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Posted by on January 19, 2008 3 Comments

I’m done for the day! What a crazy day. I’m not sure which is harder studying all day or trying to keep Emily busy and out of trouble. She’s getting mischievous. Little turkey grins at me and grabs whatever it is I didn’t want her to grab. So here is today’s moment of utter madness:

I run upstairs to punch some holes in this weeks recipes from Saving dinner. Then from downstairs I hear “Come downstairs Mom”. I head for the stairs and look down to find a completely nude toddler. She says to me “I go potty”. I’m like “ok we’ll go potty. Hope she didn’t pee on the floor”. Thats when I see them. Turds!!! Everywhere!!! AND one of them got stepped in and smooshed into the carped, and is now presumably being walked all over the living room on a size 5 foot. I guess I took to long coming back. So I took Em to the potty and cleaned her all up and shoved her in her high chair with some crayons while I dealt with…eww. Sooo anyways I shampooed the carpet today. Another step ahead of the Flylady routine. haha. I was only supposed to shine my sink, but I got all crazy and shampooed the carpet. Even though it was necessary I still count it as a point.

I hate potty training. Actually Em is really good at it already. She’s only pooped twice, but if I’m home all day she will only pee in the potty. It’s harder when she’s at a babysitters or something. She is too afraid to miss something, so she wont go. I bought her a potty book today. She loves that. And we got her Dora fruit snacks. Those are her candy treat. She’s never even seen Dora, but for some reason she is in love with her. Its weird. I’m not even sure she’ll ever get to watch Dora, but I’m ok with milking the “Dora” aspect of the treats for potty training. I figure she must have seen it once at someone else’s house or something. I cant even figure out how she knows who Dora is. She calls her Doy-ra.

I rocked the drums last night! I played with my Dads high school guitar class for their concert. It was like three hours. It was so much fun. I was so impressed with how good some of those punks are getting. When my high school guitar class played anything they only picked notes on nylon string guitars and pretty much just played Louie Louie. These kids were awesome. I was a bit nervous because most of the songs I had never even heard except yesterday when I looked them up on Youtube. I hadn’t played any of them before. The drums for Kryptonite by Three Doors Down is pretty tough to just go on stage and play for your first time, but It went pretty good. I kept losing my monitor, which was frustrating, but still ok. I have the theme song from Grey’s Anatomy stuck in my head. They did such an awesome job of it. We even played on song I had never heard before. It’s easier to do that with church songs than regular rock, but I’m glad it worked out good. I wore Roxy’s big Flying V earrings just for dramatic effect. I’m trying to get the video off my camera, but the last time I did it crashed my computer, so we’ll see how it goes.

Ok so seriously awesome movie…Stardust! I loved it. I think I can safely compare it to the league of such greats as Princess Bride and The emperors new groove. It ruled. If you haven’t seen it, you should. It’s a classic. I’m going to buy it next chance I get, otherwise It’ll cost me a small fortune renting it over and over and over. Its the story of a Young man who heads across a wall into another world to search for a fallen star to bring back a piece for the girl he loves. His journey is amazing. He runs into what’s left of 7 princes also seeing the star. Witches, Pirates, and even a goat turned into a man. How could that not be awesome. I want to tell you the whole story, but I don’t want to ruin it for you. And for the record: Robert De Niro is my hero!

Stardust

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Je t'aime cafe

Posted by on November 21, 2007 4 Comments

I didn’t mean to but I guess I took another blog holiday. Last week was pretty busy.

Emily is cutting all 4 molars this week. Ahh. I was trying to figure out why she had been such a whiner last week and now I have my answer. Roxy is cutting her wisdom teeth too so her and M can be whiny together. M was up for almost an hour today before we put her back down. She was so tired and drooly and unruly and whiny and make-your-momma-crazy!
So now I’m back to enjoying my quite morning and my slightly cold coffee.

I wore my bangs down again yesterday. Now that totals 2 times since I got them forever ago. I think they are finally long enough that I can have the pretty, swoopy sideways, bangs instead of the emo short, stick out of my head, bangs that remind me way to much of my mushroom cut from 1992. It’s almost enough to give me flashbacks.

We finally remembered to pick up m our camera from the church. Its been there for several weeks, so no new pictures for right now. It’s so stinking cold out right now too so playing with M outside is not likely to happen. I’m hoping to take some pictures this week. M is changing so fast I have to keep up with my pictures as they soon become outdated.

I had my third French Class last night. It was really fun. We played a guys against girls quiz game. Out team was called “Les Singe mauves et grosses”. It means “The purple fat monkeys”. So we have a limited vocab to make a name up from ok. Our motto was “Je t’aime cafe”. “I love you coffee!”. I messed that up once and now I cant say it any other way.

I did good at my French, but the part I had a problem with was spelling an English word with French Letters. Seriously I spelled “Wednesday” WRONG! Who does that after grade three. I didn’t say the French letters wrong, I actually spelled the word wrong. I can spell pretty well if I can write it down first, but nope. Straight out of my head onto the board. Coco wrote down what I spelled. “W E N oops”. Cause thats what I said. It was pretty funny. So there you go Roxy. Just one more reason you can bug me about my spelling.

I’ve been saving money for Friday. It’s Midnight madness. I’m hoping to get some Christmas shopping done. At least stocking stuffers and stuff. Probably some stuff for Emily too. Ooh I need to get a paper today. It will have all the sale times and stuff. Ain’t nothing like a good sale.

Danielle and Coco and I are having a Christmas movie Marathon. We’ve been watching classic Christmas movies and the new ones too. I was going to put them up, but I think they will be tomorrows Thu13.

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Mr. Mosby and My Sin.

Posted by on October 13, 2007 1 Comment

We went out for a walk the other night. Emily was teething again and we needed to try and keep her up a bit longer without losing sanity. The fog had rolled in and the streetlight cast this warm glow all over town. It was quite picturesque really. When we first opened the door of our townhouse and pushed out the stroller, there, waiting for us was a kitty. He was definitely pretty young. Black, with a white belly and white gotee.Or whatever a cat chin beard is called. haha. We started walking and the kitty followed us.  We thought it was pretty cute, but we were pretty sure he’d stop when we got to the edge of the the townhouse driveway. Nope. We had a little friend for our entire walk. After about a block we decided our kitty needed a name. We decided on Theodore Mosby. Named after the great Ted from How I Met Your Mother. And then in short order started just calling him Mosby. Now, Mosby wasnt your tipical cat. He walked right beside us, ran ahead a little to see what he could see and ran back. He would run up to a tree and crouch way down as if to jump up into it and the turn and keep walking with us as if to say ” I could climb that tree, but I won’t. I’d rather walk with you guys”. When we walked passed BJ’s Donuts Mosby jumped all the little chains in the walk way. Kindof like a little trained poodle. 

Several times on our walk different people would walk by us and Mosby would stop to say hello. “Come on Mosby” I’d say. “How cute. Is that you cat?”. I’d just smile and laugh and say “Come on Mosby”.  Because afterall…He’s not our cat. Mosby followed us all the way across town, which is not actually that far all things considered, but he still walked a long ways. As we walked up our driveway and walked passed the first block Mosby stoped and sat there watching us walk on as if to say “That was fun guys, we should do lunch next week. Your place”.

Thus ends my crazy story about a cat. As for the rest of my week, its been rather busy. I had another meeting with my Schooling Lady. I had to fill out the last forms before they got sent away. This is my favorite part.

Lady “I need to get you to sign these forms”
Me “Sure”
Lady “This one is so I can share your information and your sin”
Me “Uh…what??”
Me after a minute of looking really stooopid as I figure out she means Social Security Number. ”Oh. ok. Sure”

Well sorry if I hadnt ever had anyone ask if they could tell other people my sin. I think they’re going to need a really big list, thats for sure. haha. I think sometimes we should sign wavers like that. Maybe I’d be more aware of what I say and do if I knew someone was keeping a big list to tell other people. I mean, I know God knows all of it, but for some reason I think it would be harder for me if everyone else did. It should be the other way around. We’ve been reading alot lately in Mark about how Jesus Called Sin “Sin”. He didnt excuse it or Sugar coat it. But He also didnt just let it go he delt with it.  I want my eyes to see just a bit more clearly. I miss so many things just because I’ve sugar coated them. grrr.

Then last night we went to Williams Lake with all the youth. We had a worship night at EFC that was awesome. I even got to paint. Then afterwards we went to the pool. It was called a Dive-In Theatre. Evan Almighty played on the big screen. We watched for a few minutes, but its hard to watch in the pool so we just swam. Coco and Shelby and I had super awsome fun jumping of the diving board and playing with Jakes underwater camera. Ill get those pics soon. They are funny. I either look like I’m 400 pounds or just like Im drowning. It was a fun night.

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Mul-ti-pass

Posted by on September 2, 2007 1 Comment

“Time not important. Only life important.”- Mondoshawan. A lovely little tidbit from the Fifth Element. A favorite movie of mine. My Week Month … LIFE is crazy. I feel like I fight and fight for more time to get things done. When I do have time nothing gets done, but when I don’t have time I NEED to get things done. The things I want to do, I don’t. The things I don’t want to do, thats what I end up doing. Whoa Romans 7 Moment. But it’s true. I get caught up in the everyday things and leave the big picture in pieces. Its an everyday struggle to just be. Always doing, doing, doing. Wanting to be, be, be.

I want to play my guitar and paint and take pictures and play with Emily and finish reading my book, and finish writing my book, and design something, and practice my German. And cook, and highlight stuff(geek I know), and draw, and write songs, and memorize scripture, and write a children’s book, and exercise consistently, and have time to plan youth thing. I just needed to remind myself that I want to do those things.

Sometimes I get carried away and don’t do any of those things. I forget I even like to. I’m back to being the all all or nothing girl again. If I cant paint a Rembrandt I think I’ll paint nothing. If I cant write a song in 10 minutes I think Ill just skip it all together. I get my point. haha. I just needed to write this down.

Don’t worry I’ll tell Emily’s poop story tomorrow. It’s a gooder. Heres another Fifth Element Tidbit. If you dont get it go watch it.

Leeloo: Leeloo Dallas mul-ti-pass.
Korben Dallas: Yeah.
Leeloo: Mul-ti-pass.
Korben Dallas: Yeah, multipass, she knows it’s a multipass. Leeloo Dallas. This is my wife.
Leeloo: Mul-ti-pass.
Korben Dallas: We’re newlyweds. Just met. You know how it is. We bumped into each other, sparks happen…
Leeloo: Mul-ti-pass.
Korben Dallas: Yes, she knows it’s a multipass. Anyway, we’re in love.

Mondoshawan
The Mondoshawan.

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Emily and the Winner

Posted by on August 14, 2007 1 Comment

Sooo tired. Caaan’t sleep. grr. I should be napping right now while Emily is sleeping, but I cant. I just stared at my ceiling for a while then gave up. We went to a friends house for a campfire last night and stayed up too late, but that was ok. Then when I got home I couldn’t fall asleep. I think I dozed off at like 4:30 or something. At least the campfire was super relaxing. The last couple of weeks have been go go go go, so it was nice to just chill out and enjoy the night. Yay hooray for being able to get a babysitter last minute.

So I go in to wake Emily up this morning because she is going to go with me to staff meeting. Bye the time I got there she was already awake. Standing there in her crib with NO clothes on. Diaper gonzo! not good not good! panic! This is gonna be gross. I guess this was just a warning for next time. No messes to clean up. YAY! She must have only taken the diapey off in the few minutes before I got her or we would have had issues. I thought she had managed to get all her clothes off, but I guess the sitter put her down in just a diaper cause there wasn’t a sleeper to be found. Whew. Takes me back. Apparently my parents called me Houdini baby and had to pin my sleepers on backwards to keep me in them. Please no baby finger painting! NOOOO!

We went to the garlic festival on the weekend. It was pretty fun. Morgan cached in one of his triple dog dares to get me to eat a spicy clove of garlic. It was ok at first cause I like garlic, but after a sec my mouth was on fire!!!! Then I didn’t feel so good. My stomach was like “You jerk!”. so We went to another concession and got some delicious ribbettes and a big bottle of water for me to down. I think I probably still smell like garlic 2 days later. healthy though. I tried a garlic Jelly Bean. It was good. Maybe not my snack of choice, but good none the less.

We took Emily to see the Llamas. LLAMA FACE!!(sorry couldn’t help myself – Emperors new groove – See it!) She loves them. There was this “winner” standing out side the petting cage smoking with serious 80′s Ray bans. I was talking to the petting zoo guy about the pictures they offer. I said “could she get her picture taken with a sheep or something”. About then the “winner” pipes up.”Thats a llama!”. I was like “um duh. I meant the sheep over there. The one that looks like a sheep”. Ok I didn’t say that, but I wanted too. I wanted to be like”Actually it’s an alpaca, Mr. Winner”.

He then gets his little girl who is about 4 or 5 to come out and they walk away with him blowing smoke all around her. I cant really handle that. They know stuff now that they didn’t years ago. Nobody thought second hand smoke was bad before, but it IS! I so wanted to be like “Um Mr. Winner. Your damaging your daughters lungs and I hope she sues you when she gets older!”. Sorry. I just get frustrated by people whose habits effect kids. Its dumb. It should be considered child abuse to smoke in your car with the windows up and kids or babies in the car. It would be if you put any other kind of smoke or gas in there for them to breathe. Done ranting. Sorry

Heres a couple of pictures of Em and the Alpaca/sheep/llama/elephant.

llama
Melissa and Holly with Me and Emmy.
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Emily and Holly.

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TMNT

Posted by on August 2, 2007 Leave a Comment

TMNT
Took me back a couple of years. Roxy and I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles last night. The new one. Being as I was obsessive about it for many a year as a small girl. The funny thing is that I thought that I probably wouldn’t like it anymore…wrong. Ok so once a geek always a geek.

b&G
Speaking of Geek. We only have one episode left of the rerun 05 Beauty and the Geek. Its been fun watching the “Social experiment”. We were right ticked tho because the first season it reran didn’t air the final episode. I skipped it and ran the aftermath one. NOT cool. So we knew who won, but not why they did…stupid station. We checked to make sure this one was going to have an ending. We wouldn’t have watched it otherwise.

Em has been the nap queen for the last couple of days. I think she is teething really badly. She has been awake for like an hour before wanting to go back to sleep. Then she naps for like 4 hours and gets up all grumpy still. She went to bed without 1 tear last night. Not even an eep. She rolled over onto her tummy, stuck her butt in the air and closed her eyes. She was so tired I guess, but she wasn’t even grumpy. It was so nice for a change. She normally goes down fine, but cries or complains for a minute or two.

I’m trying to psych myself into cleaning mode. I did a bunch on the office this morning, but I still really want to get the basement done. The office is easier to do because its just trying to get stuff sorted out and then put it away. The basement is …well scary. I’m hoping I’ll have more time next week because Morgan is on mornings and will be home more. YAY!

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I put the "Bad" in Badminton.

Posted by on July 20, 2007 1 Comment

The internet has a hole. I’m serious. Lets take this back a ways. This whole thing started when my sister got her hair cut into a Mullet. For those of you not familiar with the mullet check out this page. Especially the unfortunullett. Anyways… I digress. back to my sisters mullet. There are no good pictures or even songs to describe my sisters mullet. Luckily it isn’t an unfortunullet because she know she has it and is trying to think of a good way to deal with that. ok so this is where the hole comes in. The only way to describe Roxy’s mullet is to call her Linda from the wedding singer. If you haven’t seen The Wedding Singer you have other problems, but Linda has a serious 80′s mullet. Do you think we can find a picture of Linda anywhere???NO!!! what? There is actually something missing on the internet. What if I was 12 and doing my home work and I asked jeeves what Linda’s mullet looked like. Jeeves would probably freak out and all the planes in the world would crash or something. Someone needs to fix this hole and Roxy’s mullet ASAP or the very world could implode. P.S. “Roxy get out of my Van Halen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up!”

As for my daughters cuteness factor… She’s 15 months now and chatty like a choo choo. Her favy thing to say right now is “Rock-a-bye-Be”. So she misses it a bit, its still sooo cute. She grabs her doll and rocks it back and forth. Everything is a baby to her. Its the most common word she uses. “bye bye baby ducky” “bye baby daddy”"baby baby up rock baby daddy”. You get the picture. Morgan taught her to go “ho ha he ha ho” when he says “What does Yoko Ono say? So I taught her to go “uh huh” and put her lip up when I say “What does Elvis say?”. Some times she gets them all confused and when we ask her what daddy says she does Elvis or Yoko. She makes me laugh so hard.

She is just waking up right now. Singing and chatting to herself. She has been teething so badly. We have had several days of endless screaming. Nothing helps. Not Tylenol, not the ice cube in the cloth trick, not gin, nothing. You can even see her teeth. They are so close to the surface. It looks like she has rice stuck to her gums. Man teething would hurt. I am so sick of it and Em only has 2 teeth. grr. Today she was eating peas, but she kept saying poop. She gets things mixed up. haha.

Morgans shift changed this week. His weekends got cut so he started working regular week. It sucks. We are used to having daddy home so much more. Its a big change for us and its only been a few days. Last summer we traveled for 6 weeks. We didnt realize how awesome that was until now. Although it is nice to be in our own house for more than 2 days in a row. We are really hoping to make it out to the lake for a few weekends in August. We were just out there with Nathan and Danielle. We had such a fun time. It was so relaxing. Only the second time We’ve brought friends out to the lake with us. We were stoked that their schedule matched up enough with ours that they could come.

I think she’s up now. Dinner time.

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Emily loves her Pasta
Nate and Danielle
Nathan and Danielle at the Falls.
Backpack
Daddy carrying Emily

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Better than Pirates 3!

Posted by on July 4, 2007 Leave a Comment

We went to the late show at Silver City last night. I wanted to se rattatouille  and Morgan wanted to see Die Hard. So what did we see. Yep thats right Die Hard. Maybe I’m a sissy and like kid show I dont know. I just dont like killing movies. Im such a wimp. I wont watch C.S.I. or any of those shows with morgan. Im just not into them. But I am into Live Free or Die Hard. It was stinkin awesome. When violence is totalloy fake and the explosions are awesome and Bruce Willis humour, all the planets align to make one super movie. And the young kid thats in it is so funny too. Haveing been somewhat blah about Pirates 3 I was very stoked to watch such a fun action movie. Its like True Lies meets 007 meets 5th Element meets Italian Job meets Enemy of the state meets…well alot of other good movies. Def Def not for kids. The language was rough, but otherwise I give it a good review. Our favy line is from right at the begining when John (cop)goes to pick up the kid(hacker) and he asks if he is Matthew and the kid says no. Then his neighbour walks up and says “hey Matt wanna watch this with us” and Matt says “no thanks, but good luck at the bad timing awards.” Maybe hard to get outside of the show, but totally cracked us up. Good plot, good twists, good action, good blowey uppy parts, good one-liners, good good Movie. Haha

Today we went out to Surrey to meet our friend Karyn for lunch at Whitespot. Emily proceeded to eat half a crayon and throw chicken at passersby while smiling at them and saying hi. It was cute. We cam back to Richmond to drop off Em and are headed back out and to Langley to meet our Cousins for Dinnah. Lots of driving, but its oh-so-nice to drop off the kidlet and be out past turn-into-a-grumpy-pumpkin hour. So we are killing time until Larry gets home and Em can stay here. I think she’s waking up so Id better go.

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Teeth are Mean

Posted by on June 27, 2007 2 Comments

Ahhh I hate teething. Emily’s top 2 teeth are finally coming through. I thought they broke through yesterday, but alas not quite. I can see them both now though. We had a rotten day yesterday. First she got up stupid early and wanted to play and scream at the same time. Then at nap time she wouldnt sleep at all. She just screamed for like 3-4 hours. I just held her in the dark in her room(yes she has her own room at Grandpa and Nanny’s house…silly huh?). It was painful. It was better because she went to bed early and Morgan and I went to the theatre.

We saw Pirates 3. My review is still undecided at this point. I think I liked it, but I’m not sure. It was a fair bit darker and less plucky comic relief than normal. It’s the silliness that I like. Well that and the swash buckling. There were a couple parts that got kinda creepy for my taste. AND it was really long. They had tons of story to tell in the small amount of time. I liked it over all I think. I guess I’m a bit of a purist when it comes to pirates. Swordfighting, treasure, sailing, batten down the hatches, hoist the mainsail…that kind of stuff. Too much CGI kind of gets on my nerves. I think thats why I like to read so much. My mind can do a way better job of making mythical or weird creatures look better. My mind has special effects built in. haha. So yes I liked it.

Whelp we are going out for lunch without my darling toddler so that will be super. Nanny is going to watch her while Morgan and I run a few arrends and get some lunch. Wish me luck in conning Morgan into Gelato!!!mmm I can taste it now.

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London Frosts

Posted by on May 26, 2007 1 Comment

Emily had her first skinned knee today. I’ve been letting her walk about more when we are out and having her hold my hand. Today she tripped and skinned her knee. I was almost nothing and she didn’t even whine, but I felt bad for her. My shiner from the other day didn’t turn into anything. YAY! I was a bit worried I’d look like a battered wife. Since its all about the appearance anyways…haha.

We went to a wedding today. Em was a little rotter. She did great when we went out for lunch, but come wedding time, no such luck. We sat in the nursery while she whined and whined. Then we brought her home and she collapsed into bed. Poor tuckered out little goose. I’m feeling much the same today. I think we are going to try and get a babysitter and take the night off. Morgan and I have been just missing each other for the past week. We haven’t really got a chance to talk since before I left for Avalanche. So I’m looking forward to a night off.

I’m almost finished this movie I’m making for church tomorrow. Its pretty simple, but its the first movie Ive ever made in Premiere. I watched and helped Leesh make 2 movies and now I’m trying this one by myself. It has a couple of glitches, but Leesh is here right now so she can help me out if I get really stuck. Anyways. I need to go chill out. Maybe Ill go get myself a London Frost. MMM. Yeah thats what I want to do!

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