Mother's Day

Mother's Day to me, is not so much about the flowers, gifts, cards, etc.  It's about having a relaxing day with the family.  And that is exactly what it was like this year.  We slept in, some as late as 9:15, but we won't mention any names. Mckenna made pancakes with saskatoon berry sauce for breakfast.  After church, we came home to a simple lunch, prepared by me! Cleanup was done by both girls. YAY!!  After a little bit more relaxing, we decided to go for a drive.  Our destination was Blackfoot Park, which is a campground situated on the  Peace River, if I am corrrect.  John had heard that there were ferns there and he wanted some to take home.  We found a little rabbit trail that took us through some wild raspberry bushes and strawberry plants.  We will have to go back there again when the berries are ripe! Will be a treat!  So while John dug some ferns, Emmy and I took some pictures and Kenna and Sadie did some exploring.  We ended up at the river where we enjoyed some tasty treats and did some more exploring and rock skipping.  We got home just in time to dive straight into bed.

Enjoy the pictures!

At the base of the right side of the bridge, where the pile of rocks are, is where we started out, and are the same rocks that the girls were climbing in the next picture

A BEAUTIFUL sunset that we  came home to.  

ME!

More often than not, my blog includes details about my family, my kids or my hubby.  It's not very often that it's just about me.  Well today it is.  There has been a few things that I've been up to lately, other than the regular.  Once a week, for about 5 weeks, I have been spending the day with a friend making quilts.  Not the fancy quilts that proffesionals do, but if I can say so myself, they are still pretty nice.  We only used material that was gifted to us, so we had to work with what we had.  In the end, we were able to finish 5 quilts before the group had to leave for Haiti, which is who we were making the quilts for.  In the meantime, I was also sewing together re-usable diapers for the same group.  I think I finished 28-30 of them.  It was fun doing this, but it sure would have been nice to see these diapers in action!Once that was finished, I became a member of the Farmer's Market here in town.  I back cookies, bars, muffines, loaves, bread and buns.  I've been told that I have been doing really good, both by other vendors, and a good friend from Quesnel that sells her baking at their Farmer's Market.  I have an awesome fan club that encourages and helps me.  I couldn't do it without them.  I enjoy doing it as I love to bake, but don't do it very often as we don't eat a whole lot of it. I am also trying to get into selling frozen cookie dough. So far no orders, but I'm not giving up!

On top of the farmer's market, I took on re-uphostering 3 cushions.  Two of them are shown, but the 3rd one was almost 6'x1 1/2' long. I got help from my dad, who does it for a job, for the little cushion, but a mastered the other 2 by myself.  Pretty happy with how they turned out.  The biggest challenge was the small floor space, and even smaller table surface (2'sq) that my machine sat on.  All the material just hung off my machine.

Enjoy the pictures.  Sorry for the mismatch of pictures.  For some reason, they don't want to enlarge clearly.  They also don't want to stay where I put them. You get the general idea of what I've been up to.

The flowers were a gift from John after my first Farmer's Market. I hadn't slept well at all the night before, and was compltely exhausted when I got home around 3 on Saturday.  This was a very nice surprise!