It's Christmas Eve

(pitures will be added later)


And all through the house, not a creature is stirring not even a mouse. Well that's because the cats ate them for the pre-Christmas dinner. They wanted to share but.... Ok, let me change that... It's the night before Christmas and all through the house it's totally chaotic. The stockings are hung in our make shift wall unit. But oh how they hang so longing to be filled. Andrew's not dreaming of sugarplum but is running high on and over dose of sugar from the cookies he made for Santa, hopefully the big fat jolly guy will get at least one of them... hmmm but maybe not, cause the other guy that eats them could stand to loose a few pounds.

For all you Nay Sayers

I knew it... The evidence is in :)

The whole research article can be found here.

Socialization not a Problem

But of most importance are these numbers.

When measured against the average Canadians ages 15 to 34 years old, home-educated Canadian adults ages 15 to 34 were more socially engaged (69 percent participated in organized activities at least once per week, compared with 48 percent of the comparable population). Average income for homeschoolers also was higher, but perhaps more significantly, while 11 percent of Canadians ages 15 to 34 rely on welfare, there were no cases of government support as the primary source of income for homeschoolers. Homeschoolers also were happier; 67.3 percent described themselves as very happy, compared with 43.8 percent of the comparable population. Almost all of the homeschoolers—96 percent—thought homeschooling had prepared them well for life.

Santa Claus is here in our Town

And here is the proof :)



And it's that time of year that Toronto's Eaton Center displays their amazing window Christmas displays.



And free outdoor awesome concerts at Nathan Phillip Square while you skate outdoors on their illuminated rink. (Picture is crappy...)



Finishing the evening with SPECTACULAR fireworks with equally amazing music to go with it... Toronto is great.

His New Cut

Here he is with his new cut... I don't like it as much :(

Christmas Pics and Hair

First, Andrew cut a HUGE chunk of his hair off the other day, Don was on daddy duty while i was out. I thought i might be able to work with it but it proved to be unworkable :( ... So i had to cut it last night to make both sides look the same, i also had to cut the back of it because if not he would have had a mullet. NO THANKS. I must admit that i think i did a pretty good job fixing it and he is still as cute as ever.

Pictures, oh good grief, it's a heck of a lot easier to get pictures of my cat Reggy then it is to get of Andrew. I will post the one good pic i got of him (out of hundreds) but i do want to get another one where more of his face if showing. And the lighting is softer. This is before his new hair cut.