I have theWORLD's BEST Mum!!!

Here's a shot from when my mum came to visit me this past summer! 

This morning I went to check my mail... after travelling there was a bit... and I had YET another package from my mum!! (she's a superstar...seriously!!) It came on the best day.. as I was trying to get through the mounds of paperwork... on my desk... I got to open it at lunch and almost started to cry.... YES it was that good!! :)

My mum is a cool lady... she actually LISTENS to what I have to say(even though at times I dont' think she really IS listening...but after all we do talk at least 2-3times a week! LOL)..... I was talking awhile ago about how all my pj bottoms are ripped... and I was down to one pair...(and she knows HOW I luv to lounge around in those guys...) so today she sent not ONE pair but TWO!! In a different conversation I had mentioned in the summer how I had friends over.. and we wanted to play a dice game.. and how I didn't have ANY dice...so she sent some really cool dice... and she always manages to make me laugh.... like this package I got a 'random' can of salmon and cream of mushroom soup...(I remember in one of our convos... talking about how she was making creamed salmon for dinner on toast... and I was upset bc I didn't have any mushroom soup...!)

I seriously could NOT have asked for a more generous awesome Mother!! I am blessed to be able to call myself her daughter....

I luv you so much Mum.... only 20 more sleeps til I see you!!

...a visit comes to an end!

Last night we (errrr I) struggled with mum's suitcase and backpack trying to get all her clothes to fit...along with some other things--like a fish(arctic char)...and some HUGE Twilight books!! Finally we got it all sorted about 11pm last night... we watched the news (mum wanted to know what kind of temps she was going back to!)...



We woke up to an amazingly sunny and HOT day... I was surprised... in these last minute photos.....in front of my house.... I'm thinking 2 things: 1. I needed my sunnies b/c it's WAY toooo bright... and 2. my hair needs a cut or something...(perhaps i'll have to 'start' styling it?!)

Mum...thanks for taking your holidays and coming NORTH to visit me at my home just south of the Arctic Circle... it was so much fun chill'n and well talking...not on a phone!

Some of the fun times I'll remember!!

1. I enjoyed you enjoying revisiting your Grade 9 year with you...with a little of the Partridge Family...and just so you know it was with much LOVE that i heckled you and teased you about knowing 'all the songs' and singing along... (I'm sure as the winter season approaches I'll be studying up... to be able to sing along the next time we are watching the FIRST season!)

2. Watching you 'flirt' at dinner!? wow.... that was some skills...and then you didn't even realize you were flirting....(if you want deets you'll have to talk to HER... my lips are sealed...well unless you send me chocolate...then I could perhaps email you the deets! ;) (JUST KIDDING!)

3. For opening my eyes (again) to the beauty of the place I live.... Your cute 'announcing' that the tide is going OUT or coming IN...even though I could look out my window and see that indeed these things were happening.... It was fun re-looking at my home through your eyes!

4. You sitting on top of the hill on a rock...LAUGHING at me trying to 'walk' in the mud left behind while the tide goes out... you did TOTALLY miss out... I mean how much more fun would it have been to be STUCK in that mud together....

5. I have a question!?......... hehehe

6. Our 'long' walks....enjoying the 'fresh' air that Pang has to offer!

7. the dreaded 'sleeping' chair...I'm not sure I should EVER sit in it again... I might NEVER leave my house....bc of it's power to help one sleep!! ;)

Thanks for coming to visit.. I hope your flights went smoothly.. and your suitcase made it through... cuz that fish will be smelly if your suitcase gets lost!!! (can't wait to hear from you when you get home!!) luv ya!!!

Travelling Arctic Style...

Mum admitted to me last night...that seeing so many people riding in the back of trucks has reminded her of her childhood. (apparently back in the day...she rode frequently in the back of trucks except with Uncle Don--who thought it was very unsafe and in all reality he is right..)..Today we walked into town and visited Uqqurmiut and the Tapestry Studio... we wanted to see the Olympic Tapestry...later today it will be on public display and then shipped to Vancouver!! (We possibly will head back down then) After this little walk/outting... I left mum enjoying the view at the Parks Centre...and I went on to the post office (more about that later).. and ran into a co-worker and asked for a lift back to my house..... Sooooo all these words basicly are meant to say Mum got to ride in the back of a truck again..... When I asked her "was it as good as she remembered?"

Her reply was, "YES! I don't remember it as being quite so bumpy though" (well Pang isn't as big as the metropolis of Haliburton... we don't have paved roads...just dusty; bumpy dirt ones!)

After dinner...mum and I went for a 'little' walk... she insists 'it was a nice stretch of the legs'...which it was.... I think the 15-25mins we were gone...(still in sight of the front door, practicly infront of my work....well I probably won't get mum to the top of Mt. Duval this trip! ;)...)

My MUM is flying into Pang at 2:05pm!!!! Soooooooo excited to have her come visit.... :) I'll probably not be posting as much in the next 10days..but who knows!! Yesterday I spent the day...organizing, cleaning, scrubbing, dusting, also doing laundry and folding it all AND putting it away... (hmmmmmm perhaps I have become a 'domestic' goddess? naw.... don't get your expectations TOOO high!!)... it's not that I'm a 'bad' housekeeper; it's just the DUST from the roads seems to invade my house from EVERY direction!! one of the joys of living in the north in the summer I suppose---also living on a 'main' road that the water and sewage trucks pass very frequently!!!

Anyways back to my mum I hope her flights went ok... and she actually IS on this plane... (one can never tell when you travel in the north!)... ;)

I LOVE getting mail!!!!

My mom surprised me... when I was in the south in May.. I left a few things behind because it was going to be too expensive to fly back with an extra bag(had a flight from Toronto to Ottawa on Porter.. and it was going to be like $5/extra kg....and I ended up paying like an extra $135 to get my 2 bags there!)....so today I went to the post office and got not ONE but TWO boxes filled with some of the stuff i had bought and left behind... mixed in with a few things from my mom... like NEW magazines!!

So... one of the boxes was a bit 'beat' up.. thanks Canada Post...BUT nothing in IT was broken.. surprisingly the other box had a bit of a mishap!yup.. my ice tea was opened... and i lost about 1/2 a cup of it...the package says "Inner safety seal. Do not use if damaged." Well people I'm walking on the WILD side... I'm using it...and the inner safety seal wasn't damaged... just the BOTTOM... hehehe..... thanks Mum, You ROCK!! Can't wait to see you in 3 1/2 weeks!!!

ps. if anyone else wants to send letters, pictures(espeically from kids I love--I put them up in my office!) etc... I like those too... :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!! :)

Hope you have a FANTASTIC day!!!

You sure know how to wear a party hat!

luv you,

Sarah :)

HAPPY MOTHER's DAY!!!

*June 2008 At your Graduation for your BSW!!*

*October 2008, at my Graduation for my MA*

Happy Mother's Day to the worlds' BEST mom!

Thank you for the THREE packages you have sent me this far up north---you ROCK!!

Thanks for listening to me complain about silly things and putting life into perspective for me.

Thanks for being an amazing role model about so many different things in life.

Thanks for giving me support over the years and letting go--to allow me to fly on my own wings!

There are more things than I can list that I need to say thank you for....

Mom, most of all I'm thankful I can call not only my mom--but also my friend.

*close to the Arctic Circle...May 2009*

When I was in Australia that year, you sent me your heart, around the globe to me...have no fear I still hold your heart close to mine.

I love you...Sarah