Fallin' ......

Well, fall is full upon us!  The leaves are starting to turn and soon I will be able to get more pics like this one.

Obviously, my blogging frequency is going to mirror my diary writing of years past...in fits and spurts : - )  I always have it in the back of my mind to do but it is down the list quite a way.

Last week, I started teaching part-time at an after-school program called Mad Science.  We teach kids from kindergarten to Grade 6 about science-related topics.  I am thankful that the Lord sent a job my way that gives me exactly what I was looking for: much higher than minimum wage, part-time hours and complete flexibility for time off, etc.

We are teaching Spy Academy right now, which is right up my alley.  When I was a kid, I had a detective kit and used to spy on the neighbors in the apartment complex next door and dust their doorknobs for fingerprints.  After the initial chaotic beginning, I am really starting to enjoy the kids and their cute questions and comments.  I had asked them to come up with a spy name and told them it could be a nickname or something completely unrelated.  I had to explain nicknames and one little guy said "Oh, it's like my dad's name is Brian, but he goes by 'Dad'"....too cute!!

This weekend is shaping up to be quite busy.  Heath and I want to go apple picking but I'm not sure when we are going to fit that in.  Saturday, the plan is to go to Oxford with the rest of the family to put wood in for Mom & Dad P.  We will be rushing back to Moncton to join some of the Mix clan for Rita's stupendous cabbage rolls for supper on Saturday and then another trip to NS on Monday for Thanksgiving dinner at the cot-taj.  Burp!! 

Hope all of this delightful food will put some of the pounds on that I've lost.  Between Dave's restricted eating plan and starting to jog, I had lost about 5 pounds and I am getting REAAALLLLYYY tired of people commenting on how thin I am.  Geeesh!  If everyone commented on larger people's weight the way they comment on mine, I can see why people get really defensive about their weight.  Am I not fine just the way I am???  Dave thinks so....and he's the man : - )

It is a gorgeous sunny day and I spent some time this morning finishing up with the outside painting.  Trim and support column all done.  Now Dave just has to finish the garage door.  I got tired of looking like the 'white trash' house of the neighborhood.

Ciao for now!