Why did I get up again today?

"I'm coming one min, ohhh, noooo, OH MY .........!!!!!"

     This is exactly how it sounded earlier today while trying to get kids ready for school. I wanted to head into the kitchen and while crossing the living room the dog did not get out of my way so I tripped over Jaz's foot only to step right on the the baby kitten, then after stepping on Catsanova I almost fell and landed on the baby. This was so my cue to call it a day.
     This is one of my moments that I though to myself  "who's idea was it to get a pet?". Have you ever had one of those days were everything that you try to do just does not work. My whole day carried on like this. I was almost ready to head out the door to playgroup when Teaghan fell asleep, so we ended up changing our plans and going late. After playgroup we were biking home and My breaks pulled out and could not stop very well, and ended up practically running over Ella on her bike. Ella just gave me the weirdest look, as to say " slow down Evil Kineville" then motioned me to go ahead of her. Once we got home my light bulb burned out overtop of my kitchen table so we had to eat in the my really dark kitchen.
     Ahhhh finally nap time. I truly believe that if I did not get that hour and a half to just relax and enjoy my new book I would not of been able to withstand the next part of my day!!!!
     While I am nicely drinking my tea and reading my book in my lovely lazy boy, I notice outside that it is raining out now, and not just spitting, but pouring. I think to myself OK I am going to drive down today no problem. Once we get down to school and get a good parking spot I turned the car on so that I could defog the windows, needed to see Alli when she came out. She gets out of the school and I have her bike in the back of the car (were I already smashed my shin on the trailer hitch while loading it). We get in and get buckled up then I start the car.....opppps I mean I DON'T START THE CAR!!!! the car is dead. Everyone I know has left the school so not only do I not get a ride home, I don't have someone I can boost my car off of.  I took 5 very long deep breaths.....why did I do this, because now I have to walk Alli,Ella and Teaghan home, and wonderful me didn't think to put Teaghan's shoes on her so I have to carry her the whole way home in the pouring rain.
     Now I had many, many, many, many options to how I could of responded to this. After my whole day, I did really consider crying like a baby. I also considered just giving up, just sitting in the middle of the side walk giving up. I could of got angry and started yelling at everything, but instead I put a smile on my face because I had to carry baby Teaghan in my arms, and it sure wasn't her fault I was having a bad day!!!
     We started out on our walk home in the rain. Alli got her bike out of the car and road it home, Ella walked beside me and Teaghan in my arms. I know I have to not think about how much this totally sucks, so I just decide to stay quite and walk. That's when Teaghan brings a good idea to the table, here it is poring rain and all she has on is her coat, hood and mittens, and she starts singing and dancing the boogie right there in my arms just like she started in the movie "singing in the rain".  I can't help but have one of those ahhh moments, here this poor baby gets caught in the rain, but she is not going to let that damper her spirits. We spent the rest of the walk home singing all our favourite songs together ( even the new bananna song we learned at playgroup). I have to say my day got a lot better after that. Well I don't know if the day got better or I just developed a way of seeing over the problem.
     I needed not to worry about the car either, one quick call to my girlfriend Katy and her hubby Dwayne, and they ran right down to the school and boosted my car and very nicely delivered it home. No worries things always have a way of working themselves out especially if you act like a rock when that big storm comes in. I am sure glad I didn't go and get angry or cry and make a big fool out of myself. I used to be like that, back when my kids were wee babies. I would loose my cool over something small, I would cry over spilled milk, make a total fool out of myself and always wind up feeling awful after the fact. I made it home safe a little wet, but really lets be honest I'm not the wicked witch of the West, I will not melt if I get wet!! Thank -you Teaghan for reminding me we can always sing in the rain, life is to short for being upset all the time, we should be enjoying our day, in every single way!


       Quote of the Day:
The soul is healed by being with children.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky~

      Funny Highlight for the day:

Allison got a new Principal at her school this year. About a week back she said that she really liked him except that he always wear this really goofy smile on his face and she found that just weird to be so smiley.
Today at school they had a dress like the Principal day. Alli had her tie, white shirt and jeans picked out to wear to look like him. As she named off all the stuff she was going to wear she blurts out at the end,
"Oh and I guess I have to wear that goofy smile he always has on his face"
I just love that girl to pieces.

Allison impression of the goofy smile

Allison dressed up as principal, even got a blackberry

Best Saying of the day:

So after I told my wonderful Love Gord not to take the car he took it downtown to get pizza, Ella later comes running in the house and Yells, "The car broke again and now Daddy is really PISSED OFF" maybe if he would listened to me or  of read my blog he would not of got mad......lol

Rant of the Day:

Why can't we all see everyone in the world as equal. I am reading "The Help" and wow what a powerful book, I think to myself I can't believe what they had to live with many years ago, and find myself wondering how far have we really come. I got another topic brought to my attention today, Homosexuality and Marriage. How can we say that we have come so far. All I think we did is pass the treatment on to others. Yes it is more excepted today then it ever was, but when you live in a small town you do seem to notice that it is still seen to some as wrong. I have a gay brother, and I love him to pieces. He is far more of a man then half of the dog men I know. I would feel honoured and privileged to stand up in his wedding, all I want for him is the same I would of wanted for him even if he wasn't gay. I want him to fall in love, get married and have a family. I am sure that back in the day when we asked coloured people to use a separate bathroom there were people out there who too just wanted to see these people happy and being able to go were they pleased. But I know just like now there was 10x more people who think it unacceptable.

Two good things in my day.

getting to read my new book

Nice picture my 5 year old Ella took of me, now I have a new facebook pic. and I learned how to clean up the background!!

What I could not live without today:

Dwayne & Katy for rescuing my car!

Stayed tuned tomorrow for.......A Get to Know me better quiz!!!

To Blog or not to Blog

"what are you doing? when are you going to be done? Is this new blog thingy going to happen every night?"

     Night after night we move through our routine with the kids, super time, daddy time, bath time, story time, teeth time, bedtime, and then Mommy and Daddy time. Night after night we sit and watch T.V, sometimes we talk, sometimes we play video games like we are teenagers, sometimes we just call it a night and go to bed. This has become our routine. Men love the routine they love knowing what your are going to do, without that routine they would have not a clue what we are doing, thinking, or planning. Woman on the other hand might like the routine, but we have these things called emotions, once the routine sets in for us we start to think, "He doesn't even know I am here, he could do all this by himself without me and he wouldn't even notice that I wasn't here."
     I thought this, I thought oh good I can sit here in the same room as him, do my blog work instead of waiting till we are in bed and writing in my journal. I thought what does it matter he is watching his show, and If he needs to talk to me I'm right here, he is an adult. I think he made it like 30 min into the show when the winning started. I could not help but think to myself, "Really the kids are in bed and here I have to deal with another one"  I found myself thinking should I continue to Blog, or just stop to make sure I spent time with him.?
     I think that us woman need to realize that men have a child like nature at heart. Its normal for them to want to watch their shows, play their video games, be in the middle of a conversation and keep leading it back to their bad day at work, and they need to do all this-just like a child- with you sitting right beside them. It might not be like this in your home, But I find in mine and lots of my friends homes, the men are just like The Man Child.
     Basically they like to unwind by spending their time, much the same way as they did when they were boys, that's why they can't help but need us lots more then we think they do. Just like a child needs some one-on-one so does your man. Give you Hunny some time today, think of all the funny boy like things he enjoys doing, take a note from his page, enjoy yourself like your a child again. 
     I once read a book with a great saying that fits this good.
"Boys are competitive, like to play rough and do goofy things, they grow up to be Men who are competitive, like to play rough and do goofy things"
    

This started out as just a quick ride for the girls, Well you can see it ended in a competitive way. I once witnessed Gord race my 9 year old Nephew on their bikes. Gord was carrying a kids scooter on his back, and suddenly his foot slipped off the petal and he did a header over the handle bars. that stunt left him with road rash right across his face, and he was proud of it....lol

Like to play rough, and rough it was that night, both keep going until they hurt each others arms. crazy boys

Then the kids joined in and thought it great :)

Goofy things, we all think he looks goofy, but if you read his shirt closely it says, "This is what cool looks like"

I own like 3 pictures of Gord and I that are nice, I have a million pictures of us with him making goofy faces ;)

   I always looked at it like having to raise an extra child, Men however look at it differently, they love YOU, want to watch T.V with just YOU, wants to play video games with YOU, want only YOU to vent to and make them feel better, and want to brag about their day with nobody but YOU.

I think I will still Blog, I will just make sure I get a good 30 mins in with him before I set to the computer for Blog time!

I Love you Hunny!

~My Man Child~

Quote of the Day:

A man's home may be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery. ~Clare Booth Luce~

     So I though about this all through out the day, and while watching my girls I began to ponder a interesting question.
     Do you think we as woman every really grow up either? Can you remember back to when you were a little girl and all the stuff you loved to play with? Chances are you are remembering a lot of memories filled with, dress up, playing dolls, fake make up, cooking supper and tea parties, all the things we do now that we are older. I watched today and snapped pictures of all the things the girls were doing that I do now!

Addison loves changing the baby

she was actually singing while cleaing these dishes

and look at the consintration on her face while cooking! 

Ella playing the airplane game while feeding her little girl

Girls love to play dress up to look like mom

And look how proud she looks with her kids on a walk

Girls can't wait to wear make up

They want to text with their friends already

they love to dream about the doggy or kitty they will get to take care of someday.

I wonder though is it that we have never really grown up in life, or is it maybe that we had our priorities straight at a very young age....lol.

There is one difference I did notice about Men from woman and how our mood changes as we become older. I noticed that men love to do what they did as boys, they still love to get dirty and be dangerous, and usually you can find them doing this to try to unwind from their stressful day. We as woman do grow up and love running out households, but I don't think we often enough see it as unwinding. We complain about dishes were we used to sing while doing them, we never get dressed up as much as we should these days, and when we do its usually complaints about our hair or are ever ageing faces. We love our pets with all our hearts, but there has been times were you though to yourself "who's bright idea was it to get a pet". I guess before we go judging our husbands for their childlike ways, we should be looking at our old childlike ways, and do like the men do and have fun with it. Dishes can be fun, its a great way to calm down when your angry. Remember you are your toughest critic when it comes to your appearance, men love the way you look always even when you wake up in the morining, and who else will snuggle with you, even though you yelled at them for eating garbage. We spent our whole childhood dreaming about evey detail of our lives, we more often need to act like a person who is living their dreams, everyday in everysingle way!

The Cuteness of the Day:

Teaghan's First taste of a Chocolate Chip Cookie, almost looks like the cookie monster :)

Rant of the Day:

Why in the world do websites have to always be changing the way their pages are set up? and no I am not talking about Facebook, at least with Facebook they keep all the options present. I spent over 30 mins of time I didn't have trying to download a book onto my ereader. Of course I had to take the new version option and it changed my whole page around and I could not get the book loaded. 20 more min on the phone with costumer service and at the end I learn it was a simple difference of having to have ereader pluged in before signing into account because it starts syncing books right away now..... grrrr.... I just don't get why they can't just let you know that before you upload a book. I had to delate my whole account and start again..... Only good thing out of it, I did at least get my book in the end!!!

Things I could not live without today and Why:

Addison for Reminding me what all little girls dream of being a mommy!

Ella for Reminding me how much fun you can have living your childhood dreams :)

Also could not of lived without my Vacumn today, I think I used it about 8 times today in one room it was a messy kid kind of day!!

Don't forget to tune in tomorrow.......were anything can happen !!

 

    

Autumn Glory

" oh no Elizabeth, you just spilled your milk all over the floor, and where is Allison she should be out of bed by now, Addison you better eat up quick or we will be late, Hailey....Hailey what are we going to do with you, that cough is soo loud I worry the school will just send you home, Oh hello little Teaghan oohhhh wow you have a little stinky present for me as we are just getting ready to leave!!"

     I am completely amazed that all 6 of us made it out the door in one piece today, Usually our breakfast table is spent all together snacking away and talking about everything under the sun. Unfortunately today everyone was crazy and lazy and the morning was spent with all us running around like that headless chicken. I thought to myself WOW what is in store for today if this is the start we all have.
     That's when Mother Nature decided to help us out, once we got outside the sun was shinning, the leaves were showing off all their new leaf colours, and a nice peaceful setting fell over our small village. I thought to myself, this is how I need to set the pace for my day. It shouldn't matter how chaotic the day can become, because 15 mins spent outdoors in the Autumn Glory can take away that 1 hour of chaos.The life we live is so right now, so busy, so worried about getting to were we need to go. If you find yourself going crazy and feel that headless chicken coming on, take a break, take a walk think about all the things in nature to be thankful for. After all October is just around the corner. As soon as we got settled and ready to walk you could just see the biggest smiles on their faces, they are in no hurry, they don't care to get were they are going. We need to take a note from their page and enjoy life every single day in every single way!

Teaghan & Addison

Happy and smiling, Teaghan is all cleaned up and fells better.

Addison is still in her P.J's, I warned her she wouldn't have time to get dressed!

Elizabeth & Allison

Elizabeth made it without spilling herself off her bike, everything else is another story :)

Allison got ready in record time today and was quit pleased with herself.

Hailey

Poor Hailey, Decided to go to school today, even though she spent all morning coughing out that frog. I would of enjoyed her company at home today,we taking about Autumn the whole way to school!

Quote of the day:

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
~William Shakespeare~

As the day went on I made sure to set that thankful calm pace. The 3 older kids went to spend their day at school and then the afternoon at the Terry Fox run. Me and the little ones has a good idea to spend the afternoon in the Autumn Glory, so once playtime, snack time, craft time, lunchtime, nap time were done we headed out and about to explore Autumn. We went with some Friends to the Restaurant to have a snack, then spent the afternoon outside.

Cleaning up the leaves

Discovering the leaves

Playing in the leaves

Watching the leaves

Couldn't of asked for a better afternoon

Lesson learned about her beautiful hat, Bee go crazy for that flower, especially during out Autumn Glory Days!!

But it is ohhhh sooo cute :)

Time to go I Love Teaghan's ride to go pick up girls from school!

Our day is coming to a close, we get home from school, and I find some time to get my pictures loaded onto the computer to see what I got.

Allison approaches me and begins the broken record of asking over & over & over again if she can have a mini mint chocolate on my computer desk.

"No thank-you Alli you may not, you were kinda being rude by bugging me like that" 5 mins goes by and here comes Alli approaching me from the other side, I don't even really notice her until she is leaning her head on my shoulder, she then leans in to give a sweet kiss on my cheek....But out of the corner of my eye I spy her little hand reaching for the chocolates. She fooled me, she totally figured that she would just kill me with sweetness while she grabbed the sweets. I took this wonderful opportunity to tell her how she could of just tried to wait patiently and ask nicely and maybe she would get the chocolate. Then offered her a rewind....she then approached me with the crab walk, waited and then asked nicely for the chocolate, and received it.

Allison's Crab Walk

Taking a note from her page, I decide to try something new. Every night I send Gord a text saying "When you home" and I always get just a one time texts back. Today however I decided to wait to text him till later and then ask him with my nice words, I wrote "Hey Hunny, do you know yet when you will be home xoxo" this time I got a better return text,

"6:00, hugs & Kisses-xoxoxo"

But believe me when I say a few good words go a long way, both me and Allison learned to not just use our words, but use our nice words.

The rest of the night when on like clockwork, super time, daddy time, bath time, snack time, story time, teeth time, bedtime. Now here I sit for Blog time :)

  

Now for the funny Highlights of the day:

Addison & Daddy saying goodbye to each other 5 o'clock today

"You be a good girl today Addison"

"You be good today too Daddy"

I can see why she says this, ask her what Daddy did the last time she was at home she will tell you "Daddy broke the kitchen" her family is rebuilding their whole kitchen.

Later that day while Auntie Nikki talked to Addison about kitchen.

"were does mommy do her dishes"

"giggle, giggle, outside"

which isn't true, but Addison sure thought it was and though it funny too, Oh how I would love to think like a kid :)

Things I could not live without today and why!

My Phone for my wonderful text today, and my camera for giving me wonderful Autumn Glory Pictures

My Rant for the Day:

So somebody please tell me why If a unfixed, unleashed male dog stalks my property because my unfixed leashed up female dog is in heat, why is it up to me to get my dog fixed or at least up to me to catch the little bugger and hold him put until the dog catcher can get here, I am not the person who didn't care enough to leash my dog. Wake up and smell the coffee Dog Catcher I am never going to catch that dog and neither are you. So listen if you have a brain in your head to get a dog have a brain in your head to keep it on your own properety, everyday all day long visits off a leash will not buy you the prom king and queen vote in your town. Be smart, Have a heart, nobody wants to hit your kids dog today....Leash your Dog 

Goodnight All......and tune in tomorrow for.....????

First post on a rainy day

Its raining, its pouring, the kids are all snoring, they sleep like the dead and complain when its time to get out of bed in the morning!!
What a lovely way to start the day, its pouring rain here, and all the kids are still sleeping due to the darkness that lingers over out small village. I wonder what adventures are in store for us today!

As my day moves forward into the afternoon, I find myself sitting looking out my window to a beautiful Autumn day, much different from when I woke up. Much like the ever changing moods of Mother Nature, I find myself all morning contiplating what I want to write in my first blog.
      Should I write about who I am and what I envision my blog to be about? should I just start right in and fill in all the events of MY everchanging moods? Do I write a little blub about my family and background?
or do I call it a day and just end it short, think some more on it and make a good decison at the end of the day.
   Then It hits me, I can't explain to you all the answers to those questions in just one day, those will take many days and lots of writting, and that why I wanted to write this blog in the first place. I just wanted a spot to come and write whatever may have come to my mind that day, rather it be a story, something I saw, something I was thinking about, or maybe something funny the kids did or said. This is just simply a blog of Adventures..... so stay tunned