It's Friday it's Friday, YAY! it's Friday Fill-ins

Good morning, yep I'm in a great mood today. I woke up at 8am buttttttt I got to go to sleep. So now I've worked all summer to get the boys to learn to sleep in and now in less the 2wks, we'll have to get up at 635am. If you're in the neighbourhood, just ignore the repeated demands for children to get out of bed, get their breakfast eaten, get dressed, wash their hands, and faces and brush teeth, and leave the cat alone and get out there to that bus cause mommy wants to go back to bed. :) uh just saying... WOW! I can't believe how fast summer is gone. Sorry I haven't been posting much this week, been trying to keep up on the kids. One of my goals was to get AJ to drive a 2wheeler. I think last night I may have hit some genius. Our neighbours were home for a bit before taking off for more vacationing and so the older boys were doing rides around the block. AJ wanted to go too, at first I said "no" thinking he wont keep up with this tiny bike and training wheels(it's set up for MJ now) but off he went! they waited for him a bit and really for Brother's at the end of summer? that's pretty good. Ok so for all of you waiting for Friday Fill-ins.

And...here we go!

1. He was a ___trying very hard to keep up and really did a great job. I'm proud of his efforts. maybe he'll want to go enough and some bigger kid peer pressure will help out and he'll drive soon__.

2. _______Labour Day weekend and BBQs, and squeezing those last trips in to the beach____ is what I look forward to most this time of year.

3. My best friend (s)_____is having a baby!!! I'm waiting and waiting and I'm sure they're going just as shack whacky too so I'm going to keep my mouth shut until the babies show up____.

4. ______I try repeated_____ to be honest with you.(while keeping my mouth shut too)

5. Appearances can be ____the only think you've got going for you but if you've got it all looking good on the outside you can hide quite a bit, it's all about the distraction, yes I'll distract you with these long run on sentences_______.(did it work?)


6. The last person I gave a hug to was _____TJ! he was frozen at the time, he went swimming in a pool that we went to yesterday and forgot his 'spare shirt" so when he got out he's only wrapped in a damp towel, so I hugged him(shhhhh 10yrold dont' like hugs much, and he's reading what I type, and giggled, love him bunches, will have to keep him)______.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _Getting the boys hairs cut, all millions of them, they all have a shaggy, don't get your neck burned cut almost similar to the 80's mullet but not getting there because the mom wont let them look like Dad from the 90's and 00's!____, tomorrow my plans include __go picnicing at the playgrounds in pants, brrrrrr cold again. ___ and Sunday, I want to ___enjoy the day and see what comes along, we might get packpacks ready for school, but we'll see__!

Random Tuesday, 14yrs feels like 3 maybe 4

Tdoay is Tuesday and with Tuesday comes Random Tuesday Thoughts. Don't have a clue what I'm talking about? you're new? YAY! for new. OK click this...and you'll find Keely and more random thoughters.


Today is my Anniversary, yes 14yrs ago today on a Friday evening, I got married. Old fashion I know but I did it before having kids? Yeah I know like when does that happen, 14yrs ago yeah people still did that on the island. Oh and I married the guy with the mullet. haha. I'm not posting that pic.

The boys are definitely ready for school. They are going shack Whacky, I still haven't gone shopping though for school supplies. I just don't want to let go of sleeping in until 9am! 635is too early to start the day.

Well I definitely have a gopher in my back yard, I was out to get my bike, and I walked into teh back yard by the mini barn and there on my back lawn is a gopher. It looked at me? Stopped munching on the clover, and while keeping it's eyes on me took off under my deck, turned to look at me again while darting for the tree. yep Darn gophers. Now were is that bear when I need him?


Hurricane Bill? yeah he could blow out candles up here in my neighbourhood but not in Nova Scotia, they lost some power.

I don't know what i'll be doing tonight but we have a babysitter, YAY!!! There was talking of going to play tennis? Romance abounds, and yet I think it's not a totally bad idea.

Poor MJ got sun burned last Thursday, it's still healing, he's so fair it's not good at all. The older boys went to a water park on Saturday and had a blast with dad. I stayed home with MJ, he was pretty happy to have me to himself. I'm liking this idea, totally screamed Go back to school

well I guess that's all the random I can come up with this week. Have a great Tuesday all.

Friday Fill-ins before I fill up the "I'm hungry" boy.

1. I remember, I remember __almost everything, and I've got friends from Elementary School, Jr High and High School that don't remember as much. I'm not sure if this is a blessing or a curse. My Dad told me one time that he remembered using his trike to drive around the kitchen furnace, so maybe it's genetic and I'll still remember taking Tonkas camping when I'm 65___.

2. Dear __Children_______ I want you to know _that Mommy can't do everything for you. That when you scream nothing happens, it just gets loud, see the banana you dropped on the floor? it's not scared of your screams_____.

3. Is that my ___phone,no it's just the flashing voicemail seems I didn't even hear the phone, I was out side rescuing the canopy before Bill comes to town________!!???

4. I'm trying to resist the temptation of _buying everything in the stores for back to school,it's that one time of year that spoiling your kids doesn't feel like spoiling because it's for their learning and growing up and yay the might leave my house some day_________.

5. I'm saving a ______piece of pie____ just for you!

6. If I made a birthday list ______cake_____ would definitely be on it!!!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to __relaxing with the hubbie, even though really he's going to be working on my van, and fixing my computer and I think he said mowing the lawn, maybe I'll sit on teh porch swing and watch? haha___, tomorrow my plans include _keeping MJ in the house again, he got ultra burned by the sun yesterday (stupid mom lives here) and so I'm going to have to keep him out of any sun that shows up____ and Sunday, I want to __do some more relaxing,Hurricane Bill might come up this way, hopefully he'll get downgraded to a rain shower please_!

Random Tuesday Thoughts, over heated

Grab a badge over at the unmom and get to clicking and typing and randomizing.

Why is it that tent poles break so easy? no matter the cause seems that my boys are just a little too rough for tent poles.

The beach yesterday? so nice! it was the kind of day where you stand up in the water and you aren't shivering. We didn't gethome here until 920pm! got everyone showered down nad into bed nad zzzzzzzzzzzz no one got up until 9am!

The Hubbie took his bike to work today. I think he's crazy it's now like 33C out there and he sweated in riding a bike? I'd rather go in with A/C in the car. I may take the boys out today for ice cream just so they aren't so hot! it's too hot in here, current living room temp, 31.2 at 11am!

Breakfast, the boys are not eating enough but I'm out of bread again! where are they putting it? I just bought 2 loaves on Sunday? I did forget to buy waffles this week so maybe that's why the bread is gone?

Oh I wonder if it was a critter that broke the tent? hmmm


Why do some people wear Bikinis? I just don't get it. I serious don't get it? have the standards changed? And yes I happened to be people watching on the beach. Don't believe it when someone says "no one is looking at you they are worried about themselves?" no they aren't that worried when your belly is hanging all beer belly over your bikini bottom? no they aren't worried at al about what their 1piece with spandex reinforced Body shaper is doing, they are sitting there wondering "why?" That may sound like I dont' care? or I'm mean but seriously this is what's in my head? Mind you they might just be very happy as themselves and not care? maybe I need to be watching my kids in the water more instead of people watching?

It's so very hot here. I've got the fans all on and the shaded door open, but I'm going to have to close that soon because the sun is coming around, and ugh! HOT! but I guess I do deserve this as it could be cold and my poor chair could be covered in snow again?

That's all the random I've got today,my brain is melting.

Too hot to blog, so we're going to the beach again :)

My livingroom temp is currently 32.4 under the fan! too hot fo rme to be sweating out a blog post. I'll find you all this evening maybe? ha! :) My boys ar esucking back fudge cicles faster then my freezer can keep them cold. I'm melting.
The beach we went to saturday was a little crowded!!!



second pic to the left



And poor abandon chair stayed home missing the kids. I think he's jealous of the folding chairs?

Friday Fill-ins, the Beach is still calling

1. When will __I ever get over the over protectiveness, even after the older boys spent the night out, I worry about the next night___?

(or when will I remember everything that should have gone into this post, first I forgot the 1. then I forgot the badge link, ack, maybe I'm getting old? no couldn't be that)


2. _Can't remember really what____ was the last good book I read or movie I saw or tv show I watched.

3. Everything has its beauty but __the beach is the most beautiful place ever___.

4. __Hamburgers and potato salad___ is what I had for dinner.

5. I'd like your ___son to stop having a screaming fit at the age of 4, dear, because well this is rediculous. The school will never take him next year if he keeps this up and I would totally agree with them, but I'd rather they keep him in the day time, eventually__.

6. ____The Beach, of course, it's calling, its going to reach 31C today or about 87ish but then the humid ex will be 37 or 98.9F, for those playing at home in the US. The beach definitely,_ is where I want to be right now.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _the beach, was there any doubt? ____, tomorrow my plans include _the beach but in the ocean, I can't wait for the salt water and playing with the boys____ and Sunday, I want to enjoy the day in some way with the boys I like the best____!

Having one of those days but a award!!

So yesterday I got a nice email just before I was getting ready to post up my RTT from Ashlee over at Brain of a Mommy! She's sent me an award. I have to say who ever designs these awards does a fabulous job. Talent! it amazes me every time I see one. Thank you Ashlee!!! :)


So here are the rules...


The rules are as follows: List 5 obsessions that I have and then tag 5 other people. 5 of my obsessions are:


1. Blogging and reading blogs and commenting on blogs and reading comments on blogs and learning from others what exactly their world is about.

2. eating, I love to eat, and I've come to the point where I'm obsessed with fitting in all the foods I love without killing myself, it's a bit scary really. It's a bit too much obsessing but I do it because I know that when I just let go? I can gain a lot of weight in a little time!

3. Facebook farming, Sad!

4. My boys, all of them even their dad! I think about my boys and how I can make their lives that much better every single day. I want them to be happy and I want to make them happy, I want the little ones to grow up and be great men, and I want the "man" to be just who he is!

5. My Island, I don't live close to my family but I'm constantly in touch with them, I left home at 22 and haven't lived "on the island" since, but that island? it gets in your blood.Most of my family is there, and still live work and play there. I've heard it said that no matter how little time you've spent living there, it always calls you back. There were a few places I visited while "home" that were like clicked. One was a cornerstore. One night after going walking with the boys and keeping them running, we stopped for icecream at a corner store, I haven't been to that corner store in 14yrs but it clicked! And the playground equipment I was swinging on was the swing where I got my first kiss from my Hubbie. That island owns me LOL.

OK time for Tagging of 5 people,

Casey over at HalfasGoodasYou

bluviolet over at Nuts in a Nutshell

Hi Kooky over at Hi Kooky

Keetha over at Keepie daNiece

The headless Mom who keeps us moving on what's new with her Headless Family

Thanks again to Ashlee! for thinking of me awwwwww~!

RTT August and summer and only 28days left

RTT, yep that's today Random Tuesday Thoughts, I'm sure you've seen if all over the blogosphere cause well it's popular, have you seen that list!! Keely's site?
So go on over there pick up a badge, start randomizing and then when your don't, slap your link onto her comments/ linky thingy and finally read some other random thoughts. Tuesdays aren't Tuesday's without some random. Cool she's got naked in there this week... wait it's Casey that's naked and running to the potty? great now I know where my child get his "can't go to a different potty" from; he's been reading my blogs?



you know it's great to see when someone goes on vacation and asks someone else to fill in that they DO it! Remember that Hubbie Random Tuesday that didn't? I'm still wondering what exactly he'd say.


Well the beach was great and warm but when the beach is warm everyone and the parasites want to swim too, ick! so they are advising you to towel off quick as you get out. PASS! This maybe why Aj has a bit of a spot on him, he had a cut, put a sticky bandagey thing on it and I guess the water got stuck in there because the spot where the sticky was is now red, I'm treating with neosporin for now. The cut part healed, the sticky trapped water part didn't. ugh!

Probably wouldn't be a good idea to swim there naked, see I fit in now;got that done.

Maybe the ocean is called for, might be time to hit the ocean beach. Some nice salt water to stay a float on.

The boys got a tent for grading from my parents, we picked it up on the island, and now we're missing a pole I called and they can either send the pole with a guy that commutes a lot from there or not. I said don't worry about it, I'm not outdoorsy enough to go all silly about it, they wouldn't last out there by the crop circle for more then an hour tops! ha!

Sleepless nights, then again maybe it would get AJ to sleep earlier if I told him he couldn't have the tent night if he didn't go to bed in it? He's been getting up and dragging out bed time. He's that child that tries every single trick in the book to get things his way. It doesn't matter that I don't change my mind or that he doesn't get his way, he's still going to keep trying. Isn't that Kyoot? no!

We haven't seen any critters lately, nope no sign of them? Maybe they are busy bunking down for the winter? it is August? I'm noticing it's a tad cooler at night, the leaves on my first flowering tree of the year are 1/2 gone,Wahhhhh!

28days! (not that I'm counting) until the boys are back in school and I enter my last year of having a preschool kid home. ACK! I may have to solve this.

Abandon Chair was having a bit of a time out this week.


So when discussing cars with some of my commenters, Ashlee, clued me into this gem, her car? has a "anti-hit me shield". She had suggested this after the previous suggestion to put all the kids in the 3rd row of seats. I like this idea so much that now 3rd row of seats is a keeper feature. Maybe an invisibility cloak would be handy too?

Right now we have TJ back there in the 3rd row in my van, with his lovely puke bucket, paper towels, fridge and pillow for when the gravol kicks in. I wonder if the others would like to join him, and I'll stow all the stuff in the middle. Well we've also added a Journey to the list of "maybes?". We had a Magnum home but there is no 3rd row and the battery is in the back with the spare tire. I liked the spare tire inside the car, much better, no need to Beat the poop out of the car to get it to drop down when changing your tire at the side of an abandon road. For some reason I gravitate to dodge, I don't know why, I didn't grow up in a dodge home, I grew up in a GM home.

Ford didn't show up but I hear from the Headless mom's that they've done some work on their cars and their assembly. There is a huge ford Dealership here so I may take the boys for a drive. Field Trip?

When I was on the island I found it very useful for 2 adults and 4 kids to travel. TJ got to keep the youngest child company and was the most helpful for that. Maybe I should just add more kids so I have to have a bigger car?

It got quiet here? wow they all have their noses stuck in a book? Maybe they are all ready for school to start? hehe hhaha YAY~!


Today i'm removing tape from the painting that was done on the weekend. I love how well "let's paint" worked. I did 3/20 pieces of chair rail and 1 foot long of baseboard.


Words I'd like removed from my kids vocabulary... stupid, idiot, and moron!

oh and what kind of critter is this?



found this in google. This is not a daddy Long Legs, I'm still stumped!
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/daddylonglegs.html

Time to ask my Readers

I'm not selling you anything, but Hubbie and I are thinking of getting a new car. His? well it's on it's last legs. It's got a good engine, brakes and so on but it's rusting, it's one of those "drive it until it dies" purchases .It's still not dead, but it's not going to make it another year. I dont' want this happening you know?



So What do you all drive? Why do you like it nor not like it?
Help?

To the Beach!

Today we are heading out to the beach but I thought I'd send in a picture of us at the Beach on the island. This is a provincial Park there, with grass to lay your towel in and rocks to walk over in the water. If you don't like the rocks and sea weed you learn pretty fast to float over them to the sandy parts.

For some reason though today I can't add a photo? I'm not sure why?

so I'll use this one.

This is my 3 boys and my sister's son too. He's 2 but he's well on his way to following his older cousins everywhere they go. I'm going to call in some favors from the family and see if they have better Beach pictures. The water was so warm, and salty, the River is fed by the Ocean so still salty at this end. There are many more places to swim in this River. I went to a Camp further inland from here. We took canoes to this sight from the Camp. That for me was a bit scary as I didn't know how to swim. Long live the Life Jackets!

I missed getting the ocean shots and I'm a bit bummed. I may have some in my archives from previous trips.

Friday Fill-ins, Beaching it

Looking for something to write today? head on over to Friday-Fill-ins and get yourself some fill-ins.
And...here we go!

1. __Going to the beach with my boys___ is my favorite summertime ___activity__.

2. My favorite John Hughes movies is _Vacation____. _I'm shocked that he died, I had no idea, until I was reading through IMDb, then this got Hubbie and I remembering some great movies. It was hard to pick out one!_ We watch Christmas Vacation every December_.

3. ___Kitty Fur__ is something I love to touch.

4. The full moon ___was beautiful when we got home from the beach last night__.

5. __The boys are trying to eat us out of house and home___ right now.

6. When daylight fades __it starts to cool off and the boys go to bed, and I can have some time to think__.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to __heading to the beach with the hubbie and boys, shopping for a Birthday Gift for a girl, and then home to get ready for Saturday__. Tomorrow my plans include __birthday party at the beach for a friend, setting up our shade in the back yard, chasing the boys around___ and Sunday, I want to __go back to the beach___!

The Ride to the Island

Warning this may be boring for some but I thought I'd write this down now incase some day I or they wont remember. I did it! really I did it! we left here at 1047am on the 25th and we arrived at the Cottage (an hour from the home where I grew up) at 6pm!

Hubbie is a great packer so I left the packing of the van to him while I piled more stuff into the pile to go into the van. I had 3 fears for this trip.

1. Bored kids, that they would be so bored with the trip down that they would start the "he's touching me, he's hitting me, he's looking at me... etc.." and I'd have to start the "If I hear one more complaint I'm pulling this car over and we wont go to the cottage, you wont get a vaccation and we'll go back home and watch paint dry" I didn't have to say that out loud once! I thought about it maybe twice, but they were not bored.
The boys brought a DSi- great for taking picture of other people's business, cars, trucks, trailers, transfer trucks going too fast, or pulling out in front of the mom when they shouldn't,and cool cars that go faster then mom's Van! They brought a V-tech laptop for MJ, he played game after game after game. AJ brought his ds (I think santa has ot do an upgrade on this now) and he played Mario continually. My only complaint is that his eye balls will wander off when he's done playing... oops. They also brought a laptop that Hubbie found while dumpster diving and fixed up. He cleaned it and made it run and put a map program onto it that doesn't need internet. He loved it! They could find all the roads that Mom was suppose to use and what was down the roads Mom didn't take.

2. Worry #2, was three boys and one mom going to the bathrooms. TJ is 10 that didn't bother me so much "go in there come out here and wait, don't move from that spot until I come and get you!" but I had to have faith that AJ could follow the same rules? ACK! that worried me. AJ always takes longer in the bathroom. I do not ever want to know why, really it should be a simple procedure. GO in, business, flush, wash hands lots,dry hands and leave?? no it's not for some reason. I then take MJ with me to the ladies, because well we still have that poo problem. It's not as disastrous as the Easter Weekend Trip though,(if you haven't read, it's like the 4th Random Thought from here...) well he did it! yep. We stopped our first pit stop 1.45hours from here, no need to "go" mini rest stops all around, back in the van. Next Stop was 3.5hours from here, we stop they all get out plan goes as is. Every one in and meet me here at the Pringles when you are done! excellent. MJ says in passing "I have a belly ache" I say "maybe it's that 1/2 lb of grapes you ate?, but we just let it go. only 3hours t the cottage. Away we go...
We had poo success on Sunday at the cottage. oh the excitement

3. My other worry is gas fill up! You can't leave kids in cars to go pay for your gas like our parents did, it's just too dangerous. You never know which idiot, especially the closer to the island you get, will have a cigarette* in his mouth while pumping the gas, or which kid will put the car into drive, or whatever so it's all about dragging 3 boys into the gas station to pay. At Stop 2 I notice there is a "full serve" sign,hmmmmmmm, maybe I should stop and get gas here? but wait the car is already pointed to the road to the island and I can make it ot he station before the causeway so I didn't. I got back on the highway and kept going. I get to the Place I want to stop and I stop it's self serve, so I ready my mind for the dragging in of 3 kids and then I see "pay up front, orrrrrrrr pay at the pump" ohhhhh pay at the pump you say? WOOOOOHOOOOOO! yep jobs done. Gas paid, me back in the van almost giddy and off we go. Over the Causeway, then to the Island.


So the 3 big fears didn't seem to be a problem. The rest of the trip going well We stop in the last"biggish" grocery store before the cottage to get milk and I buy a box of store brand Drumsticks, 4 pack, they all eat them and me and I sit in the car eying the government store, but didn't go in. It was there, I figured I was too tired to stop so we didn't. TJ was in charge of handing out the drinks and snacks. We didn't stop any where ot eat, he just kept sending the snacks forward.
I pull into the driveway of the cottage at 6pm and all is well. Van looked like this next morning complete with bunny looking to eat my tires?




I get my van unpacked enough for the cottage and get ourselves settled. ohhhhhhhh the tired! The boys enjoyed their grandparents(there to meet us) and had a great night. I think the adults fell asleep before the kids though. MJ slept in my bed and upside down with his head by the fridge. (Fridge lives in the bedroom off the kitchen due to repairs in the rebuilding of the porch)

So that's the big drive I had my brain convinced was impossible without Hubbie and I did it! Now I could do it again, I could I know that part is accomplish-able(new word). A new Car would be nice though.


*cigarettes -so something the boys aren't used to seeing that much, it became a cause for discussion, "oh look they are smoking", is now like the dirty phrase of the generation, remember when it was "oh they are kissing, ewwwwwww"

Random Tuesday Thoughts, Trip update, Boys, Run Run Run, HASAY too!

Ok I'm back, did you miss me last week? I missed me last week, I missed Hubbie doing a post too, he said he 'might' but he didn't. Darn! But my kitchen looks way awesome, all that fresh paint!
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The linking to the linking to the linking will keep you out of the Keely Trouble too. Just saying...

OK so I'm back, I went on the 25th in my PACKED van of me and 3 boys and headed for the island. Yep made it we left the driveway at 1047am and arrived in the driveway of the "cottage" (read:shack/lightly assembled bungalow/house in the middle of a mosquito and black fly ranch), at 6pm! This is documented by my mom in the log. My legs are healing in time for the next bite crop.

Log? Why?? I'm not even sure why the log is there, but it does contain some information on things like oh why the vacuum spits out more dust then it sucks up. You know "stuff"

The boys loved it! they chased Bunnies, they put up a tent, and a canopy, and one was up on staging and putting siding on the side of the place.

They also were used to fill in a septic hole. You know cause boys want to play in dirt, and run and play balance games on a 1 axle trailer. You've really got to let go of some of your reservations about what they can and can't do.

Today I've got Trooper's Santa Maria in my head. I could use me some "too much today" but it's only noon yet.




The boys saw a snake. You know this isn't so random... Okay let's throw some Random. I'm FAT! yep I've gained a bit of poundage and ate a LOT of food I don't ordinarily eat. I had my Pizza fix. Oh yummy! I can't ever get pizza like that anywhere. The BEST, the boys don't understand, because they didn't grow up there. If you looked at their plates though both times we had it? they ate it! more then they eat here. TJ ate 2 slices!!!


Just made the boys lemonade for breakfast,with some granola bars, honey roasted peanuts and chocolate chip cookies, it might be time to get some groceries here. I have to feed them since there is no one else here to cook. I miss that part of vacation. My dad makes AWESOME bacon and eggs. *did I mention I am fat?


The Captain didn't join me on the Saturday I arrived, he didn't get packed (no open bottles on the road) and then when I got to the closest "government store"(yes that's a term, but it's local to the cottage island) I didn't want to drag 3 boys in with me, it kind of doesn't look right there. Here? no one would bat an eye but there it's only been in the last 10yrs since kids are allowed to accompany their parents into lounges or Liquor Stores so the eyebrows are still primed for "OMG she's taking kids in there?" ACK!

AJ's allergies were a mess on the island, poor boy was snoring heavily, I bought him some allergy stuff, so he could sleep without coughing and hacking up a lung. No he doesn't have the flu!

I am getting a lot of spam over the last 2wks! WTH? I've never gotten this much before, now I've got people wanting me to date, you to find my perfect match, join the military and be a nurse, oh get a loan, and a re-mortgage my mortgage? oh and send them lots of money!

Watched a bit of TV, that cottage gets better reception on antenna then my TV here? no digital boxes needed there? 2 channels in English!

I got to see 2 high school friends, one at wally world on her date night and another at the beach! I saw her sister first, she lives at the beach all summer, and then my friend came to meet us. I"m BUMMED I didn't fit more local to there friends in.

MJ pooped! yep he pooped at the cottage about 6times the first day, then we got to my parents house and he'd get his bag of potty seat and stool and take off for the bathroom when necessary. we did forget said bag of supplies a few times so he'd wait it out. "I have a belly ache" is now code for "we're going back to Grandmas so you can poop!" Oh the way home yesterday, he left some poop in a Toilet at a gas station! Freedom! now to get rid of that seat and stool?

Oh surprise of the week? Hubbie hopped on a bus on Friday and joined me on the island! his parents were very happy, I was happy too, very happy. We went out for a date Saturday night. We ended up at wally world, and watching fireworks from our car. So boring, you lose the kids for 5hours and suddenly you have no idea what to do with yourselves.


BTW if you drive too long on a blown tire? it will bend the rim of your wheel. Just saying.



I didn't know I had blown the tire on that LONG dirt road but I did, 1.75hours later someone came by. I asked if they ahd a phone? yes they handed over their phone. NO SIGNAL! so you know what's the point in having a cellphone I say? it wouldn't have helped at all here. So My mom was with me at the time she comes out of the van to meet the car of people, and it I'm looking at her like I know her, she sees my mom and it's CLICK! "Hi (mom's name HA! thought you'd hear you?)" And she woman in car says "you don't remember me do you?" well no, sorry my brain is on the 3 boys I've got sitting in my van who have eaten all the food they could find in the fridge/cooler, and bags of snacks from the beach runs, and drinks too. Turns out she's the woman that made my prom gown in the VERY early 90's. Her Hubbie got out and tried to do what I was doing, which was get the spare off from under the van. It didn't happen so mom and AJ went with these people in their van and went to the cottage (3km from the site of the evil tire problem) and got my dad. Dad and another cottage neighbour came out and with the aid of some minimal tools a trip back to the cottage for a hacksaw, and some borrowed tools from a woodshed I found somewhere close...(details withheld...LOL,but uh people if you have a cottage and you've locked it up, don't leave your bucksaw and Ax in the open woodshed... just saying

They got the spare to come down. OK so that's great. My emergency brake line snapped when I put it on so they could jack it up more, and get the spare on. I DO have pics of the tire. Must upload today.

Lot of road work going on on the island. Stopped to watch these creatures. Well we didn't stop on purpose... the guy with the sign insisted we stop.



So for HASAY activity log? let me see. went to the beach 4 times and chased my kids around for 10days, cleaned the cottage, helped put up siding, chased bunnies with the kids. Bought a fruit tray once, found strawberries on sale for 1.67, pizza had veggies on it, put up tents and disassembled tents,packed van, took the boys to a few playgrounds to use up energy, borrowed my mom's bike to chase my kids on bikes too. My dad has 3 bike at his house. I fell into bed every single night and slept until about 9am. Oh did I mention turning that thing for an hour trying to get the van to let go of the tire? Oh lifting the sub Hubbie has in the back of my van 5 times,lifted dead tire into the back of my van, moving rocks behind wheels to van wouldn't roll over people, throwing rocks back into the woods, racing heart from hearing a coyote howl to the left of my parked car. Chasing boys that were trying to run around the van? yeah action filled week of adventure but I ate too, so uh maybe it wont even out? Ice cream cools you off, pizza doesn't require cooking and heating up the house, but I think the ice cream will be what did me in. I'll do a bonus next Monday with some Measurements.

Oh Sorry The Hubbie didn't do a RTT, I thought that would have been funny! OK so if you aren't bored yet and have got this far and want to do your own random Tuesday Thoughts post, get yourself a button over at Keely and get to posting.

This is getting way long so I'll save the beach pictures for later in the week.