stressful, sicky week

Oh my, has it been a few stress filled weeks. First Ivy , Anna and I came down with another cold. My menstruating cycles are so out of wack, Health nurse started me back on birth control pill and I'm having a hard time adjusting. My Parents house was threatened from 2 sides by two separate forest fires. My sisters wedding is in 2 weeks, and I'm no where done making the wedding present. My garden is full of weeds, More weeds then veggies. Hubby is working late most days and this is his first full weekend off in ages. Anna Had a Doctors with the Genetic councilors, she has to have more blood work.

It all seem to come at once....Humph....

Japanese Dance

Phew! The weekend is over!

I am positively exhausted after the week of babysitting, walking in the parade and dancing in the polyester Kimono, and helping with In-law's party. It was a fun weekend but I'm so glad it only happens once a year!

Mike only took pictures of the parade and I'm hoping K (MIL) will e-mail some of the pics she took. And of course everyone forgot to take pictures at the party.

Anyhoo, here is our part of the parade, and yup that's me, the big blue with red sash, not very flattering but who cares, it was fun! Ivy is wearing blue with pink sash.

Here are some shots of the cousins:

Sylvia
Ivy and Danny, absorbed in the TV

These two love to pose! I said to turn around so I can take their picture and Bam, out came the models!

babysitting

Why am I so nice? How do I get scammed into things I really do not want to do?

Well, maybe that is being too much of a Drama Queen! lol

I am babysitting my young niece, Sylvia, and nephew, Danny, this week during the day, 5am till 3:30pm! Their little Brother David(18 months) is in the hospital with the Mom (M) because he is underweight and the Doc wants to observe him, run tests and force feed him via a feeding tube through the nose. The Dad (T) is working in GF, so I get the joy/pain of babysitting the 3 & 5 year olds.

The kids are fairly good, they do fall asleep on the sofas when they first get here and only wake up when my girls get up. But after 3 days of being here and it raining mostly, all 4 kids are getting bored and the novelty of "Auntie's house" is wearing off. They are starting to push each other's buttons, bickering, complaining, tattling etc. etc.

Today is almost over, then we just have to get through tomorrow....which will be a loooong day as T will be going to Trail to pick up M and David after work, well into the evening.... Luckily Mike will be home at diner time to help!

Well that's enough complaining for now, I wonder how much fussing they'll do when I tell them to start cleaning up.... :S

Summer has begun!

And so has the summer break from school, this is my first summer break as a Mother and I would like to formally apologise to my parents.

I am truly sorry for all the screaming, rough housing, fighting, crying, destroying, complaining, headaches, bickering, back talking and snivelling that you had to endure from my siblings and me.

This has only been the first week! How and why has things changed from last year? One year of Ivy being away from the family for just a few hours a day has changed me, her and her sister! Those few hours gave me a break, sure Anna had her moments of brattyiness but those moments were few between. This week and breaks between those moments are few between...almost non-existing! Ivy is behaving herself for the most part but she/we just have to look at Anna sideways and the screeching, bellowing, tears start! AARRRGGG!

Is it her age/stage? Is she jealous? Is Ivy doing thing without me knowing? Is she not getting enough sleep/food/attention? or is all of those things combined?

Whatever the answer is, I hope to find it soon or Miss Anna will be soon moving to Timbuktu!

Ivy's Awards Day

Thursday, June 25 2009, Ivy finished kindergarten. It was a fun filled day but also bittersweet.

This was also Mrs S's (Ivy's teacher) last day of teaching, she has retired. Mrs.S had nice things to say about each child as they were handed their kindergarten certificate, when it was Ivy's turn Mrs.S recalled that she was glad to have been able to have Ivy in her last class as she had Micheal in her very first class (30+ years ago) and it felt like she had come full circle!

Ivy was also given the privilege in presenting Mrs.S with a poster signed by everyone in the school.

This is the whole school (less then 40 kids) K-3 singing a fun song about summer finally being here.

This Ivy sitting with 2 of her friends, Quinn and Owen.

Here is a cool shot of the class before the Awards, Mrs.S was handing out trinkets, old costumes and everything else she didn't need anymore. You can see Ivy wearing a pair of rabbit ears, lol

I was also called to the front on the Gym for an award, I was presented with a gift certificate for all my volunteering in the school! I was shocked and honored, it was nice to be recognized for all the lice checks, hot lunches and Snack cart duty.

All in all a wonderful day!

Middle of June?!

When the heck did that happen? and it's officially Summer too? Geesh, this year is going way to fast.

This post is jam packed with photos from the past few weeks, so Enjoy!

One goofy Saturday, I asked everyone to make mean faces. Third place goes to Ivy for a subtle pouty lip:

Anna's "who you looking at?" pose puts her in second:

And First place goes to Mike's "What the heck is on my Head?". He does grump so well!

Here is a shot of the girls one morning while we were waiting for Ivy's bus.

Two pretty girls hamming it up before we went to Lanna's Grad party!

A picture of Anna taking a picture of me.... I'll have to down load her camera to see how the picture turned out...

Oscar Fast sleep in the girls recliner.

Ivy had a Baseball Tournament last Sunday, it was fun, luckily the clouds settled in for the last 2 games. The next 3 photos are in the wrong order and I'm not going to fix them, lol. First is Ivy on third base, she was a little nervous to be surrounded by the other team.

Ivy up to bat, Go #3!! Her t-shirt is way too big, lol.

And here is Ivy with her friends waiting for their turn up to bat.

Two little Cowgirls or "Cowboy-Girls" as Ivy says.

Mike and the girls were watching TV, the girls were fussing and fighting, Mike was getting frustrated and then all of a sudden it got quiet...and when I came in the room to check of them I was shocked to see them all sacked out!

Taki (Japanese Dance teacher) using Ivy as a model to show the other girls how the Kimono looks, love the colours! Ivy and I will be preforming at our City's Founder's Day Celebration in 2 1/2 weeks. So be prepared for more pictures of that!

So there you have it, a few snapshots of our crazy, busy but fun life! Maybe later this week I'll write some more of what is going on, like the phone call from Anna's Surgeon but It will have to wait, I have to prepare for a lunch I putting on for Ivy's school, and have more dance practice, and take care of the house, girls, husband, animals and myself! LOL!

Lazy Day

It's Friday and I have no where to go!!

No school for Ivy (4 day week) on Fridays, no practice, no volunteering, no appointments! Anna asked if we could have a pajama day, LOL I told her we can have a half pajama day, we have to get dressed by noon!

So we three girls are playing with balloons and eating dry Apple Cinnamon Cheerios while watching cartoons on the Knowledge network (no commercials) Soon enough the fun will end when we have to don our clothes and go outside to hang laundry and feed Rabbits.... oh dear, oh my, what a lazy day! :D Don't Tell Michael ;-)