Leaves... Leaves .... everywhere !!

Fall has nearly come to an end . The day after halloween the girls decided to tackle the backyard by raking leaves ...... let me remind everyone we have a 1/2 acre property with at least 9 mature trees in the back yard ....

















So, they tackled the task in earnest

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Meanwhile , Mum was sweeping out the garage , doing battle with the leaf accumulation in there, chatted with a neighbour who dropped by ..... and kept an eye on the leaf gatherers .


After a while I did not hear much activity , all had gone quiet .... I wonder why ?


My gallant workers were taking a nap ...... well earned I thought .

Later on Dad came home from work and with a little assistance - the pile grew and grew until we could hardly tell who was hiding in the pile .

A job well done !!!!

Sunday Night Dinner

Christina and I made a fancy Sunday night dinner!!!

The menu was, Pot stickers, Shepherds Pie and Green Salad with chocolate covered raspberries.
I am made the appetizer and the main course. Yummy Chinese pot stickers with pork and vegetables, I might have messed up a little but they still tasted great. The main course was a Shepherds pie made with ground lamb, carrots and onion and yummy seasoning. Smothered with lots of mashed potatoes and a tossed salad with mums famous salad dressing.


Here is the mixture for the pot stickers. I got my hand all gooey mixing this up. Mum helped with the wonton wrappers because that was hard for me. They were delicious !!!!!!!!



Next came the Sheperds Pie .

Christina made chocolate covered raspberries with sprinkles on top, I devoured most of them!!!

As you can see there was a lot of concentration on Christina's behalf , she made sure every morsel of dessert was perfect



Christina is not a big raspberry fan , but she loves chocolate , and she made this dessert with a lot of love.

This will be one of my favorite family dinners !!!!!!

Front teeth are gone

Christina has now lost both her FRONT TEETH!!!





Her tooth was ginormous, a little bigger it would've been the size of a dime!!! Here are some pictures and she got a dollar from the tooth fairy! The other night the Tooth Fairy didn't come, the gigantic tooth was still there!

Lost a Tooth

Christina lost her front tooth!!!

This moment happened minutes before we wrote this blog. The blood was gushing in the hole of the tooth like a river. It was unexpected, it was hanging by a thread all day ..... and it hurt everytime she wobbled it .

I was very surprised when it just "popped out" as I was sitting with my mum . My sister was practicing piano when she heard me say "I lost my tooth YEAH!!!"

I can't wait to see what the tooth fairy will give me. :-)))

P.S. I got a dollar

The best Tabby Cat !!!

Penelope is the best tabby in the world! In September she turned 3 years old.

Lately she's lazier and likes to cuddle with me more often (which is good).

Penelopes cute features are black and gray fur, curious green eyes, and little legs to carry herself outside, even when we tell her to not go outside, since she's an indoor cat.

She is pretty small comapred to other cats, when we adopted her she was literally the tinest kitten there, all the other cats where probably saying to themselves I want to crush the little kitty RRRRRRR!!!

She is good at trouble. Almost every day she wakes up mom and dad at 4:30 in the morning! Even if she's a trouble maker, she's the best cat in the world!