Heirlooms

February 2009 - My 100 year old family heirloom is back home again! She is alive singing out her songs!

"Friends know the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words!" (unknown)

"Make new friends but keep the old, some are silver and the others gold." ( Pioneer Girls song)

I have been blessed with an amazing motley circle of friends over the course of my life. They have helped mold me into who I am today. I am deeply grateful. This weekend I am off to visit "new" friends near Niagara Falls. I am so looking forward to celebrating life with these friends! I am also in desperate need of a relaxing get-away- a distraction from this crazy, frigid winter we are experiencing! I will be offline and that will be hard. I never imagined I would be addicted to my blogosphere life! So, see you next week. Have a blissful weekend! Celebrate your friends! Your Heirlooms!

( I have a blog started about last weekend but it will have to be put on hold!)

One final story before I sign off. I haven't shared any student "yarns" lately, but thought this comment today from one of my grade 1 (P2 for my British bloggy friends!) students was blog worthy!

Out of the blue, and not related to what we were working on, this little girl said to me:

"S": Miss Whalen, my grandma HAS fake teeth.

ME: Oh really. My dad has some fake teeth too. Do you live with your grandma?

"S": Oh no Miss Whalen, my grandma lives in the sky now!

In love

I am in love with this Canadian rock band, Nickelback, my fellow Canucks. This is a new found love! Of course I have heard them before but never really got into them. However that has all changed! I am loving this new album, "Dark Horse." Great lyrics. Check out this video of their single, "Gotta Be Somebody." This song speaks to me everytime I hear it. I crank the volume and sing and dance my heart out! Enjoy some home grown goodness! (I've enclosed the words for you after the video)



This time, I wonder what it feels like
To find the one in this life, the one we all dream of
But dreams just aren't enough
So I'll be waiting for the real thing, I'll know it by the feeling
The moment when we're meeting, will play out like a scene
Straight off the silver screen
So I'll be holding my own breath, right up 'til the end
Until that moment when, I find the one that I'll spend forever with

Cause nobody wants to be the last one there
Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares
Someone to love with my life in their hands
There's gotta be somebody for me like that
Cause nobody wants to do it all on their own
And everyone wants to know they're not alone
There's somebody else that feels the same somewhere
There's gotta be somebody for me out there

Tonight, out on the street, out in the moonlight
And dammit this feels too right, it's just like deja vu
Me standing here with you
So I'll be holding my own breath, could this be the end
Is it that moment when, I find the one that I'll spend forever with

Cause nobody wants to be the last one there
Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares
Someone to love with my life in their hands
There's gotta be somebody for me like that
Cause nobody wants to do it all on their own
And everyone wants to know they're not alone
There's somebody else that feels the same somewhere
There's gotta be somebody for me out there

You can't give up, looking for a diamond in the rough
You never know when it shows up, make sure you're holding on
Cause it could be the one, the one you're waiting on

Cause nobody wants to be the last one there
And everyone wants to feel like someone cares
Someone to love with my life in their hands
There's gotta be somebody for me, oh
Nobody wants to do it all on their own
And everyone wants to know they're not alone
There's somebody else that feels the same somewhere
There's gotta be somebody for me out there
Nobody wants to be the last one there
Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares
There's somebody else that feels the same somewhere
There's gotta be somebody for me out there

P.S. To view more pics from the Spice Girls concert, go to....

Check out my web album to see more pics from my adventure at the Spice Girls concert!
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SPICE up your life!

Girl Power Rules! "Mission Accomplished!" Yes, I had the privilege of witnessing and partaking in a little piece of history -- the FINAL Spice Girls concert at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Tuesday night! Surprisingly, for me anyways, i t was an AMAZING stage production! I absolutely LOVED it! I tagged along with one of my best friends, Lisa, her 14 year old daughter and her daughter's friend. We had a wonderful evening together! I think the girls were surprised Lisa and I could rock it with the best of them!!!:) Here's to the end of the Spice Girls era, but Girl Power lives on!!!:):)