Schoool's Out for Summer and Off to NS (June 24, 2026)

It was a busy day at work today but I managed to get my inbox cleared out and I felt great about that.

 

It was also the last day of school.

Wow - she has sure grown up so much this year.

After work, I packed for me and some for the girls, Jason packed too then we headed in to the city.

We fly out tonight at 11.

We met Kody, Haylee and the girls at the airport and once we made it through security which was a breeze, we went to Chili's for something to eat.

They have these super hot deep fried cheese sticks that Freya just loves.

We took the girls to the playground in the airport which was at the total other end from our gate but we had some time and we wanted to let them blow off some energy.

Which they did.

Jason normally would have gotten right in there and played with them but he is really not feeling well at all.

I hope he gets over it soon so he can enjoy our vacation.

I had booked seats for Jason and I and the girls all in a row so we had three seats together then one across the aisle.

Kody and Haylee couldn't get seats together by the time they checked in so Kody was randomly in the middle of a row several aisles in front of us and Haylee was on the aisle but in the very last row.

I planned on sitting in the middle with the girls but Eden wasn't having it, she wanted mom.

So I let Haylee take my seat and I took hers.

We did switch out for a short time but then Eden wanted Haylee back.

The girls did eventually fall asleep and I actually did too which is a first for me.

I normally don't do much sleeping on the plane.

I'll pick back up in the morning when we land, we are due to get in to Halifax around 6 am.

Got all of my steps in.

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!

I'm Going to Miss You Emma (June 23, 2026)

It's meeting day at work.

Tuesday's I have two meetings back to back, one from 9 am to 10 am then the next from 10 am until 11 am.

The second one went super long this morning, right up until lunch time almost so that was the morning shot.

This afternoon I just put my book on, put my head down and got to work.

I want to make sure my inbox is cleared out before I head out on vacation. 

I finished my last Emma M Lion book today and I'm sad.

I'm going to miss Emma and friends - I can't wait for the next book to be released.

I hope it's soon.

It's been raining so much around here, just day after day after day of rain and it has resulted in some flooding.

I had a physical therapy appointment in Whitecourt and afterwards I got my nails done.

I love how they turned out, they look so good.

When I got home, Freya and Eden were over.

Freya had done Jason's hair.

Looks fantastic.

Looks like he has antennae.

Ha ha!

Got all my steps in - go me!

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!

Got My Hair Did (June 22, 2026)

Today is weigh in day.

I was actually looking forward to weigh in for once because I feel like my eating has been very under control for the last couple of days.

I was 239.4 lbs

That's down 3.4 lbs since last week which I feel really good about.

I've been so against going on Ozempic for so long but now that I've finally done it, I feel hopeful for the first time in the long time that I am going to be able to make some progress.

I seriously feel lighter already.

I'm also feeling like I shouldn't have tortured myself and I should have done this long ago.

When I walked into my office this morning I had a jack-o-lantern and a container sitting there.

Turns out Calvin is getting ready to move and he is purging.

He knew Jason really liked Halloween so he brought some decorations for us to have.

He also brought me some puzzles because he knows I like those.

The cat one looks like it is going to be fun!

The rain finally stopped so I went out for a walk on my lunch hour.

I saw this t-shirt for sale online and thought it would fit Eden to a tee!

I might have to order it for her!

I had an appointment to get my hair colored after work.

It's about time, the grey was really growing in.

Just lost about 10 years!

The hairdresser I go to is only a couple doors up from Kody's house so when Freya got off the bus, she noticed my car parked there and came right over to see me.

She asked if she could come to my place.

I got her to check with Kody and Eden wanted to come over too so I picked her up on my way home.

Eden was on fire from the moment I picked her up.

She was being a little goofball here - she ended up walking right into the tv stand with her little blindfold on.

Oops! She didn't hit it that hard so all good.

She wanted me to take her out on her scooter and she wanted to look at bugs (she's fascinated).

She wanted something to eat, she wanted to get into the water.

She basically wanted everything and my full attention.

Little spill.

Trying Sissy's bike.

Meanwhile, I was trying to get laundry finished up so I'd be ready to pack and I was doing some cleaning as well.

Freya had her friends Theia and Eliza over so they kept busy - Eden wanted to play with them but they were riding their bikes so that wasn't happening.

She wants to do what the big girls are doing.

"I fast too"

She was a little upset but then she was onto the next thing.

She's definitely a little whirlwind - I wouldn't have her any other way though.

Jason got home from his massage around 8 so he took over and entertained her until Kody came to pick them up.

I made unwrapped eggrolls for supper (basically just the eggroll filling with no wrapper) and it turned out so good - my best version yet!

Got all my steps in!

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!

Celebrating Jennifer (June 21, 2026)

Woke up to another rainy day.

It was just pouring out there.

These two were snuggled up in the basket together - so sweet.

Jen is coming up to bring her cats to Rob to watch while she goes to PEI  and tomorrow is her birthday so I decided to do an impromptu dinner.

I backed a banana sour cream cake - it is a family favorite and I haven't made it in a while.

It's so easy too.

Then I got a lasagna on the go.

Jason wasn't feeling the best today so he kind of chilled and hung out with Eden.

He usually does all the cooking when we have family dinners so I hope it was a nice break for him.

He did give Eden a bath.

I sorted through all of the toys and picked out all of the tub toys,

Eden had every single one of them dumped in the tub with her.

She was so excited to see Jen and snuggled right up to her and even let Jen brush her hair and put ponytails in it.

Everybody enjoyed the lasagna.

Freya had two slices but she mainly ate the noodles and left the meat sauce behind.

She just loves pasta - we should really make it more often for her.

Eden didn't eat a whole slice but she did eat some.

The faces this kid makes - cracks me up.

Time for cake!

Rob, Kody, Morgan, Kalem and Whitney all came over as well.

Zepplyn called Kody too wanting to drop by and see everyone so we told her to come on over.

We had a game of Drawful at Freya's request and visited for a bit then around 7 Jen hit the road for home.

Kody too.

The girls didn't want to go at first but Kody was able to convince them.

These too are so cute together.

A selfie with my sweetie pie before she left.

Morgan and Kalem.

The pregnancy is really causing her a lot of bloating and so she isn't always feeling the best.

She's nearly half way there, hopefully it let's up for her.

Ethan has his first girlfriend - he sent a picture to Jen which she shared with us.

She gave me permission to put it here too.

I can't believe how grown up he looks.

Where oh where has the time gone?

After everyone left, I cleaned up.

It didn't take much because we used disposable plates - my kind of clean up.

Then I had a long relaxing bath.

I'm getting my hair colored after work tomorrow and I can't wait.

I'm feeling like I'm looking so old.

I did get all of my steps in today.

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!

Rainy Day Activities (June 20, 2026)

I woke up super early this morning and I couldn't go back to sleep so I just got up.

I had a quiet morning - it was nice.

Around 9, Freya and Theia showed up - they were starving they said so I made them pancakes for breakfast.

It was a rainy day outside so we decided to take the girls to Whitecourt to go swimming.

We invited Kody to join us, he said no at first but when we were on our way there, he texted to say he was coming so he met us at the pool.

We swam for about an hour or so then everyone was hungry so we went to Boston Pizza (Freya's pick).

The kids just seem to love it there. 

Kody, Eden and I.

Theia, Freya and Jason.

I had a thai chicken salad and it was really good but the heat kind of snuck up on me and I could only eat about half of it.

We stopped at Walmart for a few things and the girls wanted to check out the bikes.

Eden tried in this spiked helmet and it was totally her personality.

We would have got it but it was 50 bucks and she already has one.

Jason researched it and you can get accessories for helmets so we may order her some spikes for the one that she has.

I guess Eden was taking foot selfies on the drive home.

We dropped the girls off at Theia's - Freya is spending the night there again.

Kody called to see if Eden wanted to go home but she wanted to spend the night with us.

Missed my steps again.

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!

Friday Things (June 19, 2026)

I got out for a little walk this morning to the road and back at work.

It was fairly nice out and it is supposed to rain all weekend so I figured I'd get some fresh air in while I could.

It was a busy day and I ended up working through lunch so I didn't get out for a walk again.

The girls came over after work (Mom and Dad were both working).

Freya was off playing with Theia as soon as she had a chance.

Eden was upset because she wanted to go too so Jason distracted her by baking a cake with her.

Freya always loved backing with Jason - now it looks like Eden does too.

It was a quiet evening, Freya and Theia were back and forth until around 8 then they went to spend the night at Theia's.

I did a little more organizing in the basement, got stuff ready to take to donate tomorrow in case we go to Whitecourt.

Then we just had a chill evening.

Crystal and Randy have this play set in their backyard that they want to get rid of - we were talking about it last weekend when they were over so Crystal sent some pictures.

We thought we would take it over to our place for the girls.

Crystal said we could have it, we will just need to take it apart and move it over then put it back together again.

Jason wanted an idea of what it looked like.

It is supposed to rain all weekend so it likely won't happen before our vacation but hopefully we can get it done when we get back.

I didn't quite manage to get all of my steps in.

I still feel like the Ozempic is working already - the food noise is gone.

My appetite seems the same but I'm not constantly thinking about food which is fantastic.

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!

Ozempic Journey Begins (June 18, 2026)

Since I am going to be starting my Ozempic journey today, I wanted to do a weigh in just to document my starting weight.

 

I was 243 lbs 

I had a physical therapy appointment in Whitecourt today - I got there a little early so I had time to stop in at the pharmacy to pick up my Ozempic prescription and have the pharmacist give me my first injection.

I wanted to see how to do it then I also had some questions for him about side effects.

I have some concerns but also, I'm excited to get started.

The first thing they do at therapy is dunk my hand/wrist in wax and let it sit like that for about 15 minutes.

Then I do a series of exercises that they gave me to do.

It's kind of boring, I have my phone so I can try to watch videos or play games but I have to count what I'm doing and I get mixed up a lot so I normally don't even bother with the phone at all and I just concentrate on the exercises.

Then I also do a series of exercises with this little gadget.

I do my whole hand then I do each finger individually.

She bumped me up to the next weight on this one today too.

It's going pretty good, except for my pinkie - it's pretty weak.

I just do what I can though.

I stopped and picked up some pork dumplings for my lunch and ate them on the drive home.

They are so good - I think I might actually like the ones that Jason makes better but these are really delicious.

A Mama grizzly and her three cubs crossed the highway right in front of me on the drive home.

It's always so exciting to see - this has definitely been the year of bears so far.

I was really tired when I got home.

I cleaned up, did the dishes, made myself an iced match latte then I was going to have a bath but Freya ended up calling and wanting to come over so come they did.

Eden actually wanted to sit and snuggle with me which is a rarity so I took advantage of the opportunity.

I mean it's not really snuggling but she was sitting right next to me - it's about the best I get from her.

Freya and I worked on some math homework.

She's learning how to subtract 10's so Jason cut out a bunch of cardstock to make numbers so we could show her in a more visual way and I think it helped somewhat.

The girls put on a little dance show for us before they left.

Eden's moves crack me up.

There were lots of kisses and hugs and I Love You's from the truck again as they were leaving.

We are so blessed to have them!

I don't know if the Ozempic has kicked in already but I didn't feel like snacking at all this evening.

Here's hoping.

I did not get all of my steps in.

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!