Feb 22, 2007

great evening

We have had such a nice evening...all sat around the computer watching You Tube....looking up all the tv shows we watched as children....Trumpton, Chorlton and the Wheelies, Bod, The Flumps, Grange Hill, Swap Shop, Trap Door, Bagpuss, Camberwick Green........

The children find it all hysterically funny and it was just such a nice way to reminisce.........

Lovely :)

Off to read some more of The Girls now before bed :)

Goodnight!

Can you think of any more tv shows from the 70's and 80's we could look up?

Morph :)



And here's one you can let the children watch and I I bet they love it as much as mine do :)

Mary, Mungo and Midge



Another show I watched as a child!

Rainbow!!




This is a British childrens programme from the 70's...I grew up watching this show BUT this is an ADULT version and I am shocked (in a hysterical way lol) that Jeffrey would make a show like this....I can believe it of Zippy though...he always WAS a naughty boy!

Debbie!!!!!!

I thought of you tonight Debbie...I ate my dinner on my lap in front of the tv!!!! BUT
I know you'll understand why! I wanted to watch Oprah on Ellens show!

Reading the paper.....and a tragic story from Calgary!

I have started to really look forw3ard to reading the paper each day.......I have always read the weekly local papers 'Sherwood Park News' and 'Strathcona County This Week' - I like to know what is happening in the area, events happening and where new subdivisions are planned etc etc and I also like to look at the houses that are for sale.....

Just lately though I have started to read the daily paper The Edmonton Journal. We have sometimes bought it at weekends but not often...I may have it delivered though.

Todays articles are good....there is an article about attracting birds to your garden and what birds REALLY need......another article about growing Orchids....an article on the five stages of grief (useful for the novel I am writing) and a sad article about the little girl who died in Calgary on Tuesday....the day before her second birthday. Basically the article says that charges will not be laid! Good job too! That poor Mom...she's been through enough. No doubt endless people have judged her harshly already......My heart breaks for her. I just can't imagine.

This Mom had to run into work to drop some files off...she left her 6 year old Son and 2 year old Daughter in the car. The 2 year old started crying so the 6 year old let her out of her car seat to stop the crying. He then fell asleep. The 2 year old knelt up on the arm rest and leaned her head out of the window...he kneee pressed against the window button and the window closed on her neck and strangled her.

Its tragic.

A passerby saw her and got her free and laid her back in her car seat and ran for help......in the mean time the Mom came back to the car and strapped the 'sleeping' girl back in her car seat and drove the 6 year old to school. On the way home she realised the 2 year old was just TOO quiet and then real;ised something was wrong and called 911. Sadly it was too late.

Just terribly tragic. Awful. That poor Mom....on the news it has been endlessly said how awful it was to leave to the children in the car, with the engine running while she ran into the office to drop off the files......but sometimes we do these things...we make the choice....Do we struggle to get the sleepy children out of their seats into their coats and out into the -20 weather for two minutes while you drop the files in....hands full, very stressful.....car gets cold while you are out of it......or do you go for the other choice...leave the children 'safely' strapped in, in the warm car while you rush to drop the files off much faster than if you had to take the children with you.....

We all make choices like this every day...it may not be about leaving children alone in the car...it may be about leaving a toddler in the bath to go grab a towel or clean pj's........it may be about leaving a toddler eating lunch in his highchair while you throw laundry in the machine or answer the door.....it may be about leaving the stairgate open for a minute while you carry a laundry basket full downstairs......

Every choice we make as Mothers has risks....and no parent is perfect 100% of the time. We all make mistakes but some of us are just VERY lucky.....I have 5 kids......don't believe for a minute that I haven't made choices that could have put them at risk...it takes seconds for something to go wrong..... I've been very lucky. I have 5 healthy safe and happy children......but I've left hot mugs of tea too close......I've had Abigail 'escape' from the house and wander down the road 'going to meet Daddy from the bus' I've found Susie in the bathroom aged 2 'shaving her legs' with my razor......Abigail choked on a wine gum we gave her.......

If you've judged the Mom in Calgary then SHAME ON YOU...because none of us are blameless....accidents happen and none of us make perfect choices 100% of the time. Most of us are just lucky!

lost forever....

Last week I noticed two of the diamonds in my engagement ring looked 'dull and dark....I even showed Lloyd them and we both agreed that maybe the ring needed cleaning....then this week I notice those same two diamonds are GONE!!! They have actually fallen out of my ring! Never to be seen again! I am so sad...I've had this ring for 4 years and not a problem...and now all of a sudden two diamonds are gone! I still have 10 diamonds in there but now with an ugly gap......so I have to take my ring in to have two new ones put in......we ave to go and collect Lloyds wedding ring anyway as it has been resized........

I'm sad about my ring as I love it so much! Lloyd asked if I'd like a new one instead but as much as I would LOVE a new ring (lol who wouldn't!!!) I would prefer to have this one fixed...its my engagement ring....Lloyd picked it for me and it's special!

Who knew!

I just cut my hand on the teapot! I had no idea you could cut your hand this badly on a teapot!!!

preschool......

I spent this morning at Abigails preschool helping out...it was a good day to volunteer because one of the teachers was off......It's a 3 hour session in our local community hall......

We took our straws kit and the kids all had fun building towers with them...they also played playdough, sang songs, had storytime...worked on some pre K things and practiced the alphabet...they spent ages building 'dog houses' and pretending to be puppies....making jigsaws and colouring....typical preschool stuff.....

The whole thing reminded me of one of my Moms books.....I don't remember the author but the books are about the village school...written from the teacher and almost every other sentence is the teacher saying 'Johnny don't pick your nose'......that happened a LOT today! What is it with 4 year olds and nose picking??????

I showed all the children how to flip pancakes which they thought was fun...and the teacher of course was thrilled as it was great practice for co-ordination!!!

Sam got quite attached to one boys 'Cars' lunchbox and spent the morning walking around with it....until that same boy showed his favourite toy (he was 'Top Banana' today) and of course his favourite toy was a truck that had a little car inside...just like Mack and Lightening McQueen...and then of course the boy HAD to show how fast the truck could go...well that was IT!! Sam HAD to have the truck!!! OMG he then had a terrible twos melt down because he couldn't have the truck! Fun fun fun!

We got home around 12:30pm having stopped off at the local store for a few things.....Derek had already left which was nice as we could relax and have lunch with no one else here........

So now its 1:30pm and I plan to make a cup of coffee and curl up and read the Edmonton Journal...Abigail and Sam are tired and quite happy to sit and colour for a while quietly.

I slept REALLY well last night...didn't want to get out of bed this morning...I was so comfy under the covers.....it was so tempting to tell Abby preschool was cancelled and have a pj day instead.....so so tempting.

Hoar frost






We woke to a winter wonderland this morning...a hoar frost had crept across every tree and plant in view.....and it has hung around all day...everything is sparkling and silvery white......It really is beautiful. I may go for a walk later and take some closer pictures but here are some I took from my bedroom window this morning!

groooooaaannnnn

Why are people who don't have kids so self absorbed and boring? It's like everything revolves around them...why can't they find something worthwhile to talk about? Something worthwhile to do with their time? Do they KNOW how boring they are?

Of course this is a HUGE generalisation and not everyone is like that but why can't they lighten up and have alaugh...have a sense of humour? It's like they are sooooo DULL!

This one person I just want to shake and say 'Get a life - You are so flipping BORING!!!!!'
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