DQ or bust!

I had a craving for DQ but being cheap overrulled that.

Ttub of icecream and organic rice chips for the same price as DQ..

It was one of thoes gratifying trips to the store... Had the door held open for me by a stranger... talked with a kid about what icecream to pick.. checked out the chocolate and butterscotch icecream toppings but resisted the urge to buy them.. talked with the cashier about the pros and cons of old fashioned popped popcorn verses microwave.. driving with the windows open on a damp, warm summer evening..

Kids say the darnedest things!

Kids say the darnedest things!

This weekend my 2.5 year old had a tummyache at about 10:00 so I let her come downstairs and watch tv and have a drink. When she noticed that it was really dark out she was saying it's 'time to wake up the sun,' that was cute... when I went to the kitchen I could hear her talking.. She was YELLING out the window "Wake UP SUN. Time to wake Up!" I wonder what the neighbors thought of that!

She was playing with her 6 year old sister at the small kids table when I heard her say "STOP TALKING ALREADY! GEEES!"

This did upset my 6 year old but she kept right on talking.. as usual! a few minutes later I hear "I said Stop talking or you go on timeout!"

Whats on your table?

Whats on your coffee table?

Today it's...

kleenex box

wipes box

bum cream

4 remotes

little Peoples farmer

plastic tiger

plastic goose

4 hair clips

green stackable cup

sippy cup with no lid (that I keep trying to throw away but it just shows back up again!)

clipboard with graph paper

HB pencil

Ziploc bag of baby medications

{did I mention it's a small table!!}

I love the end of the day cleanup..

today I found a donkey and a horse, one on top of the other, sitting on the coffee table..

Coffee table.. on my coffee table is: kleenex box, wipes box, water bottle, teething toys, 4 .. yes 4 remotes, an empty sippy cup, sleeper size 6months, 3 hair accessories, and a book, called "Too Many Books!" (Tibo, G & St-Aubin, B. 2003).

What's on your living room table?

Facebook

The meaning of life...

What is it all for.. I raised up my arms and spun around saying.." is this what life is.. mess on every surface, displaying our stuff that you can't take with you.

Life is the connections with people. I was just saying that if it wasn't for social networking I wouldn't be social at all! but I love it. I read my facebook every spare moment to find out how other peoples days are. I love to read the enthusiasm from A about her little boy, just a bit older than S.T. I love to read how J's day at work was and her kids posting photo's. If it wasn't for H posting minute by minute intense emotional teenage feelings, my home page would sometime be just farmville requests!

Breastfeeding, Dr Seuss Style!

Breastfeeding, Dr Seuss style!

Would you nurse him in a park?
Would you nurse him in the dark?
Would you nurse him with a boppy?
And when your boobs are feeling floppy?

I would nurse her in the park.
I would nurse him in the dark.
I'd nurse with or without a boppy.
Floppy boobs will never stop me.

Can you nurse with your seat belt on?
Can you nurse from dusk til dawn?
Though she may pinch me, bite me, pull,
I will nurse her til she's full.

Can you nurse and make some soup?
Can you nurse and feed the group?
It makes her healthy strong and smart,
Mommy's milk is the best start!

Would you nurse him at the game?
Would you nurse her in the rain?
In front of those who dare complain?
I would nurse him at the game.
I would nurse her in the rain.
As for those who protest lactation,
I have a perfect explanation.
Mommy milk is tailor made
It's perfect food, you need no aid.
Some may scoff and some may wriggle,
Avert their eyes or even giggle.

To those who can be cruel and rude,
Remind them breast's the perfect food.
I would never scoff or giggle,
Roll my eyes or even wiggle!
I would never be so crass or crude,
I KNOW that this milk's the perfect food!

We make the right amount we need,
The perfect temp for every feed.
There's no compare to milk from breast-
The perfect food, above the rest.

Those nursing smiles are oh so sweet,
Mommy milk is such a treat.
Human milk just can't be beat.
I will nurse, in any case,
On the street or in your face.
I will not let my baby cry,
I'll meet her needs, I'll always try.
It's not about what's good for you,
It's best for babies, through and through.

I will nurse her in my home,
I will nurse her when I roam.
Leave me be lads, leave me be ma'am
I will nurse her, MOM I am.

Origin unknown? If anyone knows who wrote this please post!

CHIPS!

My new favorite thing

Blue Menu, Now Sodium Vegetable & Flaxseed tortilla Chips with

Yogurt dip. Not that sugar laden cream stuff that gets passed off as yogurt these days, but real, sometimes lumpy, sometimes watery with a strong tangy, yet refreshing taste.

free doodling

Have you tried it?

get your favorite writing utensil and your favorite writing pad.

don't feel pressure to write anything just doodle. Doodle when your sitting in front of the TV, doodle sitting in front of the computer.

See what comes out of you.

watching the world go by

just sitting and watching..

from behind the brick wall behind you comes the sound of someone walking. not just walking with a purpose, a rhythm. kaslosh kaslosh kaslosh laslosh out of the nothing comes a man in his 20s, head to toe black. sporting a grove with his head and shoulders. this all observed before you notice your new neighbour is letting his white puff of a dog out for a quick piss. I really don't think it can be that easy to urinate under duress?

I see a glint from the passing stranger, he is getting his grove on under the groovyest headset. Wide black (for lack of a better term) beer cups with brass antena and knobe tuners.

sickness sucks

I can't believe it happened again. When my daughter was a few months old I got strep throat and now that my son is 4 months old I got it again!.

What an awful thing strep is. You can't swallow without it feeling like shards of glass, The fever makes your skin crawl and your head pound, not to mention that pain in any form is exploded exponentially.

The trip to the hospital was very very long, although I was really only there for 2 hours, my Tylenol had warn off and I was shaky and achy. The Doctor comes in and said, so you diagnosed your self it's definitely strep. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

He didn't seem pleased with my fevered attempt at humor and handed me the prescription.

What they don't tell you is that even if you start your antibiotics right away it still takes 48 to 72 hours for the symptoms to START going away :( and seriously, how the hell do they expect you to swallow a pill when it hurts like hell just to swallow a smidgen of water!

Tylenol every 4 hours (two gigantic tablets!!) one sticky antibiotic every 6 hours, gargle (if you can) with salt water or Listerine. Quite the regime for someone who can't remember the last time she swallowed and doesn't really want to be reminded.

oh.. and did I mention the phlegm

the thick phlegm my body keeps producing against my orders, the phlegm that caused me to gag and puke.. yes I said puke... you thought swallowing with strep was bad, try that one.

24 hrs later that pesky phlegm keeps blocking my windpipe and making me panic that I can't breath.. the noises I make were guttural and primitive but got the job done.

I'm going back to bed

Oy Vey!!

Sitting on stage with 12 or so other women, tops red, bottoms black.

Fumbling with our cue cards, shooting nervous glances at each other, as we avert our eyes from the crowd.

Everyone gets seated and a hush comes over the crowd.

I'm having a moment thinking about how much garbage my house hold really produces.

It's almost to the point of being sickening.

I love garbage cans. In this mess, we produce about 4, 1/2 bags of garbage in a week. Diapers to paper towels to food. I think it's time for this family to become more aware of there actions and the impact its having on our planet and environment. We live in a throw away world, and I want out !

You can only change the things you have control over.. for me thats me.. and my kids, all 4 of them.

How to ...

Exercise: the right thing to do...

1, Close the blinds

2, convince your self to do it

3, Get a friend and convince her to join you because two will-powers are better than one

4, Find a place with mirrors, cool music, other women with their will-power helpers, and joy full soles

5, Measure and weigh in

~ It's going to be a bumpy ride ~

Spring = dog poo

Beautiful weather! the snow is almost gone... replaced with the wet, stinky reminder that I gave up on cleaning up dog poo last December .

I want life to be quiet for a while.

SHUT UP Life! I don't need you interrupting my beautiful day.

Turn off that day TV and lets play awhile

spring has sprung and you would think I would be happy about it right? wrong.. all this mud is making this OCD nurse NUTS! dirt dirt everywhere dirt!

It is important to not just take pictures, but to actually LOOK at them and actively remember.

I wonder how my grandma Betty is doing? I really need to call her .

I don't remember my grandfather now, how sad . I wish I remembered how he made me feel, sitting on his lap so comfortably.

I miss my mom

House work is never done

it just took me 25 minutes to get new batteries for my keyboard.

As I walk to the kitchen I pick up toys, notice dog hair and food on the floors .

Kitchen has a sink full of cold water and soaked dirty dishes, almost got them all done today, there's always tomorrow .

trip to the kettle, with a flick familiar from the dozen or so times today that I was going to make something.. but didn't. Tea time.

the remaining piles of dishes, stacked to distract from the food particles now nicely adhered .

another underwhelming dinner, down the hatch .

bedtime for me and baby is waking up, ain't that the way it goes sometimes.

Death and Life

The news of a childhood friend passing has hit home, hard.

I look at my 2 year old and new born and fall in love over and over again. My friend has left behind 2 girls who are old enough to have known him but young enough to still need daddy.

Choices we make everyday can lengthen or shorten our time with our loved ones.

So now what.. I guess I need to open my eyes. To not just walk through life numb and blurry but to SEE and Feel at every moment of every day.

Saver the warm hug of my little girl or my baby boy snuggling into mommy's neck.

Kiss and hug my man every chance I get, or just a soft caress when passing in the hallway.

Appreciate my friends for their individuality and supportive nature.

Change what I control but don't let the control change me.

Although I have not seen Eli for years, he is still forever in my heart as my Brother.