OK, so some people have told me that they think I have my sh*t together...and to them I say thank you...but yes, I am faking it!
The times I actually have all my household chores done and sleeping children and time for relaxing are rare...but when they happen...you can bet I am posting that as my status on facebook; proudly showing off my abilities to be a good mama and wife. However, the other days, when I am run ragged, exhausted, makeup from the day before still pasted on my face (and pillow) I do not talk about it. Unless its to my friends. Anyone else must think that I have it all together!
Some days I don't get in a shower, let alone a washroom break. Some days I leave all of the dishes in the sink until bedtime, when I can fire them into the dishwasher, which I am in LOVE with! (I have never had a dishwasher)
Some days I can be a sweep-it-all-under-the-carpet kinda gal. Not necessarily a good thing, because I will apply that to every thing in my life. My feelings, my thoughts, laundry, etc...I will avoid it. But we all know how that goes...it builds and builds and builds until there is nowhere else for it to go but OUT! And boy, does it come out.
I am so fortunate to have a husband/best friend who understands me in that way. He always asks how I am, how my day was, and I attribute that to his awesome parents. They are the kind of parents who sit at the kitchen table with you during supper and have a conversation. An actual conversation. They joke around, debate, go back and forth...and after all is said and done, your plates are empty, your stomach and heart are full and you have no idea where the time went! It's so great to sit and be in their company. They believe in getting it all out on the table...no pun intended. They believe that if you have an issue you talk about it, sort it out, and move on. Don't dwell on it!
They are such great people and I find myself luckier and luckier everyday to be a part of their family. They are so similar to mine, that life with them involved is so natural.
My little men are very lucky too.
It's family like ours who make it easy to fake it. They are incredibly supportive and encouraging.
So thanks family...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
mish, mash, mosh...a blog about lots of stuff
Laura she gets me every time. With out fail. Knows exactly what I am thinking or needing. It must be the whole work-at-home-mom thing...
It seems no one understands the daily struggles we face, unless they too, are at home, surrounded by babies, laundry, dishes, hand prints on windows, food stuck on carpets (that were FRESHLY steamed) or the high pitched screams...oh those screams. Which are not always sad or hurt, but mostly from excitement. Still...they hurt my ears.
A few days ago, I needed out. Just for a while...just to breath. So at 8:30pm I went tanning (so did Laura), I went to Wal-Mart to get ideas for Jenner's first birthday. And I can not believe my little baby is going to be one. Sigh. One!! He acts like a 15 month old...stomps his feet when he wants something. Lays down, very slowly, rolls over and fake cries, or when he "falls" which is really just sitting on his bum quickly, he looks at me for a reaction...for a "Jenner! Oh no! Are you ok!?" It doesn't matter what reaction he gets, because if I so much as make eye contact with him, for a split second after he falls, he cries. Its' really quite humorous. The first time...the forty times afterwards...it gets a little old. And he also says "No-ee, no-ee, no-ee" All. The. Time.
Little monkey.
So anyways, I am out and about. I am kid-free, husband-free...I am feeling good! Then I get a phone call, with a wailing child in the background...a child who should have been put in bed. I think, no, I know, that my husband was trying to hint to me to come home and deal with it...but, man, cell service is crappy in those big stores! So, my phone cut out, and I kept on strolling around.
In Superstore, I met a nice lady...who was also an escapee for the evening! She was so bubbly, and happily packing groceries, and the second we saw each other, she smiled...and said "I haven't been home for five hours!!" I kind of laughed, then she said "I just got my hair done! I went shopping, then I came here! My husband is going to think I left him!"
A few days later, I got my hair done...NICE! So nice to just sit there, talk and be pampered. I have even gone tanning a few times since!
The boys are growing and enjoying our new space. We have been busy visiting with friends, running errands, doing laundry and dishes! The usual...but it has been really lovely.
The snow has melted, we are outside a lot, and I am dreaming of the moment I can get my hands on my yard! Well..not so much excited about picking up the neighbor's dog's poop...but I am excited to landscape it...plant trees, flowers...put down stones. So excited!
I am also very excited to be returning back to part-time work. The first week of May I will start at our local Home Hardware which is such a beautiful store. You can check it out on facebook! They have devoted themselves to making that store what it is today! It has the nicest garden centre in Lloydminster, and that is the truth! I can't wait to start!
Anyways...the boys...the apples of my eyes! And the bags under them...I love my boys!
These two are starting to play and squeal and LAUGH together. Its the sweetest little sound...I recorded it. But couldn't upload it! Grrr!
Every weekday morning, Ellis perches himself on the couch and watches for the school bus...he yells "Loooook mommy LOOK!! The fool bus! Hello fool bus! How are you today!? Ah you taking da kids to fool? Can I ride you when I am a beeeg boy?"
Then he waves and says "Bye little geeyoos and boys! Have a good day!"
Heart melting. His little voice and fuzzy little hair...
Then we go downstairs, to the secret room, and pay school.
We did this for about forty minutes. He was so happy, and so muddy. It made his day. He still talks about it.
Like every boy he loves puddles...he tells me to drive through them..then he says "Uh oh! Now we gotta go to the cah wash!!!"
Hmm...this could get expensive.
But that day..I went through that puddle, I went through every puddle I could find and there was mud on all of the windows of the truck...and I had to go to the car wash.
Ellis LOVED it.
Jenner screamed in fear.
After supper, the little men had a bath...and later ran around naked...which they do every night after the bath...
I had to post a picture...because Jenner's little belly was so full! He looks like a little pot-belly piglet! Pink, rosy and chubby!
Don't worry...the picture is tastefully done!
It seems no one understands the daily struggles we face, unless they too, are at home, surrounded by babies, laundry, dishes, hand prints on windows, food stuck on carpets (that were FRESHLY steamed) or the high pitched screams...oh those screams. Which are not always sad or hurt, but mostly from excitement. Still...they hurt my ears.
A few days ago, I needed out. Just for a while...just to breath. So at 8:30pm I went tanning (so did Laura), I went to Wal-Mart to get ideas for Jenner's first birthday. And I can not believe my little baby is going to be one. Sigh. One!! He acts like a 15 month old...stomps his feet when he wants something. Lays down, very slowly, rolls over and fake cries, or when he "falls" which is really just sitting on his bum quickly, he looks at me for a reaction...for a "Jenner! Oh no! Are you ok!?" It doesn't matter what reaction he gets, because if I so much as make eye contact with him, for a split second after he falls, he cries. Its' really quite humorous. The first time...the forty times afterwards...it gets a little old. And he also says "No-ee, no-ee, no-ee" All. The. Time.
Little monkey.
So anyways, I am out and about. I am kid-free, husband-free...I am feeling good! Then I get a phone call, with a wailing child in the background...a child who should have been put in bed. I think, no, I know, that my husband was trying to hint to me to come home and deal with it...but, man, cell service is crappy in those big stores! So, my phone cut out, and I kept on strolling around.
In Superstore, I met a nice lady...who was also an escapee for the evening! She was so bubbly, and happily packing groceries, and the second we saw each other, she smiled...and said "I haven't been home for five hours!!" I kind of laughed, then she said "I just got my hair done! I went shopping, then I came here! My husband is going to think I left him!"
A few days later, I got my hair done...NICE! So nice to just sit there, talk and be pampered. I have even gone tanning a few times since!
The boys are growing and enjoying our new space. We have been busy visiting with friends, running errands, doing laundry and dishes! The usual...but it has been really lovely.
The snow has melted, we are outside a lot, and I am dreaming of the moment I can get my hands on my yard! Well..not so much excited about picking up the neighbor's dog's poop...but I am excited to landscape it...plant trees, flowers...put down stones. So excited!
I am also very excited to be returning back to part-time work. The first week of May I will start at our local Home Hardware which is such a beautiful store. You can check it out on facebook! They have devoted themselves to making that store what it is today! It has the nicest garden centre in Lloydminster, and that is the truth! I can't wait to start!
Anyways...the boys...the apples of my eyes! And the bags under them...I love my boys!
These two are starting to play and squeal and LAUGH together. Its the sweetest little sound...I recorded it. But couldn't upload it! Grrr!
Every weekday morning, Ellis perches himself on the couch and watches for the school bus...he yells "Loooook mommy LOOK!! The fool bus! Hello fool bus! How are you today!? Ah you taking da kids to fool? Can I ride you when I am a beeeg boy?"
Then he waves and says "Bye little geeyoos and boys! Have a good day!"
Heart melting. His little voice and fuzzy little hair...
Then we go downstairs, to the secret room, and pay school.
This little guy has done so well with the move. He misses the farm. A lot. He talks about poppa's tractor, about the big trucks, he told me the other night that this house was not our home...it's just our new house...and that our home is at the farm.
It made me tear up, it kinda broke my heart...so the next morning we headed out to the farm for a visit. And just played outside with Josie and Halle. We payed in a puddle, and being the sweet little soul he is, Ellis asked me to help him make a stream so he could "set the water free". So we did. We dug with his shovel, and made a stream, and tried to empty the little puddle.
We did this for about forty minutes. He was so happy, and so muddy. It made his day. He still talks about it.
Like every boy he loves puddles...he tells me to drive through them..then he says "Uh oh! Now we gotta go to the cah wash!!!"
Hmm...this could get expensive.
But that day..I went through that puddle, I went through every puddle I could find and there was mud on all of the windows of the truck...and I had to go to the car wash.
Ellis LOVED it.
Jenner screamed in fear.
After supper, the little men had a bath...and later ran around naked...which they do every night after the bath...
I had to post a picture...because Jenner's little belly was so full! He looks like a little pot-belly piglet! Pink, rosy and chubby!
Don't worry...the picture is tastefully done!
See? Pot bellied pig syndrome.
A couple days after the visit to the farm, we went and picked up my Grandma Clara and brought her over for tea, supper, dessert, and more tea.
She was so happy, and loved watching Jenner run from room to room...while Ellis napped the afternoon away!
Jenner teases Grandma, just like his big brother does. He would run up to her, smile, then run away laughing, then circle around just barely teetering on one foot due to the speed of the turn, and he would run right back to her and rest his head on her leg. The second she rubbed his sweet little head, he'd shoot off again!
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| Grandma loved how his hair was stuck over his ear like this.
Yes. These boys keep me busy. And each other too. I am so glad they are starting to play together more. I always tell them they are best friends. And Ellis says "Yes. I luff Baby Junnah, and I luff mommy, and I luff doddy...we are all best fwends"
And we are.
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
a house becomes our home
We did it! We bought our home. We moved in. And we couldn't be happier. Seriously...I don't know HOW we could get any happier...maybe the lottery? This place feels so good. It's so bright and lovely. I just want to run in it. Well, no, the kids want to run in it! I want to decorate it!!!
From the outside our house is plain-jane and looks somewhat small...but on the inside? This place is like a palace to me!! Before, it was brown inside....blech. Brown, taupe, dirt colours...not my thing! SO I repainted, with the help of great friends and Tim Horton's! It took four days to clean and paint the upper level.
First of all, the cleanliness of this place was not up to par. Anyone who saw it would have agreed. The previous owners did squat to clean it, which was depressing, because I just wanted to come into a clean, fresh house! After two days of cleaning...washing food off walls, removing the disgusting amounts of dirt from under the stove, fridge and even on the tops of the walls where the ceilings are vaulted, I felt better about it. The carpets were...um, well...I could have puked. They were filthy! So we paid $200 to get them steam cleaned and sanitized. Well worth it! They came out looking two shades lighter! Next time...if we ever buy a used home, it will be in the conditions that the places gets professionally cleaned. Our city has really let that slip. In any other city the houses are be expected to be spotless. And speaking to my friends who have bought and sold, bought and sold...they are. I think Lloydminster needs to step it up.
Anyways...after the grueling hours of cleaning, came the grueling (but entertaining) hours of painting. We went through countless coffee's and teas from Tim's, and spent time (probably more than we needed) standing around visiting! We got it done! And then, we moved in! My family rocks. And my husband's family rocks...and would have helped IF they lived near us!
So here we are...in our new home, Jenner in his OWN room and sleeping wonderfully! Ellis keeps saying "I like my new house!" Or when he sees the school bus (which stops right in front of our place) he says "Looooook!!! The Fool bus! I can ride it when I am a beeeeeeg boy! Right mommy!?"
Yes, baby Ellis...you can ride the fool bus. He's so cute.
These two boys have not stopped running! They have adapted incredibly well to our new surroundings! But mu husband...who was born and raised in the city, had a few sleepless nights, worried about whether the doors and windows were locked or not. He is sweet like that. He slept with Ellis the first couple nights...I think daddy needed that more than Ellis!
Slowly but surely we will get this house perfect...to say exactly what we want it to say about us...once I clean the dog poop off our lawn it will be better. Much better.
Did I mention we don't have a dog?
Anyways...here is the onslaught of before and after photos...
From the outside our house is plain-jane and looks somewhat small...but on the inside? This place is like a palace to me!! Before, it was brown inside....blech. Brown, taupe, dirt colours...not my thing! SO I repainted, with the help of great friends and Tim Horton's! It took four days to clean and paint the upper level.
First of all, the cleanliness of this place was not up to par. Anyone who saw it would have agreed. The previous owners did squat to clean it, which was depressing, because I just wanted to come into a clean, fresh house! After two days of cleaning...washing food off walls, removing the disgusting amounts of dirt from under the stove, fridge and even on the tops of the walls where the ceilings are vaulted, I felt better about it. The carpets were...um, well...I could have puked. They were filthy! So we paid $200 to get them steam cleaned and sanitized. Well worth it! They came out looking two shades lighter! Next time...if we ever buy a used home, it will be in the conditions that the places gets professionally cleaned. Our city has really let that slip. In any other city the houses are be expected to be spotless. And speaking to my friends who have bought and sold, bought and sold...they are. I think Lloydminster needs to step it up.
Anyways...after the grueling hours of cleaning, came the grueling (but entertaining) hours of painting. We went through countless coffee's and teas from Tim's, and spent time (probably more than we needed) standing around visiting! We got it done! And then, we moved in! My family rocks. And my husband's family rocks...and would have helped IF they lived near us!
So here we are...in our new home, Jenner in his OWN room and sleeping wonderfully! Ellis keeps saying "I like my new house!" Or when he sees the school bus (which stops right in front of our place) he says "Looooook!!! The Fool bus! I can ride it when I am a beeeeeeg boy! Right mommy!?"
Yes, baby Ellis...you can ride the fool bus. He's so cute.
These two boys have not stopped running! They have adapted incredibly well to our new surroundings! But mu husband...who was born and raised in the city, had a few sleepless nights, worried about whether the doors and windows were locked or not. He is sweet like that. He slept with Ellis the first couple nights...I think daddy needed that more than Ellis!
Slowly but surely we will get this house perfect...to say exactly what we want it to say about us...once I clean the dog poop off our lawn it will be better. Much better.
Did I mention we don't have a dog?
Anyways...here is the onslaught of before and after photos...
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| Kitchen before |
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| Kitchen after (but before we moved in) |
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| Entrance before |
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| Entrance after |
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| Master Bedroom, partially wall papered |
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| My sister and cousin painting the family room |
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| The kids favourite spot... |
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| The Hideout, under the stairs Life is good. Our family is happy. We've already had so many laughs in our home and are ready for more! We are also looking forward to all of the company that is planning to come over the next months. It's going to be awesome!! Good night. I have a wee man who wants to go to bed. |
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