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Happy Hokey Pokey Day

Posted by on November 25, 2007 2 Comments

On average I say one dumb thing a week. Morgan might disagree, but I’m talking really dumb not mildly dumb. Sometimes it’s just something thoughtless or something inconsiderate without thinking. Mostly its excruciatingly “Dumb Blond” of me. Today’s was a perfect example. At church Emily had been running around and playing with the other kids and I wasn’t even paying attention when she asked to get picked up. About two minutes later I looked over to Roxy and asked this utterly amazing question “Wheres my kid?” The look of horror that crossed Roxy’s face, plus the look of sheer enjoyment joined together with the pointing finger and this phrase “In your arms” added up for an overall special effect. For the most part I’m not easily embarrassed, but on this one I quickly realized there was no “Just kidding” to be had. I was in on the “dumb dumb” hook line and sinker. Sad moment for humanity. Sad moment because it will go down in history. Note: Roxy pretty much always has to be standing there for me to say something dumb. I think its a rule or something.

Emily’s ocean wonders crib hangey thing is dying. She reaches up to adjust it, but the song it’s singing is going out of tune. Reminds me of a certain Walkman incident in a canoe not to many moons ago. That’s right I said it. Walkman! It’s hard to even describe the sound of batteries dying and a barenaked ladies song playing slower and slower until it finally stops. If you never had a Walkman you missed out on a good many humorous events. I’m going to have to remember to get batteries for the tiny ocean for Em.

I decorated for Christmas!!! I couldn’t handle it anymore. between our Christmas movie fest and the Christmas music I needed to decorate pronto! It was weird to decorate this year with the notion that Emily could reach pretty much anything under 4 feet. I ended up decorating my bathroom and my kitchen more instead. I hung stuff up in the living room though. I did most of it while Emily was having a nap. The fist thing she said when she got up was “OOO Pretty…mine…I hold it….have it…pretty…..mine have it” It was really cute. I have a couple of Christmas bears that I put at her level and a nativity puzzle my Gramma sent that she loves.

Ive been working on a collection of Christmas ornaments that I call my bathroom band. I’m up to six of them already. Every year I look for different ornaments that have instruments with them. It’s cute. They ended up the bathroom band because I ran out of counter space to put them so now they are happy while I brush my teeth. It’s surprisingly hard to find little animals or people that are all Christmas-ey with instruments. My favorite is a moose with a drum and you can put a candle in the drum. Kinda nerdy, but I love Christmas I cant help it. I’m sad that people cant say Merry Christmas anymore. Im going to keep saying it even if nobody else does. Seasons greetings sounds silly. And Happy holidays is supposed to go with Merry Christmas. If you don’t celebrate it then don’t celebrate it. I just don’t think I should have to change my holiday because someone else doesn’t like it. If you celebrate “Happy Hokey Pokey day” then celebrate that, but leave Christmas alone. oops I ranted…Merry Christmas! Happy Hokey Pokey Day!

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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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Your mom goes to college

Posted by on November 14, 2007 Leave a Comment

Emily’s mom goes to college! I jumped the last hoop! No more poodley Courtenay. I start December 1st. Morgan let me get some school supplies at staples yesterday to celebrate. And I found a cool French Vocab list and dictionary there too. So now I am good to go.

Morgan was teaching Emily to sing O Canada this morning. She sang “O Canada, our home and nakey land”. It was so funny. Either that or she sings “O Canada Mommy!!!”. We’ve been teaching her the provinces too. Her best is Manitoba. She like saying “Alberta-ta-ta-ta”. Just like her daddy she turns everything into a song.

Last week Emily was at Nathan and Danielle’s for a couple hours and she learned something mommy probably wouldn’t have taught her until she was older. Danielle let her walk around with their digital camera. She would stop and look at the screen and take a picture and then look for something else to snapshot. Danielle said most of the pictures turned out really well. SOO cool. I want to get her that kids camera you can chuck down stairs without recking it. I think it’d be really cool to see from her perspective what shots she’d take.

We are going on a mission trip to kamloops in a couple weeks. I dug through our toques and hats and jackets and found lots to give away. Next comes my closet. I’m taking pop cans in today and tomorrow Georgia and I and the kidlets are going to go get some sox and mitts and stuff to donate for the trip. I really love when we get to go and help people out. If you live in huncity or near it and you have extra stuff to give away you could let me know and I could even come get it to take to kamloops when we go.

Off I go to the bottle depot. Courtenay the Student!

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MILK

Posted by on November 10, 2007 3 Comments

I took Emily groceries shopping last night. She was being her usual friendly self and saying hello to everyone we came in contact with. It was really cute. I said “Are you being nice, Emily”. So then the very next person down the aisle is a Stock guy with on of those electronic stocking devices. Emily pipes up, in all friendliness “BE NICE”! He was like “Oh..Hi”. It was really funny. She’s been killing us with her comedic timing lately. Her most common one is switching Uncle for Auntie. “Auntie Nathan” is one of her favorites. Or she puts them both together and it becomes “Hunky Nathan”. Nathan doesn’t mind that one as much.

Tonight we met up with some friends to take the kidlets bowling. I was thinking Emily was a bit to young…and I was right. after about 30 seconds of realizing she wasn’t going to get in trouble for throwing the ball she had had enough. She kept saying all done and wandering off. It was pretty cute though. I think she is a better bowler than I am. Ga.

We went to Nathan and Danielle’s for dinner. Yay pizza. AND spinach salad, I might add. AND sweet potato fries too. mmm. Emily favorite meal is pizza. So she enjoyed that. Emily kept calling Nathan “Auntie Santa”. OH and I just remembered. Emily learned to say MILK! no more nuk or nilk. MILK MILK MILK! yay. It was a weird one because she could say lots of other M words, but it always came out with an N. Her R’s are getting alot better too. Still not as good at L, but we are working on it.

We got our picture in the paper again this week. It was for dressing up like pirates for last week . Emily was super cute in her piratey suit. I borrowed this pic from Coco at Walking in the Light.

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Inspiration?

Posted by on November 9, 2007 Leave a Comment

I had no inspiration to blog today. Then I changed the header on my blog and now I have ideas. Weird how that works. The only problem is that Emily is waking up from her nap. A little late, I know, but the stupid time change is still messing up her sleep.

Anyways. We had a great week at the coast. Got to see Leah from Pluckymama and her gorgeous boys. It was a great stop off time for Emily to run around before we had to get back on the road again. Then we hd a great time with the “out-laws”. We took Emily shoe shopping, to which her silly mother was ever so picky. I cant just put any shoe on Em. They have to be thin soled and not to chunky. We found the cutest pair at one of those kiosks in the mall, but the sole was thicker than my shoes. Why do they make kids shoes like that seriously. Robbeez are still the best, but expensive. oh well.

We left the munchkin with her Nanny and headed to Ikea!! It was fun to imagine what our “no expense to high” house could be like. Both of us picked kitchens to get done first. That would be uber cool. Then we went for a walk down to Steveston. It was a really long walk, but so nice just to talk and walk and not worry about the screamer.

The week zipped by and now were are back at home in the grind of things. Next week will hopefully be alot slower. We have been spreading ourselves way to thin and that is going to have to stop if my schooling ever gets figured out. I have another appointment next week to get everything figured out. Tedious process.

The awakening was awesome! I got to throw a stack of records off the bell tower at our church. Don’t tell me that isn’t cool. I think its on film so I’ll try to youtube that asap. The weekend was an awesome time of being challenged and drawing close to Jesus. I think I’m still just trying to process it all.

Well I think skweeker is up. Dinner time here we come!

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Picture Days

Posted by on October 27, 2007 1 Comment

It was a gorgeous day yesterday. So we decided not to waste it. Coco, Danielle, Emily and I walked around Sepa Lake. It was certainly not the best time we’ve ever made because Em insisted she walk most of the lake. I was all nerdy and made Emily wear her halloween costume just to take good pictures. On halloween we are having a party at the church called light up the night. I’m pretty stoked about that. It’s Pirate theme though so Em cant exactly show up as snow white. The good news is that she still fits her Pirate costume from last year so we are good to go. I got some good pictures from yesterday. I’m not sure why, but my computer is corrupting Jpeg’s. Most of my pics get all choppy and messed up. I’m not cool with that. So we’ll have to figure out why. Otherwise all of Ems baby pics are now distorted an funky. grr

Today is just Picture day.

Small White
Small White
Small White 2
Out for a stroll. Watching out for evil old ladies.
Sunshine
At Sepa Lake
Trois Amis
Trois Amis
Epic Jacket
My Epic Jacket

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Psycho. Psycho. Psycho!

Posted by on October 21, 2007 1 Comment

My blog has been getting neglected lately. Between a toddler, Facebook and learning French I’ve been a bad blogger. I got so mad at my computer that I stopped even using it for a bit. So now I feel like I have oodles to write and nothing at all at the same time. grr.

*Finally remembered the stupid bathtub plug! About time!*

I’ve been Quasimodo for the last 3 days. It’s been kinda funny.  I woke up on Friday unable to move my neck. It happened last Christmas for a few days too. Remember, Leah? It sucked so bad. I didn’t wait to see if it would just get better though this time. I downed the limit of Back pills and smelled mentholated  all day from a patch. I stood in hot water until my feet looked like lobsters. Finally by today I am mostly back to normal. My firsts night sleep was awful. I wish I new why my neck did that. Its not like when I sleep on it funny. That feels bad, but way different.  I look like a gibble. Which is a perfectly acceptable word to use thank you very much Morgan!

I making a roast beef for dinner tomorrow night. I’m all excited because I haven’t had roast beef for several months. I really like it. Crock pot style. Easy and Tasty. Morgan thinks all my crock pot meals taste the same, but I can’t complain. They are still better than eating toast for dinner.

Emily keeps dropping “F” bombs. I’m not sure what she is trying to say. Maybe fork or frog. I don’t know. Maybe she listens a little to closely to my neighbors when they get a little crazy.  She also told her baby sitter “My daddy’s a psycho! Psycho. Psycho. Psycho! ” Awesome hey. I guess I must say psycho. But she did learn like 5 new songs this week. and all of them old church songs I sang in Sunday school. Like “Jesus loves the little children” and “Rise and Shine and Give God the Glory” and “He’s got the whole world in his hands”. Her favorite is  “This little light of mine”.

I should go to bed. I have a couple of extra kids to look after tomorrow. Should be pretty interesting. or crazy. Whichever comes first. I can’t remember when they are coming, but I’m sure I’ll be sleepy. haha. Maybe I’ll work on my French for a bit then sleepy time.

Je ne suis pas grosse. Je suis mince. Wishful thinking!

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Never wake and eeeping baby.

Posted by on October 20, 2007 1 Comment

Emily has been getting up so much earlier this week. Mostly our fault, but I’m trying to fix it all the same. She is currently, as Morgan and I call it, “Eeeping” in her crib. I’m hoping she will go back to sleep for a bit or just play a bit longer. Now she is saying “all done”. She is so silly when she first wakes up.

*still haven’t remembered to buy the stinking tub plug. Gaaa.*

Still no stupid picture software. Im looking for a not-pirated program. Sometimes the things God calls you to do are hard. I’m trying to think long term here.  So here we go. Saying it out loud. I am not a Pirate anymore. ok! well I am a pirate for pretend still. All ninjas get keelhauled! But no more music pirate.  Calling sin “Sin” isn’t easy at all, but I want to look more like Jesus. Without the beard and tunics aren’t the right cut for my body type. So characteristics it it.

I had this really randomly awesome dream last night. I was in a reality TV show. One like America’s Next Top Model. Even the thought is funny. I knew I was going to win to because I found this black dress that was really “classy”. I cant even describe its “Not- classyness” I guess it was in league with lots of the other girls. We were about to go on stage and I noticed my dress was on backwards. So I didn’t panic I just turned it around and walked out on stage.  There was more about a bad guy coming, but I don’t remember all that well. I guess it was “Miss Congeniality-esque”So funny. Me…on a reality beauty contest show. hahahahahaha.

Well I think that’s all Im going to get to for now. Em needs to get up. I’ll be back soon with another cartoon.

love you!

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Computer Smart Smart!

Posted by on October 6, 2007 3 Comments

Hello everybody. This is me writing from me new computer!I took a week for the old one to finally die and then only a day to get the new one, but another week to finish setting this one up. So now we are good to go. I think I’m going through Blogdrol. Not being able to blog if I want to is strange.

Emily is waking up. I have like 10 more minutes, so I’d better type fast. In her crib she is saying Tapioca, hi bunny. and singing “Down by the Bay”. We only just taught her a couple of days ago and now she wants me to sing it all day long. ahhh. between that and reading “Whats wrong little pookie” I think I’m getting a repetitive strain brain disorder. haha.

I went for my second interview with the school funding program yesterday. It went really well. I have a few more things to figure out and then I can send in that application. I’m actually applying to the school now, but I cant find my stupid transcript. So now I have to wait until after the long weekend and then order one. I hope it comes fast. I don’t even need the paper copy, I just need to know my final grade twelve grades.

*Em is saying “hangerber” “Mommy up”. So Ill finish the rest of this later.

ok the morning wraps up with only one time out and a few kisses it betters. Tooth seven is finally in. It’s about time. last week was probably one of the worst weeks ever with Emily. She hurt so bad that she just freaked out all day. Morgan was working afternoons so The evil evenings were done solo or with a friend over. I apologize to a couple of different friends who endured that. Screaming and hitting are getting really old.  I keep telling myself I’d rather my 18 month old hit and scream than my four year old. I’m glad this batch of teething is over for a bit. I really couldn’t take much more of that. Although it is cute when Emily hits and says “sorry mommy no hit time out” and puts herself in timeout.

We are having our thanksgiving dinner tonight. Im in charge of mashed potatoes and brussel sprouts! I have oodles of potatoes, but the brussels are harder to find. I think Em and I will have to go for a walk and see if we cant russel up some better ones. Save on had the smallest ones I’ve ever seen. Ever! I bought them anyways because We just cant do Thanksgiving without them. Em can say “happy giving” or “Happy Thanks”, but not the whole thing. We are working on it. Morgan is already trying to teach em to say “Merry Christmas”. She has “Happy New Year” down already thanks to Nanny and Grandpa.

I mashing I will go. A mashing I will go. High ho the dairy oh, a mashing I will go!!

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Computer dumb dumb

Posted by on October 2, 2007 Leave a Comment

I’m not particularly interested in blogging tonight. Working on my computer is turning out to be dumb. The video card stopped working, so picture trying to used the computer with drunk goggles on. Not impossible, but you don’t feel well afterwards. So today Morgan figured out how to use some program with our laptop which is next to obsolete, to make the extra monitor work through the laptop, on to the internet and log on to our computer. That long evil sentence to say that this is slow and annoying and I have to use a new keyboard and well actually I’m enjoying blogging.

My day was LONG! Emily has been teething this week. I think tooth 7 is just about through. The last two days have made me seriously consider taking out a don’t want ad in the paper. “Toddler. Free to a medium good home. o.b.o” Cause thats what she’s being medium good or best offer! She make her momma crazy.

I’ll admit it. I have an addiction. Smile Cookies are at Tim Hortons right now. WOW those are good. I currently don’t feel well from eating 1 too many. That makes the total 3. They’re big ok. come on Court…look away from the bag. don’t do it. you can beat this thing. Im not going to bed anytime soon, so we’ll see.

I have officially finished my first application to school. It only took me a week. I phoned in to make my next appointment with the counselor as instructed. I think the lady at the front desk remembered me cause she said”You finished it already”? I was like. “Um…yes.” I figured a week was average time not speedy gonzolas time. I mean I want to go to school so you’d think I’d want to take a short amount of time filling in the blanks on an application. I just lucked out with my interviews. I got a hold of everyone right away and they were really helpful. Anyway, I have an appointment on Friday. I’m hoping that will go well and I can move on to the next step in this process. I’m so excited already I can’t wait to start.

I made super duper awesome cheese in burgers. I love making burgers from scratch. They taste so much better and I know whats in them too. Nothing like having the cheese built right into your burger. Or as Emily would say:”Hangerber. yummy”.

Well I don’t think I have any pictures on the laptop so no looking looking today. Maybe when the vidcard shows up from Ebay. AHHH. I’m already lost without my CPU.

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