I'm really not a good blogger.

Hello Blog Land.

Did ya miss me?

I've been raising a real live human. So far he's pretty great, but not conducive to anything other than entertaining himself!

It's almost the end of the school year. I'm extremely excited about that. I'm so ready for a holiday.
Before that happens have a to do list a mile long. Including report cards. Barf.

Not much has been going on since September. I went back to work full time. Still teaching on a Hutterite Colony, though I was transferred closer. The 30km round trip is so much more enjoyable than the 250km doozy I used to drive. The car loves me better too.

I still knit.

See. Sooper fancy shawl by Jared Flood. Amazing designer / Wool dealer from New York.

The only thing that stinks about children is that they don't respect that the needles have to remain IN the knitting. My little man likes to pull them out. While I'm knitting.

Not the most helpful solution.

I've had to resort to night knitting. Or knitting in the car. Like a clandestine garment producer.

Speaking of which, anyone want to start a knit group in Fort Saskatchewan? I need to get out of the house.

Seriously. We should meet at the starbucks. Then we can drink fancy lattes and talk smack about our wool and how it doesn't respect K3tog.


I'm so glad it rained today. I was worried my tree was going to die. Silly tree, needing so much water. The top branches look suspiciously unwell. I would investigate further, but I don't think I have a ladder tall enough or a telescope. Or binoculars.

Here's hoping I get everything done that I need to next week. I really want to be able to get up later than 6 o'clock. (sorry hun)

I will have to train the boy to sleep in... every day... forever.

ALSO he can stop waking up multiple times in the middle of the night any day now.

K THX BYE!!!

TTFN sheeple.

Winter

Is coming.....

Summer??? are you there?

I'm sitting at my desk with my window open.

My neighbour just mowed his lawn, and I'm sitting in a cloud of fresh grass smell! It's lovely!
(compared to the baby poo smell I had to deal with this morning, this must be heaven!)

For the past 2 weeks it has been raining. Constantly!! The sun does come out, but by dinner time the rain is coming down. I'm a bit sick of it. Even when it's warm outside, I don't dare venture out for fear of a sudden downpour.

Summer is taking it's sweet time coming out to play.

Today seems promising. It's not supposed to rain until AFTER dinner.

HEAR THAT!! AFTER DINNER!!! 

I might even be able to clean the deck so we can stain the stupid thing this year.

I feel that the weather is like a teenager. It never listens, and always tries to ruin family events.

SPF's Birthday was this past weekend. We got a good 2 hours of sun before the rain rolled in. We mad scrambled for the cars and then it poured. Not an hour later, BOOM sun out again.

Even though we had a moody sky, the birthday party was fantastic.  :)

I think I'm still tired, but I can nap every day at noon if I need to. Yah for babies on a schedule.

Now it's the countdown until the UK! Can't wait to go on this trip.

I promise I'll post pictures.

Now I have to go get my strawberry rhubarb bread out of the oven.

TTFN!

Mother's Day (this year it's for real)

Last year on mother's day I was almost a mother.

I hear you say "but Jen, How can you ALMOST be a mother?"

My thoughts exactly. This is the argument I posed to my other half in 2013.
I was 8 months pregnant.
Obviously mother hood was imminent.
It wasn't like I was going to change my mind suddenly.

DO OVER!!!! what do you mean no take backs!!! They didn't tell me that in the brochure! 

I was feeling charitable, and I wasn't physically able to bring down the hurt, so he lived for another day.

This year more than made up for the small oversight of an inside vs outside baby.

I got a handmade card full of goodies, in the form of coupons, good for hugs, dish washing, kid bathing and nights out. I get to spend them throughout the year, to prolong my celebration of being a Mom. I even got to go out for breakfast. ;)

I happened to see a video of kids bringing their mom fruit, which got dropped on the floor multiple times. For the record, I am perfectly happy getting up to eat breakfast at the table. (Do not feed me floor food... ever!)
Which brings me to how grateful I am about said breakfast out. It could only be better if I could have gone in my pyjamas. I should have. The waiters would have given me a side eye I think.

With my first coupon, I was able to get myself some treats. I got 4 balls of yarn to make myself something and I got a summer tea pack from David's Tea. Can't wait to break that out.

The hugs coupon is good for one million transactions. I'm not keeping track. I don't know if I could use them all in a lifetime. Hey math people, you should figure out how many hugs I'd have to take in one day to be able to use up my coupon! (send me the results)

It says something that I'm up at midnight writing this. I feel most like a mother as I'm waiting for my offspring to figure out that it is not yet morning. Yes, the tylenol will work on your teeth. No, your diaper isn't wet. Really, I haven't abandoned you by leaving the room while you're standing there looking at me. It's midnight. I need to sleep too! (he doesn't know I can see him with my magic camera)

YESSS!!! He's down!!! ...... *knock on wood*

I CAN'T FIND A PIECE OF WOOD!!!!

Does anyone have a tree I can borrow?

TTFN!

Kids are gross

I'm pretty sure this line has been uttered by every parent ever.

In the entire history of the earth.


Kids are the most gross in the middle of the night. When they wake you up because of some bodily fluid they happen to be spewing.

Right now there's a sick baby in the other room. He's got a fountain of snot where his nose used to be.

It renders him incapable of breathing, therefore he is super agitated about this new development and resorts to complaining in the only way he knows how. Tear factory.

He cries when he's coughing.
He cries when he's snotting.
He cries when I try to fix it.
He cries when I'm done.

And now I have to worry about a measles outbreak. I'm pretty sure a rash all over would make him even more pleasant. not.

I think this is the stage in parenting where your parents are giggling in corners about the whole predicament. They remember how YOU used to be. I think time has dulled those memories.

This is why parents and adult children get into disagreements about the whole situation. It's never as bad as it is when it's happening to you. Right now. At 4 o'clock in the morning. An hour and a half before the alarm goes off. While you sneak out of bed as quietly as possible because you're still on maternity leave and you want a happy spouse in the morning.

So yeah

Kids are gross.
I'm so looking forward to other instances of grossness. *cries in the corner*

TTFN

When you run out of things to do.

I should never run out of things to do.

I'm home all day. There are probably a million things I could work on.

I have house stuff, cooking stuff, crafty stuff (about 500,000 things right there), and kid stuff. Yet I always feel like I have nothing to do.

AND EVERYTHING..... at the same time.

It's a very frustrating feeling.

Like today. It's a grey day. Leftover rain is still falling. Today I have ideas. Things that I should do.

Clean some of the house! Make Chili (this one will probably happen)? Now should I go all out and make fresh buns too?? or do I cheap out and warm some up from the freezer?

Then the complexities of child rearing also factor in.

Can I make a batch of buns before the boy wakes up? Will he try to climb the stairs while I'm not looking again? Did I hide all the cords? Hey WHAT'S THAT THING IN HIS MOUT- oh it's his tongue. ha.

Now if children could just look after themselves. That's the life right there.

For now I think I'm going to go get some breakfast. And I should probably get some for the wee lad as well.

Since he can't take care of himself yet. Shock!

TTFN!

TIME TRAVEL!!!

If I told you I got lost in an inter-dimesional worm hole. How many of you would buy that?

None!?

Fine then! No Space Travel souvenirs for you then!



I didn't post for 2 years. I thought about it. More than once actually. I let other things get in the way.

** cough cough Candy Crush cough cough **

Time to get back in the saddle I suppose.

Much has happened in the past 2 years. I got my continuous contract at work. I got Pregnant and had a baby boy. I went to Cuba for christmas. I went to Vancouver for another christmas. I still love my house. I still haven't posted pictures of said house. (yes I re-read my blog to see what I was chatting about 2 years ago) My Grandma moved here.

Life is pretty good.

I want to get in the habit of blogging here again. Before I go back from Maternity leave. I think if I can make it a habit it might stick. But I'm not going to hold an axe over my head to blog either. I must find a balance and strike it!!! WITH VENGEANCE!

So for now I will leave you with a picture of my boy. He's a cutie.
I warned you now!!

Just like his mommy!

TTFN!