The Leaf Thief.

The leaf thief is my daughter Nini. She is determined to carry all the leaves that have fallen to the ground through our neighborhood to our house. She is so cute. The first time she did this was the sweetest picture moment, but alas I didn't have my camera with me. I made sure to bring it the next good day to capture this cute little thing she likes to do.

My favorite thing to do in the fall is to walk through leaves. The girls are following after their mum! The city has huge sucking machines that go around every so often and scoops all the leaves from the neighborhoods and takes them - to where? I don't know, all I know is they are gone!

Cici, we are thankful, does not have pneumonia, but bronchitis. Which they are treating the same as pneumonia. I have to give her puffs of medicine through this puffer machine for two weeks, plus she's on some high dose anti-biotic. I was really impressed at the help I received from our family doctor. I will have to chalk up a point for good health care in Quebec, so far, it hasn't changed my mind about good health care in Montreal, but it helps!

We spent Monday night carving pumpkins, only to have our neighborhood squirrels helping themselves to our labors. They got a hold of the one in the middle and the Ichabod, headless horseman and put their little squirrel teeth into them. I guess the ghost was too scary for them!

I also got the thank you cards for the girl's birthday's printed out. I used the white printable stickers, took a picture of the girls with the gift their friend gave them. It was a lot of fun, and thanks to Jill - a really great idea! Thanks!


I've spent a lot of time organizing my craft and sewing space. This little wine room is a great place to sort and store craft items. I purchased the tin bins from Ikea and hung them up with a cute piece of ribbon. I also purchased a small desk on casters to roll in and out of the closet/room - actually I'm calling it my "craft fort", when I need to sew or work on a project. It's a great idea for a small, very small space! I show you more later this month!

This video is from a huge down pour this last Friday. Isn't this crazy? We were stuck with everybody else on the city freeway's. It took an hour just to go to Toys R US to get some birthday gifts for the girl's friend. It was really coming down. But what would fall be, without a good down pour?

For the next couple of days we will not be able to get online. We will be at Acorn Cottage this Friday, coming back Sunday or Monday. It all depends on when we need to be at the doctor's for the IUI. We hope to be back Sunday, because we leave Monday night for Utah and my brother's wedding. If it's on Monday we'll have an early morning appointment, drive for two hours, repack quickly, take a taxi to the airport, and then get in really really late into SLC.

This is what's planned for next week:

Fly to Utah
Blogger Luncheon
Meet sister-in-law's family
Halloween in Draper with friends and trick or treating
Shopping with my sister who comes Thursday for the wedding.
Rehearsal dinner Thursday night.
Wedding Friday and the rest of the time is up in the air!

Thanks for all your comments about Cici and for helping me with your lovely comments, goodmail, and good hearts! Seeing some of you soon!