Date night NOT!!!

We haven't had a decent date night in weeks :(

Last night we had to take Rosie and Amber to the vets (note to self - NEVER book both dogs in the same night again!!!) Amber had to have her injections and Rosie had to have her stitches out. It was chaos. Amber is a crazy girl...totally hyperactive...needs to be on ritalin!!!! Rosie was fine thankfully!

Our vet is wonderful and always remembers Amber and teases her for being so crazy......

We picked up Sams passport from the post office last night......so funny seeing a Canadian passport! Its black :) My little Canadian has his very own Canadian passport!

We went to Tims for supper (woohoo big spenders huh???) and the British woman who served us was a miserable cow...and then they got my order wrong :(

Then we went to Blockbusters to buy The Lake House on dvd....but ended up buying 'Click' instead.

Then I made DH drive to the mall so I could run in to Hallmark.....there was something I wanted to get....I looked awful as I hadn't touched my hair since we went swimming and I was covered in dog hair from holding Amber at the vets etc .........and of course I get a PM today from someone that said they saw me but didn't get a chance to say hi!!!! Of course this person is stunning and always looks so glam!!! TYPICAL!!!!!! Can you tell I had a fun evening??????

I came home and as I had had a migraine since mid afternoon I took Imitrex and went straight to bed.

Glad the day was done.......hoping today would be better!

Roll on Friday :)

And yes I can kind of laugh at my crappy days now........but I was NOT laughing earlier!!!

What a morning!!!!

I have been in a bad mood since yesterday afternoon...no idea why but don't pick a fight with me today - ok??????

This morning has been the morning from hell! We did not sleep well. I went to bed at 9pm last night with a migraine and some Imitrex........woke up a few hours later and could hear the pig banging her pen....that finally stopped and then all I could hear was drip drip drip outside...the snow was melting on the roof and dripping somewhere grrrrrr......then the winds started and boy were they strong...hurricane conditions in BC that tore down trees and a building...not quite that bad here but very strong and they were whipping around the house...I thought the windows were going to blow in...the meshy things all got sucked out.......Abigail came into our room scared by the winds and this morning I found Laurie in Abigails bed as he had had nightmares about Tornadoes......so very little sleep was had by anyone...except Sam who slept all night..

TYPICAL!!!

So this morning I was awake at 7:30am and woke the kids up as they had to take all the garbage down to the road.....we can't put it out the night before because animals will rip into it....and the box only holds a few bags....

Well getting them to do that was a real hassle in itself......

Finally we were ready to leave at 9:50am - we already knew Chris would be late for work. Sam started crying on the way into town...we had no soothers with us grrrrr...so we dropped CHris at work and then ran around to a house to drop off a cheque for some cookie dough we are ordering.......got lost in the subdivision(my fault) - the directions I wrote down were - head towards showhomes go straight across traffic circle, turn left house on right..........

Well there are two roads that go towards different showhomes and both have traffic circles...needless to say I went to the wrong one.....all this time Sam is still screaming :(

The roads in the subdivision were like sheets of ice...OMG they were awful....I always thought rural roads would be worse but no way..our roads are fine in comparison!

Anyway we finally find the house and leave the cheque and I decide it is futile to wiat in town for my appt at the bank with Sam screaming....so we head to Shoppers and buy some soothers (which Sam then throws on the floor because he is in such a bad mood he is beyong soothing!! So my cell phone is dead...I run into Glen Allen rec to use the payphone....I have never used a Canadian payphone before and can't figure it out...finally put my money in, dial the number and it says 'this is a long distance number, you can use your credit card or charge the call' WHY??? WHY????? So I give up and go back to the car...sam is still screaming...seems like there is no reason though...just bad mood.

I plug in my cell phone into the car and finally get a signal.....can't get hold of Lloyd...and it won't let me leave a message...he finally calls me back...I tell him to cancel my bank appt and I am going home!

Came home.....Sam is now happy in front of Treehouse and I have drowned my sorrows in a cup of coffee and far too many pieces of peanut butter on toast (and a twix but we won't mention that!!)

The morning is officially over now THANKFULLY................

My poor baby

Poor Lloyd had such a bad day yesterday.......what with falling and hurting his leg and losing his blackberry etc etc....

Then we were sat havinga cup of tea and some Lassy Mogs cookies in the evening and he drops a raisin in his tea......he gives me this sad sad look (kinda jokingly) and says 'I am having such a bad day and now I dropped a raisin in my tea!!! Can it get much worse???)

I think he was glad to get the day over with...we were asleep in bed by 10pm and his day seems to be going much better today!!! :)

vets

Lol - our vets just called to say Amber is due to ahyve her vaccinations from the 19th.........would we like to book her in???? Well uh yeah...she already has an appointment - for TONIGHT!!!! :) lol...

Blackberry..........................

Lloyd just phoned........he went into Rogers to buy a new blackberry because he lost his yesterday.....well some very kind soul had handed it in!!!!! He went in and asked yesterday but no use so he cancelled all his services through it - but not until I had emailed the blackberry his number asking for someone to call it if they got it etc etc....

Anyway it is scratched from where he dropped it...maybe a car went over it lol....but it works and is fine so thats wonderful :) and saves us $500 for a new one :)

There are good people in this world :)

Millennium fun...................

The kids having a blast at MP today..................

Swimming with five............

This morning we drove into town (roads were in really good shape despite all that snow!!) and we went to Millennium Place for a few hours...we went swimming and this time we ALL went......it was actually the first time I have taken all five swimmingt by myself...we normally put Sam in the babysitting service...................but it was ok.....he LOVED it of course and as you can see by the above pics, he was tired after all that splashing around in the water.....

After an hour or so I took Abigail and Sam out and we went in the indoor playground...Susie stayed in the pool with her brothers for a bit longer...then they joined us in the playground for a while before we headed out of MP.

After MP we went to the mall and got some lunch, then did a bit of shopping in Safeway and then went to the library......................and then it started to snow so we finished off at the library and headed home......

Amber has her vaccinations tonight and Rosie has to go and have her stitches out...so a trek to the vets is in order.................the roads were clear but VERY slushy coming home because it got up to 4c today.......I used a LOT of washer fluid on my car windows on the way home................I am sure the roads will freeze badly tonight :( thats not good but I did see a lot of gritters/ sanders out today....so hopefully it won't be too bad.....

I have a bit of a headache but tylenol seems to be helping thankfully....

Pop!!!!! goes the top..................

One of my favourite things to do is pop open the top of a new jar of coffee and smell the scent as it is set free :) Everyone here knows that so now Lloyd and Chris or whoever will track me down and bring me the jar to open :)

This afternoon when we got home Chris made some coffee and he brought me the new jar to open :)

Oink!!!

Charlie having her daily apple yesterday.......

doesn't she look happy? She is such a sweetie pie!!

My little Prince...............

Sam being pulled around on a blanket by Abigail...he sat there like a little Prince being pulled around by a servant :)

drifting against the window........

This is the snow that had blown against my bedroom window this morning :) its so pretty...you can see all the layers :)

Craft time............

Here are the girls enjoying the foam......and the paint :)

And yes Chris, at 13, wanted to puff up his own shapes too :)

If you click on the picture of Abigail to make it bigger, you will see that there is probably more paint on her and her clothes than on the paper ;)

foam craft fun.............

My friend Samantha introduced me to this fab new craft supply...it comes in a thin sheet like cardboard...you can cut it into shapes or use a die-cutting machine to stamp out shapes into it......

Then you put the shapes into water and they puff up into sponges for sponge painting...........

Kids LOVE wtaching them puff up...even Christopher got in on the action and puffed some up!

Its less than $2 for a big sheet and you can get plenty of shapes from one sheet......and the place we get ours from also has all the die cutting shapes to use for free :)

Very cool!

lunch time.............and breakfast foods...

Or breakfast time as I just ahd some toast...and a mint thin lol......so lets call it brunch and be done with it ;)

Talking of breakfast foods...yesterday I tried one of the new breakfast sandwiches from Tim Hortons.....I had the sausage and egg with NO cheese (you Canadians are so weird with your 'cheese on everything' thang you have going!!!) anyway for those in foreign parts (lol) this new sandwich is like a Macdonalds breakfast thingy.......but its like a scone (they call it a biscuit here) with egg and sausage inside.........

it was WONDERFUL!!! omg it tastes like it is sooooooo BAD for you......but it tasts so good...the scone kind of melts in your mouth - the herby sausage just mingles with the egg and scone and it was just sinful!!!! :)

I want MORE!!!!!! :)

Such a healthy start to the day :)

The sun is out and everything is beautiful outside.......I must take pictures!!

Lloyd hasn't heard about his blackberry :( his leg is still hurting too :(

I phoned my Mum for a chat.....she still hasn't booked her tickets to come over next summer.

I phoned Pella and they are coming out to give us a quote for our windows......we want them all replaced but we also want a bay window put into the side wall in the dining room (which will one day be part of our family room) it will have a window seat and over look the sledding hill and down to the pond and front woods..........

We are having the huge ugly windows at the front of the house replaced..hopefully by two smaller windows for each ugly big window....and we are having a window put into the bathroom.........

We love the Pella windows. We are having the double hung windows....with the small square panes.........the windows that are on the house now are really ugly windows...why on earth did they put them in??????

I feel like I have accomplished a fair bit today.................I also decluttered my bedroom and cleaned out the messy closets............

I got the nicest email today...from a client (and blog reader!) - it meant so much to me.......well you know who you are I am sure.....and your Email just made me so happy - thank you for taking the time to write that!!

I have a mountain of laundry to face .............I have been procrastinating over it.....

Abigail has Sam sat on a blanket and is pulling him around the house on it - he loves it! He is cuddling Maurice (Abigails teddy bear) and looks like a little Prince being pulled around by his servant!!

The children did quite a bit of 'work' this morning.....I was having one of those days when I had the need for them to do book work! So they did math and LA in their workbooks at the table......I am a failure as an unschooler today :) but my needs were met and now we can relax for the week ;) They don't seem damaged long term by my forcing schoolwork on them today so I think we will be ok ;)

Tuesday...feels like Monday!

Blah!! Its weird...with the three day weekend it means today feels like Monday! And I'm not in the mood for a Monday! Monday means chores and laundry and getting the house back to normal after the weekend. I wish Lloyd was home.

It snowed a LOT yesterday....I think this is the most snow we have had this early since we arrived in Canada...it is -9c outside but the windchill is -22c.

All highways in the area have poor conditions and they are recommending you only drive if you have to......so we are staying home.....

I was supposed to take Chris to work and then go to meet someone from LP at her house...and then on to the homeschool group...........but I have cancelled all............

Lloyd fell on the icy road this morning on Jasper Ave downtown.......he slipped hurt his leg...he's ok I think but when he got to his office he noticed his blackberry holder was empty...he had dropped his blackberry! When he went back to look for it he couldn't find it.........

So if anyone finds a blackberry on Jasper Ave then you know who it belongs to!

Chris is miserable this morning....so I sent him for a shower to wake himself up. Too many late nights over the weekend.

Its 9am.....I need to go get dressed and get the kids sorted for the day...

Have a great day everyone.