Writer's Workshop - Where Babies Come From

4. Are you feeling brave? Ask your child where babies come from and share their answers.

"Babies come from your belly."

There you go! Simple enough. 

"How do they get in your body?"

I think the ants bring them there. Sometimes you step on an ant and it goes into your belly with a baby.

You know you eat food, so the food goes in your tummy and that makes a baby.

I have some more ideas. Want to hear them?

I think babies come from, when you eat food, it sticks together and that makes a baby. The baby makes its own body from food.

I don't like to eat food because I don't want a baby.

I asked Ethan this over a series of days to see if his answer changed.
Nope!
The ants are responsible.
Can you tell I live in Africa where the ants are always around?

52 Weeks of Happiness - Week 1

I had so much fun with Leigh and her quest for happiness last year,

that I'm joining in again this year. 

Last week was Susan's birthday.

We planned a dinner this weekend at the Thai restaurant.

I would have to say, 

my favourite part of the Thai place,

is the fact that Mint is next door.

Our plan was to hit Mint for cake and coffee.

However, dinner was fabulous

and we drank and chatted non-stop

that by 11pm, we needed to get home

and let the babysitter go.

I commented how we should take a few pieces of cake

and eat them at my place.

Susan agreed.

The only problem, 

was we couldn't decide what cake we should get.

So we got a few.

Happiness is pigging out on, 

gorging out on, 

enjoying some dessert

with great mates. 

Under the Never Sky - Veronica Rossi

Under the Never Sky was my choice in The Story Siren's YA Debut Author Challenge for the month of February. It was a hard one to get into, and not because it wasn't a good book. It was. But it took a while to get going.

Veronica Rossi wrote in the 3rd person, and from the point of view of her two main characters. At the beginning, I found this a challenge. One moment it's Aria's point of view, and the next chapter is Perry's. And since it was in the 3rd person, you never got a real sense of their voice.

Aria lives in a world where her people live in pods and fear the outside world (they call it the Death Shop due to cannibals and Aether storms). Her people spend most of their time in virtual reality Realms, rarely living a day in the Real. One day she is exiled from her pod city and begins a journey with an outsider named Perry, in hoped of returning to her pod city.

Perry, meanwhile, wants to be the Blood Lord of his group. His nephew is kidnapped by the Dwellers, and he sets out to find him.

Being from 2 different worlds, neither is happy with the other, but we all know that can change.

Asides from changing back and forth between points of view, I also had a hard time with the actual characters. I liked Perry, but Aria rubbed me the wrong way. It did take getting half way into the book before I felt like I was going to smack her. Other characters were brought in, and once I started to like them, they were gone.

Happy Birthday Scott

Scott's conference in Toronto ended on Wednesday.

Thursday was his birthday, 

and he did not want to spend the day on an airplane,

so he spent a few days with his dad and his brother.

That meant, we had to postpone our little celebration.

So today is Scott's Lusakan birthday. 

Every year, since Ethan was 8 months old,

Scott's been given a kanga shirt for his birthday.

Ethan has the same shirt.

When we learnt we were moving here,

I figured I needed a back-up plan.

I like the matching shirt tradition.

But didn't think I could do a kanga shirt.

So over, the summer, I came up with a new plan.

I thought I'd make this birthday a theme.

Baseball shirts for a gift.

and a football shirt for a cake.

(No criticism regarding Liverpool allowed)

Happy birthday babes.

Toy Story Waffles

I made a mistake.

A horribly, fatal mistake.

Last Sunday, 

I thought it would be fun to make some waffles for breakfast.

A couple of Christmas' ago,

Ethan got a cool Toy Story waffle maker

from the Tasty Baker. 

Being the non-domesticated mom,

I've yet to use it.

Well, not only did Ethan love his waffles,

he wanted them for breakfast on Monday too.

Good thing there were some left over.

This morning Ethan woke up

and informed me he was hungry.

He wanted...

you guessed it,

waffles for breakfast!

What have I created?

Will this be a regular Sunday expectation?

Writer's Workshop - Rose Ceremony

4. On The Bachelor a rose is given to the women he could really see himself spending the rest of his life with. What six things in your life would like to give a rose to and why?

It's been awhile since I've joined MamaKat.

And I couldn't think of a better way to join her Writer's Workshop once again.

It's obvious that I would give roses to Ethan and Scott. 

What's not to love about these two?

So, since we know they would get roses,

I'm not counting them.

Instead,

let's look at some of the really important things in my life.

Latte.

Oh how I love you.

You warm me up on cold mornings.

You bring me comfort.

You make books more interesting.

Will you accept a rose?

Body Shop Lip Butter.

I use to like lip balm,

until I met you. 

 Now I cannot imagine my life

without you.

Will you accept a rose?

iPhone

When you first came to me,

I didn't understand you.

But now, 

I cannot live without you.

Please accept a rose.

iPad

With my wonderful iPhone,

I never thought you'd be needed.

Oh, but I was wrong.

I love you so.

Would you accept a rose?

Shoes

When I'm feeling down,

a new pair cheers me up.

It doesn't matter if I gain weight,

or loose weight,

you still look great

(on me).

You make me feel taller

(those wedged heels help).

Will you accept a rose?

Books

Or more specifically

my vampire books.

Anne Rice,

JR Ward

you bring such entertainment.

Everytime I open one of your books,

I enter a completely different world.

(One that does not sparkle!)

I could not imagine my life with you.

Please accept my rose.

Could you imagine what my life would be like,

if I could not sip on a latte

(with my great buttery lips - lol)

while reading on my iPad

and wearing a great pair of shoes?

Such horror!!!!

52 Weeks of Happiness

I came across Leigh and her Happiness Project

a year and half ago.

I joined her Happiness Project and loved it.

I'm thrilled to have completed an entire year this time around.

Somehow, I must have messed up my math,

as I hit week 52 last week, 

and Leigh has hers this week.

But that doesn't mean I didn't find any happiness this week.

Consider this my bonus.

I love Fridays.

Not only does school end at 12:30,

but we get the market.

My favourite part of the market is Natalia.

Natalia has fresh, organic food. 

Amazing bread.

But my favourite is her Happy Meal.

This is no McDonald's.

Her Happy Meal includes;

an amazing salad, 

a smoothie,

a slice of bread with pesto spread

and a dessert.

Happiness is a Happy Meal.