I love to be pampered. I love going to the spa. I love hot stone massages. In order to keep my back and neck from becoming a complete mess of knots I see a massage therapist every 4-6 weeks. I go to Green Hills Massage Therapy Clinic and I love going there. It’s less than a 10 minute walk from my house, the atmosphere is warm and relaxing and the […] Read More
It may seem silly, but I love to colour. I’m not into cutting or pasting or scrapbooking but I like to colour in colouring books. My daughter has a few Disney Princess Colouring books. And I happen to like Disney Princesses. So this evening my daughter and I spent time colouring. She coloured the rose from Beauty & the Beast and I coloured Aurora from Sleeping Beauty (one of my […] Read More
So I was wondering what ‘fun’ thing I could do this evening and I realized I had just read 2 chapters of Harry Potter with my middle son. I mentioned yesterday that we read through The Lord of the Rings last year. We’ve also read through the Chronicles of Prydain, the Madeline L’Engle Wrinkle in Time series and The Hunger Games series. Although we’ve both read the Harry Potter series […] Read More
I know I’ve already talked about J.R.R. Tolkien in a previous post but he is definitely at the top of my list of ‘fun’ things. The Lord of the Rings is my favorite book of all time. I read through it last year with my middle son and a couple if years before that with my oldest son. I’ll read through it someday with my daughter. I haven’t read everything […] Read More
Back in the day when I was a single mom Friday night was always movie night with my boys. I’d bake a pizza and we’d watch a movie. Time spent with my children…bonding time…but the real reason was that by the time I hit Friday I was so worn out I didn’t have the energy for anything but pizza and a movie. That being said, I do enjoy watching movies […] Read More
I very rarely play video games…but that doesn’t mean I don’t like playing them. You see, I have a bit of a mental block when it comes to video games. It seems like such a ‘frivolous’ way to spend time that I hardly ever do it. Not that I don’t think it’s ok for everyone else to play – I have no problems with that. It’s just that, for some […] Read More
Just about every year I put together a calendar of photos of our family. I really enjoy looking through the pictures from the past year and remembering those special moments. And then picking out which ones I will use for the upcoming calendar. It used to be quite the production – I would print and bind the calendars myself (typically running out of printer ink halfway through and having to […] Read More
There were two very fun things today. 1. Breakfast with Lila: Lila is part of our house church family and every week we go out for breakfast together and enjoy each other’s company. We started this summer and I have enjoyed every bit of it. I always look forward to our visits. Today we had breakfast at the Park Cafe. 2. Date Night with Hubby: normally my husband and I […] Read More
I had a luncheon to attend (and speak at) downtown and another reception in the same area a few hours later so instead of walking back home in the meantime I spent the afternoon out & about downtown (mostly in the mall – it was snowing, windy, and cold outside!). I do enjoy hanging out at the mall…by myself…with no deadlines and no real agenda. No pressure to hurry. Just […] Read More
So I played Christmas music on the piano this evening. I know I wrote about playing piano as one of my fun things to do already but I only break out my Christmas music books once a year and I really enjoy playing the music so this should count as a ‘new’ fun thing. It’s also nice when some of the harder songs I’d practiced for the last couple of […] Read More