Mama's Brain

I've finally decided to make my home journal. I found this really gorgeous martha stewart scrapbooking paper at walmart yesterday and decided it would be perfect for this craft.

I had fun with some of the names of the categories. I hope you enjoy them. The first two pictures are of the spine & cover and of the back. It has the scripture of Proverbs 31: 10-31 (about the proverbs woman ... someone I am striving to be everyday)

For My Brother Glenn

Hey Glenn.... heard that you were asking mom for more recent pictures of the kiddos, so here are some from our vacation last week. Enjoy!! The one of Melody and Aizen together is them eating little fruit pieces, we call them Fruit Nummies. ((((((auntie Denise sends LOTS of hugs to Sky and Sisi)))))

First 3 Pages Of Ruby's Book

A New Adventure ~ Ruby's Biography

I have decided that it is the right time in my grief and recovery to write Ruby's biography. I worked earlier on the cover page for it. You can't really see it but it has a white border around pink background.

It will be her life through my eyes and what a special little girl she is. If you have any suggestions of chapters I should do or have any memories of her, please let me know.

Ruby's Footer Stone

On the first day of our vacation we went to see Ruby's footer stone at Mickel Memorial up in Gravenhurst. I just love it and think that Sanderson Monument did a beautiful job with it.

It is such a bittersweet moment for us. I miss my sweetheart so much and I wish that I didn't have to see her footer stone. I just wish I could have her back so badly.

See You All Monday

We are off on our vacation tomorrow, so I will see you all on Monday.

It's going to be a lot of fun, and I'm almost completely packed up!!!

We will see Roo's footer stone and I will be sure to post a pic when I get home.

So everyone be safe and I'm going to enjoy me a couple of virgin strawberry daquiris!!

/comes out of the cave ......

I've been Really busy with scrapbooking the last week. I'm on a scrapbooking binge, I've done over 40 pages of Melody's life... and that's only from birth to 2 months LOL

I thought this one was so adorable and thought I would share it with you all here.

Whooooaaaa Bubbly Fun!!!!!

Nana and papa got Melody this cool bubble machine. You attach a bottle of bubble mixture to the bottom and you turn it on. It cycles the bubble solution up and you hit a button to make the wand move from side to side and it makes HUGE!!!!! bubbles.

Here is Melody having a blast with her new bubble machine!!

When I was a little kid, my mom taught me how to make a cheap bubble solution. If you have say a cup of water, use 1/4 cup of dish soap and mix it up. Works wonderfully.

Melody At 2 Years Old

When Melody was 2 she went to a little music program called Groovin' Tots. One of her favourite things was the bubbles.

I am scrapbooking this part of her life and thought this picture would look Great in a sepia tone.

I'm just going to have to print it out and frame it hehe

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AIZEN!!!!

I can't believe that my buddy boy is 1 today. It has been a long and wonderful year yet it seemed to go by so fastly. He has grown so much and is no longer my little baby, he's my little boy.

So far, he has had his birthday breakfast of mixed fruit and cereal, opened his presents and LOVES them, had a nap, lunch of mixed veggies and bananas and is now to playing again.

Melody and I will be baking his birthday cupcakes later this afternoon. Then will will have his birthday dinner, daddy will come home and we'll sing happy birthday and blow out his very first birthday candle.

My mom is up for his birthday and the kids are LOVING having her here and I am enjoying a bit of a break. We've been snapping lots of pictures and it's been fun so far.

I'll do a post tomorrow with lots of pictures, yes I know you are already asking for them Shauna!! =P You'll just have to wait /giggles



I love you so much buddy boy and Happy Birthday Aizen!!!!

DSB My Highlights Page

I made a scrapbook set to go side by side of when I got my highlights done in April. I just loved snuggling with Aizen while Daniel took these pictures. I can't wait to get them done again, just waiting on these ones to fade out.

Ruby's Footer Stone Is Done

I just got a call from the monument place that Ruby's footer stone is done. They are ahead in production by a month. It wasn't supposed to be delivered til July 18th, and it was delivered last week on the 18th.

We will be going up to Muskoka in mid July and I can't wait to see it and take pictures of it. It's strange but I'm excited to see it, even though it is for such a sad time in my life. We'll be burying Ruby's ashes in August and her footer stone is just a way to memorialize her life and just how much she means to us.

I'll post pictures next month when we are up there.

DSB Aizen And I

I've gotten back into my digital scrapbooking. I got a touch obsessed with crocheting chemo hats and getting the blog going for Ruby's Heavenly Treasures.

I opened up this folder of Amy Sumrall from Gotta Pixel and thought these pictures of Aizen and I were a good fit. I have some other summer pictures that I will have to scrapbook with this kit as well.

The Giggling Aizen

It's hard for me to believe that Aizen will be 1 next Saturday. Where has this year gone??

I thought I would post a few cute things about him. He is a very hard baby to get video of, as soon as he sees the camera, he stops and just tries to get it. So... he was giggling in the crib today and I put the camera by the monitor. Enjoy!!

Maple Bear Is Home!!!!

We are SO excited. Maple Bear has made his way home and has he had some adventures!!! He's been to Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Thanks to our friends who made this a wonderful success of learning about different areas of the USA to her grade 1 classroom.

Here is Melody with Maple Bear.

These are the little toys we made for Maple Bear to play with this afternoon.

This is Maple Bear's castle!

This is Maple Bear's bed. hehe

Melody is so very happy to have him home and as we do things around here, we will take Maple Bear with us and he will have Many adventures with our family.

Two Wolves ~ What Will You Choose??

I have a women's group that I attend for my therapy and this story was brought up a few weeks ago. The coordinators wrote it out for us and I wanted to share it with you. It is such a good illustration that we become who we are by what we spend our energy on.


Two Wolves

One evening an old Cherokee told his granson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply relied, "The one you feed."

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY MELODY!!!!! =)

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY MELODY DAWN!!!!!

It's hard to believe that my baby is really 7 years old today. I hope you have a great day sweetie. We gave a few presents early because we had to postpone her birthday party yesterday. We got her a littlest pet shop toy from Roo and a little game called mastermind.

Here are some pictures of our morning. Have fun scrapbooking mom.


Here is Melody when was just a day old in the Special Care Nursery, she was only 4 1/2 pounds.



Here are the pictures from this morning:







































I love you so much my precious little girl. I can't wait to see how you grow this year and all the fun new adventures we will discover!!!

Aizen In A Dress???

So, Daniel goes home from work tonight and Aizen is awake. He goes to get him and brings him down to me right away. And this is what we found..... Aizen had both his legs in one leg, and it looks like he is wearing a dress LOL So, of course I had to take video and I just couldn't stop laughing through the whole thing, he looked so funny.

CHEESE MUFFINS RECIPE!!! YUMMY!!!!!!!

Here is one of our favourite recipes that we like to make. A friend was asking me for the recipe so thought I would share it on my blog!!


CHEESE MUFFINS ~ Makes 12 muffins

2 cups whole wheat flour (we rarely use white flour in our house anymore)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup granulated sugar
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 cup marble cheese, grated (our fav but you can do whatever cheese you like best)
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil

Preheat oven to 400 F. Grease 12 muffin tins. (a great tip for this is to use a paper towel and get the butter on it and then wipe the tins, no mess for you to clean up later)

Sift together the flour, salt, sugar and baking powder. Stir in grated cheese.

Beat together egg, milk and oil for 1 minute. Stir liquid mixture into dry ingredients, only until combined. Batter should remain lumpy.

Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake on center shelf for 18 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown.

~~ you can also make these easily into Pizza Muffins..... just put half the mixture into the muffin tin cup, add in a bit of spaghetti sauce and a slice of pepperoni, if you like. Then top with the rest of the muffin mixture to cover it. SOOOOOOO good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just For You KATELYN !!!!!!

Hi Katelyn sweetie, this post is just for you. I saw your mommy left me a message that you wanted to see some pictures of your friend Melody, well here they are.

Melody was in a play where she had to be a "clown" fish at school. Doesn't she look silly? Do you like all the colours of her hair? What colours do you see? She got to wear a wig and can take the colourful hair on and off whenever she wants to, isn't that awesome?


In this picture Melody made a picture of her family. Remember the photo album we sent you with the stickers? These are the same kind of stickers and has all of our family members in it. Who's in your family? Maybe you can ask mommy to get you some crayons and a piece of paper and draw a picture of your family!!


Melody LOVES to go out into the backyard and dig up bugs!!!!! Do you like bugs? Here she is showing one of her bugs that she dug up.


We took Melody out to have some hot chocolate. Yummy!!!!! What is your favourite kind of drink? Do you like hot or cold drinks? Maybe you and mommy can go out on a date and have a special juice drink together?


I hope you enjoyed this post just for you sweetie!! Tell mommy that you love her and give her a big kiss. When you see daddy, give him big HUGS!!!

((((((hugs to you sweet Katelyn))))))

Denise =)

My Cutey Pattoottee

Aizen was being adorable last night, and yes we were watching Dr.Phil while I was videotaping him LOL

Aizen Loves The Sling

Thought I would put a post up of one of Aizen's favourite places to be. He is so happy and content in the pouch sling. So, here we are!!!

Ruby's Memorial Stone Sketch

I just received the sketch of Ruby's footer stone in my email today. I love it and cannot wait for it to be done for her burial in August. It makes me sad that I have to do this but it looks so wonderful and very much like my little pumpkin.