A New season

Sorry for the hiatus. I'll be back to blogging someday. Right now I'm focusing alot on crafts and Christmas projects. When i come back to this, hopefully it will be with a different page layout, and a purpose. Anyways. Enjoy the new season, it seems that winter has decided to come early and stay.

Potty Training

So, we went on vacation and put our kids in disposable for 5 days. Katie decided that portable toilets are great and now we're back to square one. I'm sure that most days we catch more pees and poops in a potty with DJ than we do with Katie. She's so eager to wear her 'Big girl' undies, but just pees in them. Yesterday I decided to make her a Sticker chart. Every time she successfully goes to the bathroom on a potty or toilet, she gets to put a sticker on her chart. So far she has three stickers. The first one was just a practice one to try an get her excited about it.  She loves stickers, so hopefully it helps.

One day

What would you do if you could be 'not mom' for a day? I feel very over touched some days, just to have my husband come home, expecting me to want to spend time with him also. It's frustrating, because I want to give my kids and husband all the attention they want and need, but where is my me time? It seems to have gone awol since having kids. If i could be 'not mom' for a day, I wouldn't go out partying or on some crazy adventure or vacation. I think I would rather spend the day lying on the dock at camp, listening to the waves, birds and breeze. OR even just curl up on mom and dads couch and read a novel cover to cover. Go back to my mummas house and spend the afternoon riding an old orange bicycle, roll down the hill a dozen times and catch grasshoppers in my baseball cap.

5 Km

So, as you know, over the past 6 weeks Vic and I have been working up to a 5 Km run. This last week has been a bit hectic, since Jay came home, it was Canada day weekend and we've been looking at that house and visiting the bank. With all that going on, I missed my run on Monday night, and my jog/walk prep thing on Wednesday night. Yesterday, Vic wasn't feeling great and Brandy hosted an Arbonne party, so sadly we had to postpone our final 5 km run. The plan is to go today, with or without children, I'm not sure which. Even without having ran for the past week, I feel pretty confident about being able to complete it without any stops. We picked up a jogging stroller for cheap last night, which needs a new inner tube on one of the tires. Elijah said he wants to start running with me...We'll see how that goes, he's a little too competitive for my taste.

So, Arbonne party, I left DJ at home, and got home early, expecting him to want to feed...just to find out that he was upstairs asleep, and stayed asleep until 1130...oh well. such is life.

Annnddd next Saturday, we'll be home for two weeks! WOOO HOOO, I'm SO excited for the humidity... not.

Porty family farm

So we've been toying with the idea of moving to a 21 acre hobby farm 45 minutes away, and on the way to and from french class tonight, I heard these two songs for the first time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkhcjI5Pwi0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkZViobhYnk

Made me laugh, thought I'd share.

So, should we move? Wouldn't it suck to get settled in, start planting in the spring...and get posted?

Mud Pie Station

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”  ~Margaret Atwood

 http://mysmallpotatoes.com/2012/03/24/build-a-mudpie-station/


Using Kay's Garden, I plan on making Katie her own Mud Pie station, check back in the next few days to see how it turns out!

a few words

I have beautiful children!

That is all.

Good night ♥