Author: MRJ

I took tonight’s picture while making dinner. Our little Violet didn’t like that the gate closed behind me and she let me know it.

Today Violet was learning about soccer. She hasn’t gotten the no hands rule figured out yet.

Today at work Melissa found a little present in her purse. It seems that Violet had put one of her toy spoons into Melissa’s purse. Of course Melissa put it best ‘Never know when I’m going to need a spoon the size of my finger’.

With Violet’s Nut allergy we find ourselves making more foods at home. On tonight’s menu was Melissa’s home made Pizza and Lemon Meringue Pie. Both were delicious.

Today I was reminded of what I can expect as the weather warms. You see Jacob’s friend came knocking on the door after luanch today, wanting Jacob to come out and play. When it’s nicer I would have sent him out without a second thought, but today I bundled him up before heading out with him to watch him play. While watching I thought I might as well shovel some snow. After I had shovelled for a while, Jacob came to me and asked if he could get his shovel out of our yard. Next thing I know Noah and him are shovelling away. I couldn’t help but smile as I watched them work. I also couldn’t help but wonder if today will be the last day that Jacob can play in the snow.

It seems strange that I have anything sponsored by Bud on my phone, but this little application saves me money so it’s hard not to like it. Bud Phone uses VOIP to let you make local calls to many cities in Canada (the complete list is here). Bud phone is a simple Dialler application for Android, iOS, and Black Berry. Once you have registered at BudPhone.ca it dials a local number, that then dials the number you are connecting too. It takes an extra minute to make calls but there are know ads during the call and the quality has been pretty good. The service is great but you are still using local minutes, that is unless you have a cell plan with favourites numbers. Just add the local access number as a favourite and you can now call local or long distance numbers without using minutes.

Of course BudPhone.ca also offers a computer based VOIP solution for free that gives you a free phone number, with Free Long distance, Call Display and Voice mail. It will even forward to missed calls to another number so it can be used away from the computer. More on that another day.

Today’s picture of the day is of Violet having timeout under the table. It’s also a processed photo. Something I usually don’t do beyond some light cropping. Today’s picture Melissa tweaked for use on her blog and It was just too cute not to use for my Picture of the Day. So I ask my readers, what do you think of it? Should I use more edited photos for my Picture of the day.

Today Melissa got fed up with my over grown hair and sent me and Jacob off to the local barbers for haircuts. While there she treated me to a shave as well. There is something about a nice straight razor shave that I find relaxing. Melissa snapped todays picture while I was in the chair getting prepped for my shave.

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Today Melissa and I headed to Jacob’s school to meet with his teacher. It’s interesting to hear her talk about how well our little man is doing. The one thing we were hoping to get out of the meeting was if we should put him in French immersion or keep him in his current school. Unfortunately we’re still unsure of what will be the best for Jacob. Still it was a good meeting and we’re very happy with his teacher and class this year.

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Today’s picture is from this evenings trip downtown to pick up my wife from her work. Thanks to my great Mommy I was able to head down to pick her up after she a had a really bad day. On the way back she snapped this picture from the car with her iPhone.