Author: MRJ

Today I finished the last of Monday’s bird. There is something nice about making a pot of soup from scratch.

When I first took a picture of the before and after pictures at Jane station (Project 365-107: Reminding us of the Past) I had hoped to take pictures of more of them. Unfortunately I only managed to find one other station with the pictures up (Project 365-110: Looking back at Bathurst). So this weekend when I saw the pictures up at Greenwood I knew I had to get back three to use it for a picture of the day. So today when I found myself at Donlands station I figured it was worth a detour to capture today’s picture of the day.

Today I have a picture of my little girl trying to get on Jacob’s bike and take it for a spin… I think she’s still a little small for that.

Today we celebrated thanksgiving with Melissa’s family. It was at Nana and Papa’s house but Melissa and I made the cooked. Well Melissa cooked and I helped. It was a great day and the kids enjoyed playing outside while Papa and I worked on building a ramp on the front of their house.

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Today the kids and I headed out to my cousin’s house for a thanksgiving dinner. Today’s picture is the kids having a bit of a snooze while we headed over there. It was great to spend the afternoon with family and good food. I want to thank Irene and George  for having us. The kids and I really enjoyed it.

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Today was Jacob’s last day of Future Stars and the usual lesson was replaced with a practice game. It was fun to watch the kids skate around. At times Jacob trailed the play, but as you can see in the picture of the day,  at other times he was right in the thick of things.  In the photo he’s getting ready to take the face-off. I would love to say that he won he first face-off and sparked a breakaway goal… What I will say was he tried hard and it was fun to watch.

Today Melissa, Violet and I headed out to the super market to get some of our Thanksgiving dinner. While walking to the store, Violet wasn’t up to walking, she climbed into our bundle buggy, and snapped today’s picture of the day.

Today was Election day in Ontario and so our little family headed out to the local polling station to cast our votes. Today I snapped a picture of Melissa casting her vote with the kids looking on. Instilling the need to vote in our kids is something Melissa and I feel very strongly about, so sharing moments like these with the kids is very important.  Listening to Melissa explain the parties to Jacob, the Blue, Red and Orange team was very amusing.  She made it clear that we vote for the Orange or Red, never for the Blue. A point he made sure to come over and tell me while I cast my vote.

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I know that over the past month I’ve used a lot of pictures of Jacob skating for my picture of the day. And today I am again, though to be honest it’s not the photo that I really want to share. It’s the video, it’s the first time that I’ve seen Jacob skate backwards. The whole lesson tonight was amazing to watch. He tried hard to keep up with the other skaters, and most of the time he did just that. It was great to watch, and as the class was ending and I saw him skating backwards I knew I needed to capture the moment.

Today we have another picture of one of Jacob’s worksheets. Watching him sitting at the table working away at them always makes me smile, and when I see how much better his writing and colouring has improved I know that we should be doing more worksheets. Just not sure if it should be every night or just a few times a week.