Onatrio College of Art and Design

I never officially announced on this space that I am back from Canada- in case you didn't notice from yesterday's easel photo- here's my official announcement. *cheering noises*

Here are some snippets from my three week Canada visit (I wish I had photos of all my mother's yummy Egyptian dishes-- my hands were too occupied placing food in my mouth to be doing anything else, you do sympathize do you not?)

I just realized there are a slew of photos I want to share, so let's do the Ontario Art School set today, deal?

 Yup, that's the Art school building, can you tell?

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neat star sculpture, Mei and Grabby loved it. Grabby says: "tar" and points.

beyond awesome mural wall

wall detail

 wall detail # 2

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across the street from Art School... you gotta love the Canadian sense of nationalism!

View out of one of the art school windows. 

Reaction: carry on...

 Art meets sky

peace.

{this moment}

This is my first try at soulemama's weekly Friday moment, here's the description:

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

 

 Peace.

Kidz rock! :: Pilot

Me: Stop pushing your sister!

Mei: No!

Me: why not?

Mei: I don't like her anymore, she's not my friend

Me: She's more important than friends Mei, she's your sister, your blood.

Mei looks confused and starts looking all over Grabby, then finally says:

Mommy, where's the blood?

Kids rock!

Peace.

Happy Earth Day!

So we pretty much have one week left in Canada and then we head back home. The only thing is our car is currently in the shop. Poor car, please send her du'a and good energy, we need it to get well soon to drive us back home (a nine hour drive.) Ha, just got a call from the shop and they said it's a minor problem that they should be able to take care of, alhamdulilah.

I know I've been bad with picture sharing recently. I am currently uninspired to capture moments, strange since every bit of the outdoors is screaming happy, sunny, and please take my picture, I look so pretty. I guess sleep does a lot to ones mood. Bear with an under slept mama, whose currently missing her co-pilot so, very, much.

Here's a neat link in honor of Earth Day.

A big holler at mother earth. Please, bear with your spoiled children.

Peace.

Still here

Still in Canada. With a chaos of a schedule for the girls. It's 12:15 in the morning and Grabby is still going strong. So here's what you get from me, an all time favorite song that I am currently in the mood for, and some links.



I discovered a new fav. food blog, check her out.

I am in love with these green chairs.

My awesome, super, uber significant other found Totoro merchandise. I want them all!

After not entering a MacDonalds for over three years, I caved and we now own most of the dragon collection from the happy meal (Mei calls their grilled cheese sandwich the best sandwich ever! what have I done?)

Now I need to go watch the movie, after all me and the girls own most of their characters (hey I choose the apple slices instead of the fries... no? I know *frown*)

Did you know that Hulu, ABC, and NBC don't work in Canada. Any Canadian, TV-less readers out there? how do you get your fix?

peace.

go outside!

The month of April has been declared the Children and Nature Awareness Month by the chairman of the children and nature network  This came late to my attention, we're all sick over here. So believe me I do appreciate the outdoors now more than ever.




hurry take your kiddos and go outside, quick!

peace.

sun, sun, sunny!

We had a week of this:

 But today it was like this:

 

Absolutely worth the wait, we spent seven hours soaking up every bit. I sometimes forget how there's always sunshine ( and rainbows!) after the rain, even if it lasts for a whole week, I mean what else can follow.

Here's one last promised photo:

 

Happy first day of the week everyone!

Peace.