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Q…

16 Wednesday May 2018

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big girl pants, busy, change, conference, events, q, QNET, Vision Quest, widow

how often do you see things that start with the letter “q”…

started my day at the QNET conference where we heard great information on change from Janet Lapp…

from there I raced over to the RBC Convention Centre to staff a trade show booth at Vision Quest…

at one point, the morning keynote speaker used our booth to sign autographs and take pictures with participants…

I’m still thinking about the fact that two events took place on the same day that started with the letter “q“…

cool…

creeper…

15 Tuesday May 2018

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big girl pants, bud, creeper, flowers, plants, Spring, virginia creeper, widow

was happy to purchase the plants on Sunday…

but even happier to see that the Virginia creeper has started to bud out…

it really is Spring…

cafe…

14 Monday May 2018

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big girl pants, birthday, buddies, cafe, cloud, flowers, friends, petunia, walk, widow, Yafa Cafe

took some nice shots over the last few days… the cloud formation was very pretty last night… and this morning I took a few photos of the flowers that we picked up yesterday… one is quite beautiful, called starry sky… it is a petunia and I’m not fond of them but it was too beautiful not to bring home…

once I got home tonight I walked over to the Yafa Cafe to meet my buddies for a birthday dinner… we tried a number of items and enjoyed them all…

lovely time with wonderful women;-)…

stepped…

13 Sunday May 2018

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big girl pants, breakfast, cushion, datura, daughter, family, fiddle diddle, hot tub, Mother's Day, photos, plants, restaurant, stepped, treat, widow

had a lovely Mother’s Day…

was up early, as usual, lol, and went out to have a hot tub… spent a little while sorting out how to get a shot of me in the tub… it has been nine years since I stepped into this hot tub for the first time, on Mother’s Day in 2009… what fun to figure out how to get the shot…

met up with my daughter and family for breakfast out… usually we would have supper at home, but the younger boys have soccer practice at 6… there was a long line as we waited but the salmon benedict I ordered was delicious… it has a spinach sauce and is served on a scone, yum…

at the end of the meal she and I received a chocolate treat… when I ate it a little while ago it reminded me of a fiddle diddle cookie my friend Lisa makes… delicious…

had a text and call from my older daughter while I was waiting to be picked up after breakfast…

then my son-in-law took us moms to a number of plant stores where we wandered around and picked up a few goodies…

I was particularly happy to find a purple datura and a pretty dahlia… my plan is to leave the plants on the dining room table for a few weeks rather than put them out and bring them in, depending on the weather…

besides the plants, I got a pretty outdoor cushion, a blue-y purple pot, and purple morning glory seeds…

had planned to make roast chicken with stuffing for my dinner, but after all that running around, decided that ordering in would be a nice treat, lol…

and it was;-)…

goldeye…

12 Saturday May 2018

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big girl pants, book, cushions, garden, Goldeye, lunch, moments, sunshine, widow

made the loveliest lunch today…

combined a smoked goldeye with cream cheese for a very tasty spread for the two types of crackers I had in the pantry…

then I started with shredded cucumber, green onion, vinegar and added radishes and cilantro… not only was it delicious when combined, but it also made it prettier with that bit of red added…

out in the garden I set up the chairs and cushions and ate my lunch and read my book…

dandelions…

11 Friday May 2018

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big girl pants, bouquet, dandelions, David Suzuki Foundation, exercise, flowers, knee, robins, Spring, widow

early this morning I caught sight of a couple of robins in the front yard… I’ve heard them recently but these was the first ones I’ve seen… a sure sign of spring;-)…

had another visit with the physiotherapist… my knee is doing very well although the range of motion is not where he would like it to be… he poked and prodded and gave me different exercises to do for the next few weeks…

as I drove up the driveway I spotted the dandelion flowers and chive blooms…

according to the David Suzuki Foundation we should leave the dandelions to help the bee population… well, maybe that’s what I will do…

I think back to the number of times my girls brought me home bouquets;-)…

drinking…

10 Thursday May 2018

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A1C, big girl pants, bread, chocolate, drinking, hummingbird, intake, journey, sugar, watch, widow

tonight I enjoyed some hummingbird drinking chocolate… it was a Christmas gift from my daughter…

I used Almond Milk… made with 70% cacao, it was delicious…

before making it, I reviewed what I had eaten during the day and realized there was room for a bit of sugar;-)…

last week I saw the doctor and heard that my A1C has been creeping up for the last six months… it is at 6.3 but needs to stop rising…

I had loosened my very strict watch over my eating habits to make life a bit more relaxed… I don’t think that was bad, but will tighten up my food intake a bit to see if that can make an improvement to the next test…

so, I am trying to have bread only once a week and dark chocolate a few times a week… on the whole, the rest of my food choices are pretty good… we will see how this goes…

life sure is a journey, lol…

found…

09 Wednesday May 2018

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bedroom, big girl pants, bouquet, dining room, flowers, found, happy, living room, magnet, purple, widow

yesterday I wandered around the house taking pictures of the flowers that I found…

there were some in the living room…

some on the dining room table…

and finally, some in the bedroom;-)…

that is really what I like to see…

as mentioned many times previously, flowers make me happy;-)…

a colleague advised she had to pick up this magnet for me recently, lol… she also took this shot…

and a close-up of one of the bouquets, that just happened to be purple…

2000…

08 Tuesday May 2018

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adventure, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blog, cathartic, daily, journey, memories, moments, posts, widow, WordPress

this is my 2000th blog post…

seems like forever since that December day when I signed in to WordPress to see how it worked… and wrote the first post… that was five years, five months and eight days ago…

over time I came to the decision that I would post something every day… and since I made that choice, have managed to accomplish that goal…

I have written about many of the processes that were involved to finish and close an estate, daily struggles and small steps in my new journey as I wear those big girl pants…

it has been cathartic…

every day is a new adventure…

conspicuous…

07 Monday May 2018

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big girl pants, conspicuous, dinner, family, hockey, Jets, party, people, whiteout, widow

tonight after work I met up with my kids downtown and we had dinner together before they attended the #wpgwhiteout party and I headed home…

on the way there they had stopped in at the Jets store to pick up some white Jets t-shirts and I think a hoodie or two, lol…

I did feel conspicuous walking to the restaurant without wearing some piece of Jets clothing, lol… good thing I had white capris on and a black and white top…

the youngest asked his mom if I’d be going to the #whiteoutparty as well and she advised there were “way too many people for grandma to go” and she was absolutely correct…

just getting from the restaurant back to the office and the car had me sweating and people were just starting to arrive… thankfully my son-in-law walked with me…

my daughter sent me this shot of the crowd around them…

too many people for me;-)…

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