Saturday and all that Jazz

It was a year this month (Early January) that Donavan had surgery on his skull to remove the Epidermal Cyst. Scary time. He was 6 months old. This is his after surgery with his cute roommate at the IWK, Brookelynn. She had had surgery to make her achillies tendon longer a dayor 2 earlier.

More cleaning. Another day a doller less. Ugh...

I am really into reading historical romances again right now and I think after I finish the one im reading now I only have 1 left AHHHHHH.

I got a ton of laundry done yesterday. Slightly more to do today. Fricing bathroom sink clogged last night. Yuck.

Kev is home today and tomorrow and we are flat broke. Never a fun way to be. I am okay with relaxing but he is so wanting to do something but cant decide what. AND WE DONT HAVE THE MONEY FOR IT.

lol

I am so excited about next week. I love having plans. Monday is maggies then I think were walking with tara. Drs appt for donavan and I after lunch. Donavan needs his 18 month needles. I need a refill on birth control before i run out.

Watched Mirrors last night. It was actually pretty good. Not as scary as i thought though (But what ever is?).

My Day From Beginning To End

I asked kev to get me up before he left at 6:30 in the hopes I wouldnt sleep in... Slept in. Got up at quarter after 8. Got the kids fed and ready to go by 8:45. Tara gave me a lift to Maggie's, dropped Samara off on the way. Maggies was normal :) Jennifer brought in a fake leather jacket that I scored LOL!!!!! Walked afterward at teh stadium with Tara. Shot the shits and all. LOL. 20 laps as usual. I really enjoy walking up there. Anyone know the hours the stadium is open to walk? Ill have to check for curiousity sake. Anyone walking tomorrow? I dont think Tara is, she has date night tonight. Maybe if nothing is happening tomorrow and it isnt FREEZING ill walk up. I just so hate pushing teh stroller through the snow. Have I said that yet? LOL.

Got 2 phone calls while I was gone. First from the school... I was thinking GREAT. Samara has Lice. Awesome. (It wasnt about that, It was just her homework book that we had forgotten). The second was from the lady I had been councelling. She was thanking me for my wonderful information :D:D GO ME. That was really wonderful :)

Had left over pasta with donavan for lunch. Did Turbo Jam 20 minute workout. I think tomorrow I am going to try another one. Make myself a schedule and mix it up :):) I am going to make a meal plan too, tonight, because YES!!!! Kev gets paid tomorrow.

Picked up Samara, Kev came home, Made MORE PASTA for supper. LOL. I ate a LITTLE bowl of it. I had english muffins (2) with jam while I was waiting.

Now I am going to play on here while I wait for 6ish. The I will bath the babies.

OWIE Can't Type

WOW. Had I known my arm would be this sore I would have stopped boxing yesterday. I cant even lift it to type. OUCHIE.

Maggies place tomorrow FINALLY. I ahve been waiting forever for this. LOL. We shall see how it goes. I am also very excited about walking the stadium with Tara. I missed it the last 2 days.

I took teh weekend off from Turbo Jam. I figure the days kev is off I will take off too (to avoid being made fun of by a big meanie.) I am just waiting to find out what days he has off this week. I am going to dedicate tomorrow to my meal plan (Once I am home). I need to find a pencil for Samara's homework too. Ugh. LOL. I thought I had one but aparently not?

I dont know what else to say, really...

15 Minutes Until I Have To Go And Get Samara

And I think kev will be home soon.

Went to Maggies place today for teh turkey cooking. It was yummy. Donavan had a great time. He was the only child in care so him and Heather took a walk around the track at the park across teh street.

Samara went to a farm for a class trip today So hopefully she had a great time.

Im supposed to go shopping in Halifax with my mother tomorrow, hoepfully A) the weather holds and B) she doesnt invite Laura.

Normally when something is planned she will spring laura on me last minute and i will either complain and shell tell me itll be fine, etc, etc or I wont complain but by the end I will swear never to do it again. They will gang up on me or rather against me and I will not only feel like but I will be the odd one out. Just thinking about it makes me GRRRR ish. LOL. This will be the time I will follow through on teh never again. If laura is involved I will have a magic flu that will be gone by friday. Dont doubt me. ;)

9 more minutes.

Kev called and left a message hell be coming home at 2. Im hoping hes getting a drive. Then I wont ave to take donavan and the stroller to the school. LOL.

I MUST CLEAN.

The Food Gathering

So as you all know I went away Thursday and Friday. It was an awesome experience and I am so glad that I was asked to go!

Thursday Morning The ladies I went with picked me up and we, after stopping for gas and coffee, headed out of town. We hit Truro first where one lady did a little food costing for soup at the BulkBarn. I took advantage of that and picked myself up some hot lips candy and a few candy type things for xmas stockings.

From there we hit the Truro mall. We split up (one lady seperated) and then we did a bit of window shopping. I picked up a few more xmas things at Zellers (I know, I rock the window shopping). We had a small bite at teh small food court and I bought myself an AWESOME pair of slide on sneakers and a cute pair of earrings for kev's xmas party. From there we headed to our destination. The Debert Hospitality Center.

It was an awesome place. An old military/ airforce base with "pods" for barracks. The whole convention was held in the 1 building with the rooms on one end and teh kitchen/ meeting rooms on the other. The "pods" we were in were all named after aircrafts flown by the canadian airforce. Haha I couldnt pronounce mine so Im not going to bother trying to type it. We were given 2 keys. One opened the door to the pod and the otehr your room. You went into the pod and to the side was a common area with kitchenette and seating and cable tv. To your front was a frightening set of steps (lol). youd go up a small flight and on every landing there was a door on either side of you and a "Water closet" with either a toilet or a shower, and always a sink and mirror, depending on whick floor you were on. There were 8ish rooms per pod. We were in 5 and teh other 2 ladies from amherst were in 8. The rooms were tiny with 2 small but kind of comfie beds.

The first seminar I sat in on (there was usually about 3 to choose from) was on community gardens/ children's gardens. It wasnt bad but wasnt the best I saw.

I went to the food mentor speech of course becuase I was there on teh food mentor's buck (lol). I cant wait for the training to become a mentor myself.

As the point of the 2 days was supporting local and food security (by supporting local, makes sense) we were told that all of the food we would be served was out of a cookbook called "Simply In Season" by Mary-beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert. (More about that in a few...)

The meals were AWESOME! Delicious and fresh and WOW. Soups, and Veggies, and meat and meat alternatives. There were snacks between sessions, delicious homebaked in the galley kitchen goodies. Awesome fare.

There was a speech by the minister of agriculture Brooke Taylor where he announced the 2.3 million dollar inititive to help people buy local by supporting local farmers markets in the next few years. Awesome news!

A few of us ran to Masstown and grabbed a bottle of wine or 2 for teh evening. We gathered our wine and a bit of local cheese and healthy crackers and headed for a room where we joked and chatted until about 12:30am. Then off to bed.

7:00 came SUPER EARLY! we were downstairs as a group for breakfast by 20 to 8. It was delicious, scrambled eggs, pancakes with local maple syrup, buscuits, wild blueberries. YUM.

Friday morning I went to the presentation on breastfeeding and a more breastfeeding friendly NS. I thought it was a panel discussion... I was wrong. LOL. It was a type of panel in that the speakers were seated at the front while waiting to speak. Low and behold I was one of the speakers. Everyone else had a powerpoint presentation prepared, I had nothing. LOL I super winged it. I was told afterward that I did a great job. Its a bit of a blur. HAHA. I always liked public speaking though so I had a good time.

I sat in on a session by the author of Simply In Season, Mary-Beth Lind. It was an awesome presentation about buying local and preparing according to season. So inspiring in fact that I bought the book and plan on making it my new year's resolution to start cooking according to season and buying local where possible.

We had another delicious lunch then a presentation from Av Singh on growing your own vegetable gardens. It was very interesting and informative. :)

Then home to my loving Kev who missed me very much. then the kids got home... DUN DUN DUN.

Donavan is teething. nuff said.

Funniest Face Ever

You can JUST see Samara's face peeking out. Ill post the rest when Sarah sends them.

This was teh Maggie's Place Opening/ Ribbon Cutting BTW.

I met Maggie's Mom!!!!! WOW!!!!

:P

I ahve nothing to blog right now. I am tired but cant get to sleep lately. I go to bed and lay there trying not to keep kevin up for a very long time. I finally pass out only to be rudely awakened a few unrested hours later by Donavan's determination not to allow me to sleep in.

I am so ready for a vacation from my kiddies.

Going away teh 4th and 5th will be nice but Im a bit more excited about Kev's work party the 19th.

:D:D

Is This My Child?

Samara was up last night puking so I am keeping her home...

but she doesnt want to stay... I would be all about sending her except that she puked in her hair (on her braid). I rinsed her off last night but she needs it washed and so home she will stay.

Ive got a tired headache and somehow donavan got into kevs cologne. I am going to be the one puking, ugh LOL.

Kevs supposed to be off today but he has to go in to workfor a few hours to finish something He is off tomorrow as well.

tomorrow is a meeting of the BFI. Baby friendly inititive. Its awesome. I cant wait. Im going to see if angela will watch donavan though. Its a little early to expect kev to on his day off.

And I forgot. Im meeting with donna on our mysteriuos project beforehand. UGH. I shoiuld get somehting done on it today.

What is it, you ask again?

should I say tell you later again?

Basically I am helping her facilitate a program on the way that media presents women to children (girls) and how to spot the signs. et :)

Go feminism.

A Day Like Many Others...

Except today I had subway. MMMM SUBWAY.

Maggies place this morning for you make the difference. As I take this program for the 3rd time I realize that I rock this parenting biz. I dont need to learn any of it (again) becuase I already know. The program teaches about being more in touch with your kids, sharing new experiences and making the most of your time together. One of teh lessons if to make the important words stand out. And I so do. Such as, "Donavan dont hit your SISTER with that plastic bat, hit your DAD." See, important words.

After Maggies Place I came home (So exciting... I know). When it was time to pick samara up one of my better off friends was practicing the biblical lesson, more blessed to give than recieve. She brought over 3 bags of pantry items and some tissue. It was such an awesome thing for her to do. She also gave someone SOMETHING (shes got a strong newfie accent sometimes and occasionally I have been known to nod like I understand, case in point, today) and she gave another friend some books that her children would like. She is such a good friend, would do anything for a person :) More people should be like her!

Once Samara was home I tidied a bit. Samara was starving and having a pickyfit too so though she was huingry she would NOT accept the choice of sandwich I gave her. Aparently she didnt eat her chips for her lunch snack. Why I asked? The teacher would let her becuase she wouldtn eat her sandwich. Well hurray teacher. About time someone stood up to her picky, spoiled eating habits (besides me). Maybe next time she will eat the sandwich I lovingly in a hurry pack for her in teh morning 3 minutes after she SHOULD have left for school. Anywho... In short I wasnt sure what teh appropriate response was.... be angry that the teacher wouldnt let her eat teh snack I sent for her to enjoy at lunchtime or use it as a lesson to MZ PRISSYEATER that unlike what nanny teaches at her house the world doesnt revolve around what she wants to eat when. EAT YOUR MF SANDWICH OR ELSE is mroe often my response. (and if you take offense to me yelling MF at my 5 year old A) shut YO MF MOUTH... and B) obviously it is a dramatic reinactment.... therefore MF is used to suggest I was frustrated... though I may have said, if you dont want a freaking sandwich when ALL WE HAVE IN THE HOUSE IS BREAD AND YOUR CHOICE OF PEANUTBUTTER OR NONAME CHEESEWHIZ THEN YOU CAN STARVE! <<>>

In short I agree with what the teacher did and I informed Samara of that and WHY I agree'd with the teacher and am not going up in arms about it. (though despite her picky ways, my child is luckily a 'go with the flow' type and accpeted her no sandwich then no chips fate with nary but a IM STARVING complaint.)




Can I stop here and apologise for my shitty typing skills??? I dont understand it, I spend as much time on the puter as before (maybe even more now that Im actually DOING the project I should ahve started ummmmmm in the beginning of the summer.... ). I just suck... I am speedy Gonzola.



Once Kev got home, he was all like, GET YO MF BOOTS ON BIATCH! and I was all, YES YOUR SUPREME SEX GODINESS.

Once Kev got home we got ready adn all walked to the mall area. We went to subway (yum) Samara turned in ehr free kids meal slip and got a balony sandwich and juice box. (yes, i know), Kev got steak and cheese 6 inch and I got a FOOT LONG MONSTER of a veggie delight (with toooo much MAYOOOO) i only ate half and saved the rest for ohhh about an hour ago. YUM.

Then liquidation world.

Then Walmart.

Kev bought Fall Out 3 and got a littlest pet shop for Samara. She asked very nicely if wed buy her something. She got one with a little pile off poop, newspaper, and a scooped. TOO FRICKING CUTE. and wierd.

Then we went grocery shopping YAY and home again where we are now.



Remind me to tell you about my project, Lazy blogger is kicking in.


****** Yes I did say pile OFF poop and SCOOPED. It wasnt your imagination.

I know I am showing off now arnt I?

:)

Like my new layout? Thank you.

Cant take all teh credit. I undecorated my house from halloween after trick or treating andf the kids going to bed. then I was tinking I had to get rid of teh black and orange I had going on on the ol blog. Then I said nayyyyyyyy toooo layyyyyy-z.

The DEB changed hers to the pretty aqua greenyness. And so to keep up with the jones-es I changed mine too last night.

WTG me.


Finalllly got my maintanence last night... too late to get anyone to take me to pay it, thank you very much.

fate would have it i am never going to be my landlord's favourite. after maggies this morning im going to go to the bank (PLEASE DONT BE TOO COLD) then I am going to let him know it is here ;) Then let him know I am not going to be ontime like i thought i would this month. No sirree. It sounded like a good idea to borrow 200 from kevs sister on tuesday and that combined with kevs 500$ cheque would pay our rent and I could pick up 50$ worth of stuff we need... Except we need too much. DIAPERS and MILK top begin with. theres 20$ plus wipes, 25$. plus god knows what else for 2 weeks of broke again. Nahhh.


well gotta go get samara to do her homework and dress everyone.

(Plus read teh online paper... remind me to call and cancel teh subscription today)

Nablopomo Dude!

Yeah I am that cool...

Ive decided to participate in this years Nablopomo.

Basically this is how it works. Blog everyday for the whole month of November. I know, you're excited to read me EVERYDAY, right?

Now before you ask, I am not going to cheat out for today. So lets start with a bang.

Went to maggies this morning, then coffee and craft ideas this afternoon.

CANT FIND MY HOOK so i cleaned my livingroom in the hopes of randomly finding it. No sign.

Didnt get my maintence today. SERIOUSLY. Am I too trusting???? Am I such a bad person? Karma maybe? Who knows. Why do people make things uncomfortable for me??? So now i hvae to message that jackass AGAIN tomorrow to say, "i noticed you didnt pay me, were you PLANNING ON IT?" Ugh. Today I messaged hi at about 4:30 and said, "Hi, just wanted to let you know I am going to be home the rest of the evening so you can send the transfer (of funds) anytime now." Think I am too passive? How do I become more agressive slightly, and all assertive?

Oh look paris hiltons bff show is coming on. TRAINWRECK TV. Ugh she is so fake I want to barf tehn watch more.

Kevs out with troy drinkinggggg. I am here with the chillinnnnns. Sucker.

Samara is sick. attack of my parents over feeding her junk. she left with a sobeys bag of candy fresh from trick or treating and I told terry not to give her anymore than she had already had. he said only a few more and thats it. Bull. She was puking today and she puked in bed. LYING ON HER BACK. Ugh. I drilled it into her head WHEN YOU PUKE AT NIGHT ROLL OVER <> scary!

Im going to watch idiocyncricy after :) (spelled funny)

So Because I am So BORING.

I ahvent blogged in ages. So sorry.

Quicky run down.

Tomorrow my munchkin is coming back from Brendas again where hes been since sunday. Its so lonesome without him to chase especially lately. Enough of the poor poor pitiful me.

Maggies place you make the difference today. chatted and bitched with Lisa for a little bit, chatted with my new buddy a bit, you get it. I chatted.

Susan's place for coffee afterward. watched some boob tube, Played some WII sports, played with her workout equiptment. I SO cant do a sit up. I suck LOL.

The rest of today was spent finishing the diningroom.

As of yesterday Our bed in the back bedroom with donavan's crib. Samaras single bed (she has a new one in her room) it set up in the diningroom. This way I can hopefully get donavan to sleep in his own bed adn kev can sleep on a bed and not teh couch. See how that does to kill some tension. Hopefully LOADS.

Before that was monday, chat n chew and i got the back room ready for our bed.

Before that weekend where we did little to nothing.

WELL.
Saturday we went to teh opening of a new factory in town. They had BIG blowup rides. One was a giant moon bouce. Samara went on once herself adn I took donavan on too teh second time. FUN.

The other thing was a GIANTTTTTT slide. First you climb a wall using the handles then slide straight down a huge scary slide then again. AWESOME and scary.

SO

dont complain that I dont ever blog ;)

Maggie's Place Halloween Party

I didnt bring my camera so I stole these from Tara and Lacy.

Yoda On The Run

Samara From Behind (She wouldnt look at Lacy)

Samara Mermaid and Yoda Play Bean Bags

Mommy and Yoda




Yoda Working Hard At His Craft (With Scarecrow Sarah Mac)

Voila. The cuteness that was my children yesterday ;)

Its Been Awhile

I havent had much to say lately. LOL.

took the kidsto the maggies place halloween pary today. It wasnt bad. VERY crowded. Donavan was SO FREAKING CUTE as Yoda and Samara was a beautiful mermaid.

Did some dishes today. Yep. I am an overachiever.

My House is Complete

Samara is home finally and Kev has the next 2 days off. It is so nice. Samara has been SUCH an incredibly good girl all day (considering she is normally a monster coming form my moher's house).
Maggies place today was about Routines and Setting them I really need to get into one. I am so personaly chaotic (sp?) that it is hard for me to establish any type of a routine.
I cant really think of anythign anic-dotal (nor can I be bothered to spell it)...
UMMM
Samara has brought a new habit home... the picking of one's nose and eating it. She did it a bit ago when I was reading her story to her and I told her to, "STOP PICKING YOUR NOSE AND EATING THE BOOGERS!" Her response: "My nose was itchy." I had to ask, "And your finger was tasty?" She laughed her head off.

Donavan's new thing is to get "stuck" and yell for help. last week he put his foot in the middle drawer of my dresser (its a low dresser) and couldnt get it out. When I got over there he was hopping around laughing. The other day when I was reading donavan was yelling and kev asked where he was. I told him i had no idea so kev went to investigate. Donavan had crawled up into our dirty clothes basket and couldnt get out/ off. A few minutes ago her was yelling (In his funny hoarse voice) "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! I went looking for him and when he heardme coming her started laughting like a MANIAC. He was on my bed waiting for me. Little bugger. He fell off the other day when he climbed up to roll around and so now when he gets up he crawls to the very middle and lays there yelling until someone comes to watch his "tricks".

Ahhhh, Nice to have my whole family. Shopping trip tomorrow :)

I am in Serious Danger

Of killing someone

It is SO freaking hot in here I want to scream. And Samara WILL NOT LET ME BE! ARRGGGGG. Plus Donavan dropped a glass earlier and im pretty sure samara stepped ona tiny sliver. Too small for the tweezers. I tried and tried im not even sure theres anythign there...

She is ina warm tub right now to try to soak ehr foot. I am going to go wash her hair ina sec.

Kev is working close tonight. My big plans include:

PUTTING THESE KIDS TO BED!

Taking a GOOD shower

Arranging my new tv stand and getting it ready for kev to put the tv on. YAY!


Maggies place this morning for a kids cooking program. samara and I made guacamole. I HATE GUACAMOLE. LOL. there was other cool stuff. The program was "Thinking Outside teh Lunchbox". Im so excited about making lunches for samara in September :)

CLEANING CLEANING

I hate cleaning, I never finish anything.

It is so hot in here I want to PUKE.

I am bored and crabby.

Maggies place tomorrow. It is a fun day where you pretty much spend the day with your kid but i dont think ill be aving a good time... A girl i know caught me in a "i cant say no" situation. She asked if i was going. I said yes, if im signed up for it. then she said she was asking becuase she was going to see if i would "watch" her daughter during it so she could take her son to an appt. Yay. I get to play babysitter to her wildly active dicipline-free child who is JUST potty trained while ATTEMPTING to have a "good" time with my own children while chasing them. I should ahve said no, i wasnt going but i missed 2 already adn I know samara misses it.

Ugh.

:)

:):)
I feel great today :):)

I tidied teh livingroom a bit, put on some music, got dressed... MAKE-UPED perty and am now ready to get things done.
I was signed up for a morning thing at maggies tomorrow but Henri and I made coffee plans so well have to miss the maggies thing this time.

Stephanie is supposed to come over today toget her hair dyed. Hopefully she shows up early becuase im thinking around 3 i might pack up my boy and head for sherry's so Donavan can play in his pool :):)

Well Off to do a load fo laundry and some dishes...
weeeeee.

MOTHER *BLEEPER*

Well my dryer officially is broken. Son of a... gun? Ugh. Is it the Gods of power conservation at work? Or just my luck? Seems like my luck lately. It is not supposed to rain tonight or tomrrow so I will be hanging out the load that I was trying to dry, I guess. Hopefully I can work something out with a friend of mine's boyfriend who knows dryers... Hopefully.

Tomorrow is the last Snuggle bugs at maggies place. It is starting a bit later than usual and ending a bit later too, There will be a BBQ. YUM. I am so excited. LOL. I am going to miss going all summer though. Plus tehre will be no more Thursday for us becuase Donavan is going to be EAR friday and technically it is only until 1 year. :(:(

Kevs sister's bf Randy says he thinks that the dryer is just a fuse in teh basement... He will be around tomorrow to see. Pray for me... I cant spend all summer hanging clothes out that high window and bringing bugs back in. UGH.

A New Start

Doesnt a new blog always feel like you're starting fresh?
This is my fresh new perspective. The shiny new me.
Some random facts:
I am 23 years old but feel 17.
I am in love with the same guy i wished for when i was about 16.
I have the most brilliant 4 year old daughter.
I have the handsomest and most pixie-est week away from being 1 year old son.
I practically live at the local family resource center.
I am a breastfeeding peer support mom which means that when needed I can and will support women in the fight to breastfeed.

And now I am ging to go tidy up before my good friends and downstairs neighbors come up to visit. :)