Meadows of Clover

Upon cleaning off my camera I came across these sweet pictures of my darlings playing in the clover.  It amazes me how a simple picture can become so precious, I just LOVE this picture of Tula.

 

 

So classic Stella!

 

Amelia looking for bugs in her dress and with her pink diamond ring....love it!   Oh the memoires.

 

 

We played for a good 20 minutes in the clover.  The girls looked for ladybugs and smelled the clover.  It was lovely!!!  Moments of just pure discovery, the freedom of childhood and the beauty of nature.  As I sit blogging this Amelia said, "I just loved laying in that grass, clover".  How lucky are we to live in a day where memories can be captured in pictures and then have thoughts and feelings come flooding back as we look at them.   Darn lucky, I tell ya!

 

~ Mrs. P



Soaking Up the Summer Days

Our Dad is currently working another shutdown and while I know it is hard for him to work crazy, long hours with minimal days off....pretty much the same could be said of my job aka Mom!  I love, love, love being a mother but really appreciate when back-up aka Dad is around.  Alas, this is our road and I know it will end so we march on.  I must say that the weather has been SPECTACULAR!!!!  So warm and beautiful.  The leaves are starting to change and the geese have been flying for weeks now but we've been landing temps close to 30c so that totally rocks. Consequently, we have used this extended summer to enjoy more outside time and we hit the Legislature with some friends last week....a blast was had by all! It is hilarious to watch the little personalities and relationships grow.  It was hard for us to leave because it was seriously so lovely.  I treasure the friendships I have made here in Fort Sask.  There are quite a few women who encourage and support me, I learn a ton watching them mother and aspire to develop attributes I see in them for myself.  Very thankful for good friends I say!

 

 

Who doesn't love a good visit to McDonald's?!

A kind of sad morning was changed over into a good day with a little help from my sweet friends.  I just woke up pretty sad; missing my Mr. P, missing my pup Tula and sad that my baby is really no longer a baby (wearing underwear and sleeping in a big kid bed) sheesh!  I think it just all kind up got mixed together and erupted that day.  My friends swooped in and we had a lunch date, good chit chat was just what I needed.  My parents are 5 hours away and both of my sisters were busy, sooooooo very grateful for good friends.  And honestly, how lucky are my little women to have these fabulous peers?  The kiddos of my friends, we certainly appreciate them.

 

Her eyes and pensive stare just get me every time!

 

~ Mrs. P



Kitty Kitty

 

My girls are furry animal FIENDS!!!!!!  The Cartwright's adopted a little kitty whom they named Leia and the girls are absolutely smitten.  They met her a few weeks ago and have seriously been obsessed.  They pretend to be her, ask about visiting and they say they want a kitty almost everyday.   At gymnastics the other day Stella was running for warm up and told me she was being 'Princess Leia'....seriously smitten, hilarious.  It is all pretty adorable and she is absolutely an precious little kitty.

 

~ Mrs. P

good bye to a good companion

 

Oh what to write, what to record about our beloved pup Tula. On Friday September 6th we chose to let our sweet Tula go to heaven.  I truly believe that our pets will be up there chilling!  It has taken me a week to sit down and write this, too much emotion and honestly, grief.

 

Tula just had her 11th birthday in July, but she has had a rough summer with multiple visits to the vet. It stinks that animals can't tell us what hurts or what is wrong.  Tula and her brother Tony were our babies before we had our human girl babies, they had a special role in our lives.  It was a hard decision but ultimately we felt it was the right thing.  There was much discussion and ultimately prayer to know. It may sound odd but it had been a very spiritual week.  Hard though, so hard, many moments of just having tears come thinking about her.

 

My little sister Leslie sent us a sweet text (she lived with us while in school so had a special relationship with the dogs).  She wrote that it was 'the end of an era' and it is.  The day we let Tula go Graham and I talked about when we picked Tony and Tula from the SPCA, we actually kind of stole Tula from a little kid and made him cry!  We hadn't even been married a month and went to visit the SPCA.  We saw them, fell in love, went home to think about it and then picked them up the next day.....BEST DECISION EVER!  The little tiny black fur balls were so cuddly, so sweet and such crazy barkers!!!!!!  They were our fur babies and as our desire for human babies was left unfulfilled for so many years, the love these companions offered is cherished and so close to our hearts.

 

As Amelia joined our family, then Tony passed on and then Stella came Tula really rolled with the punches, just a good dog!  Our hearts are aching and it feels like a piece of our lives is missing.  The Graham & Jenny Polischuk Family has from the start included our pups!!!!!  The girls adored them and we feel super blessed to have had such great little furry companions.  Gratitude for the role they had in our family.  Tula is soooo missed.

 

 

Some fun flashbacks. 

Sadly we are all so old that photos of her as a pup aren't digital.

Still some cute pics of our beloved pet.

 



 

 

 



 

~ Mrs. P



BIG GIRL - say what?

Because of these...



panties

 

the BIG girl needs one of these...

toddler bed

 

I am not really going to speak of it other then saying the potty training has been going pretty well.  Stella was content and happy in her crib but when you gotta go, you gotta be able to go to the bathroom.   We needed to get her into a bed and ditch the crib.  What a week of milestones, my baby isn't a baby anymore. :(

 

 

We had some sweet bedtime moments tonight as a little family, cuddling Tula and just goofing.  Stella did some jumping on her bed and seemed pretty pumped about this whole new bed thing. We're pretty pumped for her too.

 

~ Momma P



Tea for Two

A bit of our family realness coming through here...

still in pajama's for mid-morning snack, yup it sometimes happens.

 

I seriously love the moments when the girls are playing nice together, it isn't always the case but when it happens for sure my mother heart beams.

Love them!



(always have to give the ladies a towel for the inevitable spills)

 

~ Mrs. P

Zoo-tastic

 

A little bit of September zoo fun for the girl cousins. We packed everyone into the Pathfinder (doesn't happen too often anymore) and headed into the city to visit the animals.  The weather has been stunning and we took advantage of the beautiful day.  There is something so bittersweet about seeing wild animals caged, oh that sounds sad.  It is sweet to see creatures that you read about or watch on the Discovery channel but certainly bitter to see them caged.  Anyway it is always good to go.  The zoo has a major expansion underway and some words on their big posters caught my eye;

 

CONSERVATION
EDUCATION
PROTECTION

 

 

 

 

 

Oddly of all the animals at the zoo the baby chicks were the favourite.  Oh my 'chicks' (get it hahahaha) they would probably love to live on a farm, that will NEVER happen.

 

Little Neely was so darn cute!!!

 

~ Mrs. P