The Sun Is Here!

Good sunny Saturday!  Finally!  The forecast doesn't look very sunny after today so we will enjoy this for as long as we have it!

I forgot to post a pic of my finished (almost) stitching/sewing/quilting project.  The background was both machine quilted (centre) and BIG stitch hand quilted (borders)  This picture really makes it look wonky but it's not....weird.  I have the summer stitchery hanging and have to put the hooks on the back of the autumn one but I still have to trace and then stitch winter and spring.  I loved doing them so they will get done.

These are pictures of a card a sweet little girl gave me on Thursday.....homemade of course (look at the staples!  LOL) but so very sweet.  The cover, inside pages and the back.  This is one of the things I am going to miss the most.  💖

Her mother wrote me a touching card and gave me a pair of beautiful earrings.  No this isn't the student I was hired to work with, but one of the precious hearts in the classroom I was in.  My heart fills when I know I touch the hearts of all the students in the classes I am assigned to....and it happens every year in every school I work in.  I love the children and they love me.  One day I will go back to working with kiddos again.😍 I think it's kind of my calling.

Son2 is here for the weekend and is out painting an old metal bed frame I will put in the kids room.  I still have to get a mattress for it....twin long.  Son2 is a great spray painter!!!!!  Daughter1 and her bf are coming out today too.  Sunshine, my kids....what more could I ask for??  (all the kids and grandkids but I will be content with the quieter day....for now)

Maybe I will get that stitching traced and started today.....hopefully my outside chair cushions dry up so I can sit outside.  I need that vitamin D!!!!!!

Stormy Skies

Hey Readers...can you believe it's past the middle of June??  We've had some wet weather.  The other night we got hail and it stormed all night long!!!

I had covered my plants but they got flattened by the weight of the hail.....I think they are better off then if they were pummelled.  We are to keep getting rain for a bit yet.......one day I know we will see the sun shine again!!!!!

Speaking of sunshine......look at these two cutie patooties!!!  I love these kiddos with every beat of my heart!  (ok corny but true!!)  😍😍

I have to STOP buying mugs but in anticipation of my soon-to-arrive babies, I bought this at Walmart last week:

life is purrfect!

Last Saturday I went to the Sylvan Lake Quilt Show and met a few gals from my old hometown there.  It was great seeing them again and I was happy they told me they were going to be in the area.  😊  I even won a door prize at the show!!!  💃 After looking at the quilts and shopping 😳 we went to a shop close by...which I had never been to but you can bet I will be going back!  Nuts For Bolts just outside of Sylvan Lake....in a red barn looking building....my dream shop!  Here the gals are posing in front of the shop for me before we went in:

I did more shopping there!  (hello!  They have a ton of Lori Holt!!!!)

A week from today these sweethearts will be delivered:

Oh I can't wait!!!!!!!  I really need kitten snuggles!  💗💙

I quit my job yesterday.  The co-worker I have been struggling with this year requested a meeting between her, I and the Vice Principal.  I should have refused, knowing it wouldn't end well, but I went along with it.  Well, it didn't end well.  The co-worker sat there and lied, exaggerated and was so phoney I couldn't stand it.  Today is my last day as I handed in my letter of resignation.  I will miss the rest of the staff but most especially the kids.  Yesterday was a hard day to get through but today will be even harder.  This would have been the last day we would be there with students so saying goodbye is always tough but knowing I won't see them around the school next year makes it even more sad.  I am really hoping tonight when I get home I will feel free.  My other co-workers are upset and I am hoping, if anything comes out of this, it will be that they will feel more compelled to voice their concerns and complaints about this woman too.  I just hope if/when they do that they have witnesses or photo evidence because this woman will lie until she is blue in the face.  

That is all I have to say about that.

So as I head off in this drizzly, rainy day to my last day at a job I love and am good at, I will try and enjoy each moment.  Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life.  

Convocation and June

Our youngest had a busy day on Friday.  It was her 24th birthday AND her convocation from university.  We are very proud of her and hope she has a successful future doing what she loves!!  

It was a rainy day that day but it was all inside and then off we went to Julios for her birthday supper:

Mexican restaurant in Calgary....it was yummy!!

This little girl came home with us for the weekend:

She really cracks us up!  (she put her socks on her hands) Too bad the weather remained wet and grey as playing outside would have been fun but we have fun anyway.

Twelve more days of work and it can't go fast enough!  This week is usual but next week we have field trips and end of year parties!  I have so much to do before now and then!  The last four days we, in kindergarten, don't have any students but it will be busy with cleaning the room and new parent/student orientations.  I will meet the new teacher I have been assigned to work with for next year!!  (yes, I think I will return....only 2 days/week and a Friday here and there....my fingers are crossed for Tuesday/Thursday but I'm not holding my breath!)

THEN, on the last day of school, I get to meet with Pam and pick up my cuties (the two in the middle!!!)  I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

I normally don't want to wish time to fly by but I do for the month of June!!!!!!!!  

Sweet Saturday!

I am writing this on the deck enjoying this perfect, sunny, warm day!!!  I have been doing a bit of laundry and still have to put clothes away but the dog blankets are in the dryer and that's the last load!  I had extra clothes this weekend because of Hubby being up north last week and my trip to Value Village yesterday!  😜  

Pam has been sending me pictures of my babies.  We named them last night!!!!  Introducing Heidi and Archie!

                                        

I can't wait to bring them home because it will mean the school year is over and I will have time to love them up ALL day long!!!!!!!!!!!

Speaking of school......Hubby and I talked the other night and I think I have decided not to return to the school next year......now MAYBE I will stay on a sub list but I don't even know about that.  It will give me the flexibility to travel with him if he has to work away and also to keep up on his book work and be less stressed!!!  I do LOVE being home but if this happens I will also have to make sure I get in some "people contact" as I can get myself into a slump if I don't.  

I love this saying....I have also seen one that said your job will be posted before your obituary or something to that effect.  

It makes me feel a bit happier and okay to finish out this year knowing that I will be free!!  Only 4 more weeks.....3 with students. I will miss (most) of the staff (LOL  You all know who I am talking about!) and I will miss the kiddos which makes me think I MIGHT sub......Anyway, I have to make a most definite decision within these next two weeks!  

The past two days have been super smoky here although I can't imagine how bad it is further north closer to the fires.  I didn't complain as I knew others had it waaaaaay worse.  Last night the wind picked up and there was some thunder and bam, the smoke cleared!  It's absolutely wonderful to see the blue skies today!  I'm thinking outside is where I am going to spend the day!  We have a tree in bloom and it smells AMAZING and my lilacs will be blooming soon.  Mosquitoes aren't too bad (more so in the evenings) so life is really good!  😊