Shooting the Breeze and a Treasure Hunt...

Hello Everyone, It's been almost two weeks since my last post. This morning I woke up early (7:30am) to the sounds of city workers cutting down our neighbor's tree. Nice! So I dragged myself out of bed; gave my mom her medicines, checked emails and grabbed a cup of coffee. Not too much to going on around here really... sort of waiting for the weather to warm up. Noah and I have been working on a lot of math lately (not our favorite subject) but we needed to catch up on stuff. Last night we watch a great documentary called The Cats of Mirikitani, if you get a chance you should watch it. We found it on netflix. I think we'll try our hand at some Japanese Cat art this week. Noah is signed up for some exciting Spring classes at our homeschool co-op: Pond life at the Nature center, Odyssey of the Mind, Solar Energy and Drama. That should keep him busy, I don't know what I'd do without these classes for him!

Lately, if I can get out of the house twice a week I'm pretty lucky...not counting taking walks in the neighborhood with Noah, we try to walk every other day at least. I've been keeping busy with taking care of my mom. She's fine, but not able to do much for herself anymore. She had a little fluid in her lungs but seems to be better now. She sleeps a lot and paints very little these days, she listens to Christmas music (which makes me very sad.) She doesn't have much of an appetite. I give her her meds twice a day, fix her meals, clean her rooms and I do her laundry. Autumn comes over and keeps her entertained with playing cards and just spending time with her. My sister can only come for one day every two weeks now, kind of a bummer. But she has to work. Brad told me to pick somewhere to go on Saturday while my sister was in town to stay with my mom. I chose to go to the Livingston Antique Market. We decided to take Noah along with us. Had I known this place is so huge I would of thought twice about bringing Noah. It takes about three hours or so if you want to see everything... which I do:) I told everyone that we were on a treasure hunt and they could choose one treasure, so that made it more fun for Noah. Uh, hum... with a $20 limit of course.

My treasure: a hand painted black tray, I like the crackles and the nicks in it. Noah's treasure: a Crown glass topped quart jar (Canadian) filled to the brim with polished semi precious stones. A pretty awesome treasure! Brad's treasure: 4 Hardy Boys books. He had read every single Hardy boy as a kid. (nerd) anyways, he spent the rest of the weekend reading them. Noah is reading, The Mystery of Cabin Island. Spooky!!!

If I had tons of money to spend, this lamp would be mine!

An adorable mad Easter bunny? Made me chuckle.

Even though it was a gloomy (non-Spring) like weekend, I did enjoy myself...

Hope you had a nice weekend too!