days away...

Last week we did our tree, I sat back as usual...and the tree came to life at the hands of the boys.  This year, I have resisted rearranging the decorations when they aren't looking :)  They seem to be improving with age! ;)

Hard to believe that Christmas is mere days away.   I am quite sad to report that I have literally no Christmas Spirit this year.  Been a heckuva year.  But what doesn't kill us will make us stronger...or so "they" say...

Tomorrow we'll try & get our shopping done amidst the holiday chaos...listen to carols...Just glad the boys are done school for a few weeks :)

Are you ready yet???

tree day approaches...

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ya...i think saturday is tree day.

  drag out the decorations, take the boys out and try our best to get a tree home to decorate....

then maybe some christmas baking...mmm cookies...

                                                                             

Going Back My Roots

Don't worry, I never lied...I really am a true redhead.

But after many months, many changes,

 many many changes,

I come back to Rocketgirl.

For she is me.

Stay tuned.

 

True Hollywood Divas

~ Gorgeous Greta ~

 

~ Beautiful Bette ~

~ Lovely Lana ~

 

~ Have a wonderful weekend!!! ~

 

Procrastination...

I really better get started...

Two weeks til a new school year!

This is the first year in 5 years that we haven't all been going back!

Mr. Rocketgirl was done this past winter.

The boys {crush my little heart},

grade 7 & 4.

WHAT THE HECK??????

And Doula school awaits me...

Can someone please tell me where summer went????

Anne & I are on nightshift...

It's the most wonderful time of the year....

Back to School!

I will miss the boys!

Not looking forward to 5 early mornings a week,

but am looking forward to some me time.

Now I just need to get on that back to school shopping...ugh!

I had a Holly Hobbie lunch kit when I was wee...the awesome metal kind.

Wonder where that went....

Beautiful Judy

The end is near...

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Darling & lovely friends in Blogworld

The Amazing Adventures of Rocketgirl

is drawing to a close soon...

Will keep you all posted.

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Tuesday Tuesday...

Well, it has certainly been awhile since a middle of the night post....

nightshift post.

This is the hour I dread. 

0400h. 

It's the nauseating hour. 

Then comes 0500h. 

The punchy hour.

The one where everything seems funny.  But really, it isn't.

Then comes 0600h...
many things to do before my replacement comes in at 0715h

Then at 0900h the boys have swimming lessons.

And then at 1030h, I can go to sleep!

And then, at 1700h (if I'm lucky enuf to sleep that long)
I get up for work again.

Last night before days off...

HALLELUJAH!

Perhaps I will "encourage" my student to take on another patient tonight  :)

Monday Monday.....

What a PLEASANT surprise!

I woke up today to a Blogger Award for this blog!

And one for Love, Balance, Peace...a journey  as well!

This is my award from the ever lovely Joyce over at

I Love Pretty Little Things!

The Versatile Blogger!

Yay!

So it looks like I need to list 7 things about myself, a condition of the award...YIKES!

7 things you may or may not know...

(1) Ms. C & I have our own little baking company, it's called TLC which stands for Tasty Little Confections

(2) I am a nurse, as is Ms. C (TLC...get it? yes? makes sense now?)

(3) I got the name Rocketgirl after a wacky nightshift from R over at Brokeshopaholic's Possibilities and Ms. C  (hooligans those two...)

(4) I feel "connected" to the people that I blog with, & some of them I have never even met!

(5) I change my toenail polish at LEAST once per week

(6) I haven't had "naked" toenails since I was young, maybe 10 years old...so about 15 years ago ;)

(7) I. LOVE. COFFEE.

Oodles of thanks for this award Joyce! and now I pass on this blog award...

 to 3 more blogs!

Pinecone Camp

Birdie Blue

Every Little Thing

How on earth do I pick three blogs? I love all the blogs I read...

Happy Monday to you!

Matryoshka Pretties!

SHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!

All of my freakin live long life, I have wanted, desired and longed for a full, proper and beautiful set of Russian Nesting Dolls. I'm not even kidding.

My whole life.

I would have settled for a perfect set of 6? 5? 4 even....

Ms. Cupcake & I were out thrift shopping on Thursday 

(...I'm sorry...I have to shreeeeeeeeeeeek again!)

and we found a glorious & beautiful Matryoshka!

She is blue & gold & perfect. With each doll, we found a new one inside!

Oh the giggles! I was OVER THE MOON!

6 perfect nesting dolls! My heart was racing & Ms. C laughed at me!

So I get home...and gingerly take each doll out...6...7...8...NINE!

Are you freakin kidding me????????? WAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

And then Mason, who is now as enamored by them as I, says....

Mom, this one has a line around the middle.....
with much difficulty,

I opened the tiny 9th doll opened to reveal a 10th,

the most miniature matryoshka I have ever seen.

10 perfect nesting dolls. This set is SPOTLESS, chipless,
she looks virtually untouched.

I would have paid 30? 50 bucks for this? Oh yes.

But do you know what I paid?????

ONE DOLLAR!

(doing happy babushka dance!)  LOOK! LOOK!

Tell me, go ahead & tell me how beautiful they are!

No No, you don't have to! I already know!

Happy Friday Pretties to you all!

I hope you stop by and say hi to Joyce @ I Love Pretty Little Things

who hosts this lovely party each week!

for you...

"There is no footprint too small

to leave an imprint on this world."

I owe, I owe

WHERE do days off go??? I have to go back already?

Is it wrong that I already can't wait for first coffee??

Friday Pretties!

Garden Pretties

It's that time of year.

Bees on daisies,
(click it to big it! see the fuzzy bee!)

overgrown oregano

& pretty petunias!

Happy Friday Pretties!

Click -> JOYCE for more!

Book, books all kinds of books...

I spent a whole lotta dough @ Cole's yesterday...you just gotta love new books! Here is what I picked up;

~ Eat, Pray, Love...for a lovely contest winner :)

~ Three Cups of Tea...for me

~ Reaching Enlightenment...for me (by the Dalai Lama...shreeeeeeek!)

~ The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest...for me

~ Some Clive Cussler (his fave author) book for Rocketboy

~ Diary of Wimpy Kid for Moo Cow

~ Some pre-teen boy adventure book for Q

I still have to get started on The Shack...as soon as I finish my latest, a Gordon Ramsay autobiography...which is obviously so SO GOOD!

I want to know what are you reading this summer?  Suggestions?

The New Blog

I'm enjoying it,

Love,Balance,Peace...a journey

a good vibe for me.

(ps..hey! that's a haiku! woot!)

Mix, mix, stir, stir

My LOVELY partner in crime, Ms.C and I had a WHOPPER of a day yesterday!

We measured,
baked,
rolled,
stamped,
piped,
iced,
embellished
& packaged...
all day long!

(minor screw ups, minimal foul language, and icing sugar EVERYWHERE!)

Perfection!

What you ask? We, aka Tasty Little Confections, had a wedding to do...

Click on the TLC link above and check it out!
130 cupcakes & a beautiful cake for 2!

So much fun, but so pooped today!

Happy Saturday!

Friday Pretties!

HELP!

I'm having a Friday Pretty Mental block!

So, I thought I would just share

some of my favourite things...

OWLS!

What's pretty for you this Friday?

As always,

a great big HOOT to JOYCE!

http://iloveprettylittlethings.blogspot.com/

the lovely host of Friday Pretties!

Pop on over & see her for more!

Never Fear...

Rocketgirl is still here...

I SERIOUSLY contemplated shutting down this blog...for reasons I cannot disclose, but upon careful consideration I have decided to keep it going...she was my first blog baby, and I do love her...

Which leads me to the next order of business...while this is a fun, about nothing & everything blog, I have decided to start another...it's called...

Love, Balance, Peace...a journey

Please pop over for a visit if you feel so inclined!

It's been a very busy week...swimming lessons for the boys, work, my first Board Meeting for Shanti Uganda and TLC has a wedding this weekend so Ms.C & I will be very busy the next few days...my SIL is coming this weekend (yay) and Trifecta on Monday (double yay)

Hope all is well in Blogland!

arrivederci?

Winna Winna Chicken Dinna!

I SWEAR!

I don't  know how to explain it,

I laughed...really hard.

Not FIXED I promise!

The WINNER of the book,

Eat, Pray, Love

is.....drum-roll please.......

Ms.Cupcake!

(I used the Random Generator....#3, I can't figure out how to show you)

I know...heck of a coincidence!

Congrats Ms. C!

EXCITING NEWS!!!

No, no baby...simmer down there peeps! (isn't that what most people assume?)

Rocketgirl, that's me...is now a proud nominated and ELECTED member of the Board of Directors for the Shanti Uganda Society! I am PUMPED!

I will give you a brief run-down of the Shanti Uganda Society and you can also click the link to see their website & work, they also have a Facebook page for all you social networkers....

Shanti Uganda is a non-profit, charitable organization started here in Vancouver by a friend named Natalie.  Shanti is a Sanskrit word meaning peace, rest, calm...Shanti Uganda aims to improve the physical, emotional & spiritual well being of communities impacted by poverty, HIV/AIDS and war in Uganda.

Last year, Shanti officially received charity status here in Canada and has already done some amazing things in the district of Luwego, near Kampala in Uganda.  The highlights of Shanti so far, at least to me, are the Income Generating groups that Natalie started.  She trained the women to make handmade beaded jewelry, (see my lovely list post from two days ago to view...), trained them to make bags of all kinds on donated (awesome vintage!) sewing machines...the society then purchases these items from the women and brings them back to Canada to sell, and these women, most of them who are widowed, HIV positive and have no means of supporting their many children, are now enjoying food, "luxuries", medical care, ample savings accounts and the knowing that they can now support their families.

This past winter and spring saw the building of the Shanti Uganda birth house, a place where women can safely birth their babies.  The donations that flooded in, and the volunteers that constructed the birthing house...amazing.  A place where finally women don't have to travel miles and miles on a bicycle to deliver.  There is finally clean, running water, medical supplies at arms length, and Shanti Uganda is training local midwives to safely & naturally aid in the prenatal & postpartum care of women & babes, reducing infant mortality rates & all while keeping with traditional Ugandan therapies and practices.

Why Uganda you ask? Why not!  There's plenty of Rocketgirl love to go around.  Watch out Abbotsford & watch out Uganda! I have my first board meeting this coming week! Shreeeeeeek! My position is that of Treasurer.  I have lots to learn!  I do have more news...no, it's still not a baby...but I will keep you all posted...all in due time! ;)

Friday Pretties

 Our Chapel...

“Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one.

Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
never selfish, not quick to take offense.
There is nothing love cannot face;
there is no limit to its faith,
its hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things that last forever:
faith, hope, and love;
but the greatest of them all is love.”

Happy Friday Pretties!

Pop on over to see Joyce @ I love Pretty Little Things

for MORE Friday Pretties!

summer fruit in blue!

I LOVE that my co-worker has a

GINORMOUS
BLUEBERRY FARM!

Blueberry BLISS til October!

Thank you "G"