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January 10 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! January 07 Another day, another load of laundry!It is Sunday in the middle of the work week and well the house is a mess the laundry is piled high and the kids are demanding all my attention! My life in a nut shell! Actually things are going well. Mom is doing alright from what I can tell. Dad is flying home as he has to get his throat streched tomorrow and likes the same surgeon to do it so back and forth! So we will pick him up and get a better update as to what is going on. We set up the keyboard that my parents got the kids for christmas so now I have a splitting headache but they have something new to fight over so they are back in their element. Oh well it is keeping them occupied for a couple of minutes. I managed to go to the gym and ran 5km. I got to use my Ipod that I received for Christmas for the first time so that was nice. I feel better for going to the gym as well so I will have to make a more conserted effort to get there.
Bill is flying in on Wednesday ( MY BIRTHDAY by the way ) to visit with the kids. YAHOO!!!!! I am so looking forward to the break!!! Yes I may even move into someone eles house just so I can get away. I know that sounds awful but I really need a break. I love my kids and wouldn't change anything but a break will be good. I'm going out on Friday, and Saturday so far ( and the best part - I don't have to pay a babysitter! ) can you tell I'm excited.
The weather here can't make up its mind. It snowed the other day is suppose to rain on Monday and then it is suppose to be -25 by Thursday. It is easy to meet strangers here becasue you alwasy can talk about the weather here in Prince George. Well I better get another load of laundry folded.
Hope you all have a great week! I know I will!
M.
January 05 Update on MomHi,
Thanks for your thoughts and prayers. Mom had a triple by pass and is doing well. (THANK GOD!) I was at work today and did ok till about 12:30pm and still nobody had called. The stress level went up and I deceided to call my Aunt in Vancover who was the contact. She had not heard from the hospital or my dad who was driving down ( 10 hour drive ) so about 2pm she called the hospital and found out that mom was doing well and just coming around. They said the surgery went great and she was doing well. Dad got into Vancover around 3 and was going to go to the hospital I still haven't heard from him but like Aunty Wendy says no news is good news!
I think I need a Vacation - need to get away!!!!! I will sleep well tonight!.
Again thanks for caring!
M. January 04 My MomWell my mom is having a 5-by pass surgry Thursday morning. She went into the hospital on December 28th and they air vac'd her to Vancover on January 1st. We all hoped it would be minor but as it turns out its not. They can't belive she hasn't had a heart attack yet. So think lots of good thoughts for me! There are some days I just want to curl up in bed and not come out but then the kids need me to keep going! (THANK GOD FOR THE KIDS!).
M. December 30 Catching up after ChristmasWe had a wonderful Christmas! The kids got what they wanted. Probably a little more than they should have but as it was a very tight year for me and we did not do Birthdays this year it was OK to spoil them a bit. I only managed to charge 2 gifts so I am not in debt becasue of it!!!! OK Grandma & Gradpa helped a bit. They bought the Nintendo Wii for me and I will pay them back over the year. Fun was had by all. My sister and family came to visit from the 23rd to the 28th. It was short but the kids really had a good time together. They really miss each other but when you live together for a year that is to be expected. I will have to get up to Grande Prarie sometime this spring.
My mom is in the hospital. She has been having problems with her heart - It is not getting enough oxygen. So she is now waiting for a hospital transfer to Vancover for either an angiogram or by pass surgery. Life is never slow around here! At least this didn't happen 6 months ago when Dad was in the hospital!!! Mom says it is now his turn to look after her - Fair is fair! I know that next year is going to be a better year. It just has to be. I don't think I can handle much more. I know that it is said that you are only given what you can handle but I think I have had my share and it is time for some good times!!!!!
I am trying to get my house into order after Christmas. Yes please feel free to laugh at this moment with 3 kids well it is not going that well. I have managed to clean my room!!! :) I for some reason always start in my room if it is clean I feel I can do anything! I need to move on to Elizabeth's room but everytime I start I just seem to get angry at how messy my kids are. I know that I was messy as a kid but UHG!!! so I haven't made it much further than that!. I am going to move the boys in to the spare room upstairs, well it isn't really a spare room as you would think or a spare room it is the room we put everything in when we don't know where it goes. Sooooo I know have to find new places to put all these things that are in this room. (mostly my crafts - scrapbooking, cross stitching etc. ) Some of it will move into my room ( which is clean for at least one day! ) And some will have to move downstairs into the storage area - which I will have to clean to put new things into it. Yes it seems overwhelming when you are doing it all alone.
I have to say I did find Christmas a bit overwhelming as it was my first one by myself so to speak ( Bill was here last year and spent Christmas with us so helped with everything ) and getting everything from Santa set up took me till 12:30am I finally got to bed and I heard Christopher up at 3:30am. I told him to go back to bed before he woke everyone up and he said " Thats ok mom I already got them up they are in the living room! " I told them to get back to bed until at least 5:00am but one of them was up every 20min or so asking if it was time yet! 5am finally came and I let them get up and open their stockings I finally got up around 6am and Christmas began! Yep I was a tired puppy by the end of the day. But the kids had a great day and thats what it is all about. They missed their dad a bit but did ok.
He has informed me that because I had them this year he gets them next year. I told him that was fine he could buy them the plane tickets and I would buy one for me. He said what! and I said my home was open to him this year - not my fault he didn't come and I expected him to open his house to me! He agreed that was only fair. I am not missing a Christmas with my kids!
Well thats about all that is going on here. I hope everyone out there in computer land had a good Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
M. December 20 Christmas is coming!Well we know Christmas is coming! Its almost here! We can tell. Mom is tired, the parcel arrived from Grandma, The Christmas concert was last night and the kids are not doing anything at school. I think I am so behind I will have a couple of late nights this week trying to get everything done. The Christmas Concert was very good this year. I went early as it was in the church so I could get good seats. We were in the 2nd row! As as it is a catholic school it does have a religous theme to it but it was absolutly wonderful. My youngest, Elizabeth, was the donkey that carried Mary to Bethlehem and she did a very good job! The Grade 7's did a very powerful finish with a stirring rendition of Christ's life from birth to the reserection. It was stunning. They did a great job. So thats it the Christmas Concert is over Christmas in now here whether I am ready or not! I have to work till Friday and then I am off. I need to wrap presents, make my Baileys cheese cake tonight! That is what is on the adgenda - if we are not all too tired and cranky from being up late last night!. Hope you all have a great day.
M.
December 15 SNOWOK It snowed 1 1/2 feet last night!!! and it is still coming down. 1 hour of shoveling so far! Good for the exercise program! UGH Christmas is so much fun. Christopher asked me this morning when it would be summer again. :) Well I have to bring all the christmas presents in now that they are off to school.
M. Only 10 more shopping days!I managed to take a morning off today and braved the stores. I think I am almost done with the shopping. I am still waiting for Canadian Tire to call me to get Christopher's bow. ( They had them apparently they were in the warehouse under a mountain of boxes and couldn't get too them right then) but that should be it for the kids. I even got the stocking stuffers and their were not too many people at the stores so it wasn't that bad. I have to say I was very suprised by the prices I went to wal-mart first and zellers second and at zellers the 2 toys I was looking at were 20$ more. I couldn't believe it! I won't be driving back across town when they are priced higher! No wonder Wal-mart is so popular.
Our snow has almost completely melted and we have ice now on the roads, driveways, and sidewalks but we can see grass! Hard to believe when we had about 6 feet 2 weeks ago. It is suppose to start snowing again tonight but as long as it doesn't rain and freeze I guess we can't complain. Our winters sure aren't what they use to be we use to have snow all winter and cold weather all winter you could count on that.
Bill has decieded to stay in Ontario for Christmas! The kids were fairly upset and Christopher is still angry. We managed to get him some presents and the kids had fun wrapping them. I let them pick them out so he is getting Moose slippers, a pillow, Tronto Maple Leaf salt & pepper shakers and then we got him some hunting magazines & movies. I spent 2 nights scrapbooking him a calender of the kids. It turned out really well I hope he likes it. Now I just have to get my 2 mother in-laws calenders done and in the mail. I don't think they will make it for Christmas but better late than not at all.
Well I got dishes to do and bed is calling my name so have a great night everyone out in computer land and sweet dreams!
M. December 10 Stress!!!Well it warmed up here, a large part of the snow melted Yea! no shoveling, we just have to dig out our skates now as we all have ice rinks on our driveways. Yep winter is fun. Wednesday morning we got up to a dump of over 10 cm of wet snow ( it was raining by 9am) I was suppose to go to the gym but deceided to go for a run around the neighborhood instead. It was beautiful! just the right temperature. Hard sludging thru the snow as it hadn't been plowed and even trickier on the icey roads but I did about 5km with my dog and felt great! (till the next morning when I stiffened up). I am going to do the Y fun run on new years day again and wanted to test my outdoor legs and I guess I am ready! I think I need a tredmill for my house. I have tried everymorning this shift to get up at 5am and go out for a run but I just can't get motivated to leave the house and I don't really want to leave the kids alone. I know that if I had a treadmill I would run in the morning as getting up is not the problem. but they are so expensive!!! I think I will wait till I have paid my Sears bill off and then treat myself. My Christmas present, Birthday present rolled into one but I will not buy it till the rest is paid off. (Trying not to get too in debt!). Yea we'll see how that goes with Christmas coming. I love Christmas! I really do I just find everything so difficult these days it is hard to be positive. Bill is not coming for Christmas this year ( the kids dad). It makes me angry!! But what can I do he can't afford the plane ticket. I know he will be the loser in the end the kids will still have a great christmas and we will be together and he will be alone but it still bugs me that he can do this. I would sell my soul to be with my kids I don't understand it. I mean I am going to pick up a second job in January ( Selling Party Light Candles ) it won't be much but I hope it will be enough to pay some bills and I may take a boarder in next September to help as well yet He is off for the winter months and can't be bothered to pick up work. It is too easy to say there is nothing out there. That is a load of crap! Even if it delivering pizza there is work out there you just have to be motivated enough to do it. Of course I won't say this to him becasue then I am just the money hungry ex-wife! UHG!! Sorry I needed to vent! I can't say anything to the kids, I can't say anything to my family - When he does come they have to be civil to him, I can't say anything to his family becasue that is just not right so I'm stressing I know I shouldn't let it get to me but it is. I'm having chest pains again and I know it is stress. I'm tired and there is so much to do! Its funny my friends have been a great help but they can only do so much and I don't want to complain to them anymore or ask for help anymore. I guess I'm just tired it is the middle of my work shift and Saturday night! OK I'm probably lonely too. I have to clean the house tomorrow, try to get my christmas picture page done up to be copied to put with the letter to go out. I have 4 calenders to make up for Christmas presents ( 3 have to go to Ontario ) which involves scrapbooking pictures of the kids from the past year. I have pretty empty cupboards so I have to see if I have enough room on the credit card to buy groceries, and buy them tomorrow too. And we have to ring the bells for the Salvation Army Kettle Campaign becasue no matter how much I bitch and complain there are so many people out there worse off then us! And maybe I just have to remember that! Well I'm beat I hope you all have a good weekend
M. December 04 SnowI have to say I was very happy it warmed up. -30 is a little extream but..... at least it does not snow at -30. It has done nothing but snow this past week. We are probably up to about 4 feet so far and they are predicting snow every day. I have muscle that I didn't even know exsisted that are sore from shoveling. Thank God I only have a little drive way!!!! Our office had our Christmas party last night. I had a blast! I have not gone out in the past 2 years so I whooped it up but good. I'm a little slow today and at 6:30pm I'm ready for bed. I drank I danced and I don't think I made a fool of my self so it was a great time. My babysitter spent the night so I didn't have to worry about coming home so I managed to stay till the end and got home about 1:30am. Yep I had a good time. The kids and I did a shift manning the Salvation Army Kettles this morning. We will do a shift every Sunday till Christmas time now. It is our way of helping those in need. I usually donate a fair amount but this year I just don't have it to give so this is our way of helping. After about 20 minutes of standing there the kids got a little braver and we sang Christmas Carols. People seemed to like this and donations started coming in. It was nice. We went sleding this afternoon ( what else are you going to do in all this snow!) Well at least the kids did and I stayed at the top of the hill and watched. They sure have fun!. Rosy cheeks and big smiles say it all. Great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. We also managed to get our house decorated this weekend so it is starting to feel like Christmas. The best time of the year. Hope you are all enjoying the season out there in computer land! Have a great week.
M. November 22 Flu ShotsWell we went for our flu shots today. Elizabeth only screamed a little :) much better than last year! Its funny everybody sure has their ideas about these shots. I work in a 12 dentist office and the amount of patients that are in and out of this place is huge. I will do anything that I think might help protect my kids. The reason I get the kids the shot is I read somewhere that if there ever is a epidemic of anykind the more years you have had this shot the better your chances are. If I can increase their chances a little any discomfort is OK by me. We are in the middle of a blizzard. Complete white out conditions!! I have already gone out and shovelled once as there was at least 4 inches of snow ( In about an hour and a half ) I didn't think I would be able to lift it if I left it till the morning. Thankfully I don't have too big of a driveway!!! Oh well I have been waiting for snow so the kids can go sleding. We are doing alright. I am going to start selling party light candles. I need to supplement my income in someway so I thought I would give this a try. We will see how it goes. Then I may move the boys upstairs and take in a boarder next september. We will see. Well the KD is boiling and the kids are hungry so I better go.
Hope you are all well out there in computer land
M. November 08 Kids say the darndest thingsWell I'm sick thanks to my kids! But then colds come and they go. I figure I'm just doing my time. Anyways I feel rotten - Looking for a little sympathy here!!!! We have had the funniest weather Snow/Rain/Snow/RAIN/LIGHTNING/THUNDER I don't ever remember having lightning and thunder when there is snow on the ground, and I'm sure that it is what is prolonging my cold. Speaking of lightning and thunder it reminds me of a day where Elizabeth and I were leaving the grocery store around 5pm a couple of years back I think she would have been 4. You could see the grey/black clouds rolling in so we ran to the car. Once we were in and buckled the downpour started. Now our parking lots in these shopping complexes are something to write home about. They are set up for Vancouver ( were everyone drives tiny cars ) not for big trucks (which is what you drive up here in the north ). Anyways trying to get out of the parking lot at any time is trying but at 5pm you really have to pay attention so you aren't taken out by one of thoes big bad trucks! So I'm concentrating on the traffic and it has started to hail. Elizabeth turns to me and shouts MOMMY IT'S ICECLING ITS ICECLING!!!! She was so excited. I actually kind of stopped for a moment are realized this was one of those special moments in time. I smiled and agreed that it was icecling. and we went on home. It is amazing how things are so simple for little ones. Anyways have a great night!
M. November 05 The Middle ChildChristopher Malcom Matthews - My beautiful, mischivious, devilish, wonderful middle child. Now for all you moms out there you know that once your children are born you would give your life for them without a second thought. But there are those kids, usaually the second one that will test you with each step they take. For me that is Christopher. Thats pobably why he has the longest eyelashes and the most wonderful smile. Anyways he is the one who if there is trouble will probably be right in the middle with a very wide grin on his face. So when the princpal called on Friday to inform me that my child was caught writing on the bathroom stalls I was not suprised in the least to find out it was Christopher. Now don't get me wrong I was HORRIFIED!!! I was a goody two shoes when I was young and would never, never have deface any part of the school. But Christopher well he goes to the beat of his own drum and this was his way of expressing his anger. He had an in school suspension and had to clean the playground the next day for his school punishment but is having a much harder time with what mom delt out at home. No computer or game cube or game boy for 1 whole week - Thats 7 days he informed me!!! No playing outside or with friends for the weekend - But it snowed mom!!!! And we still have to write our appoligies to the teaching staff and the janitor today. Life sucks when you are 8 and get caught breaking the rules (laws) I think he understands now just how much trouble he was in and promises never to get into that much trouble again. Now the reason as to why this happened, I think my smart little 8 yearold subcounciously wanted to get caught and get kicked out of school because that way I would have to transfer him out of the catholic school and into the public school that is 2 blocks away from our house. Sneaky thing!! I of course informed him that under no circumstances would I be switching him mid year no matter what he did. UHG!!!! Life with kids it is never dull!!
M. November 04 Hello! Anybody home??Well we are all still here and alive. Its funny I haven't been around much can't say I have even visited anybodies sites, I guess I haven't had much to say. Remember the old saying if you haven't got anything nice to say don't say anything at all. Well that sums it up. Life is hard I realize its the same for most people and we probably go thru alot of the same trials and tribulations but its just tough to be positive and up beat and who wants to sit and read about my sad life. Right?! We are bumping along. We had a fairly crappy Halloween, now don't get me wrong the kids got candy and so they were happy but.... Elizabeth couldn't go out She has pnemonia. I worked till 5pm so I missed carving the pumpkins (Thankfully my parents picked the kids up from school and carved with them ) and it was very cold. I managed to get the warm costumes on without much of a fight but I forgot to put mitts on them and after 10 minutes Christopher was so cold he was in tears so home we went. Halloween has always been a very important holiday for me I think it is becasue when we were kids it was still safe to go out and it was fun. Now we don't let our kids do anything anymore and have lost some of our inocince ( cant spell ) so I try to make it fun and exciting for the kids I even still dress up. I was a pirate for the school party and a sheep for work. I think I let life get in the way this year and as I was lying in bed awake at 2am stressing about the bills, the kids, their grades, me yelling too much I remembered that I can only do so much and I need to get back to basics. I seem to go over this alot but I think it is much harder to do than we realize. I hate the fact that I need help - There is so much that I can't do or don't know how to do or are too scared to do. Like tonight Byron came over and started the gas fireplace downstairs for me. I tried but couldn't get it and needed someone to show me how. Now that he has shown me I will be able to do it with confidence from now on but we haven't used the basement for the past month becasue it has been too cold. The gutters theres another story. I don't have a latter tall enought to reach the top of the house I could reach the roof from the porch but there is no way I am climbing on my roof!!! I am deathly afraid of heights so I kind of hinted at work to my boss ( who is a friend) that I could use so help cleaning the gutters He then informed me that they were fozen and could not be cleaned now! see I know nothing!!!! I hate it. Life should come with a manual. It would be so much eaiser!!! Anyways I hope you are all well out there in computer land and are having a better time than I .
M.
M. October 10 We're Back!!Well 15 hours and we are home!!! We left at 4am and arrived at exactly 7pm. Christopher was very impressed that it was 7:00 on the dot! which is what I predicted. We had a good weekend but the drive is too long for such a short trip. The kids had a good visit with grandma ( Elizabeth cried for the first hour after we left because she missed grandma. ) We went to a Moosejaw Warriers Hockey Game and sat in box seats!!! So Cool. They play in the same league as our Prince George Cougars so I enjoyed the game, made sure to take pictures of the boys in the box so they could brag too all their hockey friends. I have one complaint from the trip - Doesn't anybody keep their washrooms clean anymore!!!!!!! It was awful !!! from Esso gas stations to the McDonalds in Saskatoon, ( not a small town either ) the washrooms were almost to the point where I would not let the kids use them and I did complain. I mean come on people lets take a little pride and doesn't the staff have to use the same ones also?????? If these were my places of business employees would be fired but then with the work shortage around here maybe thats the problem. Anyways BC was Ok Alberta was not so good and Saskatewan I had real problems with. What gets me is that it never use to be that way no matter where you went the washrooms were clean. Ok thats my beef for the day. We saw lots of animals - Deer, Moose, Elk, Skunks, Porqupines, Prarie Dogs, Ducks, Canadian Geese, Mountain Goats - I think thats it. We even managed not to hit any which is a bounus in my mind. Well I'm tired so I will end here hope everyone had a great weekend. I will try to post pictures in the next day or two.
M. October 04 WE LEAVE IN 2 DAYS!!!Well the count down is on. The van is cleaned the movies are packed we have the addaptor for the game cube I think we are almost ready to go! We are heading to Moose Jaw Saskatewan for Thaksgiving. My mother in law moved there in the summer and I promised I would bring the kids over. So 5am on thursday we hit the road. I am hoping we don't get any snow before then. It is cold enough here we could. It will be a 12 to 14 hour drive but then what can you do. Family is Family and the kids need to visit. Life has been hectic this week here. I am working and my cold is finally gone. Knock on wood. Eric managed to get a bladder infection and didn't tell me till after 3 days!!! The poor boy!!! He is 10 and was worried about having a doctor look at him!!! So I took him to the walk in clinc and got him on the mendicine so he is feeling better. We have to go to our regular doctor tomorrow because boys don't normally get bladder infections I was told and they will probably want to do more tests. So he won't be too impressed when we do all of this I'm sure. Oh well he is feeing better and thats all I care about. Work has been busy. The receptionsist I just trained gave her notice last week so we are doing interviews tomorrow and I will have to train someone again starting next shift. Life is never easy have you noticed?? I am busy with the school parent support group organizing our family Halloween dinner and dance. It is an absolute blast are great event with a spagetti dinner and games & dancing for the kids after. I love halloween and we dress up every year. I think I am going to pull out in January as it is too much for me these days and maybe it is time for some new blood so to speak. I don't seem to get much time to my self these days and I'm getting selfish I want to do things for me. Anyways I have to go and finish packing so have a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all you Canadians out there in computer land and Have a great weekend to everyone eles.
M. September 26 One Day at a TimeOk so I took yesterday and had a whole day for me. I read a book, I did some scrapbooking and I puttered. Topped it off with dinner at mom & dads. Great day! 10 hours later I feel like a dump truck ran over me and them backed up again!!!! My 10 year old gave me his cold. He stayed home from school today becasue he was coughing all night. Of course like all kids by 10am he was fine - playing nintendo and watching movies while I was suffering. I can't say I have had a cold in over 9 months so of course I am out of practice - feeling sorry for myself and wallowing in my misery! I mean I can deliver a baby with no drugs but a little head cold and I am knocked off my feet. Every now and then the kids look at me with that stunned look of "Its just a cold mom get over it" Tylenol is my best friend right now and I am hoping the 2 others don't get it much worse becasue I am back to work tomorrow. Sick or not!
M. September 24 Life of MomWell I have to say life around here never gets boring. I can honestly say that when they sign you up to be a mom you really have no idea what you are getting yourself into - or eles you probably would run, run very fast the other way. Don't get me wrong I would die for my kids but at times I feel like I am just not qualified for this job!!!!! We had a bad week last week. Not sure why but our spelling test results summed the week up in a nut shell. Elizabeth 3/10 ( she got 9/10 on her pre-test the night before). Chris 5/15 and Eric 10/20. Yep I feel like a failure!!!! Sometimes it doesn't matter what you do and you just have roll with the punches. Things have stared becoming overwhelming and it really took a toll on me. I guess that is why I don't write as much becasue if you don't have something witty and clever why bother posting something depressing. I know I sure wouldn't want to read about that all the time. I think I lost sight of looking after me. There is soooooo much that needs to be done and nobody to help me with it all. I know I have friends but come on how much can you ask them to help without feeling like a pest and then there is of course the pride issue - I got myself into this mess I should be able to do it!! So this past week I yelled alot stressed alot suffered chest pains alot and maybe realized I need to do a little for me. Friday was a good day ( besides the spelling tests which by the way they come by naturally I can't spell worth beans ) Elizabeth had a field trip to her teachers house A cowboy/cowgirl round up. She was so happy that mom could be their! I went for coffee with some moms and I went and and talked to the Y and can volunteer there again for a membership. I start on Monday so I will excersice then. I think that will make a world of difference or at least I am hoping it does. We went swimming Friday night and went out to dinner. It was the first time I had no pain and realized that things had to change. I made the kids help clean the house on Saturday - tried really hard not to yell tried different approaches and we had a fire in our back yard for the first time. Marshmellows for all. Today I am not suppose to do anything at all or at least try to do some other things so I read a whole book this morning. Vanish by Tess Gerritsen it was pretty good! I am going to try to cross stitch a bit and maybe do some scrapbooking. Baby steps but steps in the right direction I hope. The kids are good enjoying the nice sunny fall days! if I can drag them away from the computer and game cube! Well I am off to make myself an omlette. Have a great week!
M. September 13 Gonna Be A Bear!In this life I'm a woman. In my next life, I'd like to come back as a bear. When you're a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for six months. I could deal with that.
Before you hibernate, you're supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could deal with that too.
When you're a girl bear, you birth your children ( who are the size of walnuts ) while you're sleeping and wake to partially grown, cute, cuddly cubs. I could definitely deal with that.
If you're mama bear, everyone knows you mean business. you swat anyone who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat them too. I could deal with that.
If you're a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake up growling. He EXPECTS that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat.
YUP, GONNA BE A BEAR! September 06 Schools in!! Yea!!Well its the best time of the year! I can sing the staples song! I am so excited!!!! School is finally here!!! now that we are done the school supplies, the uniforms, sewed 2 gym bags ( I am not a sewer!) I can finally see light at the end of that very long tunnel they call summer. Now don't get me wrong, Summer is great we all survived, didn't kill each other or run away ( I was threatened once or twice!) managed to go to the lake a couple of times but...... I had absolutly no free time. Well thats not true. I did mangaed to have all 3 kids at different houses twice this summer for a couple of hours each time. So I am very happy that school is back in. I know the homework will be killer with 3 kids and the extra curicular events start to happen but on my days off I will acutally have time to my self, I mean if I want to stay in my PJ's and read a book I can acutally do it without being interupted!!!!! I will actually be able to clean the house without a tornado following behind messing it again!!!! I will actually be able to go for coffee with a friend!!! I can only imagine the possibilities! Ah life is good! We just won't tell the kids I am so excited! Poor Elizabeth might not understand!. Actually school went very welll they were all happy to see their friends and teachers and think it is really cool that they only have to be at day care for 2 hours a day now!!
On another note you can see that Elizabeth's room is almost finished! What a project! I still have to get window coverings and I want to do her closet into a little hide away for her but that can be done little by little. I did paint her dresser as well but didn't get it in the picture so once the curtains are up I will take another picture. It tuned out very well I am happy with it. I should have filled in the panel board 1 more time ( I only did two coats of the filler and you can still see it slightly) but thats ok. She loves it and thats all thats matters. The total cost with the bed and curtains will probably be about $800. so it will be a little while before I can start the next room. ( have to pay it off first ).
I also managed to have my furnace installed last month so we are all ready for the winter.!!! Well I still have to clean the gutters!?! Not sure what that all entails but I'm sure I will figure it out. We are off tomorrow for my brothers wedding! Yea!! I am so excited my dad bought all the grandsons suits and I got elizabeth a new dress so the kids will look great. Me I will wear what ever fits in my closet when I try clothes on tonight! The life of mom! Remember when we were in our 20's and we bought oursleves new dresses to go to a wedding! Doesn't matter we are going to have a blast! I can't wait.
Well I have to go now Christopher had homework last night for me ( the teacher sent home his text books for the moms to cover!) and I didn't get it done with sewing the gym bags and all so I better get going! and school life begins!
ITS THE MOST WONDERFULL TIME OF THE YEAR!!!!
Have a great day! ( I know I will!)
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