Friday Fill-ins Being the Adult, Not a chicken

And...here we go!



1. __Driving with 3 boys, and I will be repeating "it___ is not the end of the world".

2. Sitting here, listening to the sound of rain falling, I __am going to be suffering for SAD in the summer too this year. The sun is not shining enough for summer, and the leaves are about 1/4 changed on my trees, yes I know it's summer___.

3. ___Island Pizza,is in my memory and i can't wait to get some because__ tastes so good!

4. Sometimes, putting others first is _key to happiness, it's giving and receiving___.

5. __My Island__ is breathtaking, really.

6. Well, maybe there is __enough nerve in me to do this along. I've never driven anywhere being the pilot of the car let alone with the 3 boys. I'm sure it's worth it, I just have to get it done. Nervous? YES! I don't know how other people do this__. (yeah it's the only think on my mind after tomorrow I'll have done it!)

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to __packing up the van so it's all done by morning___, tomorrow my plans include _driving 7hours to my destination with the boys and not freaking out or chickening out, no I will not chicken out. I'm the grown up right? yes please? I'm the grown up. ____ and Sunday, I want to _relax! on the deck of the cottage with Captain Morgan his friend diet coke and my parents to be the adults and watch my kids, wait I'm susposed to be the adult.__and relax knowing the kids are spending quality time with their grand parents, and sleeping safely in their sleeping bags. yeah that's it__!

Words from MJ,my MJ not that other dead guy.

So the older boys are away at Daycamp this week. (cue the chorus) They have having a great time. They love it. I think these boys would actually enjoy daycare if I was out working and making enough money to pay for MORE then daycare, but here? no I've not worked 'outside the home' for 11yrs now, its' hard to go back. VERY hard.

Today I've got my favorite part of being home with the boys, I get to listen to what's on their minds and hear what they are thinking. I asked MJ what he wanted to bring to the cottage to eat.

"what do you want to eat at the cottage?, what should we bring with us?"

MJ:"Cereal"

Me: "OK what kind?"

MJ:"Honey Nut" note he didn't say the name of the stick figured hiker or the Bee cereal because we buy store brand, they are trained well the don't know the name of the real stuff, LOL

Me: OK so we'll bring a box of that, what else?

MJ "Hot Dogs?"

Me OK, yes they have a BBQ there we can do hotdogs,

MJ " Do they have a George at the cottage?"

Me : no honey no George,

"ohhhhh" Low disappointed voice. So it's not just me that likes my hotdogs sans previously cooked food off the BBQ, he love that George Foreman Grill as much as I do. I had to laugh though, the way he said OK well now it's not as cute as it sounded when he said it when it's all written out.

on to the more amusing.

sing songy voice "I'm walking on nothing" tiptoeing across the livingroom.
Still singing with hands in bunny position "I'm jumping on nothinggggggg"

We canceled cable about 13months ago, we have No TV here, we used to get some antenna stations but since all the stations went digital we can't even get the CBC. I guess there will be no Hockey Night in Canada this fall. There have been some pluses, he's got a lot more imagination and I can see that MJ is using his own imagination for make believe play more then the older two. We have DVDs and the Wii and they do suck up a bit of time here and there so I can make a few meals, but right now the only extra sound in the house is the hum of my CPU tower (yeah I'm married to a tech, I don't get "new" stuff, I get "I can fix it" and "oh I'll just modify it" but the wait? oh the wait),and MJ making car noises and little conversations for his imaginary people in the cars. It's quite the story. Today they are all lined up waiting to get on the train. They all seem to be going on vacation and one guy is going to pick up his boat but his trailer is hauling a car that he hopes to trade in for the boat? (seems like a great deal to me, I want to live in his economy) There is now talk of the beach and the cars thinking the train will take them to the beach. It sounds like it's possible as I would think the boat would be easier to pick up at a waterfront sight at the end of the journey. I wonder if this train carries cars like a ferry?

(insert waiting for the camera to charge for uploading picture)





This reminds me we finally got our cuccumbers planted in the box that I built with MJ for his seedlings.



I'll post that picture too. He's very proud of the box because he got to use the cordless screw driver(I held it steady) and to fill the box up with dirt.



! We he has have blossoms now! poor seedlings are tiny still though. It's raining so he's told me he doesn't have to water them today.

Random Tuesday Thoughts, camp week, YAY!

Tuesday rolls in again, faster then last week it seems.



Soooooo there's an "island" floating down the "river". We have bought a pass to a localish beach, we swim there and sit on the beach and snack there. There is a causeway going across well on the other side? aparently a piece of land broke away and it's floating down the river. This here is the problem, if it 5meters X15meters, gets through the boat ways, it could run into this....



There is a DQ commercial on our radio about the tin roof blizzard? the guy apparently gets so excited his voice goes high? It's rediculous, it just makes the guy sound like a dweeb! stupid commercial.

Lately we've been dreaming of tent trailers, wow those things have almost everything. It will be a long time before we're able to get one though, so we wait it out.


The older boys are in daycamps this week. They seem to like it and are not bored home with mom. MOM is sOOOOO Boring, she expects them to entertain themselves? I was talking to Mrs lastnight and we talked about all the things we did as kids. Summer? slept a bit later, got up fed yourself, got dressed, got on your bikes and were gone! your mom said "come home for lunch" you were gone after that, you might have had to do a few dishes, but gone again, then it was "come home for supper" and more dishes, and off you went and the last thing you heard was come home when the lights come on the poles". Next day you did it again. There was no "playdates" you went down the road on your bike, you stopped and talked ot people, you either played with them or move on. You went exploring in the woods and saw stuff. now? way different.

I painted my nails this last week and my toe nails? MJ then asked me to do his? I didn't cause it's summer and you cna't hide painted toes on a boy at the beach, it's bad enough that his blond hair gets those "she" comments. "oh isn't she cute" "what's her name?" "oh your a cute little girl (wearing all the hotwheels paraphernalia I can find), how old are you?" and then he gets his snappiness face on and says "I'm a boy" and you can almost hear that "stupid" said after it. he doesn't but it's there.

So Friday is the last day of Camp and Saturday, I'm going to the island, just me and the 3 boys. I've never done this trip alone iwth the 3 of them, or 2 of them and part of me is excited, because once I do it once it's done, but the other part of me is all "what am I thinking". 3 boys, rest stops, gas stations, and the trapped in the tincan feeling. wooooohoooooo fun!

If I'm not close to a computer, I may set the Hubbie into blog the Random Tuesday's. I can only imagine what he'd come up with.

You know a raise would be nice.

MJ just came over with a yogart tube waving it at me 'glowstick!' oh it will be a long ride I'm sure of it.