Yummy Mommy

I miss the sunshine!

This one's for Laurie

Despite being a total Scrooge about snow, (and yes, the drive in this morning was awful, but I spent $470.00 on new winter tires today, so I am feeling optimistic that tomorrow's commute will be better) I do have to grudgingly admit that it is beautiful. This morning when I let the dog out to do his business, the scene was actually quite spectacular, so I had to take a few pictures. Laurie at Foolery was mentioning how hot their darn summer was, so I thought she could use these photos to do some creative visualization when she needs to cool off!

Thanks for the "donkey award", Laurie.

Ugh

It's here. Winter. In the form of about 2 inches of wet, slippery, yucky snow. I know it doesn't sound like much, but the snow around here is so wet that even a little bit can make driving hell. And of course, since our lovely provincial government decided to privatize road maintenance, ostensibly to save the taxpayer money (which I doubt) but more likely so that their rich road-maintenance company owning friends can get richer, the roads have not been well-maintained. My mom, who lives next door, arrived home at about 6 pm, and said that the one road that connects our little rural community to the town had not been plowed yet. This is approximately 7 hours after the snow started. You'd think they'd have had time to bust out the plows. Especially since snow was in the forecast. One would assume that people who are in the business of maintaining roads (or are supposed to be anyway) would listen to the odd weather forecast, and prepare accordingly.

Anyhoo, I didn't start this post with the intention of ranting. Just wanted to say "Snow ...yucky... here's some pictures." I think I've got the "yucky snow" part covered, so here's some pictures:

It also wreaks havoc on the plants. Here it is crushing my bamboo:

The cat must think she's a snow leopard or something, 'cause she wanted to go out in it:

Halloween!

Hey, it's only been almost a month- we're still in the spirit, aren't we? Actually, the way retailers are doing things these days, it's surprising they aren't marketing for next Halloween already!

Anyhoo, as promised, cute pictures of silly Halloween cake my blue-haired son and I made, well, a month ago! Enjoy.

Hellooooo out there...

My goodness, it's been a long time! Let me tell you something ~ there are silly rumors out there that teaching is an easy job; you may be suprised to learn that this is actually not true! I know...shocking! Who'd have thunk that standing up in front of a room full of 30 children who would rather be ANYWHERE else on earth doing ANYTHING other than what you are trying to get them to do wouldn't be a piece of cake??? But it's really not. Don't get me wrong, it has it's fun moments, but it really is a slog much of the time. So...I have been focusing my energy on coming up with FANTASTIC activities for them to do (also not as easy as it sounds), so that I can at least keep some semblance of order in my classroom, and not focusing on poor Yummy Mommy.

I still plan on putting pictures of our Halloween cake on here ~ hey, it's only been three weeks since Halloween (man, is that all??? It seems like 3 months!) but my *&^%$# husband's MP3 player happens to use the same cord to connect to the computer as my camera does, and, despite me asking him HUNDREDS of times, and that's actually not TOO much of an exaggeration, to get another cord so we each have our own, he has gone and lost the $%*&%#$# cord, and now I can't download my pictures. I will try to remember to get TWO new cords today, so I can get on with my life. Ta!