Summer is not cancelled.

Today I got to go and see my Surgeon,and after 11wks of healing, I'm now allowed to go back to my "regular activities" YAY!!! I'm so excited. It's not until the moment someone says you can't do something that you want to do it. There were many things this past 11wks that I wasn't allowed to do, and some I snuck in there anyway. There were days I threw clothes down the stairs 1 by 1 just to get the laundry pile shorter in the main bathroom. There was that Tarp pulling I shouldn't have done when the roof was going on, but it's done now.

Things I will be doing this summer.

~Chasing boys, my sons! YAY! Funny I seem to remember chasing boys in my teens too, this is more fun.

~Chasing boys outside to the Crop Circle. My boys have a love for Dirt and Water. We (you know we,Hubbie) went and bought them 1000lbs of sand for the back yard. Now the pile of sand? is in the garage in bags, it has to make it's way to the back yard. I think it's a definite job for "We". I have pictures for you... (dig through archives...)

This is our Crop circle. I took this picture in 2007 Spring, the date on the camera wasn't set up right, I was still learning. This is what I caught one morning while the boys were at school and MJ was probably napping. This is where the boys play. These little critters were busy playing that morning. The boys really do love it out there. It used to be a swimming pool but when we moved into the house, we decided not to use it. I went out there one day and tore the whole things down bolt by bolt. I had no idea, an above ground pool was just a frame with a liner.

~Swimming, now in reality I can't swim properly, I'm a bit nervous of the water since forever. So I will be taking the boys to the beach with reinforcements, friends that can Swim well and have none of that water nervousness I have when left alone.

~Cottage time on the Island. we are definitely heading to the Island. The Island is where I grew up, but left at 22. I haven't lived there since then but we go back 1-2times a year. We purposely moved here to be closer to the island so that my kids would have a connection with the Island and my and my Hubbie's Families.

~Camp, Day Camp. I'm a SAHM and while a day camp/daycare isn't necessary for me, the boys need the socialization and the time away from each other. They do love each other but it's a very hands on love sometimes that involves bruises if they are playing together TOO much. We've decided 1 week each is good for the summer. I thought these weeks would be separate but it turns out that the best weeks for TJ is the same Week that AJ will be at a Different Camp. I'm sure MJ will love this. I will, of course, have to Taxi people from place to place. So 2wks have been spoken for as definite plans and that just leaves the other 8 to fill in the blanks.

~BBQ almost every evening meal, because who wants to heat up a house more at the end of a day?

~work on the last 18lbs to goal and I'm sure the chasing of children will help

~Teach my kids Camp songs I remember from going to Camp. "...learn to play the piano in your winter underwear...." some of these songs totally creep my Hubbie out.hehe hahaha all the more fun. I can't wait to "great green Gobs..." him choir style.


Things I learned last year and wont be doing this year?
~Taking the 3 boys for hair cuts all on the same day!

~Taking the boys to the grocery store alone! nope that will be my time, I'll escape I mean go out later in the evening while they are entertaining Daddy with their stories.

~Let them have a water gun fights while the back patio Door is open! oops! that was a lot of water!

~forget sunscreen there is a bottle in each and ever beach bag this time, and one on the shelf on the way to the back yard.

The best part of being home with the boys is that I can change this at anytime well other then those day camps, I put a deposit on them! Summer here we come! Only 25more days of school.

Random Tuesday returns

and I didn't do my homework, let me think... thinking... oh now that's random...

Go to Unmom and get yourself a Random Tuesday Badge, like this here... and play along. I have to say because it's Random it's the easiest Blogging idea I've ever done.


Let me see... more thinking.

The chair? yes the chair is still in the back yard but is gaining power vs the snow back there. I'll have to go snap a picture before it rains today... (rushes to deck to take picture....hunts for camera.....okay this no longer qualifies as rushing...)



This week we've made some changes to the house, got to work on that Canadian stimulus refund for home improvements. We replaced all the door knobs in the house. It's a small change but I'm amazed how "nice"they look. Now, I want to throw money at the outdoor light fixtures. There's that Job word floating around in my head again. (eying resumes still anchored under scanner, wipes brow)

Hernia healing is still going on, I've managed to move my brisk outdoor walking up to 30minutes but no lifting. No laundry. I'm doing okay, but it's 6wks tomorrow, and I can still feel that pulling feeling.

We got our family picture taken in November for our Church Directory, we got the copy of the Directory this past Sunday, we look good! Amazing how much "SIT DOWN AND LOOK AT THAT CAMERA OR NO DS FOR A WEEK" will do for a nice looking photo. Oh and an Elmo on an Elastic coming at you at BAM! speed. The boys really do look fabulous. We've had the pictures in the house since about 2wks before Christmas. They aren't on the walls yet, they are next to the wall and in frames we want to put on the walls, but uh no not on the walls.

Carbohydrates are not my friend, no no no, not moving much and sitting on my butt and eating toast? not good nope! there are inches that must now somehow airbrush themselves off my body.

Hubbie just sent me a link to a article on BBQ safety, looks like "we" have to clean our BBQ. Which really means "he". It's so much easier to get things done around here when I say "Let's go clean the yard", he walks outside, I point at what "we" need to do and I walk back in to "Watch the kids" it's good, it's a system it works. It really works well for the lawn mower. "I'll make sure the kids don't go out while your mowing" ha! would they ever? or "Let's get this dishwasher unloaded" and off I go to read a book to the kids, hehehe. Maybe it's not the "let's" but the kids?

MJ is getting to the sneaky phase of life, he got into AJ's Easter Treats, and "found" his DS. I didn't know he found it until I saw the electronic glow coming from underneath MJ's Bed. Lock your toys boys, move them higher, MJ is 4!

I was reading over at Stacy's Random Thoughts... She's got voles, I've seen holes in the lawn here for about 2-3yrs. We had to get a load of fill to put the dirt onto the front lawn 2yrs ago. I wonder if we have Voles? but why would they leave the Irises, Hosta or Tulips alone? I think here it's Moles, or Gophers. Hubbie is continually saying "Damn Gophers"




but this guy looks bigger then the holes we see out there. More research...

If you'd like more Random Thought Posts, go see Unmom, she's got a list full of great Bloggers, read,scroll down there, click and read more. Happy Tuesday

Happy Saturday, Recovery update

The biggest plus of my recovery is that I'm getting to sleep in, and when I say sleep in you know that means nothing after 9am but still it's later. The Hubbie has been getting up with the kiddies. I Love it and yes I might even be staying in the bed longer then I need to but come on, someone else is on the job, why waste that?


Today I got up at 9 and the boys were fed, oh well easy remedy for that one Box of Cereal, and healthy Milk. I have to be sure to give AJ the skim milk, he gets belly aches when he drinks 2% or Higher and luckily he's the child that wakes up last on the weekends so it's hard to get it wrong, when he ROLLS out of his room, Nintendo DS in hand.
So here I sit drinking my tea...I'm a new addict, I found out this past year that I can't drink Coffee anymore, I get MASSIVE pain. I was on acid blockers for about 3months to fix my poor stomach, as long as I keep eating well though, I don't need the blockers. I wont be telling my dr that though! and I do take about 10 at a time in my purse just in case I have a Being BAD Day. I've got to say this sitting home not lifting or over walking is really not helping my weight loss. I think Weight Gain is going well though.
What's been going on here lately?Me nothing, I've done nothing. Oh wait I did sneak down yesterday to the basement and put a load of dark clothes in there. I Did not carry the clothes down, or take them upstairs. It worked out OK. The laundry was down there and I just had to push buttons and move the clothes 1 at a time into the machine. I wont be telling anyone I did it, cause once they figure that out they'll figure they don't have to. This morning I got TJ to open the machine and pull out the clothes for me, wet clothes are heavier then dry. He did a great job! This boy learned to do laundry at a VERY early age. oh wait this is is a story!Maybe I've already told it?... (scanning archives...)nothing mentioned that I could see
When TJ went to Kindergarten he LOVED the water, LOVED it! was the best place ever. Recess ROCKED his world, he'd go out in the playground and start digging and driving trucks around and of course sit in the puddles! oh the teachers were not pleased, I wasn't pleased. Splash pants? yeah they don't do much for sitting in the puddles. TJ would come home (the Hubbie would pick him up)a nd he's BE COVERED in wet and mud. I had to wash his jacket, splash pants everything right down to his undies, ever single day after school. I finally got smart. I said "TJ you go down stairs, put all your clothes in the washing machine. I'll give you the soap, you poor it in, and you sit here"(pointing to little red chair) until the clothes are washed, then you come get me, I'll help you get it out of the machine, you will put it in the dryer/on the clothes line depending on the season, I think it was too cold that time of year. The punishment of course was the sitting on the chair waiting for the washing machine to stop. We managed to nip it in the bud by a week later, he could get 3 days out of his jacket by then, buTTT grade 1? yep it started again as soon as fall hit! boys and Mud! but the plus of all this is that he knows exactly how to use the washing machine and dryer. My plans for kids doing all the slave labour in the house are working splendidly... (insert evil laugh).
So the wash is dry now. AJ is now off to clean his room, and MJ can raid the fridge all on his own successfully. I put the milk on the bottom door shelf in the fridge and premade him a sub yesterday. Today he ate that while waiting for me to wake up and the cereal to be served.
This weekend we are going to get into a more organized slave labour chore chart and plan. I can't be doing everything, and I've still got 1+month of healing. I am getting back to feeling normal though. YAY!!!

also if your interested... It rained A LOT lastnight, this is before the rain got going fast!

Random Tuesday, I did homework!

Let's see, Random, wait let me get my note book, yep I did my homework, something small came to mind and I wrote it down. I'm There this week! Get your Badge over at The Unmom Keely Shares!

discussion with MJ
Me "I love the Babies"
MJ pulls thumb out of mouth "I wasn't sucking my thumb, I was just kissing it"
I had to laugh, I just couldn't let that much Kyootness go to waste and I wrote it down. See homework!

Spring, yeah uh no, not yet...I'm still taking pictures of abandon chair. It keeps me busy.
I know it's blurry. I'm not good at this photography stuff, I'm very much a point and shoot kind of person.



But mother nature is not cooperating. It rained all night Sunday into Monday, then at about 9am yesterday it all turned to snow, The chair did well, it seemed to shake it off or wiggle it's shoulders in a way as to not let the snow stick but I think it must have fell asleep over night because this morning there is tell tale signs of about 7cm of snow. So two steps forward and 1 step back into winter?





update since I started typing, the Sun is here!! maybe this stuff will melt faster? (looking to heaven,please?)

I won something, well it feels like I won something. Headless mom over at The adventures of The Headless Family is decluttering, it's a win win situation. Her kids are outgrowing stuff, mine is just getting an introduction to some of her "Stuff". I can't say Thank you Enough!! Thank you AJ will be super pleased.

Does anyone know this Twitter or follow them? articlesonline's? I don't see anyone I follow on the list but you never know? oh and Twitter has taken over my life along with blip.fm! best hernia recovery toys ever!!

Hernia,it's recovering,tomorrow I start walking around my block here. Oh anyone play with Google maps? I took a walk on the weekend with the little yellow dude and a satellite map around my old neighourhood.I used to walk4-6miles a night with my neighbour, helped knock 65/80lbs off that year. It brought back a lot of memories and like Nennette's clip of her old place in Hawaii in LifeCandy, it was a sentimental journey.
Memories are great.

What else is in my Random Thought brain for today. I had to laugh a bit today, I made Popcorn last night in the microwave for the boys, I put it in paper bags to go into their lunch. This morning I hear "you've got a sandwich and popcorn, that's it you ate all the other lunch supplies yesterday after school" Luckily I made the bags BIG! Maybe it's time for groceries, and restocking the shelves with things other then pizza?

OH speaking of Pizza, TJ won Second Place this weekend at bowling! they had an in-house tournament, he won 15. Greco dollars,(it's an eastern Canada chain I think, I am not paid for that link, it's just for explanation purposes!) and decided we could all have pizza for supper, 2 medium pizzas, one mommy and daddy like and 1 the boys like. What a guy! Hubbie was happy because well he didn't have to cook. I'm a bit tired of pizza and KFC now. I want my kitchen back. As long as he drags the Crocklikepot, Bread maker and washes down the heavy broiler pan, I think I can get back to cooking "real" food! Now the bathroom, no I think that scrubbing would totally blow our my internal stitches, don't you think?
Milk? did someone mention milking it? nahhhhhhh