He’s moving so fast I can’t focus on him!

and if you believe that …. I’ve some ocean front property in Sligo for sale …

And the indoor season begins in earnest.  For the next five months nearly every Sunday will be consumed with soccer ~ literally. 

All three monsters have soccer games on Sundays, thankfully they are not all at the same time and the occasions that does happen are few and far between.  So I beg your forgiveness as posting will be light and for the most part all soccer related.

Super Soccer Sundays commence!

The origin of the first Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to the explorer Martin Frobisher who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean. Frobisher’s Thanksgiving celebration was not for harvest but was in thanks for surviving the long journey from England through the perils of storms and icebergs. In 1578, on his third and final voyage to these regions, Frobisher held a formal ceremony in Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island (present-day Nunavut) to give thanks to God and in a service ministered by the preacher Robert Wolfall they celebrated Communion — the first-ever service in these regions. Years later, the tradition of a feast would continue as more settlers began to arrive in the Canadian colonies.

The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving can also be traced to the French settlers who came to New France with explorer Samuel de Champlain in the early 17th century, who also took to celebrating their successful harvests. The French settlers in the area typically had feasts at the end of the harvest season and continued throughout the winter season, even sharing their food with the indigenous peoples of the area. Champlain had also proposed for the creation of the Order of Good Cheer in 1606.

As many more settlers arrived in Canada, more celebrations of good harvest became common. New immigrants into the country, such as the Irish, Scottish and Germans, would also add their own traditions to the harvest celebrations. Most of the U.S. aspects of Thanksgiving (such as the turkey or what were called Guineafowls originating from Madagascar), were incorporated when United Empire Loyalists began to flee from the United States during the American Revolution and settled in Canada.

And that, according to Wikipedia, is how we came to celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada.  It is now a far more commercial holiday than it was even a decade or two ago.  Although it is one of the few days in the year that the whole country closes up shop and spends sometimes together.

one of the many things I love about living in Calgary … the colour changes in the autumn.  It only lasts a few days, maybe seven to 10, but it can be a breath taking time of year for the beatuy it creats.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.

Almost all of us has been touched by this horrible disease. Whether it be your mother, your sister, your daughter or friend, you have been affected. Let’s not just bring awareness, but let us all do our part in working toward a future of early detection and less invasive treatments. One step at a time, we can all participate to bringing the number of people affected by Breast Cancer down to almost none.

There are any number of things you can do.  Daily you could go to The Breast Cancer Site, click the big pink button to donate free mamograms.  You could drop coins in any can offering to give the monies to research to fight breast cancer.  Or you can be open to heaering about it.  As a woman, you also need to check yourself regularly with the self breast exam.  It may not be prevention, but it could mean the difference between one more year or 40!

After many attempts to get all three of them to smile …. these were the best.