouver. She has graduated with a BA in French. Bravo for her! She has worked hard these past few years and she has been rewarded by getting full funding for her Masters, which she starts in September.
So this 'Empty Nest Syndrome' I am feeling is only for 4 months! knowing that once she comes back I will be going through it again in 12 months!
These are my thoughts: I have had MY children for the past 34 years, yes, it is true, that is how old Heather is, 34 years old in August! Katie will be 32 at the end of May and Clint will be 31 in October with Bec, 22 in June! I can not remember my life before my children, they have always been such a large part of filling my life! I had always thought, once they are all gone, life will be mine and mine alone to do what Gord and I want to do! ha....and that this Empty Nest Syndrome is a figment of many imaginations...... Now it is my reality! but I have to keep on telling myself, it is only for 4 months, Enjoy the summer, before I know it, Bec will be back and in a blink of an eye she will be done and gone! sigh!
And this too I will survive! LOL
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Today when I got home from work, I found out that i WON!! yes you read that right, I won a TearDrop Bag Pattern...YES...I LOVE BAGS
http://patternpile.com/sewing-patterns/teardrop-bag-sewing-pdf-pattern-beach-diaper-tote-handbag-sew-epattern/
I am off next week for spring break! YES. I am going to be making this bag in the large size!
I hope the weather is nice and I have alot of time for sewing! I am so looking forward to the time off!
Dh and I just finished our last Salsa lesson tonight. Every Wednesday evening, for the past 8 weeks, we had our lesson and had a blast. Every lesson,he made me laugh so hard all while we were chacha'ing, salsa'ing around the room! I am thinking we should sign up for the next set of lessons! All so much fun!
Well it is my bed time. Trying to get to bed earlier, makes waking up in the morning a bit easier!
Til next time - I need to find some excitment to blog about! ha!
Jane
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Told you I wasn't good at this........
..... it is the weekend and i am loving it. I love my weekends. I work hard monday to friday and love my downtime weekends!
Today I met up with a few ladies from Craftsy.com's MEETUP. This was our second get together, getting to know a bit more about each other and realizing just how small our world really is!
I took my knitting, i am knitting all my kids and dh a pair of slippers. Want to get them all knit up then stitched so when we go out west this summer, i can each of them a pair along with a few other things i have planned. We are going to an Ocean Falls Reunion held in Campbell River on August 11th. I am looking forward to it, having reconnected with several Ocean Fallers on the OF Facebook page. Looking at all the pictures that have been posted, the past and present and many inbetween. I talked Cousin Bev into coming with me. Gord and Allan can keep each other company while Bev and I reconnect with old friends and fellow Ocean Fallers. Ocean Falls is a town (I say is, some would say was but it still lives and breaths), 350 miles north of Vancouver, on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. I was born and raised there with the most awesome memories with the best childhood.
I did go to one reunion back in the '80's in Kamploops and had a blast. So I am very much looking forward to this reunion. I hope to show Gord some of the most beautiful areas on this earth, on Vancouver Island: Long Beach, Uclulet and it's Lighthouse, a very secuded and not well known spot but one of the most rugged and beautiful places. After touring the island we hope to head to Vancouver to visit kids, then to Kelowna to spend some time with my parents then on to Alberta to visit my oldest daughter and her husband. then home. I am looking forward to visiting all of the places i once lived!
Tomorrow i want to get a few more circular skirts made for the Dance classes at school. now tha ti know how and what i am doing they are much easier to put together, the time consuming part is laying and measuring out the mass amount of fabric. I know they dancers will love them and enjoy dancing in these skirts!
Til next time.....when ever that might be...
Valerie
Today I met up with a few ladies from Craftsy.com's MEETUP. This was our second get together, getting to know a bit more about each other and realizing just how small our world really is!
I took my knitting, i am knitting all my kids and dh a pair of slippers. Want to get them all knit up then stitched so when we go out west this summer, i can each of them a pair along with a few other things i have planned. We are going to an Ocean Falls Reunion held in Campbell River on August 11th. I am looking forward to it, having reconnected with several Ocean Fallers on the OF Facebook page. Looking at all the pictures that have been posted, the past and present and many inbetween. I talked Cousin Bev into coming with me. Gord and Allan can keep each other company while Bev and I reconnect with old friends and fellow Ocean Fallers. Ocean Falls is a town (I say is, some would say was but it still lives and breaths), 350 miles north of Vancouver, on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. I was born and raised there with the most awesome memories with the best childhood.
I did go to one reunion back in the '80's in Kamploops and had a blast. So I am very much looking forward to this reunion. I hope to show Gord some of the most beautiful areas on this earth, on Vancouver Island: Long Beach, Uclulet and it's Lighthouse, a very secuded and not well known spot but one of the most rugged and beautiful places. After touring the island we hope to head to Vancouver to visit kids, then to Kelowna to spend some time with my parents then on to Alberta to visit my oldest daughter and her husband. then home. I am looking forward to visiting all of the places i once lived!
Tomorrow i want to get a few more circular skirts made for the Dance classes at school. now tha ti know how and what i am doing they are much easier to put together, the time consuming part is laying and measuring out the mass amount of fabric. I know they dancers will love them and enjoy dancing in these skirts!
Til next time.....when ever that might be...
Valerie
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