Day 1:)

It’s 10am here and so far today we’ve been busy!!!

We got up this morning and made our beds. I folded the laundry, as of now it has yet to be put away. We cleaned up the kitchen and did a general pick up of the house.
Then we set off for our half a mile walk to Gigi’s house and walked the half a mile back!!!

We got home and made Chocolate covered PB Bananas that I had seen on another blog (sorry can’t remember the name and of course I didn’t save the link) Here’s the recipe we used:

2 bananas cut into slices
Peanut Butter
Milk Chocolate chips

Lay banana slices on a cookie sheet covered in Wax paper. Cover each piece with PB.

Take about a cup and a half of milk chocolate chips and place them in a microwave safe bowl (I added a splash of milk) Microwave @ 15 second intervals until all the chips are melted and you have a nice consistency. ( Mine was a little on the thinner side since the kids were helping and I wouldn’t be able to move as fast)

You dip each of your Bananas in the melted chocolate and place on the wax paper covered cookie sheet. Place in the freeze, once frozen you can moved them to a freezer bag and enjoy a couple at a time on a HOT day!!!!

I’ll have a picture up of our creation later on this evening!!!
We hope everyone has a great Summer Vacation!!!!

 

The Summer Plan

This is a page I’ll be updating over the week or so with just some of the fun things we plan to do this summer:) Almost all are free with one fun outing planned around the 4th of July!! I’m so excited to be able to put this together. I will writing a blog every night to chronicle our days this summer. Showing all the fun projects and such. I hope you enjoy this as much as we do!!!

We will have one blanket project that will hopefully last us all summer long. We are going to be making a Family Story Box this summer. (Think pen pal, meets time capsule, meets Scrapbook)!!!
So here’s our list so far:

1. Finger paint Day: From scratch, we’re going to make our own finger paints and make our own master pieces!!!

2. Make up a ridiculous Holiday:) Got this idea from another family blog. Their holiday is Family Donut Day on August 20th.

3. Decorate a shirt:) Not exactly sure on this one but looking at Tye Dye!!!

4. Learning time:) My goal is for us to learn something new every single day.

5. Make our own bread:)

6. Make our own bubbles!!

7. Have our own earth Day!!! (We have one problem area where the kids and I are going to go take a garbage bag and clean it up!!!)

8. Make fruit salad.

9. A special movie day!!! (One rainy day this summer.. where we pile on the couch and make popcorn for a movie marathon)

10. A Day of Side walk fun. ( Chalk, sidewalk paint, hopscotch….

11. One day this summer, we are taking the kiddos to play mini golf. I’m so excited about this. C love to play and S never has!!!

12. Lightning bug Party!!!

Many more to come!!! Watch for update and add your own suggestions we are always up for new things to do:)

On being Lonely…

I think I’ve come to the realization that I’m lonely.. I must have missed the memo that no one ever tells you when you become a mom. It’s not only a hard job but sometimes it’s a lonely one.
I mean sure you’ve got friends but when your a mom, you put almost all your energy into your kids. You forget what you were like before you had them. They become your center. It’s so hard to explain it in words the shift your life takes.
Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t trade it for the world nothing is better for me. It’s just lonely.
Gone are the days when you can take off because you feel like it. Gone are the days when you can pick up and meet a friend. Gone are the days when you shower in peace. Gone are they days when you don’t have to make dinner or lunch or breakfast.

It wears you down. The idea that you are no longer the person you use to be. You have days where you feel you’ve lost your fun, you have days where you feel like your name really is mommy and not the name your parents gave you. Some days are worse than others. It is just how it is.
I think the worst of it is that as my kiddos grow and they don’t need me as much, the lonelier I become. It’s much easier to forget about things when your needed constantly.

This is just what’s on my mind today. Not every day is lonely but for some reason today is. C is at school, S is playing quietly on her own and I’m sitting here debating on what I’m going to clean today and when I’m going to start dinner tonight (at least I already know what we’re having!)

Summer is fastly approaching… and losing teeth:)

With summer coming and school days ending, I’m finding myself day dreaming about summer time and all the fun activities I can do with my kids while we have our last free time together before both are in school. In August I will be kissing both my little bits goodbye for a good school day!!!
I’m thinking of baking and making play doh and dyeing shirts for the 4th!!! Lots of fun ideas and such.

In other news C has now lost both of his front teeth. One last week and the other one yesterday!!! He’s full of nothing but cuteness right now:) We seem to keep missing the tooth fairy by forgetting to put our tooth under the pillow. I think he’s just happy that he doesn’t have loose teeth in his mouth!

So what are your plans for summer? Any fun ideas or projects your planning on doing with your family?

The normal life…

This is an update!!! It’s not just any update, it is the update and the best one to boot:) We are back to normal. No more silly doctors appointments. S is good to go and got the all clear from the Endocrinologist!! She is anemic but that is being handled by her vitamin!!! So life is finally back to normal. Now I can start updating the blog more and stop being so stressed:)

In other news, we are working very hard to get the ball rolling on a home loan!!! This excites me so very very much as it’s time for us to take the plunge!!!

In other news, C was invited to test for the encore program at school!!!! He’s tested now and we are waiting for the results. If he’s accepted, he will be with other advanced students one day a week next year!

So I know I’m rambling, I guess that happens when you wait so long between posts:) More updates coming soon!!!

BzzAgent woman:)

So I just got accepted into a new bzz campaign for Garnier Fructis. Not my normal product but I’m hear good things!!! Will let everyone know how it goes after my first couple of uses!!!

Well.. (yes it’s a deep subject)

Sometimes as parents we over look things. We forget that they have no clean shirt to wear tomorrow or maybe we forget that they have dance/ soccer practice the next day. It happens, it doesn’t make you less of a parent or mean that you love them any less, it means your human.

As parents we almost always remember the small milestones, their first words or steps, switching from a bottle and being potty trained. We remember all those things because we love our children no matter what. Sometimes, I think we love them so much, we forget to be objective with them. We forget to look at them sometimes and see their imperfections in a way that others see them. For some parents it’s all about making sure your child compares. For me it’s never been about comparison, at least not until now.

So we’ve done the initial Doctor appointment, we even went back for more blood work (waiting on the results now). Her original blood work showed that she was slightly anemic and has and under active Thyroid. So now we have a start point right? Wrong. We now have a spring board.

From this spring board, I started noticing other things, like the fact that my 4 almost 5 year old, doesn’t know her ABC’s and can’t count to 10 without help. I’ve noticed that she doesn’t remember things the way my son does. She already has a speech problem. No F’s in her vocabulary at all.. all F’s are D’s (four being dour). It’s painful to think that I’ve missed something that I should have seen.

At what point does a parents love cloud their judgement? At what point does a parents love stop being enough? I’m so worried that I missed something big. I’m worried that this is all my fault, for not paying enough attention, for not “catching” it sooner, for staying in denial. No parent ever wants to hear that their child isn’t like other kids. It’s a hard reality to come smack you in the face and here I sit with one child who is so intelligent and so smart and so curious:) and one that has no desire to learn or retain things. I always knew my children would be different from one another. I wanted that, I never expected, nor wanted them to be the same. I just never thought in a million years the difference would be this large. The gap this far.

Scary Parent Moment:) 2012 #1 (DISCLAIMER DO NOT WORRY EVERYTHING IS FINE)

It’s been a while since I’ve updated but today is a day that deserves a bit of updating.
So we’ve all been sick since Feb 17th (Some sort of URI.. ie. nothing a trip to the doctor would fix as it was a viral thing) Being sick in my house is never a good thing. We don’t get sick very often, so when we do, we really do.
It all started with C he come home from school on the 17th and just didn’t feel good and then proceeded to run a fever. It spread from there.
I got it and S got it and eventually R got. Now we are on day 10. C has come out of it pretty easy and so has R.

S and Mommy are a whole other story. We’ve had it kind of hanging on. Me with my head being full of stuff and S with a cough that was not really productive. SO R and I decided to give S some Children’s Mucinex to see if we could help her cough be a bit more productive and get it out of her system a little faster. Her first dose was this morning @ about 430 this morning. By 9 she seemed good her nose was running and her cough was there but at least it sounded more wet than dry (I know TMI).

So off we go about our day. My goal today was to do some work out side to get the yard ready for the new season. So out we go. I’m working and Sarah is playing on our hill. She turns to me and says “Mommy I’m tired and I want to go back inside.” I said “Okay Sarah.” At which point she makes it to the top of our side hill and starts to cry. I asked her what’s wrong. Sarah says “My leg hurts” Mind you she wont look at me. So I go up and pick her up to carry her to the porch so we can sit down and see what is going on with her leg. She wouldn’t tell me why it hurt. So I went to go move my arm and she went a little limp in my hand. So I tried to get her attention at which point She closed her eyes and went completely limp. I called her name and couldn’t get her to respond. She was out for about 15 secs.
I think it was the longest 15 seconds of my life. After taking her on the rounds today, we have an appointment with a family practitioner on March 6th to make sure there isn’t anything serious going on with her. Until then we were told that if it happens again we should go to the emergency room. As of right now she is resting and so am I. As a parent I don’t think I’ve ever had a scarier moment. I panicked and thank the lord for having great neighbors who waited it out with me while R made his way home. I can’t imagine my life without all of the special people in it!!!

We are asking for everyone to send good vibes our way that it’s nothing serious:) At this point we aren’t worried she is back to her normal self and is in no immediate danger:)

No You Did Not….

So about 2 weeks ago Ryan and I decided to take the plunge:) We decided that it was time for our family to get with the times. So we got a Wii!!!

The kids have been wanting a new game system for a while and I was starting to see that having an Original Xbox was no longer working for us like it did at one time. So Ryan took a Friday off work to go do all of the shopping for us. (We didn’t want to have to take the kids along for such a big purchase.)
He got home and set it all up with the help of our beautiful princess S all while C was still in school for the day. I don’t get to do to many surprises for my kiddos and we thought that this was such a huge thing, especially for our big guy that a surprise was just what we needed!!! Please enjoy the video of out Wii surprise, we do believe that our son lost his ability to think rationally for the first time in a long time!!

 

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The old Cell Phone debate:)

So lately my 6 year old keeps mentioning that he wants a cell phone..(shocking right??) I’ve seen some of the other children his age carrying one around and I just can’t imagine.

So we come to the whole question.. At what age should a child be allowed to have a cell phone and should it be an expense you pay for?

SOOO.. after a long talk with hubby we decided that our children will not have a cell phone until the time comes that they can work to pay for the monthly bill. I guess I feel like it’s a luxury that they don’t need. So Mom’s and Dad’s what do you think? What’s your cell phone policy?