The Birthday Cake Finally, my MIA voice and 15C in March!

Due to circumstances beyond my control, we waited 2wks to have MJ's birthday party. I started baking the cake yesterday morning and it was ready for lunch but we went out driving and came home and had it for supper. MJ is now 1yr and 2wks old so he totally looks 1 now. While we were out driving we picked up MJ's birthday gift, it's a Fisher Price dinosaur thing that uses the Rollem's the ball like peekabloks,it was a hit, TJ and AJ couldn't be removed from it's entertaining "pull" (eye roll). It amazes me that a 6.5yr old would be interested in a toy rated for 6m+. I'm guessing it's the "newness" factor more than the toy itself?
So on went the day, a nice Sunday drive, a trip to the BulkBarn to pick up the candy that would finish off the cake, I used licorice for the eyes and a different Licorice for the mouth, and Miffy was the cake of choice. MJ loves to dance when Miffy comes on TV, he has no interest in the show only the song for the start and end of the program, but hey it's something for a mom to say "OK this will be a birthday cake idea!"
I'm sure there are others out there that can do a better job on evening out icing but I'm still learning that technique. Actually TJ said he didn't want the icing, so I scraped his off before I put piece in his lunch today with his leftovers from supper. That made lunch making super easy today.

As for the voice, well that's still MIA ,today is 30days since I last heard my own voice, but it's getting better. I can't "eeee, eee, eee" like a Monkey or "aahahahaha" for "no don't touch that" but soon if I keep my mouth shut it will come back. Yes you heard it from me myself and I, I talk too much.
OK I'm off to enjoy the day. OH must also mention it was 15C yesterday! Yes it was the 12th of March, and my rink is a swamp and I can almost see small "GREEN" blades of grass popping up over the Very well watered lawn. "DH" is getting a bit nervous that his lawnmower isn't completely back in one piece and ready for a full season of lawnmowing fun after I pointed out the little green bits but a 15C day is a good day to get the finishing touches on that job!

alone but different

The feeling of being alone in your own home with your dh down the hall asleep is such a different feeling from having your dh 15minutes down the road at the hospital for a week and thinking that his heart isn't working. We had a totally weird scare this past week, dh drove himself to the hospital last Friday morning with "chestpain". I hate that symptom and it's so scary when the ER tells your dh that he wont be going home until 6pm, then you get a call from dh who says he'll be there all weekend, then you do get him home on Sunday and he's so dizzy he can't stand up and you have to drive him back from his "day pass" to stay at the hospital until Wednesday. Everyday comes and goes with no sign of a specialist and it's Thursday 4pm before you can get your dh home. I'm just so happy that he's home.
I'm not a very "go go go" kind of person, since I've had MJ i've settled into a trend of letting dh do all and almsot everything, taking TJ to school, dealing with the School, getting the groceries, paying all the bills, putting AJ to bed, and TJ and I've been left with MJ, so I've gotten myself into a rut. This past week, I demolished the Rutt. I drove myself to the hospital, used the parking ticket machine, paid for the parking, gotten babysitters for the boys while I went to visit dh, drove TJ to school with MJ And AJ with me and by Thursday we shaved 5minutes off our personal best from Monday morning. Wednesday we all slept in, thinking that dh was coming home and because TJ had a 1/2 day it wasn't a big deal. Thursday I even handled an emergency pick up of TJ after he tossed his cookies at school, ICK! I then took all 3 kids with me to pick up dh at the hospital, puke bucket and all. I guess this is just a normal day for most mom's but for me it felt like I had branched out of my rut.

the rink/flooded frozen lawn

I went in and did some editing today, I had deleted some pics from this post when I was using Photobucket, forgot I used them here. oops! I went in today April4, 2009 and tried to make it look right. :)



the most middle at the bottom of the patio steps, I tried to make an ice path off to the right part but silly mild winter isn't cooperating, I'm going to get 3 days of +C temps so either that will melt out the bumps or evaporate my ice, maybe if I water it over night it will refreeze? I'll just experiment this is my first year trying this.


The smoothest end to the right of the patio

the middle and off to the left, a bit grassy
<----- this is where I was skating lastnight from that line (where the wood used to be when we had sides pre-january crazy melt season)

and this was last nights blah blah
Last night my rink was more frozen so at 821pm all boys in bed, and dh lazying arround, I took off for the ice. I was only out there for 15minutes, my socks weren't in my skates right so my feet hurt, but I was alone to think and just skate. I could hear the sound of my blades on the ice and it's just a great feeling, I'm getting more stablized out there, I've been out 5 times in the last 2wks, but being out there alone with your thoughts, the sounds of the scraping ice and the trees in the wind, it's these days I really really enjoy living "out in the woods". I'm not that far from town and my neighbours are a 2minute walk from door to door if that but it feels quieter, homier and safer than all the other homes we've owned.