at home, on fire

this will be my last post here at HSB but don’t fret, all you need to do is get into the habit of lurking here:

www.kristinacamp.blogspot.com

we will be combining forces there to regularly blog, post pictures, maybe a video or two if the internet is fast enough over yonder in PNG.  we might even fork over the measly $10 required to register a domain name that doesn’t have dot blogspot dot com in it.  maybe.  i|I will be attempting to import all my archives there in the next litte while but I can’t see that bothering anyone but me.  In any case, I think I have imported almost all the friend’s list names.  if we missed you, please don’t feel slighted, just let us know.  that way you are forced to leave a comment.  as they say in pigin:

ok, me go, you sta

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NO,  I am not copying JenIg.  as a matter of fact, I believe I had this already planned out on Sunday; that I would post this family picture today, Wednesday.  She must have sensed I was going to do it and wanted to beat me to the punch.  Here it is.  Not the greatest, but the batteries (both of them) stopped working right after we took only two shots.  I had forgotten to wear any makeup and Jonam is laughing hysterically because the timing light on the camera was keeping the beat with the background music we had on.  I insisted on using this particular photo because Jonam usually looks like he would rather be adopted out to any other family than the one he has been forced to pose for a picture with.  Oh the joys of Holiday picture taking.

See how well you can gaze at the tree in all it’s glory?  Poor, poor JenIg.  And Neal is sporting his "bobby just got shorn" hairdo because the night previous had a wee little girl calling him a "very bad man".  I guess he could look pretty menacing with his mass of dark curls, like Bob Ross …

Here Jonam is standing behind me saying "awwh … you chose the bad one!"  I personally love this one.

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Tonight we had our homeschool drama group play and it went really well.  Neal was handy to add three extra rows of seating, and thankfully we had a number of mom’s decide to bring "a little bit extra" for dessert after the show.  I cheered for bestsister’s kids like they were my own.  Such sweetness.   I am, however, very glad to see this term end and will enjoy taking a HIGH Day break until the first week in January.  Now I can concentrate on the upcoming show at the VPP in town, and the murder mystery I am in on December 15th.  The life of a homeschool mom never ends, and neither do my pictures from our tree cutting …

a view of some of the open fires.  you simply find an available one and get out your dogs and buns to roast away

each of the "boys" took turns cutting down OUR tree

first, the tree gets shaken so the excess needles will fall off, then it gets wrapped in twine to make it simple to put on the roof of your car (if you have a roof rack, which we don’t).  we stick ours in the trunk and make the boys shove over one seat.

Neal bought me a sugar cookie while the boys went through the cedar maze because there was a heater in the tent and I was completely frozen by this time.  The icing was in a warming tray so it heated up my cold, cold hands.  yummola. 

I have no idea why people mistake me for my boy’s sister …

I love this time of year, and we will be working on our Christmas lapbooks soon, winding down for the holidays.  In twenty-one days, Neal and I will celebrate our fourteenth anniversary.  I love this man.

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The day was perfect, including the occasional snow fall, the big, beautiful, story-book kind of flakes, and Harry Connick Jr. over the loudspeaker.  Mmmm, yes, the day was perfect …

Neal carving his name into our bucksaw so Sloan’s doesn’t think we took one of theirs

walking toward the main building, where you pay your entrance fee

coming in with us?

going to have some fun before we eat

Jonam on the pony … we were told the boys were on the edge of being too tall.  at least we had this time

Evan on the zip line.  hard to believe we had to force him to do this

I will post more tomorrow …

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my friend michelle tagged me back at the beginning of the month, and being the most excellent friend I am, I only caught up on reading her musings today.  nice friend indeed.  I really love memes though, so here I go.

8 things I’m passionate about…

1.          My family. This has come to include people I truly am madly in love with though not related at all, like michelle, the fox family, the posties and the smalls.  some people I just cannot do without.

2.  Jesus.  I love the quote from mr. bennett. "I’m not crazy about religion, but I’m crazy about the Lord.
   

3. ART!  I love to create it and analyze it, even let it make me totally crazy mental not being able to make it the way I want to.
   

4. music.  cannot abide a life without it or those who have incredibly bad taste in it.  was a proud moment the night I recorded my first ‘for real’ song.  I love to write the music and lyrics and nothing quite compares to the feeling you get when you hear a piece performed for the first time ever.
   

5. parenting.  sounds cheesy, but I mean I love good parenting and seeing those skills lived out in others.
   

6.  writing.  being published is a bit of a rush, though I am far too critical of my own things. 
   

7. making a decision and feeling peace about it.  you have no idea how much this means to me.
   

8.          Theatre.  am I allowed to be this similar to someone else?

Things I want to do before I die…

1. believe in myself, not narcissistically but realistically acknowledging my gifts and talents and not being afraid to just use them already, without feeling like I need to make excuses.
   
   

2. become a respected writer.
   
   

3. sell some more of my art and not think people are completely retarded for wanting to buy it (see number one)
   
   

4. get out of debt and stay out.
   
   

5. have a honeymoon. 
   
   

6. travel all of Canada.
   
   

7. actually meet my relatives in Europe.
   
   

8. live long enough to see my kid’s kid’s kids, although heaven is mighty tempting.
   
   

Things I say often….

1. that’s retarded.  I know, completely un-politically correct, but this is MY meme.
   
   

2. I’m such an idiot.  I say this with far too much regularity (see number one in the second section).
   
   

3. for real.
   
   

4. that’s nice.
   
   

5. my hands are freezing.
   
   

6. Jonam (or Evan) what are you doing right now?
   
   

7. (on the phone) this is Kristina
   
   

8. go away 
   
   

Books I’ve read recently…

1. Crunchy Cons
   
   

2. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

3. Star-Shaped Pegs, Square Holes

4. I’m Not Going to Get Up Today

5. When the Heart Cries

6. The Kite Runner

7. Reunion

8. A Fish Out of Water

Songs I could listen to over and over…

1. Dave’s Party by Flight of the Conchords
   
   

2. Hey Delilah by Plain White Tees
   
   

3. Come to Jesus by Mindy Smith (love Mindy)
   
   

4. I Want You to be my Love by Over the Rhine
   
   

5. Who Will Guard the Door by Over the Rhine (anything on the Drunkard’s Prayer album)
   
   

6. Night Windows by the Weakerthans
   
   

7. Killer, ok,anything by Seal (thanks to Erin Hussey)
   

8. most of anything off the farewell album by Watermark.  what I wouldn’t give to wake up and sound like Christy Nockels tomorrow morning
   

8 Things that attract me to my best friends….

1. they don’t let me get TOO carried away. 
   

2. they expect certain things out of me.
   

3. they actually laugh WITH me and not just at me.
   

4. they seem to get it most of the time.
   

5. they love Jesus too.
   

6. they excel in areas I do not.

7. they tell me that they love me and I can tell they mean it.
   

8. they know this is my favourite number.  well, they do now.
   

8 People who should do this Crazy Eights meme:

you will sense it …

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