Sofunzelmermaid

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great 2019 and will have an even better 2020! On New Year's Eve, my family went to my friend's house out in the country! We had tacos for dinner which were really good. Then we all went outside for a bonfire! They had set up projection lights on the trees and they were super cool! It was already dark so we decided to play a game of "sardines" when one person hides then the rest have to find them, then when you find the person you need to hide with them until there is one person left! After a couple rounds of that, my friend and I went inside to heat up their sauna! After getting in it we decided to jump into the snow! Something I had never done before! It wasn't very cold out and even with just my bathing suit it wasn't bad, but I couldn't get myself to belly flop in like I could have, instead most of the time I just cannonballed leaving my legs and feet tingling! We jumped in a good 7 times and after that decided to wa...

Hello! I hope everyone is excited for Christmas! We just got our tree up on Saturday. On our way out to my Baba and Nonnos house, we stopped at Tim Hortons for a hot chocolate and reindeer donut which we had been eyeing for a while! We spent a while choosing are tree finally settling on a nice full pine! We all helped cut it down then we dragged it back, the weather was very nice plus 2! When we got home and put the tree up it was way more "Charlie Brown" than anything, but we all decorated it and danced to cheesy Christmas music! Then after dinner we all sat down and watched Elf our favorite Christmas movie!

 So today my mom, brother and I started making some of our favorite Christmas bark, for a Christmas cookie swap! The first part of our tradition is digging out the ripped out page of a magazine labeled 2003 LCBO Food and Drink magazine https://www.lcbo.com/lcbo/recipe/peppermint-bark/200306040#.XfKqfdVKFz8 , from our Christmas box deep in the basement! After that, we began weighing and measuring the dark chocolate! Then after it's melted in a double boiler drop some peppermint oil in, then spread it out on a tray, leave it out in the freezing front porch to freeze in -20. Then after an hour we took it in and melted the white chocolate added peppermint then spread it over top, added crushed candy cane let it freeze then voila! I love this colorful chocolaty sweet, and making it with my family is all the sweeter!!!

If you have followed the CBC/ Netflix series Anne with an E for the past 3 years you will know that the version of the classic Anne of Green Gables is a  darker modernized  version but none the less will transport you to the beloved story. All three seasons I have laght cried and felt the magic! But sadly " We have reached the end of the red Green Gables road after 3 wonderful seasons." Said Moria Walley-Beckett writer/Exec Producer Anne with an E . So for this blog post I would like to say thank you to Anne with an E for being a show that I could watch with my whole family talk about with my friends and feel it in my heart. And if you ever come back with a 4 season I will dey my hair green (; (;

Hello! I know it may be a bit early to some, and it kinda is for me, too but its time to start talking about Christmas! Now I know that some of you may really want to be in the Christmas spirit but can't really get in the spirit so here are some ideas that helped me! Enjoy (: (: 1: The simple things Sometimes all you have to do to get into the Christmas spirit are the easiest things including: -Putting up a Christmas tree (if not in your living room in your own room) -Bake Christmas cookies -Have some Hot Chocolate or Christmas tea -Put on a Santa hat (like I say the little things) -Create a Christmas list, not only for yourself but for others too -Listen to some Christmas music -Wrap some gifts  2: A festive Aroma To me, a big part of feeling a certain energy is to smell it, And a diffuser blend is just the thing! Here's my favorite holiday blend and a little extra surprise for those without diffusers or these oils. Sugarplum fairy 4 drops peppermint  4 drop...

Hello! I hope everyone is staying warm as the weather gets colder and is filling up on their supply of hot chocolate! Christmas is coming ever closer and the gift-giving time with it. I am happy to say that once again I will be participating in the Veressent Life Youth Artisan Craft Sale! Last spring I took part in the first-ever craft sale, meant for kids who loved creating. This year I'm so happy that its a Christmas sale as that my favorite time of year! I'll be making Christmas fairies for you to hang on your tree or give as gifts! I hope to see you all there!

Each Monday we go geocaching with our homeschooling friends. We go to a new location each week, and discover new caches and new ideas for places to hide caches we make! Currently, we are working on a Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, and hopefully a Chronicle of Narnia the Magician's Nephew multi-cache! Anyhoo, we went to the Terry Fox monument which I have never been to.  The lookout was beautiful and the weather nice at first, for an early November afternoon. We set out for our first cache! On our way there we came across a tunnel that made its way under a road, of course, all us kids just had to run threw it! The first find was a good one, a container disguised as a tree, and we found some cool loot. But the thing with our club is we bearly ever take any and leave TONS! We kept walking threw the long grass while the weather got worse and worse when we realized the cache we were looking for was up a cliff! So, two others and I others found a small trail going uphill, half r...