Today is the day. Emotions are running high. Those that have been there the last few months I thank you and I love you all. Make sure to send some letters...I wanna know the latest and greatest!
Pte. Blanchette - OUT
xoxoxoxo
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
3 going on 16
She's so cute isn't she? All that blond hair, the chubby cheeks and the smile. Well let me tell you girlfriend has an attitude! Yep, I'm talking about little miss Kennedy. Alexis is very sweet natured. She says bless you when someone sneezes, will cover me up if I'm laying on the couch watching TV, loves to help out around the house and just generally has a very caring personality. Then along comes trouble with a capital T. I go between wanting to laugh at her and wanting to string her up by her little toes. We were at Wal-Mart the other day and she says to me: "If you don't give me that I am staying right here" and she plunked herself down on the floor beside a rack of tights. Now it took all the self control I had not to pick her up and drag her from the store. That's what she wanted though....a battle. So I said "OK then, you can stay there but I'm going to finish my shopping." I started walking away and sure enough she followed me with her arms crossed. Then she stops and looks up at me disgusted "You were just going to leave me there, mommy?". Today she told me she didn't want to clean up her mess "Just leave it.Daddy will clean in up when he gets home from work". That earned her a nice little time out. Todd says she is 3 going on 16. Stubborn and strong willed....I wonder who she gets that from?;)
Cheers,
~Jen~
xoxoxoxo
Cheers,
~Jen~
xoxoxoxo
Monday, January 7, 2008
Blog Tag
I've been Blog Tagged! So here are my 8 random facts......
1. Never again will I be a dog owner. Don't get me wrong, I like dogs. I would just rather borrow someone else's for a little while and then give it back. Kinda the same way other people feel about children.
2. I am a closet Trekkie. Enough said.
3. I hate clowns, they freak me out. I dunno if its the make up or the shoes or what. I think it stems from three very scary clown pictures I had on my wall as a child. My kids have never been to a circus and I will never watch "IT" again. Ever.
4. When I was pregnant with Kennedy I developed a Slurpee addiction that I just recently gave up. But only because the nearest 7-11 is 20 kms from our house. My butt is thankful for those 20 kms!
5. I've never been outside of Canada...not even to the United States! I have had the chance to see a lot of Canada though. I need to venture out the the east coast so I can say I have been to both. Mind you if I ever go back out to the west coast I can't promise I'll come home...it's one of my favorite places to visit. Put the coffee on Ghislaine!
6. When I was about 13 I went through a scary movie faze. I think I rented every horror flick our neighbourhood movie store had. One night while some of my girlfriends and I were having a sleepover and watching "Child's Play" my mom brought out my "My Buddie" doll. Remember him? Scared the crap out of us! We still laugh about it.
7. I've read the Harry Potter series about 5 times. I can't wait for the new movie to come out so I can complain about how it's not like the book at all. I also love historical fiction. My new favorite is "The Other Boleyn Girl".
8. I am becoming a scrap booking addict. I belong to a group called "The Scrap Booking Mama's". (I had that listed on the activity portion of my military application and the recruiter had a good laugh about it). We meet once a week and scrapbook and chat for a few hours. It's one of the things I am really going to miss when I'm away!
Lisa is the only person I know that blogs...come on people get with the program here!
Cheers!
~Jen~
1. Never again will I be a dog owner. Don't get me wrong, I like dogs. I would just rather borrow someone else's for a little while and then give it back. Kinda the same way other people feel about children.
2. I am a closet Trekkie. Enough said.
3. I hate clowns, they freak me out. I dunno if its the make up or the shoes or what. I think it stems from three very scary clown pictures I had on my wall as a child. My kids have never been to a circus and I will never watch "IT" again. Ever.
4. When I was pregnant with Kennedy I developed a Slurpee addiction that I just recently gave up. But only because the nearest 7-11 is 20 kms from our house. My butt is thankful for those 20 kms!
5. I've never been outside of Canada...not even to the United States! I have had the chance to see a lot of Canada though. I need to venture out the the east coast so I can say I have been to both. Mind you if I ever go back out to the west coast I can't promise I'll come home...it's one of my favorite places to visit. Put the coffee on Ghislaine!
6. When I was about 13 I went through a scary movie faze. I think I rented every horror flick our neighbourhood movie store had. One night while some of my girlfriends and I were having a sleepover and watching "Child's Play" my mom brought out my "My Buddie" doll. Remember him? Scared the crap out of us! We still laugh about it.
7. I've read the Harry Potter series about 5 times. I can't wait for the new movie to come out so I can complain about how it's not like the book at all. I also love historical fiction. My new favorite is "The Other Boleyn Girl".
8. I am becoming a scrap booking addict. I belong to a group called "The Scrap Booking Mama's". (I had that listed on the activity portion of my military application and the recruiter had a good laugh about it). We meet once a week and scrapbook and chat for a few hours. It's one of the things I am really going to miss when I'm away!
Lisa is the only person I know that blogs...come on people get with the program here!
Cheers!
~Jen~
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you had a great time ringing in 2008. It was a pretty low key affair at the Blanchette house this year. It was just Todd and I and a bottle of champagne watching the ball drop on TV. Alexis was very upset she wasn't allowed to stay up till midnight and told us she was going to lay in bed and wait....she was fast asleep by 9:00.
Yesterday was an interesting day. Todd and I had to go down to city hall and get the girls OHIP sorted out and we also hit the Canex and then the mall for lunch. As far as we know the closest Canex to us is located at NDHQ. Anyone that has ever been there knows you have to clear security and get a pass before you can enter the building. Not an easy thing to accomplish with the girls but they thought it was pretty cool that they got to have a little card on their jackets . So we got our passes and went down to the teeny tiny Canex to get the last couple of things I have on my kit list (boot bands and a shoe polish kit and all that fun stuff). I swear for the amount of time it took and the cost of parking downtown it would have been easier to drive out to Petawawa! It's things like this that make me miss living on a "real" base.
Only 7 more days and I'll be in St.Jean! Hard to believe, the time has really flown by. It seems like yesterday that I was handing in my application. I never thought this would be the road my life would take me down. Those of you that know me at all know that I am apposed to women in the military as a general rule and that hasn't changed at all. But I do think that there is room for us in SOME trades as long as we can keep up with the men! You won't see me in line for a job in the infantry though, that's for sure. A lot of people ask me why I didn't go Air Force or reserve and my answer is that it's all or nothing for me, I've always been that way. Besides....redheads look better in green :)
I'm off to bake Todd a birthday cake! The big 2-8 for him today. I of course stopped having birthdays at 25 lol.
Cheers,
~Jen~
xoxoxoxo
Yesterday was an interesting day. Todd and I had to go down to city hall and get the girls OHIP sorted out and we also hit the Canex and then the mall for lunch. As far as we know the closest Canex to us is located at NDHQ. Anyone that has ever been there knows you have to clear security and get a pass before you can enter the building. Not an easy thing to accomplish with the girls but they thought it was pretty cool that they got to have a little card on their jackets . So we got our passes and went down to the teeny tiny Canex to get the last couple of things I have on my kit list (boot bands and a shoe polish kit and all that fun stuff). I swear for the amount of time it took and the cost of parking downtown it would have been easier to drive out to Petawawa! It's things like this that make me miss living on a "real" base.
Only 7 more days and I'll be in St.Jean! Hard to believe, the time has really flown by. It seems like yesterday that I was handing in my application. I never thought this would be the road my life would take me down. Those of you that know me at all know that I am apposed to women in the military as a general rule and that hasn't changed at all. But I do think that there is room for us in SOME trades as long as we can keep up with the men! You won't see me in line for a job in the infantry though, that's for sure. A lot of people ask me why I didn't go Air Force or reserve and my answer is that it's all or nothing for me, I've always been that way. Besides....redheads look better in green :)
I'm off to bake Todd a birthday cake! The big 2-8 for him today. I of course stopped having birthdays at 25 lol.
Cheers,
~Jen~
xoxoxoxo
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