Pirate Party and a Dedication

It was like the twelve days of Christmas at our house for the past couple of days. Emily got spoiled rotten. It was such a beautiful day today too. I made it through my preach and the youth service and Emily’s dedication and we just had a great time. I doubt there will be many weekends as packed and wonderful as this weekend. I feel like I’m all glowey inside.

I got home this afternoon and Emily and I both had 2 hr naps. Just a couple of very exhausted girls. After Em got up we went for a walk around town with Gamgee-doggie and with Emily in her new MEC backpack. It was so great. the other backpack we had borrowed wasn’t very good and Emily always shifted her weight around funny so this one is such a great change.

I’m currently enjoying some spinach dip and waiting for Emily to fall asleep and then I’m going to read and go to bed. I finished book 5 of my series last night so I’m kinda excited to start book 6. The series is called The Russians. Its cool because I studied Russia in history class, but this puts a good perspective on turn of the century Russia. Yesterday I heard on the news that there have been political protests in Russia and it made more sense to me than normal. It was cool until I found out uncle Greg got arrested just for being at one of the protests. Well ok I doubt he’s my uncle, but his last name is kasperov. cool huh. He is a world famous chess player. Oh good she fell asleep.
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Problems with Balance.

I’m sure glad I’m not an easily embarrassed sort of girl. If I was I would have died when Emily stuck her finger up her nose and pulled out a big booger at the dinner table while loads of my friends watched. I guess its really helpful that she’s so stinkin cute. For the next little while we are working on getting rid of her crutches. Starting with her gro-bag (baby sleeping bag). Its going to be to hot in the summer so I want her to be used to sleeping with out it. It used to make it so she couldn’t stand up, but now nothing stops her from that. Tonight I put her to bed with out it. We had some tears, but I think it only took a little bit to get her to sleep. Next we are working on her suckey. She doesn’t wear it during the day and soon we will try to get her to nap without it. I don’t want her to be a toddler with a soother. I think it looks silly for older kids to have them. I figure the sooner we can get rid of it the easier it will be for Emily to change.

Im running into this balancing act problem. Tight rope walker I ain’t. I’ve discovered that its next to impossible to balance all three of my goals and life at the same time. It seems I’m great at one goal at a time. When I’m getting healthy I’m the healthy Nazi and when I’m organizing I’m the organizing Nazi and when I’m growing with Jesus I’m the God Time Nazi(if you can even say that). I haven’t discovered how to make my goals balance. I was talking to Morgan about this last night while I was oh-so-frustrated with myself. He figures there has to be a balance too. You cant have a thriving youth ministry, but die ten years before you are supposed to because you don’t take care of yourself. Well you shouldn’t anyways. It doesn’t make sense to do that. I’m not sure how to find balance, but I intend to. Looks like I’m in for some good old internet research.

MC Morgan

Shes at the 30…the 40..and she’s still running!

Today is a super day because I have officially lost 40 lbs since Christmas!! I’m pretty happy about that. Ok no I stoked to the roof. I went to curves today and I wasn’t particularly excited to work out, but once I stepped on the scale I got all excited and worked really hard. Only 14 pounds to go until shopping day. Thats gonna be so fun.
I think Emily is growing again. She always gets so sleepy when she’s growing. Normally her morning nap is only an hour, but today she’s slept for almost 3. Yesterday she had a really long nap too. I like it when she has long naps because she’s always in such a good mood and I get a lot of stuff done. Like blogging.
I am almost all the way through sorting my little kid boxes. Morgan and I sorted them all out yesterday afternoon. We managed to get rid of a lot of silly things and garbage. I find that if you keep something for enough years, even if it is garbage, it becomes sentimental. Like I really need the paper bag I got from the CN tower in grade 10. “Keep the memory, not the clutter”. Maybe I’ve been watching to much mission organization. I think Im going to put together a mini scrap book for each of our trunks. That way special papers and pictures and things can be remembered without just being a pile of misc paper in a box. I keep adding to the list of de-cluttering rules in our house. Here’s what I have so far:
1.No cardboard boxes allowed!
2.Keep the Memory, not the clutter.
3.If you haven’t seen it/used it in the last 2 years is gonzo.
4.If its not mine or yours, whose is it?
5.throw out that, it’s crappy!!
It’s a start anyways. Oh yeah. I found my foreign currency too!! Yay.

*Insert Old Man Noise Here*

As my tiny tot falls deep into dreamland…I type. I’m still feeling rather ill today. It’s pretty much the best thing ever to not be pregnant when you are sick. You can even take herbal things to make you feel better. “They”(whoever “they” are) don’t even recommend taking echinacea while pregnant. So yay me, I’m all drugged up and happy as a clam.
We are still going great guns on the get organized side of things. Ive been overhaulin’ the kitchen and Morgan has been working more on the basement. Today we moved our couches around yet again. The T.V. is going downstairs finally! Ive been wanting to do that for even. I think that if a living room is not centered around the T.V. the whole family will feel more productive. Plus the more I read on childhood obesity the more I care about healthy habits all the way from sleeping and eating to daytime activities. I’m not completely against watching T.V., but I do want it to be something special not the norm in everyday life. I have never wanted to be one of those stay at home “Oprah/Soaps/lame daytime T.V.” Moms. I think that watching a movie or something we’ve Tivo’d is ok, but just surfing because its there is a bad idea. Health Habits make for a Healthy Family. I should submit an article on this to Health and Sanity. Maybe, Just maybe, they would agree with the overall rising in Childhood obesity running a three legged race with the rise in T.V./internet time for kids.
I think I’m starting to sound old.” *insert old man noise* Why when I was your age we played outside with sticks, and we liked it”.

Quarteney the Sushi Chef

Sushi chef sushi chef shushey sheff. Cant say that more than once. Today I slaved away making Sushi. We had our Church annual general meeting. The potluck was an oriental theme. So I made Dynamite rolls and cucumber rolls. I leaned a few cool things too. The problem I’d been having was that I was using too much rice. And if I clean my knife after every cut, although tedious, the cuts are clean and oh so professional looking. I even put out the pickled ginger in the middle of my tray. It looked so great. Even my Korean friend liked my sushi. Everyone liked it, well except my parents. I thought I was picky. They are food chickens. I even had a bite of egg last week. Basically there isn’t anything I wont eat. I still choose to not eat egg, but otherwise I am super brave trying new foods.
For the last couple of weeks we’ve been trying to get Emily into a bedtime routine. She sleeps really good, but we want it to feel the same for her to go down. So after a bottle I brush her teeth (all two of them), Then I change her nappy, then we dim the lights and read her a book, then we put her in bed, pray with her,give her a massive big kiss, she watches her mobile and falls asleep. The last two nights have been really funny brushing her teeth. Emily loves to brush her teeth. I didn’t teach her, but we brush for a minute and then she spits out the toothpaste all over everything. Its so funny. Minus getting spit at.
Tomorrow I’m off to Vernon. We are going to see my grandparents. We haven’t seen them in quite a while. I’m really looking forward to going. I am secretly hoping to go to Welk mart. Welk mart is the best store in the world. Its like a cheap junk store thats so fun. Once while I was in College my grandparents took me there and said I could fill a basket and they would pay for whatever was in it. I filled that red basket of joy clear overflowing and it only cost them $20. So cool.