starjumps

well this is what, my little ninnygoat is coming to visit me! hurrah hurrah hurrah!!

i had been meaning to tell Beth, and one day we were walking home from the market and while we were walking through the parking lot of the lcbo i stopped and told her. she said, 'you were so excited that you did a star jump!' and it's true, i did do a star jump, because i am so so so excited to have Nancy Jean come visit.
it's high time that gal came to my new stomping ground and did some stomping with me. it will be our first true visitor since we've been married.
little does thomas know that i will have to put him on the floor so i can have a nightime cuddle with my old cuddle buddy.
yip yip yippee

The Breast Team Ever

Just to let everyone know. This Sunday (oct. 1) I will be participating in the CIBC Run for the Cure. There are a group of us in Ottawa, and Robyn Bright is our team captain. (her husband Noah came up with the name!-i believe that is nurses humour coming through-)
I will be walking 5 km with Catherine Lisimaque.

If you would like to support me and research to find a cure for breast cancer you can donate online here. Or you can find me and donate in person. A lot of people have been giving around 5-10 dollars and it adds up quickly.

Thanks for your support!!

Kate

cleanliness is next to...

Thomas and I did a power clean last night, and our kitchen and bedroom look immaculate, our living room however is a different story altogether.

But I am awake early as per usual and the cleaning bug is still biting, so it will get done shortly after this post.

A week and a half of school is done, and it has been so lovely to be back in school. I found out that my first placement is at CHEO (the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario) on a medicine floor with brand new babies up to 7 year olds. oh glory be! it is my most favourite age group. It takes me back to the "mother goose days" at camp when I would have 10 staff kids trailing behind me all ages 7 and under. Lovely.

I've also thought recently about gatting back into cutting and gluing. I can still hear the A's (amber and andi) saying "she's just cutting again, she's still just cutting" when they got home from school, or my dad saying "pick all these bits" after a mass cutting bonanza. He always hated those bits!

anyways, I did a little collage, which I will post here on a later day, and now I want to do a big one, but it takes way more planning and playing before you can cut and glue on a big piece of paper(as Rachel Malena knows), so we'll see.

So time to let the bug keep biting and clean this living room

tty

first day of school...first day of school

Thom and I watched 'Finding Nemo' the other day on CBC and it reminded me of how fun it is to be excited for school, and how glad i am to be excited to start this year.

So, today is the first day of school, my first class is at 1.

How glad i am to be taking notes, and learning new skills and remembering old ones and oh it will be good.
also i get to see mel and mary-anne and karen and it feels like forever since i saw them.

Hayley, i love you, i got your letter, and you are a beaut. don't be sad about school. be glad. because you are so smart and you study so hard and i am so proud and inspired by you. i'll put up a sign on my desk that says... 'do it for Hayley' and then my marks will be rockin' as well. Soya said i was winning the hair gorwing contest, but now i am the loser of the world with the shortest hair, but i love it so i can deal with being the biggest loser.

i am going to apck my bag, and get my house cleaned for my lovely hubby who is now bringing in the dough so i can retire as a sugar momma, at least for a little while.

time for a change

well, i have been wanting to cut my hair since last fall, and in my mind i wanted bangs, or layers or like 5 inches chopped off.

this is what i ended up with (and I LOVE IT!!)



and just in time to get ready to go back to school. i can't wait for classes to start, and clinical and then in 8 months, i will write my RN exam and be a true nurse.

oh yes

and we're back!!

finally!!! we have a computer again, and the internet is finally hooked up again. so i can now read blogs again, and as well post on mine!!

and I have wedding pictures!!!one of my favourites

Dad, Kate, Mom

Sisters! Roslyn, Kate, Danielle

Dad, Mom, Kate, Thomas, Valerie

my lovely ladies: Beth, Kate, Danielle, Maryann, & Roslyn

Thom and his boys: David, Mark, Mattie, Thom and Patrick

being an anderson

first off I AM MARRIED!!! and it is lovely and i love being a wife and i love having such a wonderful man alongside me every day. (on a different note, robyn, i wish thom had the same waist size as me. it is like 3 inches smaller although i suppose even if it was the same, the length of his pants would be a bit ridiculous on me, imagine?!)
we had a wonderful honeymoon in the dominican despite the hotels and flight trying to split us up, and despite my stomach waging war against me halfway through the week.
perfect weather, wonderful people and a beautiful spot.
now we are back and real life is even better than the domin. although we do miss the beach and the pool and the never ending pina colodas and the strangely engrossing man who led the water aroebics (uno dos treize, uno dosee treize).

i am now in a pickle over whether or not to create a new blog. i love katevp. i don't mind losing van patter but vp? and katevp all smooshed together? it is sad. so i ask... am i being a traitor to my new last name if i keep katevp? katea doesn't look as cool, however it does sound pretty cool.

i would consider sharing a blog with thom, however i don't know if he would post, since i don't even think that he reads the one i write now.

ps. welcome to the blogging world robyn and noah. i am stoked.

kate