Well, I'm trying to get back into things with my blog. I've been dropping cards this morning and will continue to do more through the day, and I'm going to try really hard to post a minimum of 3 times a week, but try for even more. This will be a good week to try and get back into it since there is rain forecast all week, so walks and trips to the park won't be often if at all this week.

We got the boys bikes this weekend! We had to sell their bikes when we went on our little adventure down south, and that was 4 years ago! They have been poor, deprived and bikeless ever since LOL. They bug a lot for bikes and I was actually thinking about saving up for some for Christmas. But I found out last week that bikes count for Phys Ed for homeschooling and I can get reimbursed for them!! So since we still have over $600 left in our funding for the year and it has to be spent and submitted before the end of the month if we're going to use it, some good quality bikes to get my boys outside more was a perfect solution! Now they have to learn to ride them lol, I know most 8 and 10 year olds are pros, but since it's been 4 years, and back then they were only 4 and 6 and just getting off training wheels...well they're a little unstable and will definitely need to get it all figured out LOL.

On a very sad note, last week a horrible thing happened here in Calgary and is a reminder to us all that if we ourselves or someone we know seems to be having problems that it is imperative that help be found right away. Last week 5 people were found dead in a home, with only a 1 year old baby as a survivor. Dead were 4 members of a family of 5(the mother, father, and 4 and 6 year old little girls) and a tenant in the family home. From what I've heard on the news the father had been under some stress and not sleeping well, he had even called his parents only a couple of days before and apparently made mention of having a mental breakdown and hearing voices. He killed the roommate, then his wife and 2 daughters before killing himself, leaving only the baby alive in her crib. This was such a beautiful and loving family and it's so hard to understand and make any sense of what happened.

Please, if you yourself or anyone you know seems to be overly stressed or just not handling things well for any reason, do whatever you can to get help. I'm sure this man's wife thought that he was going to be ok and probably never even thought he would be capable of doing anything like this, according to everyone they were an extremely nice and loving family. Nobody knows or probably will ever know exactly what set him off and drove him to do what he did that night, but maybe if some kind of help had been sought sooner whatever that trigger was could have been avoided. Life is always full of "what if's", but all we can do is our best to try and take care of ourselves and our loved ones the best we can.