Category: just crap…

Well, It’s Monday morning….how’s it treating you?

It’s raining here and Siah is sleeping and I’m still in my jammies and I need to clean, clean, CLEAN my house.

This has got to be one of the grossest things EVER! And yet the girls scarf this down like it’s candy. BLECH!

Here it is…..a Peanut Butter, Honey and Egg Salad Sandwich….doesn’t that sound delicious?

And…..I figure that with the Internet being a place filled with beauty, that I should do my part to balance that beauty out, and so here is me trying to do my part to balance the world out….’cause everyone loves to look at bad pictures of other people….it just makes you feel so darn good about your own self, doesn’t it.

This is me feeding ‘Siah on a Saturday morning about 2 weeks ago, and Xandra got a little picture happy. I’ll admit….this is the better of the bad ones…yes, there were worse ones….I know that’s hard to believe, but alas….it’s true.

and yes…that’s a giant fake cigarette in ‘Siah’s hand, because we’re teaching him the finer things in life….and we’re starting early.

This next picture was Jeremy and Xandra’s attempt at an ART ATTACK. Click on that link…you know you want to…it’s AWESOME!!!!

Actually, it is an unbelievable place to get craft ideas to do. The guy makes these GIANT art attacks where he uses all sorts of other items to create a HUGE picture on the ground and then you can see it from WAY UP HIGH and it looks so cool.

Anyway, the kids used a bunch of plants from our yard and other flowers that they stole from other people’s yards and for which they got in serious trouble and then laid this out. It’s picture of a garden made out of plants….cute, eh? I was going to take a picture from the second level of our house, but never got around to it, and then I found this picture on the camera. Again, with Xandra going a little picture happy….not like I needed 40 pictures of this particular creation….

She also took this shot of the crochetted quilt that I’m working on….I’m getting closer and closer to finishing it.

It’s going to look a little different than it looks in that picture but for my first granny square quilt….it’ll be okay. It’ll work, and at this point, that’s all I care about.

I was going to take a video of the rain that was pouring down right now, but then figured that would be stupid and so I’d just tell you that it’s POURING RAIN over here….and I wonder how my teensy, tiny little veggies in the garden are doing. They’ve just started growing and I can’t wait to make a delicious salad or even a green smoothie out of my homegrown veggies.

So, I was going to take a stupid video of the stupid rain, and that reminded reminded me of one day last week when I was up with ‘Siah at 4am, and I almost took a video of the darkness out in my back yard.

We have a greenspace behind our house, and even though it was barely light out, the birds were going to town. It was so amazing sounding, and they were SO LOUD. But, I was WAY TOO TIRED and hoping desperately that ‘Siah would settle down and actually drift off to sleep instead of just singing and cooing himself half asleep.

When he finally went to sleep, I crawled back in bed and put the pillows over my head and CRASH….I was gone.

When I woke it, it was all gone too. Oh well! I’m sure there will be another early, early morning sometime soon….not fun!

Alright, post is finished, baby is still sleeping, Jon’s trainee has just arrived and I need to go and get dressed and tidy the house ASAP!

It feels like a million days ago since I last wrote, and yet it’s only been since Friday.

I guess that with the Long Weekend, that does make it a little longer than usual, but I think that the real issue is that we DID. SO. MUCH!

On Saturday we got up, and started to clean/clear out the garage. It’s kinda our “catchall” and eventually things become overwhelming and we “have” to deal with it. It’s terribly embarrassing for me when the big sliding garage door gets opened for Jon to take out the lawn mower or for the kids to get their bikes or the go cart and the garage is so full of crap – especially because in our neighborhood, the East Indians have spotless, eat off the floor garages, and so we are the oddity.

We ended up taking the broken metal framed bunk bed to the metal recycling place, and a WHOLE TON of newspapers and cardboard and other recycling to the Recycling Depot, we returned $27 dollars of cans and tetra packs to the Bottle Depot, and then we took an entire van load of actual garbage (including one broken dresser) to the Dump.

You know how there is always misplaced crap left over after you do a HUGE clean…well, a bunch of that “stuff” is still sitting in my front hall. I have to figure out what to do with it, and actually get it to it’s proper location.

We’ve set aside a bunch of stuff to garage sale, and I think that we are going to Garage sale for the morning, one Saturday, and then Freecycle anything left in the afternoon. I just want to get rid of it all.

I think that as a part of a more simpler life, I’m trying to pare down and get rid of junk and clutter and just have the things that we really need. It’s a mind shift, but I’m up for it….my kids on the other hand…..well, Jeremy is struggling a bit. We stopped off at Value Village yesterday to try and find some shorts for ‘Siah and some Capri’s for Geli. Jeremy desperatly wanted to buy some junky toys, and had a melt down when we wouldn’t let him spend his money on a bag of old McDonalds crap plastic toys.

Jon and I started talking and we are looking into finding him a set of “something” that he can buy a piece at a time and add to it…something like a wooden train set or a track or I dunno……like Lego, where you can buy smaller sets to build a whole. We just don’t want to be wasting money on junk, and we’re trying to teach our kids to not waste money on junk.

How do you teach your kids the importance of investing wisely in things (money, property, clothes, etc) as opposed to the instant gratification of the cheap and easy crap?

Anyway, so Saturday felt like a really long day, especially when you have a tiny baby who can’t get down and play n the middle of everything, but is too squirmy to hold, and besides it hard to accomplish too much while holing him….by Saturday night I had such a sore shoulder and arm. Not Fun!

Sunday was busy, and Jon went down to the States in the Evening, and so i went over to my mom’s place with the kids. As fun as that is, and as nice as it is to have other adults around to talk to and to hlep out, it’s still stressful when you feel like you are on edge about what your kids might get into and what they might do….it’s a trade off, but Mom kept the girls overnight, and so it was only me and the boys that headed home, and both of them were asleep by the time I made it home.

Monday morning, Jon and I and the boys went for breakfast, and then headed out to Langley to pickup the girls. We then hit the Value Village, and by the time we made it home, we had just enough time to run some kids through the bath, and to make a quick dinner and ship everyone off to bed.

It felt like a Sunday night, but it was a Monday which was so weird. Watched a little Bones and House, and then when we should have gone to bed around 10pm, Jon and I chatted until 11pm. It’s good to talk, but I knew that we’d be tired in the morning…especially with how Josiah’s been waking up just about every night somewhere between 12 and 3pm.

Last night ust have been a special night, because the little angel didn’t wake up until 4:30am – which in my estimation is an AWESOME time because it’s still early enough that he would do right back to sleep while I nurse him, and it’s not close enough to the time when I have to get up. BUT……But…well, let me skip around a bit….Jon took ‘Siah back to his crib around 5am, and then we settled back down to sleep.

At 6am or somewhere around there, it sounded like the house next door to us was bombed, or else that a plane had crashed in our cul de sac or that Abbotsford was being bombed…..there was the HUGEST crash of THUNDER and it went on and on and on and on and it sounded so loud and close and it was so startling.

It ended up just being a thunder shower and the rain poured and the thunder rolled…its sounding a bit like a Garth Brooks song right now, but it was amazing to listen to…it woke Xandra up though and she came into our room just a little nervous. It was pretty cool though.

So, that ended off our weekend and started this new week off with a BANG….literally.

Now, I’ve got to tidy the house. It’s not that bad, but it’s the first day the kids are back at school after the weekend and there are lots of little things to do, so I’d better get off here and get busy.

So, I have a new look (I hope you’ve all figured this out by now) and while things look okay, there are still a few things that we’ve not completely worked out.

My sister mentioned my links, and while I mentioned to Jon to put them up there at the top along with the “Home”, “Chris”, “Daily Grind” and “Photos” thingy’s he obviously forgot. Along with the fact that I asked him to put them in proper alphabetical order, because when you’re having an OCD moment……correct alphabetical order is very VERY important.

And while I’m still able to function, there is a small part of my brain that is screaming at me that those words are not in the correct order and it’s stressing me out. Then there’s the rest of my brain that is screaming back at that tiny OCD part and saying “Shut the crap up, you don’t control us” and so I’m trying to just ignore it all, but all that screaming back and forth makes it a little difficult at times. See, the biggest problemm is that Jon is busy doing paying web design work, and while wifely payouts are always apreciated – they don’t put food on the table or pay the bills (and this could be taken in a whole ‘nuther direction, but we won’t go there). I could probably figure it out myself….but I’ve resisted learning how to do this kind of stuff.

Which is stupid, but it is what it is.

So, bear with me as we work out all the little glitches and get everything back in order, and working the way it should.

We were driving home from picking up Xandra yesterday afternoon.  She had slept over at my sister’s house on Friday night…..anyhow…..

As we were driving home, we stuck a DVD in to keep the kids quiet to entertain the children, but before the movie popped up on the screen the kids started asking what movie we had put in.

“Enchanted” Jon answered.

“What?” Xani asked

Jon answered, “The movie is enchanted.”

“What do you mean, enchanted?” Xani asked

And I replied, “It’s enchanted….if you rub the disc on your butt 3 times then a genie will pop out of the hole.”

I’ve been a bit busy and a bit stressed and trying to work through some things and trying to find some balance in my life between 3 school age kids, a baby, admin work, house work, crafting, planning, organizing and hmmmm…..maybe even some time with Jon….who woulda thunk it?

It’s not easy.  I’d so forgotten how busy this baby time is.  Not that I would trade it for the world, but I’ve been slacking in the blogging department and trying to pick up the pace in all the other departments in my life……..and I’m stuck at 176 pounds…..I go up on the scale and down on the scale between 176.2 and 176.8lbs and it’s frustrating me….I’d just LOVE to see a 175 pop up somewhere in there…even if only for a moment, but no – as of yet, no such luck.

Josiah is scheduled for his 4 month immunization and I’m trying to remain calm even though I’m not entirely certain that I want to immunize.  I believe in immunization and my girls are up to date, and Jeremy has his minus the kindergarten booster, and while I have no concrete evidence that anything that Jeremy struggles with has anything to do with immunizations – I still do not know that it doesn’t has something to do with his struggles….I do know that he’s had a wicked reaction to the Hib shot, and so far ‘Siah didn’t, and I’m hoping it stas that way.

I hate that I have to fight with the nurse to convince her that I only want the Dtap/Hib and that I’m not taking the others right now…..maybe I’ll get them later or maybe I won’t….I know that this is a sesitive topic and I know that everyone believes different things, but this is my struggle.  I believe they do good, and yet I’m scared.  Scared of the unknown and Tired of dealing with Jeremy.  Not that I don’t love Jeremy, but sometimes, he requires more effort and energy than both the girls and Josiah all put together…..

Okay, enough whining.  I’m done.  I’ll be back later.