Share Your World 2015 – Week 22

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Mama Cormier

…..Cee has asked us to complete the following sentences

Cee came up with a another way of doing Share Your World for this week. Finish these four sentences. You can be talk about yourself or be creative and write a piece of fiction. It’s up to you. Have some fun.

Complete this sentence: Never In My Life Have I….ever wanted to sky dive, bungee jump or do anything remotely dangerous.

Is this dangerous?

Complete this sentence: My neighbour wants me to help her…..celebrate her retirement in a couple of weeks. I love parties and I hope to get there. It will probably be outside in her beautiful garden as long as the weather co-operates.

Complete this sentence: When I was little I wanted…I always wanted to sing and perform on stage. The only problem was that I had terrible stage fright and very low self esteem. I did sing in the school choir and later I joined a German choir that I sang with for 27 years but I never performed solo.

Complete this sentence: Will you come here to…share in a meal? My husband is a great cook and I need an excuse to clean my house from top to bottom.

Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

Last week I’m grateful for a successful Forest of Reading celebration, raising over $6000. for Jump Rope for Heart and for participating in the dunk tank at our annual Fun Fair and surviving to tell you about it. After the first dunk I actually enjoyed it. It was a very hot humid day and I certainly felt refreshed after being dunked three times. I would have done it more often but there was a schedule that had to be maintained so that all the grade 5s who signed up could have a turn.

This week I’m looking forward to gathering up the final pledge envelopes for Jump Rope for Heart and figuring out what our total contributions will be. I’m also looking forward to getting my marks done for the report cards, organizing the library before the summer break in three weeks and hosting treat day this week.

The thing I’m most looking forward to is a visit from my sister who lives in Calgary. She and her husband are flying in on Friday and will be visiting with my dad and then spending Saturday evening and Sunday morning with us. Short but sweet. I guess this will be my excuse to get the house in ship shape.

Sunday Trees – 185

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Mama Cormier

…… thanks Becca for hosting this challenge

Weekly Haiku Challenge Prompts – Think and Fresh

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Mama Cormier

……Ronovan from Ronovan Writes has given us the words Think and Fresh for this week’s haiku

In the Dunk Tank

I overly think

of all that could go wrong but

fresh is how I feel

Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge 2015 – Week 22

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Mama Cormier

…..I’ve wanted to shoot pictures of this store front for awhile

It started out with one mannequin out front and then quickly morphed to more, usually dressed in some hockey gear, plus a collection of sundry items like windmills and old chairs. I thought this was a perfect collection for Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge.

New Flower (May 29, 2015) – Orange Poppy

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Mama Cormier

New Flower (May 28, 2015) – Weeds or Wildflowers

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Mama Cormier

….so many weeds have such beautiful flowers that many people insist that they are wildflowers

I also love seed pods and decaying flower heads. Are you hesitant to pull some invasive plants because of their beautiful flowers?

Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge – Take a New Photo

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Mama Cormier

….Cee instructed us to upload some new photos taken in the last week or so

So on my daily walk tonight I searched out some interesting shots for this challenge. I only found one I was happy with in black and white but I really liked my last flower photo when I converted it to black and white.

New Flower ( May 28, 2015) – Double Pink Tulip

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Mama Cormier

…..I’m beginning to see more and more of these double tulips

Share Your World 2015 – Week 21

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Mama Cormier

…..Cee has changed up the format for this week’s post

Instead of four questions, Cee has asked us to choose topics and list at least four items for each topic. Here are my choices:

Favorite Songs

Favorite flowers or plants: Gerbera Daisy, Sunflowers, Tulips, Gladiolas,

Favorites types of tea
Favorite types of animals: dogs, elephants, snow leopards, zebras

List of favorite blogs
Stuff that makes you laugh: silly jokes, funny movies, my husband, absurd answers that kids write on tests
Movies to cheer you up
Favorite actors/actresses
Good restaurants to eat at
Best desserts: anything with fruit and whipped cream, creme brule, real Black Forest cake, ice-cream

My broken birthday cake. It didn’t travel well on my husband’s bike.

Games to play with friends
Fun things for a rainy day: playing board games, reading, painting, talking on the telephone, baking,
Books I want to read
Things I want to have in my home (paintings, hot tubs, book cases, big screen tv etc)
Places worth shopping
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I’m grateful that I was able to organize the activities for Monday’s Forest of Reading Celebration. On the weekend I made my samples for the hand made journals, shopped for the gift bags and purchased some books for the students that had done an outstanding job with our reading challenge. I’m thankful for all the help from two of my colleagues, M and B who stayed late on Friday and helped me set up the supplies for the workshop. A special thanks to R for running the drama workshop and my boss, M for purchasing the pizza lunch for all our reading experts and the 40 students who qualified for our special day.

One final thanks goes to the parents and the school council for making this program possible with their generous contribution. Without their financial support we wouldn’t have been able to purchase the books for the program and hire the author who came to speak to the boys and girls on Monday.

This week I’m looking forward to our Jump Rope for Heart activity on Friday and to the Fun Fair on Saturday. This year the goal was to sell at least 400 wristbands before this Saturday. If that happened I agreed to go into the dunk tank. The children have been taunting me for weeks that I was going down into the tank but I replied that unless they sold those wristbands that wasn’t going to happen. Today they met the goal. My principal is over the moon that it’s going to be me this year and not her going into the tank. Stay tuned. I’ll keep you posted as to how I survive the ordeal.

I leave you with a few images from last week. On Saturday my husband and I took a trip to the Junction to check out the first day of the weekly Farmers’ Market. I looked up and photographed some of the interesting facades of the older buildings in the neighbourhood and we checked out a few interesting stores and of course stopped for coffee.