Hi everyone;

Welcome Christine, you have found a wonderful group of gals to chat with here. Glad you and your family are ok after the hurricane. How wonderful of you to want to help out others! I can't even imagine what it would be like being housebound that long with 3 little ones and a puppy. I count my blessings everytime I hear of something awful like this happening that I live here in Alberta,Canada. The worst we usually get is rainstorms or too much snow! I love your invites...what cartridge is that from?

Nancy: so glad you guys are all well. How did the Koi fair in the hurricane? So far, so good for ours outside in the snow

Joy: happy dress shopping and dinner with the future in-laws

Laura: hope your fall break is going well. If this weather doesn't change I see lots more snow shovelling happening for me! We've had a few more cm. fall since I posted the pic last nite. Have fun "playing" the rest of your break.

Home from a hockey game tonite, a crop tomorrow and another game tomorrow evening. Then company for dinner on Sun. Good thing I'm off Mon. & Tues. to get my housework done,!

Take care everyone

Nancy, having the before and after shots of the damage was great for showing just how devastating the storm was. It is going to take forever to clean up everything!
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Joy, enjoy the wedding shopping, it is great that your two girls can share the preparations, I can understand them each wanting their own weddings though. Will they be bridesmaids for each other?

Dinner at DD's was lovely, she made beef stroganoff - very tasty.

DS has got his drivers license and thinks it is wonderful to be able to drive around everywhere!! the novelty will wear off soon when he has to keep paying for fuel!! I just hope he will always drive safe! None of his friends have their drivers license yet so he is designated taxi driver.

DD fell down the stairs at work about six weeks ago, badly sprained both ankles and was badly bruised down the whole of one side. the one ankle is still so swollen, she keeps it strapped up but it really does not look good. She really did a good job of it.

The shops here are playing Christmas carols already, the shop assistants are going to be so sick of carols by the time Christmas arrives!

Hi all.

Welcome, Christene!

It is COLD. Nice and sunny, but cold.

Sharon, that is too bad about school!

And Debbie, hopefully your DD heals correctly. Poor thing.

Angie, DH was looking at pictures of our girls last night. They do grow so quickly. And then marry!

I know I will making bridesmaids dresses, and we will see about wedding dresses. For Kate, one of the bridesmaids will be quite pregnant.

Time to start getting ready for our big day! And Megan wants me to hightlight her hair on top of everything else!

Ok I am on my lap top and it took forever to load.. first I thought it was the desktop..

Maybe I will start a new chat thread I think we are on 52 pages.

We did a big load of shopping this morning we were out of the house by 8am and there were other people that had the same idea.

We had to restock everything because they said even having a generator the condiments going from cold to luke warm and back and forth to get rid of everything. So our refrigerator was spotless clean and empty.

I think once we eat the food in the basement freezer I will no longer buy in bulk. It doesn't pay for the 2 of us to have so much meat and veggies on hand when we could walk to a local store Trader's Joe's for one or two things and drive 1/2 mile to the supermarkets.

So that is our goal to clean out the basement freezer and just use my big fridge and freezer I have upstairs.

Beautiful day here today believe it or not high 60's Spring like day.
They still haven't made any attempts to clean all the streets with all the trees down and limbs. Wonder how long that will take.

Sharon.. as of yesterday odd even days for gas fill up. They did this back in 1973 and it worked out fine. Hope Monday in school they don't give you a hard time.

Sandra.. I am so jealous you always have a crop to go to Enjoy. KOI were fine DH really tacked everything down. One of the workers who came to fix the electric wires didn't realize what he was walking on until the ponding netting started sinking into the pond. I can't believe he didn't realize their was a pond there!!!! My DH said if you don't get off now you will be underwater!


Joy..how fun making the bridesmaid dresses. Did you meet the in laws??

Laura... so cold already... Please share I have some childrens christmas cards to share

Angie.. glad Adam's B-day party went well your your recipe swap.
Hard to believe how fast the babies grow

Abigail started eating rice ceral today and Patty said she loved it. Little messy at times but she ate it all and was so excited kicking her feet.

So by Monday when I have her she should be a Pro at eating

Went to Babies R Us and bought Abigail Einstein Baby Bouncer so cute lots of nice music and 25 activities for her to play with

In her jumper at home she squels (sp) so loud

For all you teachers forgive my spelling LOL

Have a good day/night

Tonight I will CLOSE this Thread and start a new one maybe easier getting on

Abigail checking out some pumpkins

Thanks for the warm welcome! Nancy the size for the avatar is 125x125, i added mine when i saw everyone else with cute avatars! I'll change to my boys pics once i get my external drive from the safe place I put it in so it would not get damaged in the storm...i hope I find it soon...

@NJSharon - I'm in Spotswood, my friend lives in Lebanon township, which I think is close to Flemington.

It's quiet here; hubby went to NYC to the cemetery to visit his mom's gravesite. He has not been there since the funeral 5 years ago! I gave him some space and stayed home with the boys so he could share this moment with his brothers and sister. Hope this helps him heal.

I think I will cut some turkeys with the free cut of the week! I just decided to host Thanksgiving again! Now that I have the Cricut, there will be cut outs all over the place!!! Like cleaning and cooking is not enough!

Sandra, I used the Craft Room Basics butterfly and then used two circles and welded them and distorted for the butterfly body. I used my Sizzix for the dry embossing and used Jim Hotlz Alterations Burlap and Swirls. And it just so happens that the baby shower is supposed to be next Saturday and my friend is in the hospital with pre-eclampsia(hope i spelled it right). So i'm sitting here biting my nails, i think i'm packing the boys in the car and heading to the hospital to bring them a camera! Prayers please...

OK...i think the boys are doing something upstairs, i hear things dropping and rolling on the floor...better go check before they destroy something.

bye for now..

Forgot to attach the picture of the holder. This is for a 3x5 pad. How much do you think I should sell this size for?

Nancy, it won't be the same without Max's avatar How will we find you!

Joy, have the girls set any colour scheme yet?

Sharon, fuel rationing, that brings back lots of memories!!!!!!

Sonya, looking forward to seeing what you create, great that your card stash got cleared out, great excuse to make more!

Angie, babies grow so fast, can't believe how big Layla is already.

Hi to everyone else, sorry, I did read everything but have forgotten all that I wanted to comment on and have run out of time again to go back and reread, need to get ready for a big cooked breakfast and then Jet is going to have a bath and then I have stamp club, busy day.

OK Debbie you are right no one would pick up on Abby's Avatar so I will keep Max

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