The Dedication to Snow Living

I know that not all my readers are experienced in SNOWDOM so I like to share my Snow life. It happens every Winter here and every spring it melts. There has not been a spring yet that hasn't turned into HOT Blazing summer in all the years I've live in snow worlds. I've lived on the Island, in Central Canada (those to the far west call it Eastern Canada but really it just shows that they cut Canada off at Quebec...) and the North Eastern Coast of the USA. It's been fun. I have always experienced either Snow flurries, a Snow storm or Foggy Breath for my Birthday in November. I call it tradition. People look at me when I say "it always snows on my birthday" and try to point out it's not snow but really if you just blow a breath out? it turns to snow after the fog. I'll keep that tradition. Funny thing, when we were kids we used to pretend we were smoking? Our kids don't do that, you know because it's not really something that they "get", YAY for changing times.
  Some days there is too many mini dramas going on in life that I don't post but the snow? unless you don't have Winter Snow Tires? there is no drama.

Well there may be some drama on who gets to shovel it. First Snow falls typically involve some "me first" and some "I want to shovel"  in comparison to the later winter snow falls which involve. "I don't want to" and "ok no allowance..." (Mom wins, and points out 3rd time around hernia scar...it's all about the win... it is though good exercise) Last night I went walking in this, my walking partner wears glasses, she was blind by the time she got home. BTW that's 5 days of walking in snow this week.  I don't know that I could ever live where it didn't snow?

Morning Results Jan13th

The snow shoveling this year is going very well, it hasn't snow near as much as winter 2009, and the Chairs? they are fine, they are still basking in the sun.. well other then the storm yesterday

Jan12 storm starts about 3:35pm

And you know I'm dedicated to sharing these because this is how I captured this morning's pictures...

yep slippers... do not try this at home if you have snow

And you know who will have to clean this meltage up right?

So if that's not enough snow for you and talk of snow and slipping, driving, playing (we are going sliding this weekend I'll have to get some more video of the Hubbie risking life and limb on the runs), and abandon snow chairs?  well you can pop over to my other blog which seems to have turned into Morning views blog? ... haha  

Random Tuesday Critter, 5K walking, wiifitplus, strawberries

you know how this random works, I've been doing it for more then a year now. I think? 

Critter count! so I'm out walking Saturday night, it had rained, and so when it stopped and the clouds started to break I took off! yep, got me out of the house and get to the 45minute point of my60minute walk and I see the mail box has a notice. Now people put up notices for all kinds of things, babysitters, lawnmowers, and missing pets. Well this notice? ?

WARNING! There has been a bear sited on (location). Last seen 8pm (it was 745pm) on June 3rd!
ok so let's do the math here. Saturday night was June 12th and yes there was possibility that MR poop in the woods had been in and got nothing to eat and gone ack to his usual areas? but you know? The thoughts of being Bear food? don't appeal to me! People/Teachers wonder why my kids have a lot of screen time? (computers?/DVDS) yeah its' because well it's not very Mama Bear of me to let them outside with the Bears? right?


So this of course brings me to the Prayer in my heart. THANK YOU GOD for bringing to this world the inventors of the Wiifitplus! A Bear will not get on your wiiboard and chase you across Wuhu Island? no you get your imaginary bike and off you go! off go the Cals. and not my losing my butt to a bear bite.

Today Mr11(from now on he's that no matter if it's not official) is off at a water slide park. He's celebrating with his classmates! and I hope having a great time.  I didn't volunteer to go help out because well, when it comes down to it? my son does better when Mom isn't there to discuss or see what he's up to.

Strawberries, oh I'm still craving those berries. I think I'm going to be costing us a fortune in Berries. I so should find me a U-pick locally and pick my own but uh Bears? ... They like strawberries too!

So I signed my butt up for a 5k Walk, it's hard to train wiht visions of Bears in your head. BEARS! ok so maybe this isn't so very random? this week? but will the Random ? here and there do? cause my mind is raising?



Oh the 'potatoes' are making progress in the back yard. I'll get me some pictures for you for next week! And we bought a mini (candy it said) tomatoe plant for Mr5, and he's watering it, and now we have 1 smallish green tomato! we just moved it over to the "bigger" planter on the step, I need to get me some Tomato cages to keep it straight I guess? There are 9 blossoms too.

Do you think Bears like ripe on the vine tomatos? I know that raccoons do. I think they have been checking on this plant nightly because i hear a lot of scratch scratch out back but never dare to turn on the light to look. Do Bears eat Racoons? This is why I'll never compost! I wonder how the turkey carcus I have out in my garbage bin is doing? It's garbage day today, all you can eat Buffet for bears.

Groceries must get out. Happy RTT! go on link up!
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Random Tuesday, it's all about ME being the Aunt

Welcome To Tuesday, go on click the button, go get one and link up to Keely's. 

Remember yesterday when I said I will never understand boys? well Boys they are Boys! My 5yrold just ran up to me hopped up on my leg with his butt in the air and FARtED!  BOY!!! I will never escape being a Mom of boys!  I Blame their Father! and the Reading of Captain Underpants (novels).

Another Boy thing just now "Mom Where's my pig?" huh~ oh piggy bank? Why? theres nothing to put in it. 


My Sister had a Baby Boy Sunday! YAY! She now has 2 boys, hehe My younger Sister says "My Rugby Team of Nephews is coming along nicely" I just laughed!

Little WDW looks exactly like his older brother, from the pictures I've seen. Poor me the Aunt, the important Aunt (not the younger sister and her dreams for Rugby domination) is not going to get to meet him until the Summer, when I again try my hand at single Parenting in the back woods of the Island.


Oh but with a bunch of boys around, maybe they should all learn to change tires? Yes I think this will be the summer or Tire Changing lessons.


My Niece is probably going to be the most excited,she's the reigning princess. She'll stay the princess! HaHA! !!

WDW didn't have a name Sunday, but now does, No they didn't name him Walt Disney World. Tempting though isn't it? 


It's raining again today. TJ is home "sick" Hubbie went to wake him for School this morning but he was coughing up a storm. I suspect he'll have Hubbie's sleeping problems. Apnea sucks!


Yesterday in Critter Counting, we were counting birds. Last Saturday we saw a Woodpecker, so I went off looking up pictures. It turns out there is 1 that is extinct and wow this guy looks like him. I'll have to invest hop off to the $ store for binoculars.

MJ is addicted to NickJr games online. He's singing the songs without the page being booted up! Right now he's trying to crack my pass word on my laptop.

You know if I died or got hit by a bus today/tomorrow any day? What would be out there in internet space without passwords? What would show up? Would anyone be here reading? Oh yes the Zombies as noted by Keely would.


So we're at the end of the grocery run here, I've got to get more tomorrow. Yesterday, the boys were due home, they are always hungry, so I made cinnamon buns. 3 boys from 5-10yrs old, ate 9/12 buns, I managed to barely save one for hubbie. Where does it go? oh then i found their school lunches from yesterday, sandwiches still in the bag. ugh!


Burn is almost back to regular color, just 4 pinker then usual and stripey. Is Stripey a word? wait spell check on Firefox says... Firefox is wrong.... and Stripey is  stripy... okay now we know. It also doesn't like ok, OK is fine and Ok is not, and okay is great. oh boy.

Darn it Boys again! will I ever escape Boys? oh but the cat is girly, she's lazing on the bed waiting for someone to come pet her, that's my girl!

(Behave)


Been reading that The Tales of the Beedle The Bard. (spin off from Harry Potter?) and it's borrrrrrrrrrring, no wonder it was only 94cents!

yawn, even I'm yawning... I guess I should just stop typing. It's been 2 days in a row, maybe I can pull off a post tomorrow too?  BTW did you know that it's a short week? Thursday AND Friday off! what happened to school?

Tuesday hits again, Spring! It's coming

Welcome back to Random Tuesday Thoughts. If you want to join in, go on over to The Unmom and get your linky!

Spring is on the way, I have no doubt. Today the high is to be 14C... ok yes I know you all want to know what that means in USA speak. It's 57.2F . YAY i'll have to get out the shorts soon. Then again... that might not be the best idea this spring. I've been sitting most of the winter. There was that good month in February when I was doing the wii every day for 3wks and thennnnnnnn I found Starfleet Extreme on FB. That game is like a full time job.
  
The puddles are jumpy, the ditches are blah but the chickedees are out. Time to buy the boys new Rubber boots.  One still wants to wear his skipants to school, while the oldest is "too old for that" well finally! it only took putting who huge holes in the knees.

St. Patrick's day is tomorrow, so far my only plans are stew for supper. I need to send out the honey do to get the list as there's no stew meat in the house. There's also no carrots, onions, or other veggies.

My van is broke, Power Steering leaked all over the driveway.  Last Easter it was my Gas tank that was leaking on the driveway, then the Tranmission fluid, then Break fluid, and now this spring we bring you power Stearing fluid?  It makes you wonder if Raccoons like to eat cars?

YAY!! the Fox family is back, they are currently 1 fat mom, I guess we'll see the pups soon, YAY! the Raccoon problem may be solved soon.., I've only seen one raccoon so far, and not since...

So we pulled out a VCR,to watch some old toons we had here and the boys say "I want to watch it rewind"... yep this is all new to them. TJ doesn't even remember the VHS years.   Today MJ is watching some old Christmas in July we watched in the late 90's. 

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Got a call last week to do some after school care for a friend. Just an hour or so once a week collect her from the bus until mom gets home from work. Last night she called and she's not too happy with the potential employer. The employer called all 12 people that applied in to "train" and then said "we'll call you when we have our 2 places picked" well what the HE double Hockey Sticks! all 6 people from Monday's Training assembled about 20 products each in 2hours, so that's 120 product completed in 2hours for "free?". It makes you wonder what kind of people are running these businesses.  I'm sure the trainees will be looking for a check soon? Labour laws got to love them! I also noticed when visiting the company website that the products aren't doing any "fairs" so it seems to me that maybe her "booming business" is slowing down? hmmmmm and she needed a quick... anyways... I guess that's random enough employment isn't it? 

(update here, She got the job!)

I think though I may resort to doing after school care here in the fall. I want to stay home here with the boys be here when the phone rings because they hit their heads, or just stay home because they are sick, and so on. I don't know how all you working Mom's do it? I know cellphones but we don't have oneof those, people we have no cable and we're watching VCR Tapes.We did have a cell before the kids were older but really, it was just another bill. We have a homephone and did you know there are still such things as payphones? yeah and phone booths! oh and answering machines/voice mail? amazing isn't it. I also don't text. So I'm not the person looking down into their lap at the stop light because I'm texting and driving.  

 

Drive your car, not your phone! 

that's enough random for today, I must go save a planet from impending doom! oh and bake some brownies with green icing. yummmmmmmmm brownies. 

 

 

KTTS and KTTD

I'm not sure if you've all heard this before but CTTD is Cute Things They Do, sometimes there are CTTS ,Cute Things They Say, but this one can get even the most tame parent in trouble.They just have to repeat everything you say don't they? Today I bring you my versions, a combination from MJ of KTTD and KTTS, as well as an update from the older boys. I think it's only fitting they now be known as K TTD and K TTS cause really my kids are Kyoot!(for those just joining or first time readers, Kyoot=cute)

Today MJ got up after the boys were ready at the door to go to school, this is good it makes hte morning move so much faster. He sat in his chair, I gave him a bowl of strawberries, the other boys had their in their lunches so he starts pulling them out 1 by 1 and lining them up on the table. I think there may have been a strawberry parade, but instead it was a strawberry beauty pageant where only the best strawberries get to stay in the bowl and be eaten. The other strawberries were sent to me for cosmetic surgery. "this one is dirty" in reality it's just a patch that's seedier then the rest or where this strawberry has run into another strawberry and got a bit roughed up. No Berries were harmed in the making of this breakfast. YES I took their heads off, yes your right I did cut them in 1/2 or 1/3s but they were big. Oh no! maybe I've become a strawberry judger? "you fat strawberry, to the back of the line..."

So after a bit he says "I'm cold" it was 0C here over night but got up to 2C by 630am, 7am it was bout 4C the sun is coming up, it's suppose to reached about 11C but there will be wind. Sorry Tangent, I get a bit carried away when it's weather. So I have to tell him that one of his little Einstein guys is by the radiator (hot electric rads), and he comes to get him and tells me he's missing 1. We go looking,
I said "which one? is it the one with the blond hair?"
and he says straight faced as ever" yeah like me but it sticks up straight like this!" and he pulls his hair up off his head. He just got a hair cut Saturday, there isn't much to pull up. Boys!
I said "was it like this", and I'm sitting here making pony tails in my hair with my hands, "yeah!"
I looked at him and explained "those are called Pony Tails"
and that's when it turns into another KTTD his nose gets all scrunched up and his eyes give me that "you can't be serious look" HA!!! now he's moving the sofa, and looking for the lost blond girl, at least he's determined.

AJ's turn this weekend had his first communion, he will not make it as a priest, since it's a bit too "subdued" for his personality. I think this boy may have to become an actor/musician/center stage hog! like his Dad. I was actually thankful that my mind was on MJ most of the mass so that I didn't see with my own eyes all of what Hubbie and the other 75-100 people in the pews saw. I know someday I'll be able to go to church and hear all of what's said and some day I will "get" the Homily? right? Good thing most masses are reruns from the year before. (see tangent)
AJ did okay.

He picked out his own clothes Saturday. I took him shopping and I offered new jeans and a button polo shirt, he directed me over to the manly looking dress pants and Shirt, and wanted a TIE too!!! We went off to the "family" dressing rooms and he tried them on. This was a first too, I'm more of a "measure it up to your legs get is a touch big, and bring it home and wear it" kind of shopper. This was good though, we went in, he tried the clothes on and they fit! and Oh didn't he look so handsome! I was so proud! I almost squished him with hugs. He is at the age where hugs are still okay. So we bought that, I also had to add in shoes for me, sneakers for TJ, T-shirt for MJ, T-shirt and jeans for TJ! 130.00 later I left the store. Oh Hubbie took MJ and TJ for their haircuts hear that cash register cha-ching. AJ had already been to the hair cut, Tuesday, more cha-ching for the store.
The results? AJ Sunday...


ignore the windblown and puffy mom...

TJ is at the age in life where KTTD and KTTS are a bit more few and far between, he also doesn't want you to notice these things and becomes easily embarrassed. I of course think that falls under KTTD, but I can't say that to you all, please read my mind here...>Whistles innocently while remembering how he tried to tie MJ's shoes for him, while I was chatting with other Moms and Dads at the after party, I mean, little social gathering in the church basement with cake) He's still hugable and still says "love you". (hoping no friends' read here)

Another Funny story, but it's Hubbie. I was telling him that based on AJ's attempts to steal the show from the priest, I think that Maybe AJ should get into something stage based. I pointed out, "your mother warned me about this, she said anytime there was a stage or a presentation, you were front and center".
He looked at me shocked? "My Mom said that?"
I said "yes and she had some examples for me"
to which I hear "you know as I was watching AJ up there, I had a flash back, high school,(cue the flashback dream sequence) I was in a few bands. There were some of us that had been in bands before, but others that just never had any stage experience. So me and some guys got together for a talent show. We were up on the stage....(he's now taking his playing base guitar stance while tell me this, see any audience will do?) and we start in with the theme from Cheers, and then it's time for the singer... and he's not singing, he's standing there FROZEN! stage fright. we start into another song to save this show and he's not singing, just standing there holding the mic" Hubbie still has Base Guitar Stance while tell me the story, and you can see the arm of the imaginary guitar move around and the strut is starting, and he concludes with "so the curtains are starting to close and so I figure it's not getting any worse then this and I walk out infront of the curtains and start me a little Base solo" I had to walk out of the room all the while saying
"Your mother warned me, and she told me she could see you in the boys, but did I listen?..."

so that's our CTTD and CTTS for Monday, no of course there are no "me" stories. I can only be so Kyoot while trying to raise this much Kyootiness in one house!