Today is a learning day for me

I'm going to try my hardest to learn how to post a video. Bare with me peoples, this may take me some minutes that may turn into hours. I'm a slow learner with this computer stuff but I'm learning constantly. Oh and for Valentine's Hubby refurbished me a Laptop, I must say I LOVE second hand stuff. I also got a second hand office chair with nice wheels that wont damage my livingroom floors like my old kitchen chair was previously doing.
We took the boys sliding Sunday at one of the local parks. there are 10 outdoor rinks in town during the winter. We decided to go to the one that also had a hill for the kids to go sliding/coasting. This gives choices, and less crying. This also worked out because the ice was only in "fair" condition. The sun was shining yesterday and temps got up to +2 or 3C. Hubby took our 3 boys and 1 of my friend's girls sliding. My friend and her other daughter went skating. The crunch of the ice was a bit difficult but we skated. I think next year I'll retry my outdoor rink idea. I did it 3-4yrs ago, wait I think I even blogged it... let me find that it was February 2006 but the pictures got deleted from Photobucket. I wonder if I could even find them here on a disc and put them back into the post. That year we didn't get a lot of snow, so it was easy to keep the ice clear. This year? wow the snow.
So I'll try to get you some video today of Hubby going down the hill, he took the camera with him. ha! it's a riot. I had helmets for the kids, they didn't wear them. I'm a bad mom!



As you see, Daddy is also teaching consequences, if your sled stops in the middle of the hill, MOVE! someone else is going to come next!, please excuse his sailor oops moment. I was not at the hill at this point, I was over on the rink.I would have insist he wait or gone and moved the MJ in child from the path!, They,the city, made a great track really, it's very well done. They also upkeep the skating rinks. That's a lot of work but I'm impressed that the city takes "It's winter, might as well enjoy it" into account here. It does make it fun for the kids, and the parents and when it's not -42C with the windchill, it gets you out and active. Hubby is a down hill skier, me I'm not that kind of daredevil.

Happy Valentine's Day Bowling with the boys

Today is our usual Saturday morning rush here. My boys and I and hubbie are off bowling. The boys are all involved in bowling and we the parents help. The younger boys and I are together and have a pretty good time. They really seem to enjoy it and it's time out of the house and seeing other kids. My oldest is with the YBC, And he's on the Bantam league. He seems to like it and it's time with other kids, that aren't his brothers. Sometimes your brothers are not your best friends.

I'm sitting here in my pjs trying to get my brain moving over tea and some blog reading. It gets me a small taste of adults brains and then I'll go be surrounded by kids. The Best part of my bowling is that the parents are bowling with the kids so we can help the little ones learn, help them take turns and intervene when there is only 1 green ball and 3 boys that want to use it for all 3 balls.
The kids learn to share and take turns, the moms/dads/grandmas learn to parent in public. Yes use your indoor voice, understand that other parents have rules too, understand that some parents have no rules. Today we get to wear red for Valentine's. I will have to find my red top, and my pink fleece. The alley is a tad bit cool. I'm still in my pjs, the tea is almost gone. My eyes are almost open, I will enjoy myself, oh and there's a slice of pizza! Off I go to the cold cold van. BTW Do you think bowling counts as lunges?

Well I must seriously be wintered out?

Last night I went to bed relatively early, about 10ish after watching NCIS. It was a good episode. I didn't find anything else to watch and when your eyes are closing over while your watching tv, it's time for SLEEP! I unsnuggled myself out of the sofa blankets and resnuggled myself into bed. I slept like a rock, no one wanted to get up to go to the bathroom, no one called out in pain from growing pains so it was 635 when the alarm went off I got up sat on the side of the bed and then hubbie said the magic words, I'll drive AJ in! Today TJ is home sick so AJ would have had to get ready and walk to the bus stop alone. I like this plan, it means 35more sleeping minutes.
I went right back to sleep! Zonk gone! I guess I must have really went to sleep hard because I started to dream. The Dream is where I've realized winter needs to end now.
In the dream I started out in the house, doing whatever, it was snowing outside, hubbie had cleared the driveway with the snow blower. We had another person in the house, teen, I can't quite place her, but she was leaving to go somewhere. I said I'll help shovel you out.. so shovel shovel... I'm out on the front walk shoveling behind where our screen porch door swings open and I see 4 boys coming up my lawn and driveway and a truck. The person in the truck starts pushing my extended cab truck (I have a van but whatever) out of it's parked spot. I'm getting angry, I said "Go away, I don't need any help, and your scratching my car" and then I kept saying it over and over, I threatened to call the police for trespassing? they didn't leave. The person comes out of the big truck she's a heavy set woman and she's got a cake box (bakery kind you know???) and says "that will be (can't remember) dollars minus the 20% for having it cleared before we got here. I then took my shovel, which was one I remembered from my child hood, with the steel pan and had it right up to the woman's Throat... and the alarm went off! How Dare they touch "MY" snow?
Yep I think my mind is too preoccupied with snow. Abandon chair btw has some snow shrinkage going on, you can now see the "bumps" where the snow is higher from where it fell on the arms of the chair. 5wks and 1day to spring...