My favourite website

There are a million billion trillion websites out there, but I wanted to tell you about my favourite.

I am a bookworm. I have read a lot of books in my life, but I often forget about them and what it was I liked or disliked about them. Goodreads.com is a fabulous site that help you keep track of your book library. I can put my books on virtual 'bookshelves' that let me categorize my books however I want so I can find them again later. I can also rate them, and add review comments for myself and others to read. It has a large social-network aspect that I don't use a whole lot, but the groups they have a great for discovering new books to read.

One of the things that I like the most is the planning what I want to read in the future. I have a 'to-read' bookshelf that currently has 124 books, and it is growing all the time. I can wander around this site for hours looking at books and finding new things I want to read. Yes - I said hours.

I've added two side areas to our blog showing what James and I have read recently. Come check out our profiles to get the bigger picture.

• January's profile
• James' profile

Eowyn says...

So we are in the car last night, and Eowyn has her travel bingo page in her hands and starts singing...

"I have a bingo in my pants..."

It's really hard to laugh at her without telling her why. It was just way too funny.

Father's Day

James and the girls before the race
Originally uploaded by Waterloo Fords

On Father's Day (June 21st), James ran the Waterloo Classic 10K race - his first race since starting his running regime. He did fantastic, finishing the race in 56min 57sec. The girls had a great time cheering for people as they finished their runs, and playing on the football field.

Yay James!

My Husband: The Running Man

At the beginning of this year, I decided that 2009 was the I was going to get serious about losing weight and getting healthy. Being the wonderful husband that he is, James decided to do it with me. We joined a gym, started eating better, and began changing our lives.

James started working out at the gym, and started running on the treadmill. Once the weather got nice, the treadmill progressed to outside, and before I knew it, he was running on a regular basis. He has now registered for the Waterloo Classic 10k race on Father's Day (June 21st), and is talking about training for a marathon.

Since we began this journey 6 months ago, James has lost about 50 pounds, and is a lean, mean running machine! He has gone from an XL to a Medium, from a 38/40 pant to a 34, and now needs an entirely new wardrobe!

I am so proud of what he has accomplished, and how great he is doing with his goals! I know it will be only a matter of time before he is running that marathon, on his way to trying for Boston!

Look at my toothy grin!

Look at my toothy grin!
Originally uploaded by Waterloo Fords

Eowyn lost her first tooth last night. It has been very wiggly for a while now, but at dinner James noticed that the new tooth is visible behind the baby tooth. Eowyn was very brave and very excited about losing the tooth, so she let me pull it out (with a kleenex for traction).

She put it under her pillow for the toothfairy, who visited last night to replace the tooth with some coins. She is very proud of her gap, and is smiling all the time to show it off.

I can't believe she is old enough to have lost a tooth, and have adult teeth growing in. Or wait - is it that I can't believe I'm old enough to have a daughter who is old enough to...

All Better!

Well, Kiera went to the doctor's on Tuesday, and was officially diagnosed with "Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease". Sounds appealing, doesn't it? There was nothing he could do for her - we just needed to wait it out and live through it.

And it figures, she went to daycare on Wednesday, and by lunch was fine. She is now eating and drinking like normal! YAY!

Wishing pain away

Kiera has had a pretty miserable past few days. Since Wednesday night, she has had a lot of pain in her mouth, and hasn't been able to eat. When we can get a look, she has a lot of little cankers in her mouth that are making it very painful for her to eat or drink. The cankers seem to be getting better now, just in time for the doctor's appointment today (love our lack of doctors).

It has been awful not being able to help her! For the most part, just snuggling with her seems to help. Oh, and watching endless Pooh movies is also a big help. Now the fun part is going to be convincing her that it is ok to eat, and that her mouth won't hurt.

Wiggle, wiggle

I had a great Mother's Day surprise on Sunday - Eowyn discovered that she has TWO loose teeth! Her bottom two center teeth are loose - one is acutally very wiggly! It's hard to believe that she is old enough to lose her teeth. She is very proud that she is getting her adult teeth. Now we just need to work on stopping the thumb sucking...