Dave came home with flowers yestereday...smart man! A dozen red roses, they are beautiful. I do love having fresh flowers on my dining room table. After the sanding fiasco this weekend...it was really in his best interest lol!
On to other things...I haven't had time to post about last Monday!! It was an awesome day. Dave and I took off to the city for the day. His sister came over and watched our kids for us and took them to their swimming lessons. We went to a new restaurant in town for lunch, it looked nice and we'd been wanting to try it for awhile. We placed our order and the food coming out of the kitchen looked great...Ours finally came, and there was a giant long hair baked into my soup!~EW~ They made me a new one which was all good and fine but we did notice when the bill came there was no attempt to compensate for the fact that there was someone else's hair cooked into my food...or that I then had to sit foodless while they made me a second order. While their bruschetta was amazing, we probably won't be heading back to eat at State and Main any time soon.
After some rigorous shopping. It was time for dinner, Yay! We went to Ricks, my favourite restaurant. It's in an old water tower and was where Dave and I went for our very first date all those years ago. We love going there, but don't often because it is quite pricey. It was nice to enjoy some adult time enjoying our food and conversation. Then it was show time! Mama Mia!! Dave has been working security at events for a few months now and enjoying it very much. This was my first time going with him. I was one of those people checking tickets at the entrance, it was lots of fun! Even better was that as long as there are no problems....which there weren't, when the lights go down you get to watch whatever show it is! I got to watch all of Mama Mia, singing along to the songs, sitting there with a stupid grin on my face the whole time. I loved it! Even better was this arena has no air conditioning, being on the floor it wasn't so bad, but seeing everyone up higher in the stands, watching all the programs being used for fans, and you know those poor people had to be dying of the heat :( Like my friend Kara said..."It's hotter than a baptist church in here!" Lol.
This Monday, as in today, was much different than last week. It was me and the kids day. We headed into Lethbridge, did some back to school shopping in the morning. Had a quick lunch at Costco. (so cost friendly!) Then drove out to Raymond to meet up with a friend of mine. We'd heard that the pool there was very family friendly and we weren't disappointed. It was so nice to see Jana and let the kids play. Unfortunately someone's kid pooped in the pool, and it got shut down. SO glad it wasn't one of my kids!! It was going to be closed for awhile so we just ended out leaving, it was pretty hot out anyway under that sun with no shade or water to play in. So we grabbed some slurpees and headed back into town for one last quick shop of perishable items before heading home. I got a nice surprise too, Dave had primed the wall that was sprayed yesterday so we are that much closer to being done painting this living room once and for all!!
I can't believe how fast summer is going by, it's almost done! This is my last week of holidays, the kids are done (and passed their levels) swimming lessons, and its the last week of Boys and Girls Club that they've been enjoying so much this summer, plus we're getting ready for our last camping trip of the summer this upcoming weekend. It's been so busy for us this year, it seem like they just got out of school and we're getting them ready to go back! It's bittersweet honestly....
See you soon!!
Monday, August 20, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Clean up day
Friday
Today was clean up day at our house. This may make me a bad person...but I HATE having to clean up with my kids. I really do.
This summer has been so busy for us that some of the deeper cleaning has been put aside and some things were really starting to look run down. Today was THE day to get it cleaned up. Stuff like gettting those extra non essential loads of laundry done, sweeping and mopping under the furniture, cleaning the crayon off the wall where Jeshie has been colouring recently....re-organizing the towels in the bathroom closet on top of the normal bathroom cleaning stuff.
The day did not start off well...mostly because it seemed like yesterday had barely ended. Jeshie was up a lot last night wanting to climb into bed with us. We recently took away his bubba. I wanted to do it sooner but knowing how stubborn he is and the sleepless nights I would encounter, I decided to wait until my vacation time to do it. I won't lie, there have been a few sleepless nights. He had been improving, but last night was rough. Then this morning my beloved coffee pot of 3 yrs died on me. It's been on the fritz for the last little bit, but now it is dead, it brewed horribly cold coffee this morning, but only a quater of what it's supposed to :(
Not a great start to the day.
Off to Timmies I go and grocery shopping. Once home, it's time to get busy cleaning up. The kitchen needs some tlc, the bathroom its usual stuff etc...We get going doing what we need to, while this is happening I am starting to get dinner ready for some company that is coming for dinner. Finally, after a very long while, I decide its time to check on Jaelle who is taking a really really long time cleaning the bathroom. In over an hour, nearly nothing is done! How can one person be so slow??! She's in this constant dream world that there is no getting out of apparently...A prime example of why I hate doing chores with the kids. It would be one thing if they weren't very smart and were actually having a hard time with it...but they are Very smart! They know exactly what needs to be done, its just a matter of choosing to do it. Needless to say, everything did get done, but it took all day to do it
>( What a waste of time! I can't wait for the day to come where they realize that playing AND doing chores don't mix....and simply doing the latter quickly they can get to the playing part way faster.
So how do I reward all of our hard work you ask???
Saturday
I sanded and painted the living room. Nope, not joking. There is drywall dust everywhere. Not only that, but Dave used this special 'dustless' drywall mud, which is just code for 'way harder to clean.' The floors have been washed 10 times and are still dirty from that stuff....which if he uses in any other part of the house I'll refuse to help him in any way. The kids escape to the pool for the afternoon while I painted....the air was already blue because Dave forgot to mention that I needed a coarser sanding sponge for this stuff as well...so I had to work twice as hard and long to get the s#$@#$ thing sanded in the first place! I started sanding at 10:30am, and didn't finish painting until 12:30 am. Dave was gone for the day/night dj'ing and I won't lie...got some less than pleasant texts about his choice of drywall mud and forgetting to tell me about the different sponge type. My kids were left to fend for themselves for dinner...there were lots of leftovers in the fridge which was probably the one thing that was planned out well, then got to enjoy a movie together before heading to bed
Sunday
After spending the morning cleaning up...again, my poor kids were happy to escape to their Nana's for the afternoon. I did some touch ups on the paint and am now sitting here admiring how much dust there still is despite my efforts to get rid of it. Oh ya, and Seraiah accidentally broke my mop this morning...so here I sit, knowing there are so many other things I should be doing and just not caring at this particular moment. Right now Jeshie is napping, so it's just me, Ashman, and Mike's Hard Limeade. Yum, and well earned!!
Some pics:
See you soon!
Today was clean up day at our house. This may make me a bad person...but I HATE having to clean up with my kids. I really do.
This summer has been so busy for us that some of the deeper cleaning has been put aside and some things were really starting to look run down. Today was THE day to get it cleaned up. Stuff like gettting those extra non essential loads of laundry done, sweeping and mopping under the furniture, cleaning the crayon off the wall where Jeshie has been colouring recently....re-organizing the towels in the bathroom closet on top of the normal bathroom cleaning stuff.
The day did not start off well...mostly because it seemed like yesterday had barely ended. Jeshie was up a lot last night wanting to climb into bed with us. We recently took away his bubba. I wanted to do it sooner but knowing how stubborn he is and the sleepless nights I would encounter, I decided to wait until my vacation time to do it. I won't lie, there have been a few sleepless nights. He had been improving, but last night was rough. Then this morning my beloved coffee pot of 3 yrs died on me. It's been on the fritz for the last little bit, but now it is dead, it brewed horribly cold coffee this morning, but only a quater of what it's supposed to :(
Not a great start to the day.
Off to Timmies I go and grocery shopping. Once home, it's time to get busy cleaning up. The kitchen needs some tlc, the bathroom its usual stuff etc...We get going doing what we need to, while this is happening I am starting to get dinner ready for some company that is coming for dinner. Finally, after a very long while, I decide its time to check on Jaelle who is taking a really really long time cleaning the bathroom. In over an hour, nearly nothing is done! How can one person be so slow??! She's in this constant dream world that there is no getting out of apparently...A prime example of why I hate doing chores with the kids. It would be one thing if they weren't very smart and were actually having a hard time with it...but they are Very smart! They know exactly what needs to be done, its just a matter of choosing to do it. Needless to say, everything did get done, but it took all day to do it
>( What a waste of time! I can't wait for the day to come where they realize that playing AND doing chores don't mix....and simply doing the latter quickly they can get to the playing part way faster.
So how do I reward all of our hard work you ask???
Saturday
I sanded and painted the living room. Nope, not joking. There is drywall dust everywhere. Not only that, but Dave used this special 'dustless' drywall mud, which is just code for 'way harder to clean.' The floors have been washed 10 times and are still dirty from that stuff....which if he uses in any other part of the house I'll refuse to help him in any way. The kids escape to the pool for the afternoon while I painted....the air was already blue because Dave forgot to mention that I needed a coarser sanding sponge for this stuff as well...so I had to work twice as hard and long to get the s#$@#$ thing sanded in the first place! I started sanding at 10:30am, and didn't finish painting until 12:30 am. Dave was gone for the day/night dj'ing and I won't lie...got some less than pleasant texts about his choice of drywall mud and forgetting to tell me about the different sponge type. My kids were left to fend for themselves for dinner...there were lots of leftovers in the fridge which was probably the one thing that was planned out well, then got to enjoy a movie together before heading to bed
Sunday
After spending the morning cleaning up...again, my poor kids were happy to escape to their Nana's for the afternoon. I did some touch ups on the paint and am now sitting here admiring how much dust there still is despite my efforts to get rid of it. Oh ya, and Seraiah accidentally broke my mop this morning...so here I sit, knowing there are so many other things I should be doing and just not caring at this particular moment. Right now Jeshie is napping, so it's just me, Ashman, and Mike's Hard Limeade. Yum, and well earned!!
Some pics:
See you soon!
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Too long
Well lots has happened since my last post, in fact I wrote a huge long post only to delete it by accident. That was frustrating!!!
Where do I start?? Well, I guess starting by saying my wayward son is now ungrounded and alive and healthy. Also much more punctual since his little 'incident'. All the kids have been super busy actually. Right now we have the older three enrolled in Boys and Girls Club twice a week. We also have the older four kids in swimming lessons three nights a week...Remember my tired post?? Yup, still tired. Swimming doesn't end until 9pm Mon-Weds, so by the time we get home and kids in bed its pretty late. Then Thursday nights of course are my late night at work. Add to this that I have also just worked 12 days straight and have been working a (very) part time job on top of my full time job to help finance some of the kids extra activities...I don't anticipate feeling rested any time soon lol.
Of course at least one night in there may have been a self inflicted girls night in/out, with much too much wine, some awesome karaoke, and too many shooters. I am too old for shooters, the super awesome hangover after the night of puking proved that to me once and for all...Reminded me why I avoid doing that, ever. I'm sure my husband thought I was super sexy as my violent wretching actually woke him up. Stellar. Will this keep me in?? Nope, I'll probably go out for the next one, but I'll be much better behaved guaranteed.
Speaking of swimming lessons. Asher was pretty funny, he's really enjoying his lessons. I hear lots of 'Mom look at me, I'm swimming!' from the bleachers. So naturally, after he had completed three lessons, he gets home and finds his dad, and then announces 'I don't need a teacher anymore, I know how to swim now!' .... lol. Of course he CAN swim with a lifejacket, but acording to him, he's good and has learned it all now...
Dave has also been incredibly busy, on top of doing the security for the CCR concert, he immediately after started doing security for Cirque de Soleil. He was pretty much gone for the better part of a week. Don't worry, I did phone him, he didn't secretly move out, its all good lol. Better yet he got us tickets to see the show!! My sister watched Jeshie for the night seeing as it wouldn't have been fun for him, having to sit for such a long time. I raced home from work the friday night, scooped the kids, and drove to Lethbridge. What an AMAZING show! It was awesome and we had such good seats, not floor seats but pretty close, looking straight on to center stage. The whole show is put together so well, and what amazingly talented people!! This was my first (of hopefully many) too. But it was so much fun hearing the kids laugh at the mime - who was hilarious, and seeing them be so amazed at what these people can do. Dave and I couldn't help but laugh as we listened to them discuss some of the costume choices...'they look naked, that's Diguuuuusting' lol. I don't think all my strength would equal what these people have in their pinky finger! One act was with ribbons hanging from the ceiling and this woman doing tricks all under her own strength, no harness! (of course none of them used harnesses) One part, she essentially rolled herself up, then dropped like a rock towards the floor catching herself before she hit!! Can you say Amazing?! Of course because it was all so rushed, we didn't have time for dinner, so hot dogs, popcorn, and ice cream it was, of course washing it all down with some sugar filled pop, not the highlight of my night but the kids thought it was pretty great. Of course we didn't get home until 1am and I had to get up at 5:30 for work...did I mention I was tired lol?? I was so thankful to be able to take the kids to something so original and memory making. Next up is a night out for just Dave and I, going to see Mama Mia, I LOVE ABBA!! I can't wait.
Now I am on vacation. What is that?? It's a staycation really. This is my first job where I got two weeks holidays, I'm pretty thrilled about it actually. Paid to stay home?? OK! Of course what I really mean by staying home, is tiling my kids closet, the area by the back door, and painting my living room. Oh ya, and shopping for back to school, working a few days at my 'other job' and doing stuff with the kids. Somewhere in there, we'll camp for a few days...
See you soon!!
Where do I start?? Well, I guess starting by saying my wayward son is now ungrounded and alive and healthy. Also much more punctual since his little 'incident'. All the kids have been super busy actually. Right now we have the older three enrolled in Boys and Girls Club twice a week. We also have the older four kids in swimming lessons three nights a week...Remember my tired post?? Yup, still tired. Swimming doesn't end until 9pm Mon-Weds, so by the time we get home and kids in bed its pretty late. Then Thursday nights of course are my late night at work. Add to this that I have also just worked 12 days straight and have been working a (very) part time job on top of my full time job to help finance some of the kids extra activities...I don't anticipate feeling rested any time soon lol.
Of course at least one night in there may have been a self inflicted girls night in/out, with much too much wine, some awesome karaoke, and too many shooters. I am too old for shooters, the super awesome hangover after the night of puking proved that to me once and for all...Reminded me why I avoid doing that, ever. I'm sure my husband thought I was super sexy as my violent wretching actually woke him up. Stellar. Will this keep me in?? Nope, I'll probably go out for the next one, but I'll be much better behaved guaranteed.
Speaking of swimming lessons. Asher was pretty funny, he's really enjoying his lessons. I hear lots of 'Mom look at me, I'm swimming!' from the bleachers. So naturally, after he had completed three lessons, he gets home and finds his dad, and then announces 'I don't need a teacher anymore, I know how to swim now!' .... lol. Of course he CAN swim with a lifejacket, but acording to him, he's good and has learned it all now...
Dave has also been incredibly busy, on top of doing the security for the CCR concert, he immediately after started doing security for Cirque de Soleil. He was pretty much gone for the better part of a week. Don't worry, I did phone him, he didn't secretly move out, its all good lol. Better yet he got us tickets to see the show!! My sister watched Jeshie for the night seeing as it wouldn't have been fun for him, having to sit for such a long time. I raced home from work the friday night, scooped the kids, and drove to Lethbridge. What an AMAZING show! It was awesome and we had such good seats, not floor seats but pretty close, looking straight on to center stage. The whole show is put together so well, and what amazingly talented people!! This was my first (of hopefully many) too. But it was so much fun hearing the kids laugh at the mime - who was hilarious, and seeing them be so amazed at what these people can do. Dave and I couldn't help but laugh as we listened to them discuss some of the costume choices...'they look naked, that's Diguuuuusting' lol. I don't think all my strength would equal what these people have in their pinky finger! One act was with ribbons hanging from the ceiling and this woman doing tricks all under her own strength, no harness! (of course none of them used harnesses) One part, she essentially rolled herself up, then dropped like a rock towards the floor catching herself before she hit!! Can you say Amazing?! Of course because it was all so rushed, we didn't have time for dinner, so hot dogs, popcorn, and ice cream it was, of course washing it all down with some sugar filled pop, not the highlight of my night but the kids thought it was pretty great. Of course we didn't get home until 1am and I had to get up at 5:30 for work...did I mention I was tired lol?? I was so thankful to be able to take the kids to something so original and memory making. Next up is a night out for just Dave and I, going to see Mama Mia, I LOVE ABBA!! I can't wait.
Now I am on vacation. What is that?? It's a staycation really. This is my first job where I got two weeks holidays, I'm pretty thrilled about it actually. Paid to stay home?? OK! Of course what I really mean by staying home, is tiling my kids closet, the area by the back door, and painting my living room. Oh ya, and shopping for back to school, working a few days at my 'other job' and doing stuff with the kids. Somewhere in there, we'll camp for a few days...
See you soon!!
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
So tired.
Do you really know the real meaning of exhaustion before you are a parent? I honestly don't think you do. Having 5 kids I'm pretty certain I finally understand the true meaning of exhaustion. From having a 2 yr old who still doesn't sleep through the night, to having a 13 yr old who breaks his curfew by 2 hours...I..Am...Tired!
My day normally starts at 5:30 for work. I get up, get ready, grab a coffee and am out the door by 6:15. This of course is not including days where I need to clean the milk racks at work (up at 3:30), or the last day of every month where we have to do inventory at work. (up at 2:30) I get to work, put in my 8-8.5 hours, trying to get as much accomplished as I can manage. After work I grab milk or whatever else I need to ensure once I get home I don't have to leave, and begin my long drive home. Once I get home, I grab the kids, usually the older three are out galavanting somewhere and turn up at home when they are ready, so it's usually just the two little boys I need to pick up. I get home, unpack, and start the dinner process. I am lucky enough that at least for the time being my hubby has taken over the majority of the laundry so I am doing only a little bit of that currently. Before dinner, I clean, during making dinner, I clean, and after dinner, I clean. Then once dinner is cleaned up, the older kids help out now, its a toss up. Some days there is the process of making sure all 5 kids are cleaned and showered, some days the older kids go out to find friends, other days dinner is so late its almost bedtime.
I am tired.
After our very busy weekend, I was tired. There was no chance of sleeping in last weekend, to make sandwiches and snacks, I was up at 6:30 Saturday and 5:45 Sunday. Two full days of being outside in the sun all day and late nights, I was Tired. Have I mentioned I was tired??? So Monday night, Matthias asked to go out and I said ok, but only until 8 tonight because....I was tired! It really didn't give him a lot of time but I thought because of the late nights the last two days it was fair. So 8 rolls around, 8:30, 9, 9:30. 10!! Where is this kid?! He is usually pretty good about being on time, so by now I am starting to worry. So Dave being the dutiful husband he is, goes out to look for our wayward son to make sure he's not laying broken in a ditch somewhere...Nope! He was fine(and now with a super mad dad on his hands). Two streets over playing with friends. His watch battery had died and it hadn't occured to him in the two hour period that perhaps something was wrong with his watch-no that's not true, it occured to him but he was having too much fun to be bothered with it.
That earned him a 'no going out past dinnertime' for 1 day for each half hour he was late, it also killed my dreams of an early bedtime that night.
Did I mention I am tired? There is a end to this I promise.
Tuesday...tuesday I decide I am SO going to bed early. I am getting tired to the point of...'should I drive home?' I am so tired. I go about my day, the kids are pretty good today, I am making dinner and we get a knock on our door. We have been discussing getting some additional home security for some time now and the right deal for us had just arrived.. This was awesome, so they come and hook everything up, great service, but it took until after 10:30 to get done! Finally getting to bed at 11 and
setting my alarm for 3:30 seemed so wrong.
Did I mention I was tired.
There is a point to this all. You know you are tired when you put your tampon in upside down!!
THAT people is tired!
It is now 9pm. Jeshie has just knocked over my wine glass, breaking it spilling sticky goo everywhere. Dave is out for the evening. I am sooo done. 9:10, kids are in bed, and so am I!!
See you soon!!
Ps. I should mention that my pee phone works just fine!!
My day normally starts at 5:30 for work. I get up, get ready, grab a coffee and am out the door by 6:15. This of course is not including days where I need to clean the milk racks at work (up at 3:30), or the last day of every month where we have to do inventory at work. (up at 2:30) I get to work, put in my 8-8.5 hours, trying to get as much accomplished as I can manage. After work I grab milk or whatever else I need to ensure once I get home I don't have to leave, and begin my long drive home. Once I get home, I grab the kids, usually the older three are out galavanting somewhere and turn up at home when they are ready, so it's usually just the two little boys I need to pick up. I get home, unpack, and start the dinner process. I am lucky enough that at least for the time being my hubby has taken over the majority of the laundry so I am doing only a little bit of that currently. Before dinner, I clean, during making dinner, I clean, and after dinner, I clean. Then once dinner is cleaned up, the older kids help out now, its a toss up. Some days there is the process of making sure all 5 kids are cleaned and showered, some days the older kids go out to find friends, other days dinner is so late its almost bedtime.
I am tired.
After our very busy weekend, I was tired. There was no chance of sleeping in last weekend, to make sandwiches and snacks, I was up at 6:30 Saturday and 5:45 Sunday. Two full days of being outside in the sun all day and late nights, I was Tired. Have I mentioned I was tired??? So Monday night, Matthias asked to go out and I said ok, but only until 8 tonight because....I was tired! It really didn't give him a lot of time but I thought because of the late nights the last two days it was fair. So 8 rolls around, 8:30, 9, 9:30. 10!! Where is this kid?! He is usually pretty good about being on time, so by now I am starting to worry. So Dave being the dutiful husband he is, goes out to look for our wayward son to make sure he's not laying broken in a ditch somewhere...Nope! He was fine(and now with a super mad dad on his hands). Two streets over playing with friends. His watch battery had died and it hadn't occured to him in the two hour period that perhaps something was wrong with his watch-no that's not true, it occured to him but he was having too much fun to be bothered with it.
That earned him a 'no going out past dinnertime' for 1 day for each half hour he was late, it also killed my dreams of an early bedtime that night.
Did I mention I am tired? There is a end to this I promise.
Tuesday...tuesday I decide I am SO going to bed early. I am getting tired to the point of...'should I drive home?' I am so tired. I go about my day, the kids are pretty good today, I am making dinner and we get a knock on our door. We have been discussing getting some additional home security for some time now and the right deal for us had just arrived.. This was awesome, so they come and hook everything up, great service, but it took until after 10:30 to get done! Finally getting to bed at 11 and
setting my alarm for 3:30 seemed so wrong.
Did I mention I was tired.
There is a point to this all. You know you are tired when you put your tampon in upside down!!
THAT people is tired!
It is now 9pm. Jeshie has just knocked over my wine glass, breaking it spilling sticky goo everywhere. Dave is out for the evening. I am sooo done. 9:10, kids are in bed, and so am I!!
See you soon!!
Ps. I should mention that my pee phone works just fine!!
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Zoo
Today we got up extra early to spend a day at the zoo, something we haven't done in years!! By some miracle we were up, made lunches and out the door by 7:30am so we could get the most out of our day.
We got to the zoo by 10:30 and met up with our friends, some we hadn't seen in 2 yrs so that was pretty cool. We started the trip by taking the 100 kids we had with us to the bathroom, pretty standard right?? Well the line was pretty long so I decided it was in everyone's best interest to get things moving and I went in with Asher. He peed and I bent over to help him with his pants and sure enough I heard something fall into the toilet. I took me a minute before I realized in shock and horror that my phone had slipped out of my back pocket and into the toilet...which had not yet been flushed!! What a way to start our trip. Of course no one happened to have packed a spare baggie of rice, so it remains to be seen if it will ever work again or not :(
The next melodrama came when we went to retrieve our pre paid tickets...somehow they had lost them!! I have no idea how this happened, but after 20 minutes or so they showed up in an envelope addressed Jeannine Somethingorother...it was the right amount of tickets, so if there is a Jeannine who couldn't get into the zoo today because your tickets were gone, sorry! I swear we paid for ours and I have no idea how they filed them under that name or how they came to realize that they were actually ours!!
The rest of the day was pretty smooth sailing. It was a nice day to walk around the zoo and spend time with everyone. The kids really enjoyed seeing all the animals and were especially glad that we got the see the penguins and they got to say goodbye to the elephants who will be moving.
Capping off the day is my now more ridiculous burn. I have three diifferent burn lines going on up top thanks to my farmer's tan from yesterday, my camera strap burn, now my bra strap and tank top burn...it looks awesome. Even my one lonely wrinkle has a burn line now!! It's white on the inside and red on the outside, I'm sure from frowning and squinting from the sun. I'm sure I'll hear about my raccoon eyes at work tomorrow lol.
Once we left there we made it to Costco in time for them to close the doors right in front of me, thanks Costco, and then we took the kids out to dinner. I'm pretty sure we are officially broke from this weekend but it's once a summer and it was totally worth it!! Everyone's home in bed now, and I think that's where I'll go too!
See you soon!
We got to the zoo by 10:30 and met up with our friends, some we hadn't seen in 2 yrs so that was pretty cool. We started the trip by taking the 100 kids we had with us to the bathroom, pretty standard right?? Well the line was pretty long so I decided it was in everyone's best interest to get things moving and I went in with Asher. He peed and I bent over to help him with his pants and sure enough I heard something fall into the toilet. I took me a minute before I realized in shock and horror that my phone had slipped out of my back pocket and into the toilet...which had not yet been flushed!! What a way to start our trip. Of course no one happened to have packed a spare baggie of rice, so it remains to be seen if it will ever work again or not :(
Capping off the day is my now more ridiculous burn. I have three diifferent burn lines going on up top thanks to my farmer's tan from yesterday, my camera strap burn, now my bra strap and tank top burn...it looks awesome. Even my one lonely wrinkle has a burn line now!! It's white on the inside and red on the outside, I'm sure from frowning and squinting from the sun. I'm sure I'll hear about my raccoon eyes at work tomorrow lol.
See you soon!
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Airshow
So today we got up early and took the kids to the Airshow in Lethbridge, lunch was packed and we were out the door by 8! It was their first time going and it was a surprise, so I was excited but they had no clue what was going on....which really was part of the fun. We got there on time but made the unfortunate mistake of not bringing chairs, so really Jeshie is the only one who got to sit down all day. It was really cool watching all the different kinds of planes do their tricks, I think you appreciate it more as an adult though because you know how difficult it must be to do, where kids take it for granted just a little bit more. It was really cool watching the jet engined bus do it's thing, it was so fast that once it got going I couldn't even get a blurry picture of it! That was something none of us had ever seen before...and then there was the jet engined porta potty, only in Alberta I swear! And yes, the guy actually sits on the toilet in it. Another suped up car did a wheelie for what must have been a kilometer and jet speeds which was crazy cool!
As the day wore on the kids began to watch less and play more, as kids tend to do. Asher and Jeshua do this love wrestling thing, Asher antagonizes Jeshua by calling him 'poopy pants', Jeshie chases him till his catches him then drags him to the ground and does whatever suits him at the moment. Today that moment meant biting Asher in the ear. So Asher yells of course, we pull them apart, and as I'm checking the ear is see a red blob on the back of it. My first though is 'way to go Mike Tyson, now we're gonna have to go the hospital', until I looked closer and realized that his ear was fine, it was just a piece of saliva logged licorice that Jeshie had spit on his brother in the process of biting him. Yum. But I will admit it is a step up from the near cannibalism I thought was happening....
So at the end of the day, rocking a new, spotty and totally un-even sunburn, we are ready to go home. (I now look like a raccoon, I am burnt mostly on my right side, I have camera straps burnt into my neck and there is a spot under my chin that is still white!) We grab dinnerto go. Once home we start the process of getting 5 kids bathed/showered with one bathroom, sounds fun right?? Inevitably it means a fight starts between the older three which of course it did again tonight...sigh...so the little boys get to bath first, solves the 'who goes first' problem right? Well sorta, it did anyway until Jeshie pooped in the tub and we had to shower them on top of already having a bath and clean the tub!! He's never done that before, I made myself busy so I wouldn't have to be the one to scoop it out :D
That was our day. Tomorrow we have decided to conquer the zoo!
See you soon!
As the day wore on the kids began to watch less and play more, as kids tend to do. Asher and Jeshua do this love wrestling thing, Asher antagonizes Jeshua by calling him 'poopy pants', Jeshie chases him till his catches him then drags him to the ground and does whatever suits him at the moment. Today that moment meant biting Asher in the ear. So Asher yells of course, we pull them apart, and as I'm checking the ear is see a red blob on the back of it. My first though is 'way to go Mike Tyson, now we're gonna have to go the hospital', until I looked closer and realized that his ear was fine, it was just a piece of saliva logged licorice that Jeshie had spit on his brother in the process of biting him. Yum. But I will admit it is a step up from the near cannibalism I thought was happening....
So at the end of the day, rocking a new, spotty and totally un-even sunburn, we are ready to go home. (I now look like a raccoon, I am burnt mostly on my right side, I have camera straps burnt into my neck and there is a spot under my chin that is still white!) We grab dinnerto go. Once home we start the process of getting 5 kids bathed/showered with one bathroom, sounds fun right?? Inevitably it means a fight starts between the older three which of course it did again tonight...sigh...so the little boys get to bath first, solves the 'who goes first' problem right? Well sorta, it did anyway until Jeshie pooped in the tub and we had to shower them on top of already having a bath and clean the tub!! He's never done that before, I made myself busy so I wouldn't have to be the one to scoop it out :D
That was our day. Tomorrow we have decided to conquer the zoo!
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