Am I Boring…
July 12, 2009 by CourtenayMomma
Filed under Blog, Featured
I totally wanted to blog yesterday, but the call of the sleep hit me harder and I went to bed. Normally I get a chance to blog in the morning or during nap time, but niether worked out well for yesterday. It`s a good thing too because yesterday I would have spent the whole blog telling you how nuts Emily had been all day. All the LONG day. I might as well have fed her a bowl of sugar.Wooo crazy child. Today she`s still acting her age, but I`m not looking up postage prices on sending a 32 lb parcel to Siberia…if you catch my drift.
My Mom and I went for a walk at Lunch time yesterday. It was so beautiful out. I made Emily walk as much as she would to wear her out. We walked all the way around Sepa Lake mudhole. *whoa, my keyboard switched into french on its own. odd ééé. * I`ll have to figure that out laker, but for now I guess I can`t use slashes and the apostrophe( which I just learned is a verb in french aswell) is weird too. Where was I… Ah the lake. The water is down so far that the 2 lakes don`t even come closr to connecting anymore. Its kinda sad. Speaking of lakes…I get to go Kayaking tomorrow!!
A friend from church is taking me! I think we`re going to Canim Lake. When I worked at Lake of the Trees, someone donated a Kayak, but I had to duct tape part of it and it just went in circles, so I don`t call that Kayaking. I even subscribed to a Kayaking magazine for a while. I wish I trusted myself enough to take my camera with me, but theres no way I`m taking it out with me. Morgan has this saying that goes something like `Courtenay can`t go near water without getting wet`. It`s true. I think I`m like a labrador that`s poorly trained. I just can`t help myself. My goal for tomorrow is to get my feet wet, but nothing else unless everyone gets wet. We`ll see how I do.
Its going to be a long day away from Avery and Emily. I`ve been away from Em before, but I`ve only left Aves for a couple hours at a time. Tomorrow I`ll be gone from 10 til dinner time, so most of the day. I`m sure Daddy and his girls will be just fine. I`m really happy to have a me day.
I used to do alot of crazy things and then I got married and had kids, and now I`m downright boring. A couple weeks ago a friend asked me what my hobbies were. I wan`t to say all my old hobbies: snowboarding, rock climbing, skateboarding(Im banned from skateboarding by MK, but thats another story), Mountain biking and all sorts of other crazy stuff, but I couldn`t say those things since I hadn`t done any of them in forever. So I ended up saying reading and blogging or something. I always said I would love to be one of those crazy skydiving grammas, but who knows, maybe I`ll end up one of those knitting gramas who enjoys bridge. So I`m excited to do one of the kind of fun things I used to do before I became boring.




The good thing is that I like boring. I`ve learned some really cool cooking and baking recipes. I`m learning to sew, so I can make reusable diaper wipes. I love blogging and practicing my writing. Maybe one day I`ll finish my short story. I love reading and getting into a good book. I`m enjoying learning to parent my girls and be a good Mom. I like hanging out with Morgan and a cup of coffee. Sometimes I do miss being spontanious and never going anywhere without my guitar, but I`ve replaced each of the things I loved to do with something that is of greater value. I could snowboard all winter on weekends, but I spend Sunday at church growing closer to the Lord, playing the drums and spending time with church family. I could rock climb all over this beautiful province (I still hope to climb some places), but I`d rather be helping Emily collect cool rocks in the yard. I could mountain bike all over the gorgeous Cariboo, but I`d rather be tickling Aves to get a smile or a coo out of her. I could be wild and crazy, but I think I`d rather be boring.







Amen to all that. Boring rocks.
Leah and Mom say the say thing whenever the subject of Courtenay and water comes up.
I don’t think you’re boring. And you still play drums.
Speaking of NOT being boring … I’m wearing my shirt backwards today. I spilled coffee on the front, but I have a cardigan on over it, so I twisted it around and all is well. Feels like something my friend Courtenay would do.
I too have become boring… And when you just posted that question about hobbies I too did the same thing… I have even considered selling my snowboard..
But for now I am enjoying boring as well. Maybe oneday when our kids are old enough to joy us on our crazy adventures we will resume being crazy and spontanious?
Yeah, I’m hoping to teach Emily and Avery to be fun and crazy when they get older too.
Boring is a state of mind! You are definitely not boring!
Kids just make you slow down a bit. You can eventually be doing lots of the same things with the girls. I hope to do more with my kids one day too. I was definitely not as adventurous as you though, but maybe skiing and snowboarding would work for us, lol. Have a great day!
Boring’s good for me!