Random Tuesday Thoughts Boys, TV,no TV,Somedays....

Yep it's Tuesday, the boys are watching some old Simpson's DVDs because we don't have TV? I'm a bit nervous that the youngest one will get some ideas? but he's been to school, and that place has already taught him more words than a week away at camp.


Well atleast I'm amused and it's not mindless Preschool TV.



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Anyone else ready for Christmas? I did take out some Christmas Candles last week when putting away some Halloween ones and I think getting the tree up before December might happen now that the boys are all in school. I can even do it MY way? maybe.


I've been feeding my neighbours cats this week, the minute I come in the house? they all DART for the cat doors. Only one stays or comes back in when they hear the food dish being filled.

I think I may be coming down from the Halloween Sugar surge. It's a slow process. I think this calls for more protein in the house.

Hummus can be addictive. Hummus plus Nachos more addictive.

I think the boys are going to fall asleep before supper, this fall back stuff is not so great for the internal clock. Mr5 has a cold, Mr9 missed school today for a headache and stomach ache and he broke his glasses. I need to make a new appointment for a Check up and maybe new prescription? they look tiny on his face. Who said the kids could grow?

Found out this week my land does actually have a limit, I don't own ALL the trees, Darn! Plus side I don't own the bears space either. Well the space where he walked through the yard yes, but not far behind the lazy fence.


This Random really isn't much this week. I guess I'll have to do something interesting next week?

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend

I started this post yesterday but Thankfully, my children saw the need to take my USB cable. Thankfully because I spent the day with them, slaving in the kitchen to produce this!!!
(poor guy didn't have a chance after I invited him to dinner)
Thankfully everyone helped.  Hubbie made bread crumbs from bread while I was at mass. AJ finished the job because instead of 8 pieces Hubbie heard 5.
MJ went to the store with AJ and Daddy to get peanut butter because what is a house without peanut butter. (also I needed to concentrate on the turkey)


I'm thankful for Superstore for letting me buy a turkey at "regular" price while it was on sale and having me go back to the store to get my money back. I loved the way they implied it was "my" mistake that they over charged me for my 4.94kg Turkey.(difference of 6.45canadian dollars) Thank you for doing your own leg work after me standing at your customer Service Counter for 15minutes (you said it was 10? really who is the customer, I said it was 20minutes, let's meet in the middle?). Thank you for finally giving me the difference in price, even after your mistake which according to store policy is to refund me the full price of the defrosting bird.(thank you for letting me use run on sentences) I could have brought him back to the store in his 1/2 frozen state. He was tasty after I plucked out the leftover feathers that Presidents Choice neglected to remove before bagging it in a GRADE A package, with the fine print that reads "graded before adding gibblets". (CYA statements?)


Thank to TJ for staying home from the trip to the Peanut Butter store (not Superstore btw) and helping me basted the turkey by reminding me when the time came. I think he just wanted to open the store repeatedly to smell Turkey doing his thing.


Thank you for Canada for having a holiday this weekend, and not leaving us out of that Columbus Day party down south. It's a great excuse for a turkey and visiting family and friends.



Thank you earth for growing Carrots and for the person that invented vegetable peelers. I can't imagine how many fingers I'd have lost or how much carrot and potatoes would be left if I had to resort to the knife plan.

Thank you Tenderflake, Sheriff and Goodine's Poultry Farm for helping me achieve Lemon Meringue success. I'd hate to have to go to SS to buy a Pie after that turkey price fiasco.

Thank You all for reading my rambling posts, about life and days here.

Happy Thanksgiving Canadians! And for my US readers and family, I'll do this again in November but I'll buy my Turkey elsewhere.

(sorry if you are getting this repeatedly, my pictures aren't lining up) 

I'm Back!

I've returned from my island. I'm not burned to a crisp, I'm relaxed, and I'm not melted. I may though melt today. Here it's now 24C with a forcast of 26C, ahhhhhh heat!

While on the island we visited 4 beaches, 4 playgrounds and many relatives. The boys had a great time sleeping at the inlaws overnight. We should have headed for the cottage for some alone time but all the sights and sounds were in the City. We did what real grown ups without kids do, we went shopping at the liquor store. No "mom are we done yet" "mom why is that bottle shaped different", mom What does V-o-d-k-a spell, or "Mom why are we hear, can I have some too?" it was great!!! Talked to the staff who were nice and engaging but I'm pretty sure they were surveying the customers for traces of previous liquoring up before of course liquoring up more.

Another Night we went for a walk along the Harbour Board walk and took pictures. I think there may even be a picture of me in there.

The inlaws took us out for supper one evening, it was a great deal too, the kids meals were 4.95 then 99cent desserts. I shared some of my meal with my oldest as he's technically not 10 anymore shhhhhhhhh! If he keeps growing tall I'm going to be caught soon. 11yrold do eat more then 10yrolds. ha!

Hubbie had 3 allergic reactions while on our vacation. Nothing says "excitment" and adventure like watching your hubbie start to scratch his head, his nose, his leg then his arm while driving... ugh! I noticed his reaction before he did this time. Another time someone orded a Sizzling Skillet meal and well he's allergic to mushrooms so the smell of just walking by our table. I sent him to the car for his meds. Another day it seemed to be that someone had mowed their lawn which was flourishing in Mushrooms, yummy! deadly to some whether poisonous or not.

I'm going to have to dig out the photo cards and get some pictures load up for you all.

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?

Friday Fill-ins, Moonlight madness away!

1. Wait! Wait, don't forget _______Friday Fill-ins, I wont______.
2. ____Brake troubles_____ followed at once by ____Muffler problems, but now the van is ready for Winter_____.
3. The trouble is ____life doesn't come with a Crystal Ball, but I'm going to try to be prepared for holidays that return every year______.
4. ___Christmas seems but isn't__________ many miles away.
5. With a faint pop ___the brake Fluid was all over the driveway___________.
6. ___The CAA tow Truck was_____ shadowy and ominous.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to __taking my fixed van out to Moonlight Madness, (think Black Friday at night because Canadians are at work in the morning)___, tomorrow my plans include __having my sister visit, and bowling and maybe seeing Santa in his Parade___ and Sunday, I want to __have fun with my kids which might include them letting me play video games "with" them___!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Yes today is Thanksgiving weekend up here in Canada so today I'm baking a spice cake with AJ and getting ready to have Ham for supper. The boys Grandparents will be here next weekend so I'm saving my Turkey and fixing for their visit. The boys have been off school since Thursday and will be home Monday as well. We usually have our meal on Sunday dinners here so if we have guests they can us Monday for their clean up, travel or lazing around.

Yesterday we went out to meet up with some friends. They are visiting family in the province and seeing the East Coast for the first time. Last night we met in person for the first time. Allison and I have been emailing and chatting and talking on the phone for the last 8+yrs. We met online while expecting our 8yrolds. Yesterday those 8yrolds got to meet for the first time.

The funny part of the whole thing is the boys asked me how I knew Allison, and I said I met her on-line, and that's when the big eyes started staring me down with words like "Strangers, and internet, and careful", so I know they've been listening to me.


Happy Thanksgiving I'm so Thankful for Friends and even Computers! :) I'm also Thankful to Allison's family for hosting us and feeding us and our kids, it's so nice to meet new friends.

Fall pictures

The view from my front door out through the screen porch to my neighbours woods. I love that I get to see this and it's not plastic leaves! I'll have to decorate for Halloween soon, some of my neighbours have started to add pumpkins and scarecrows. I didn't catch any nice pictures of them though.


This is in my side yard....

I took MJ and AJ out for a walk on Saturday afternoon while the Hubbie and TJ were out helping a friend move into her new apartment. Yes I have 3 boys, Yes my youngest son's bike is pink? No we don't care because that bike? FREE~! now that's living on a budget!! It still peddles and it even carries rocks, there were some rocks all over the end of the road here and hard to walk on so we piled them into the back of the Trike and put them in the Big Puddles at the end of my driveway.




And this is what I found on my lawn, ok I found Many
but it's fall! it fell there, I'll leave it until the spring, it will protect the lawn from the heavy snow, and fertilize as it decomposes. Free Fertilizer!


And finally I couldn't leave this picture out, this tree is now 1/2 naked but on the weekend it looked like this. It was a slow and peaceful weekend and these trees are changing in that same fashion, slow and peacefully.



This is an extra post today so you can see my Random Tuesday Thoughts under this one.

And...here we go!


1. My car _is a van with two sliding doors, but this week? my drivers side slider is stuck and according to my Hubbie and the guys at the shop it's going to take a LOT Of work to get it unstuck because it's not just stuck but locked and stuck and in order to fix it we have to get the unlocked to work! I'm not happy. I did get to drive the new car this week. I don't like it, it's a sporty car I feel small on the road____.

2. ___My Hubbie's Birthday________ is coming up next.

3. Lately, things seem ____rushed, now we have band, bowlingX3, Cross country Running X2, and me trying to fit in my work out time_______.

4. _____The bathtub, with a book,______ is one of my favorite 'hiding' places.

5. What happened ____to those days when my kids were tiny and liftable? Now I've got kids as tall as my shoulders or belly button_______.

6. _____Losing weight______ is not impossible! (not gaining it back is the hard part)

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _my big walk while the kids are home playing with hubbie, and then maybe some movies with the kids____, tomorrow my plans include ___take the kids bowling, playground hopping while it's still warm enough, late night walking for me before the sun sets__ and Sunday, I want to __have great a Sunday mass experience as last week,I didn't have to waggle my finger or whisper to anyone in my family about their behaviour, it was calming and I was one happy Mommy, Praying we get a Sunday like that this week too___!

Friday Fill-ins! Labour Day weekend is here!

And...here we go!



1. I feel _excited about our new car____.

2. _The labour Day weekend__________ is always fun.

3. Right now, I can hear these things: _____the Radio playing 80's music, the ceiling fan, the breeze in the back yard, the keyboard keys,_hubbie complaining about all the things I left on the bed when he's trying to get in it,____.

4. ____School starts Tuesday_______ and I'm glad _____because everyone here really needs to get back to routine, and some other goals I have to complete which will work better with routine______.

5. The last time I ____was at goal was June 2004_______ was ______pregnant____.

6. ______Enjoy time with your family and friends_____ this Labor day weekend.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to __Spending time with my family___, tomorrow my plans include __More time with the family, ___ and Sunday, I want to __enjoy some corn and sports with the boys and my families___!