Favorite smells...

Everyone has that one or two smells that make their brain shut down for a moment and just go ahhhhh. Here are my few...

1. For the longest time the smell of clean laundry coming off the line in the middle of summer was my favorite.
2. Then I had a baby and the awesome fresh smell of their little breaths on my face would make me melt.
3. Fresh bread in the oven, old fashion method. The bread machine is good, but at one point in the cycle it always smells too doughy.
4. Leather...leather coats, leather gloves, shiny or matt...I like it. Especially on a man.
5. Clean sheets on my bed.
6. Clean ocean smell, not the harbour smell-that's something else.
7. Mike cooking in the kitchen, especially onions and bacon frying.

Join me next time when we touch on the subject of alltime favorite candy!

5 minutes of fame...

Rhonda gave me this idea. Here's what my 5 minutes of fame looks like...ha ha

1. I was the poster girl in a childrens magazine when I was two.
I don't know which magazine, my parents didn't scrapbook it, but I do have the picture still.

2. I was in the paper three times for various swimming events and lifeguarding events when I was in my pre-teens.

3. I won a creative writing contest in elementary school and won $15. Whooo hooo

4. I won a trip to Cancun, Mexico for excellent customer service while working for Bombay Company before I had the children. Mike got severely burned while snorkling. I have pics of that...

5. I had the all-time high score on atari game "space invaders" for my family.

That's about it for now. What a laugh! I can't wait to see what my kids get into.

Giving Thanks

I can say without a doubt that this past weekend was one of our best Thanksgivings in years.
First you must know that I am a chronic U-picker. I love the u-picks...it starts with the strawberries, moves into raspberries and blueberries and whatever vegetables we can find. But the season always ends with a trip to the valley to pick a hoard of apples and swing on over to Windsor to get some pumpkins from the famous Dill Farm. And yes we saw Mr. Dill again this year, standing on the porch watching all the families roam over his farm, having great picture taking moments. We were one of them.
This year was special for us. This year we had Nana and Papa Boland with us. We stopped at the Big stop for lunch and then proceeded to the fields to get 50lbs of apples. Yes, I said 50lbs of apples. How could I resist the "buy 4 bags get 1 bag free" offer. We got Cortlands, MacIntosh and Red Delicious. The kids ate about four apples each which is why they didn't want supper later on. Ha ha on them...we didn't want to cook anyways. Chinese take-out saved us...yes we were hungry later!
So,this week my kitchen will be filled with the smell of apples in all sorts of cooking states. I am planning to peel, chop and make sauce of at least 40lbs of apples. Hopefully the other 10lbs will be almost devoured by my hungry children. Don't be surprised if you get a bottle of apple sauce from the maritimes for Christmas!
I love the Fall. This is a tradition that will continue next year. Maybe we can get more family to come with us. More hands to help pick....

Run for the Cure

Sunday October 1st-The Run for the Cure.
My first fundraising event as Team Leader. We had 14 members on our team "The Waves". Three of us ran, Mike, Wanda and I. Everyone else walked the 1k or 5k route. What you can't see behind us are the other 7000 people who were there to support the Breast Cancer cause. It was an inspirational day.
This was suppose to be my last run for the year but when we got home we were so psyched out that we went online and found a race for December 31st at 5pm for 5k called the Resolution run. I could count it as the first run for the year or the last one of 2006. Either way I know now that I have the running bug. The kids are in on it too. This race was Daniel and Meaghan's first. Now they want to know when their next one is. They totally loved going door to door asking for donations. I thought that they would shy away from this but when people started giving them whatever coin they had, the kids got sooo excited. They really got it...that the money was going to help save someone's life. Maybe this will be a family affair now.
So remember to check out your breasts and keep an eye on your friends too. Remind mothers, daughter, aunts and grandmothers to do their check-ups monthly. Make Breast Cancer History!