6 Days!

The countdown is on.
Moving day is this Sunday, and so far it looks like a lovely day of rain and cold weather.
The apartment is a mess; boxes, tape, markers lay all over the place, but I can't find a pencil to save my life.
It's really quite amazing. I know we've done a alot, the stacked boxes attest to that, but it still looks like we've done nothing but make a huge mess.

Today is clothes day - sort and pack all the clothes I won't be using in the next 5 days and get a large enough pile of donation clothing to please Remi.
It's so cute, he keeps saying: "We have too much clothing...we should donate most." But I know he means "you" when he says "we".
It's true, the majority of the clothing is mine - I just like how he tries to soften it by saying "we".

It's all gray and rainy out today, a nice stay-at-home kinda day. So at least I'm not missing anything being inside!

Better get started, have a happy Tuesday!

Peace,
- Jenny

Fall Is Here!

Where to begin?
This week and past weekend has been crazy - it's been full of visiting, dinners, family and a wedding of a friend of the family.

Sunday morning Jeremie and I decided on a sleep-in with a nice brunch, I meant to buy bacon earlier, but had forgotten.
At around 10:00am, I went to the local butcher in town, sadly, I noticed there was no glowing "open" sign and it looked dark inside. Frowning, I realized that they didn't open 'till noon!
That didn't help much, it wouldn't be a "brunch" at all!

Suddenly I recognized one of the ladies that worked there waving fanatically at me and making "come in" motions. Smiling, I pulled on the door she opened for me.

"I thought you were closed!" I said.

"Well, we are, but I'm ready enough to open for you." She grinned back.

While we're not more that acquaintances, Laurie and I have seen each other all the time, I buy milk, staples and sometimes meat there (I get most from my folks ~ Thanks Mum and Pop!) so we recognize each other pretty easily.
As I walked out with my fresh peameal bacon, or what our American neighbours call "Canadian bacon" - I remembered why I love living in this small town so much.

I'm used to small-town kindness, but have never lived in one long enough to have the butcher call out to me by name and ask about my week, or have the local cafe know my order before I say a word.

It's an amazing blessing - and I love it here.

This previous week I have been visiting with my sister and her family - we had a "girls night" (plus the nephews) while Jeremie, Dad and my brother-in-law, Cory were at my brother, Jonathan's, bachelor party.
They paint-balled most of the day, and at final count, Jon was up to 55 welts. He agreed to "run the gauntlet" and get pelted by a barrage of men with paintball guns.

Nothin' like male bonding eh? :D

The girls and I watched "Lost in Austen" a mini series about a young London woman, obsessed with Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudiced" and somehow finds a door to that world!
It completely drew me in, and I LOVED it.
I sat in front of it with my Christmas gift projects and hardly noticed the work my hands were doing! (Can't go into too much detail, as certain people may be reading this!)

I found this lovely mirrored print at the local used store for 2$! I love it something fierce, and am still deciding where to hang it. (Though it was quite the pain to take a photo of a mirror!!)

A busy week awaits me - more shifts at the Library, and another busy weekend on the horizon. This weeks goals include:
- Getting the eternal housework finished.
- Finishing Christmas project and starting baby project for my sis-in-law out west.
- Pack away summer clothes/air out winter clothes.
- Hang up hooks for winter coats.
- Put together shelves for the craft room (Jeremie!)
- Maybe make some freezer meals.

Wish me luck!

~ Jenny

Rain, Rain, Go Away...

I awoke to a grey, rainy morning today.

The sky was grey, the buildings were grey, and even the people seemed grey.

While I expected a cold drizzle, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it was actually quite warm out, even the rain felt warm.

Of course, sitting here now in damp jeans, I can't say I feel particularly comfortable.

I was tired of looking at all the grey so I went to the only colourful place I could think of that's open this early in the morning.

The local cafe.

After a nice hot chai latte and a blueberry muffin, the day has started to look brighter!

I'll be working today at the Library, I still can't believe I was so blessed to get that job. I've never been able to walk to work, especially work in my field.

I have worked in Libraries since '03, and since then have worked in governmental libraries, college libraries, small business, and public.

Public is by far my favourite! The only other place I'd like to work is perhaps in an elementary school library, I think I would really enjoy that as well.

As I'm typing I hear a voice I recognize, its the antique dealer who works down the road, whom I just bought two decorative spoon holders from the past week.

My sister and I want to start collecting spoons - my mother thinks its horrendously tacky, but I want to paint the holder a bright green or yellow and make it more "Kitsh". A lost cause? Maybe, but for three dollars I'm willing to try!

Christmas is almost here and I am starting to prepare all my Christmas gifts - as a family, we generally like to make our gifts to each other.

We have a budget, only about 20-25$ per couple.

It's not a large amount, but I'm always amazed by the ingenuity of my siblings to make that money stretch and give a wonderfully thoughtful gift!

I love Mill St. Its the main street in our town where all the stores, cafes and restaurants are.

You get to know everyone, but I'll make a new post for that later!

Tomorrow's a home day, aka cleaning day.

Friday the girls and I are heading out to Fabricland to take advantage of a huge sale and Saturday, it's more canning of Tomatoes!

Let's hope this warm weather holds so we can get more veg!

~ Jenny