Mindful Mommy Mondays

ham-ir ham-ir
Liamese for Come Here!

smell-o-blog

mmmm smells like "yellow"

ride of your life

giggling maniacly

aah that was good - more please

17 months old and already addicted to speed

Recipe

or how to fall asleep in the tub at 8 pm on a saturday night

Ingredients

• 6 days waking up at 5 am
• 1 - 17 month old who doesn't stop ever
• 100+ tantrums & fits
• 3 people sick with a wicked cold
• 1 larger soaker tub
• several gallons of hot water
• 1 amazingly soft bath pillow (thanks shan)

Combine and pruny zzz's are on the way!

GAH! i'm such an old lady

New Rules

Peter decided to give me some rules and guidelines for the blog.

1. stop provoking the crazies (wait i think that might provoke them, dammit!)


2. only talk about bedtime banter when it involves his "bits"


3. don't refer to Liam as our 'mistake' (which i haven't done until now)

I only have one thing to say

does the rust protection work on plastic too?

While we are waiting tentatively for our financing approval for the Element, the young woman tries to sell us every known upgrade and service protection and CRAP for the car. Cause really we arent spending ENOUGH MONEY!

So after she spouted on about the value of rust protection, Peter and I both wondered if the wonderful rust inhibiting ions was really worth $1000 on a vehicle that is mostly plastic.

So today we spent an ASSLOAD

So we said when we get back from our not so cheap vacation that we were (and i quote):

"Going to tighten up a little"

Well today Peter and I bought this --

Not exactly tightening anything.

Flashy fridays

" my daddy is a creepy lurking old guy who follows me and my friends around"

Where's Liam Wednesdays...

¡Déjeme en paz!

bedtime banter

i swear i had fajitas and a salad at mcdonalds

really?

yeah they are pretty good and I even had some of that john newman dressing

john newman?

huh?

john newman dressing?

yeah.

paul.

huh?

paul newman.

right. no - mcdonalds is cheaping out now and giving knock-off dressing.

the nightmare begins...

Liam's itinerary for a cold:

1. probably up at least once in the night -- for an HOUR
2. still get up at 5 am
3. scream and carry on for mommy so she can't get even an hour to make up for the 2 + hours she lost in the night
4. mommy tries to wipe my nose and i FREAK OUT
5. fuss over breakfast and not eat much
6. have a tantrum -- i mean full out people, lay on the floor and scream and cry and hit and stomp -- basically the whole nine yards
7. tell mommy i want to eat and then don't eat anything she gives me
8. have another tantrum
9. run into the wall or furniture so i hurt myself and then FREAK OUT again
10. repeat as see fit

Mindful Mommy Mondays

no matter how fast you flap your arms, you will not fly

sorry baby

computer virus?

is it possible to transfer ACTUAL viruses over the internet?

The only people - my online mommies - I know that are sick and have sick children I have only been in contact with online.

SO!!! how is it that Liam and I both ended up sick?!

gone. gone forever.

after watching 25 minutes learning about Dora's "happy box" I am struck that the lesson I learned from today's episode is:

Only put things that make you happy in your happy box.

Really is there any other lesson worth learning...?

if you see this bonnie brunette

It's an epidemic

STALKER-a-polooza

sadly this bonnie brunette

is tragically trichopathophobic

if you see her just flash her a ponytail

Where's Liam Wednesdays...(thursday edition)

hide hide HIDE!

Ten on Tuesday: 10 Idols/Heroes When I was a Kid

1. wonder woman - i wanted the lasso and the bracelets more than ANYTHING
2. spiderman - i made my mom buy me the boys underoos
3. my nana - she was always well dressed and serene
4. marilyn monroe - just a great tragic beauty
5. princess leia - who didnt want to be her?
6. madonna - queen of pop
7. river phoenix - another tragic beauty
8. cyndi lauper - weird quirky funny

Next Week: Top 10 Things You Like to Do Alone

Princesses don't like to be pee-peed on

While trying to convince her VERY smart and VERY stubborn daughter to go on the potty, Shannon used the convincing argument that "princesses don't like to be pee-peed on". Though by the third time Bella peed on cinderella we're all guessing that she knows something we don't.

made me realize

So as usual I'm reading Oh, the joys this week and I had this sudden realization that I really would love one of my friends to have a baby. I would love to look at them with that tenderness and kindness that other mothers had for me when I was pregnant with my first. I would love to see them stare at wonder at their body and their sweet baby. But most of all, I would love for them to be a part of this motherhood thing and to know and understand when I just want to hear them talk about their lives and when I am weepy it's no ones fault.

So - GIRLS (you know who you are) - GET TO IT!!!!

P.S. I would also like to be the one to smile and coo at their sweet little monkey faces and then HAND THE BABY BACK when it starts to cry.

dammit i'm being aggressively pursued

now THIS girl is stalking me

Luckily, she is levophobic

(i know i know what the f*#k is with her hair???)

Ethyl alcohol & the ER

Generally when I leave Liam in Peter's capable hands I have a moments rest - until I hear them racing up the stairs. Peter with Liam under one arm and a bottle of hand sanitizer in the other...

We struggle for 10 minutes trying to get the child to throw up - not as easy as you might think. Apparently we can stick both our fingers down his throat and he will not barf.

So off we went to the ER. 2 hours, a pulse, a sugar test and a blood test later.
He's fine.

Not exactly what I had in mind for a Sunday evening.

Mindful Mommy Mondays

SQWAAAAK!

almost forgot a promise

this girl is stalking me

she knows who she is

luckily for me she is tragically ophthalmophobic
so i can pretty much sneak around her

Flashy fridays

a love triangle with a wolf?
honey, you can keep the hairy bastard

Cayo Largo is the best place on earth

view from our room

Where's Liam Wednesdays...

he already knows i dont like boats but no.....

Ten on Tuesday: 10 high school memories

1. some kid smashing his head open in a pool in Ottawa class trip
2. playing cards in the cafe
3. sitting on the stairs out back watching the boys play hacki
4. learning to love & then HATE french
5. watching our math teach mumble to herself at the front of the room
6. wondering how drunk our grade 9 english teacher would be any given day
7. getting pennies thrown at me by mr.morrison
8. being asked to teach a grade 9 english class when i was only 17
9. thinking i knew everything
10. hanging out in the halls with the girls

Next week: 10 Idols/Heroes When You Were a Kid

Cuba 2007

Cayo Largo was fabulous! Very relaxing, very soothing and VERY HOT!

Peter and I enjoyed every minute of it...

But we were so happy to come home.

Our sweet faced lil' munchkin changed in a week,

he grew (like an inch)

he mimics (even more) - "don't say CRAP"

he loves george more than dora

who knew what could happen in a week?!

Mindful Mommy Mondays

i dont remember them being THAT big