Fun, Goodies and more!!!!

Hi everyone, So this weekend I had the pleasure of going to a retailer's event in the city, it was so much fun, and it was exactly what I need!!! We had a trade show, make n' takes and 10 hours of classes, OMG.. I can't even begin to tell you how amazing it was, so I took some pics of my good bag and a video of the show it self to share with you!!! it wouldn't let me down load the videos so it will be the pics of my goodie bag.....hope you enjoy, I hope in the next couple of days to have some pics of the mini album that I'm working on

Smiles everyone smiles

Hey Everyone...

I know it's been soo long since I've wrote anything...It's been a hard couple of months for me....Christmas was the worst, but my wonderful husband got me through and now I'm on the road to recovery....at least I think I am....lol

I've been doing alot of scrapbooking lately and it's been great..I'm so starting to feel creative again, plus the new scrapbook room doesn't hurt either...hehe

So with that been said I'm going to start showing more of my work on here and this is going to become my creative outlet.

Smiles everyone Smiles....;0)

Heaven...What's it like?????

DECEMBER 6/09
Marks the day that my childhood next door neighbor Larry Leblanc left us for heaven..and as most of you know recently my dad went up to join my mom. For my mom and dad..I knew it was going to happen, they both has cancer and I was told in both cases that it was only a matter of time....I had time to prepare myself or so I thought, I wasn't prepare for ANYTHING the feelings of loss , anger and loneliness!!!

Little Larry was just gone and I can't even begin to imagine what his parents , brother, sister , girlfriend , kids and rest of his family went through and I'm sure still going through!!

So It is my wish that since my parents are up there and so is Little Larry that he can borrow them till his parents one day eventually join him. and I'll borrow his :0).

I so want to believe that there is a place up there , where they can be a peace and feel no pain and know no sickness. But I have some questions and I know that they may never get answered , but I still have to ask.....

What is heaven like??? Is it peaceful? Nil of sickness? Does it rain or snow? Or is it constant sunshine? Do you sleep? Or are you awake 24 hours a day? Where do you eat? And if you eat do you get to eat what ever you want, whenever you want? Larry do you get to play the guitar all the time? Mom and Dad do you get to go to bluegrass festivals? Paddy do you have fishing boat?
Do you get to watch us all day? If so what does it look like ?Are you looking down upon at us? Or are you beside us?

Do you all live in houses ? Do you have neighborhoods ? Or do you all live in one big house?
If you want to go somewhere, do you get in the car and go ? Or do you think about where you want to go and your just there? Do you age? Or just stay the same age as when you passed?

Do you get to celebrate holidays and special occasions like Christmas, Halloween, birthdays and Anniversaries?

And I guess the big questions is ...Did you meet the BIG GUY? Is there a BIG GUY?

Snow day ;0)

OMG....It was so nice to wake up to the snow this morning!! I don't know about anybody else , but it puts me in the Christmas spirit. Looking out the window at all the snow made me think about my childhood...

The first thing that you did when you woke up , was listen to the radio to see if it was a snow day ..fingers crossed , and if you heard your school on the list you jumped for joy. Had some thing to eat and outside you went....building snowmen, making snow angels ,sledding and whatever else you could think of.. And if we were lucky enough to get a big dump then our next door neighbor Tommy would throw us in the ditch and we had to dig our selves out. by the time we did that 3 times we were wore out and it was time to head inside for some hot chocolate with marshmallows of course!!

We had a wood stove in our house and my mom would put the oven door down and lay a towel on top and we would put our feet up and warm them.
I can also remember it snowing so much that sometime there was only one lane open on the road...especially by the Septon's house.. Oh the memories, sometimes I would give anything to be back there!!!
I can remember once I threw a birthday party for Holly at our family's cabin in merland, there was still snow on the ground, so many people showed up , the cars were lined up a mile long. I remember the deck collapsing and everybodies booze went flying ...The next day when we went to look at the damage . I can remember finding tons of booze out side in then snowand thinking ..where are we going tonight girls . LOL

oh those were the days when we didn't have a care in the world....

I love the fact that when I look out at the snow it brings me right back there!!!!

It's that time .....Christmas time is here

Hey, Hey people...

Sorry it's been so long!! I've been sick and didn't really have the energy to write.

So I was talking to my fav sister inlaw Deb and we decided that I should embrace the Christmas season like never before.....So that's right people I'm doing it bigger and better than ever before.
To try and get my mind of recent events, I'm going to decorate,wrap presents, bake, cook and decorate some more....

Normally I only get one tree, one poinsettia, and Christmas lights outside and hang a hand towel in the bathroom...This year not the case I'm gonna order as many poinsettia's as I can. Maybe 2 trees and decorate the outside better ( normally I'm afraid that everything will get stolen). But this year I don't care.

I've started to make my Christmas cards and I'm making Wes take a Christmas card pic...(that's right MAKING Wes...lol he'll do it just to humor me) . And for some reason I'm almost want us to wear a cheesy sweater or the Rudolph ears. I want to do something different with my main tree. So tonight I start to make popcorn garland for the tree .

I've already found most of the recipes that I want to make...and started my grocery list...Yes I will be heading to Edmonton for that list... The one thing that will be the same this year as it is every year is that I will be making my mom's stuffing recipe ...yummy!!

This year it will be different...instead of the usual full house for dinner, it will be just Wes and I , I have no family coming , Dar, King and Muffin have all moved on. The daughters usually have dinner with their mom and Murph will probably stay at the man house for dinner.

I think that is another reason for me to go bigger and better this year....everything thing has changed ...... some say change is good, lets see if the some are right.

So people it's that time of year......Christmas is here

What's a girl to do ???

Well I've officially been home in Jasper for a week. It's kinda weird ...I thought that I would just fall back into my everyday routine...It hasn't been as easy as I thought!!! I mean really what is my purpose here???

Work is Work 9 to 6 everyday , while I love scrapbooking(part of my job as well as embroidery) and for some reason I just have no desire to do it right now. I tried to get ready for my up coming Christmas classes today, no luck I spend more time sitting and staring at my desk or on facebook wondering what my Nova Scotia family was doing.

One of my bestest friends has moved away, and I miss her!!! Normally on Sunday's I would go down to o'shea's and visit her and make a plan to do something during the week.

The only thing to do here that doesn't cost money is go for a walk or hike , but honestly you can only walk or go for a hike for so long every day, and with winter coming even that will be limited.

I don't know how to get back to the life I had before....and it scares the crap out of me. The only thing that is the same here is Wes and that I'm gratefully for...It's like a dream, I keep running forward but don't get anywhere.

The little town that has......

I spent 24 years of my life in Antigonish, (to most martimers it's better known as Antigonowhere...)and the next 15 1/2 in Jasper. Don't get me wrong Jasper as been good to me, after all that's where I met the love of my life. I have 3 wonderful stepdaughters and an awesome job. I recently spend 2 months back in Antigonowhere and I have a new respect for the place, I'm not really sure what the population is (more in the fall and winter when STFX is in) ....and they have 2 huge grocery store.
I was in heaven. I could spend hours in them, I would go to Timmy's and grab a coffee and then off to Sobey's or Superstore and just walk around looking at everything . The produce section is amazing ,I can buy apples, oranges and just about any thing else I desire and not have to eat it that very same day for fear of it rotting. The bakery...let me just say OMG. and the Meat and Deli sections is as big as the grocery store that I live behind...seriously I'm not kidding. Here you can't even have 2 carts passing in the isle. Here there are 2 isles for potato chips , but the seafood section.....WHAT SEAFOOD SECTION. I can't even get ground turkey or chicken here because the butcher told me there isn't a big need for it, but apparently there is a big need for beef suet...who are they f#%*ing kidding.
I miss the deals too, the buy 1 and get 2 free is awesome. And that's just sobey's. Superstore is amazing...you can get anything ground that you want, clothing (love the Joe line). If you need a prescription filled , you can grocery shop while you wait. And if your sick, there is a dr's office upstairs. Seriously you could get everything you need in that one store...need a couch, pots and pans, or just outdoor furniture...that's the place to go. Here I can't get skim mozzarella cheese, but I can get rotten meat that they have marinated to try and pass it off...So I guess my point is ......I'm so jealous and have a new respect for the little town that has two huge grocery store