Walking or Hunting?

I went walking this morning, I've been pretty good and going almost every morning. YAY! and this is what I found? 

Hunting or walking

And this down here? That's lunch test #1. One of my boys will not eat sandwiches at school. Sandwiches are easy meals but he doesn't like them, so I'm constantly searching for new ideas. I got a recipe email in my inbox and fixed it. This is Biscuit Dough mixed as usual and then I just put Pizza sauce and cheese on top. Since it was a test I didn't use meat on these, but I did find out how to find out what all my kids are doing? The smells brought them all out of the wood work, and there were none of the 6 left for lunches this morning. I will make another batch tonight with the meat added and veg.  YAY! Score!

Hunting Lunch Ideas

WW the Mom has Words Edition

"Do your homework of the Donkey gets it!"

Wordless Wednesday Rain Wont Stop them!

It rained so much last week our Son's Fast Pitch Competition was held in doors for the first 2 day and outside on the last.

My Kyooties! No Not Kooties

Today the Kyooties here at Kyootycenter are starting a Weekend Tournament for Fastpitch Softball.


 I never imagined this would be my life. Ball Mom. Yep! I've even got a shirt that says "Ball Mom" on it. I just never imagined I'd get to a point where my kids were involved in sports. The only sports I was involved in as a School age kid was bowling. Candle Pin Bowling. I did T-ball at age 6 or 7 but it was all boys on the team so I quickly quit! And wearing a shirt that says "KINGS" doesn't give a girl a drive to continue, and Left Field? IS wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy out there.There are only so many flowers to count. ,

2 flowers

The boys though? They are really interested in Baseball as a sport for their summer season. This will offset the Curling and Bowling in the Winter. YAY!

So since it's been raining raining and Storming a Gale out there since Wednesday, the boys will be playing indoor tonight and praying the out door fields dry out for tomorrow and Sunday.



Yep! I can't wait to see how this goes. As I told MrMiddle (who is the only son of age to play in the U12 tournament) even the Blue Jays play inside. He then told me "nooooooooo they don't" there's Dirt. I really think he still doesn't believe me. I'll have surf Youtube and show him.   HA! Retractable Roof.

So off I go to get everything accomplished this morning so I can go and pluck two boys out of school early today.  YES!!! I'm excited. I'm so proud of my boys.

So pics? Yes I'll post a pic of them playing for the Provincial Silver in August.

team tattoo, GO TWINS!

Not so far out field as Mom

Batter up, practicing

Co Coach Dad and The boys.

 Ball Mom's Avon Blue Lagoon Spirit Fingers for Cheering them on. 

Throw back Guest Post from 2009!

I was buzzing along and I found this today, while talking to a friend. This is a guest post I did over at Casey's Blog for our HASAY posts. I need a good reminding myself sometimes why I'm trying so hard to lose this weight. It's 10yrs since I lost my first weight. ACK!

Guest Post at HASAY

One Friday Down

Ok how many weeks until Summer Vacation? I'm so ready. I've been filling out forms all week. I think I have more homework than the boys?

I have to wonder though if I fill out forms for the grade before and they enter it into the system? Who uses the system? because I've just filled out the same question 4 times this week. "Medical issues?" seems like it's like filling out Government applications? over and over and over?

OK that's All I've got, I'm tired. I can't imagine how tired the boys are, but they are watching TV tonight. Totally vegging.

Wordless Wednesday Day 2 of the School year.

Randomizing Tuesday Thoughts for School's Back in Session

It's Tuesday, the kids are back to School. I was not originally looking forward to today. The summer was fantastic, but now that the house is quiet, the kids are gone? I'm sitting here watching the birds eat up my lawn before they fly south. 

I've seen and heard Blue Jays so far. I was so interested I even researched whether they fly south for the winter and found their call on a Wikipedia page. Very loud! No wonder I hear them so often. I also found out they are very aggressive through the page I read. Good thing too, cause I didn't want to find that out in person. Reading wins again. 

(if I can get a pic of him, you might find it here)

In other news, the Chair? it died. Yep! well 25% of the Backyard abandon Chair population died. Yes I took a picture. 

 See I was using 2 of the 4 chairs we had back there, so no one really knew "which" chair was "the" chair but it seems people were upset. I had posted the pic to FB. There was call for a memorial page to "the chair". Well worry not dear readers, I'll be putting in a sibling sub for Chair. You will not miss out on the snowy Chair updates. 

In other Back yard news, the Swingset will not be returning, it's been dismantled and slowly thrown to the curb. It was time. My youngest is 8 now, so he's decided "I can just drive my bike to the park, or we can do the parks in town". Who knew that the youngest would be the one to let go the quickest. (no I'm not crying that's a eyelash in my eye, darn you pollen) 

The Critter Count has changed. We did not see any fox this year, or bears. But our new critter of the yard? Is Mr Pew! yes you read it right we now have a skunk. He's moved in under the baby barn. I'm not super upset by his location because (thank you Wikiapedia again) I've learned he'll eat mice. Mice! YAY! no mice in the house, or the barn. Winning!  

So is it just me? or is anyone else counting down the hours until their kids come home? Did anyone else follow the buses in? Or am I the only one fighting the urge to let my kids OWN their own School experiences? 

Must not email the teacher yet, must not email the teacher yet, must not... Yikes! this year may be hard! Mr Tall is in High School now, Mr Middle is owning the Middle of Middle School and Mr Babe is owning the Middle of Elementary. Just a little Email? No must not be "That MOM!" 

BTW lunches? No notes, no flower shaped veggies and NO extra treats.  Oh good neighbour mom is hear to discuss her first first day! YAY!!!