One of the girls are laughing in their sleep. Love it!!!!!! Hehehehe.
Archive for May, 2008
Today.
Today was a productive day-not so much on the talking over the move issue-more on the cleaning out our junk and getting ready for a garage sale productive. Man, we have got a lot of junk! I hope we do well on the garage sale next week. It’s down to the wire now about getting it all ready. I made Katie’s cake for tomorrow, and the house is all clean so all we have to do is get the food ready. Should be a good time, and the weather looks like it will be nice.
I’ve been thinking about my sister-in-law today. She’s due to give birth to her 3rd this week, and the poor thing has been measuring bigger than expected for the last couple of months. Usually, the measurement of your belly is the same as the number of weeks into the pregnancy (neat huh???). She has been measuring 2 and sometimes 3 cm bigger for a while now. She has people stopping her in malls and at the grocery stores, and then comment about her size, ask her if she’s having twins, etc. Apparently all the women in her family have progressively bigger babies, and bigger pregnancies, and the same is ringing true now. I’ll have to phone them tomorrow, maybe my thoughts of her mean she’s in labor!!!
ETA: I wanted to add that she’s not a big girl either, she’s a little slip of a thing, which makes her look like she’s carrying even more!
Birthday Party
So, life must go on, and my princess Katie turned 4 this week. On Sunday we’re having a few friends and their kids over, along with my MIL and maybe a family friend-it’s kind of early in the day for him though, especially on a Sunday! We’re just going to have munchies and a small BBQ, and I am going to make another ice cream cake! This afternoon I made the cookies, but I tossed in a half cup of peanut butter to the batter. I just found a recipe on Martha’s website for Peanut Sauce, so I think I’m going to have both chocolate fudge and peanut sauces with maybe just a good vanilla icecream-no need to overload things. Plus if I fiddle with things too much I won’t know where I went wrong!
I’m half tempted to start making and selling them-they are pretty easy and are really good! I’d just have to work out the cost analysis of the whole thing.
I could just cry
He doesn’t want to move right now. Not this year, maybe not even next year. He’s got his reasons, they sound convincing enough….why am I so sad? Maybe because it feels like I’m the one holding the stinky end of the stick? The one covered in feces? I am familiar with the end. I see it everytime I make plans involving this family making big changes or sacrifices for me. I am the one leaving my job when he finds something else he wants to do. I’m the one putting aside my plans for school…..I even told him a couple of months ago I was OK with postponing school if we move. Now it doesn’t look like I’ll be doing either. Hello old friend, just wait a minute til I get my gas mask on….someone’s been eating Mexican!!!!
Who’s going to tell my mother?
Sad day in Canadian TV
K, I’m a woman. A woman, who like a lot of women, get sad and sappy over the silliest things. Like TV shows, and the end of an era. Today was the last day that Marilyn Dennis hosted Cityline. It’s a great show, it has been on the air for 19 years, and she has been the host since day 1. I watched it when I was a kid, when I skipped my college courses, and when I was on maternity leave with the kids. I remember when the theme song was Elton John’s ‘I’m still standing’ and I remember when it was still a call-in show. I remember Ray Staples and her crazy hats and comments during the home renovation shows. I’m almost as sad today as I was when CBC stopped showing Coronation St during the day.
Apparently Marilyn Dennis is moving to CTV and will be hosting a show there in the fall. I’ll be watching for sure, but it won’t be quite the same. Cityline was great because of her, the guest experts, and the whole format put together. Fashion Fridays won’t be the same. 
Sun’s back!!!
After a couple of days of much-needed rain, the sun is back out. Katie is feeling better (she’s had a bit of a cold the past few days) and I’m antsy to get out of the house! I think I might do some shopping today, and there’s a big garage sale in Sherwood Park that I might check out-Jane if you’ll be there we should meet up! Or anyone else reading that will be there too!!!
I did a ton of laundry yesterday, so I don’t feel guilty about not doing any housework today!
Our Trip
We had a wonderful time, it was really hot though! Hubby and I got a sunburn, the kids were well covered with sunscreen though-please tell me that we are not the only stupid people who do this? LOL!!
The first night we got there, we drove around a bit and went into the world’s largest dinosaur! It offered a great view of the town, but other than that it was meh. I used my film camera to get some pics of hubby and the girls in the dino’s mouth, we’ll see in a couple of days if they turned out OK. We went to the reptile museum, which cost $20 for the family and was not really worth it in my opinion. It’s OK if you have a reptile lover, but if you don’t skip it for sure. One of the employees from there brought out a boa for us to touch, and I actually had it on my shoulders! Hubby was shocked that I did that, but it wasn’t so bad. It was a little freaky when the snake started to move, that feeling of it’s muscles is kind of odd.
The next day we got up early and went to Whif’s flapjack house for a big breakfast before we went sightseeing for the day. Whif’s is a great family restaurant in the Badlands Motel. The servings were huge, the food tasted great, and the service was wonderful. I’d recommend them to anyone heading to Drumheller-it was so good in fact that we went back the next morning. Then we hit the Royal Tyrrell Museum, which was really nice. We got there early, but when we left a little after lunch, it was very crowded and the lineup was out the door. The kids kind of whizzed through it, even though they love learning they don’t stick around to listen to us read all the captions and things like that. We were out of there in a few hours, but I could see sticking around for 5-6 hours easily.
After that we went to the suspension bridge over the Red Deer river, which was kind of freaky.
Then came the Hoodoos, which were really interesting and fun. Kind of scary to climb them, I was surprised that we were allowed to climb so high on the cliffs, it wasn’t all that safe in my opinion. Course, my mountain goats children could have climbed up to the very top easily!
Next was the Atlas museum site tour, and it was the biggest surprise of the trip. Coming from a coal mining town, I will admit that hubby and I were kind of skeptical. It was really interesting though, and we learned a lot! The wooden tipple (sorting tower) is still standing, and we went to the top of it-easily 3 stories tall. The tour was great, and there were about 6 or 7 buildings that you could go into also. They are currently trying to get the mine in a condition where they can take the tour groups into the mine, so I absolutely recommend paying the money to do the tour. I’ll post those pics when I get them too, I took those with the film camera.
Gus’s family restaurant for dinner that night-easily the best pizza I have had outside of NS! (Don’t get me started on pizza out here, it sucks. Really really sucks. That’s all I have to say) This pizza was good though, really good! Great service at the restaurant also. We went for a walk around the town a bit, took pictures of the kids sitting on the dinosaurs that are on every street corner all decorated up. The one outside the firehall has dalmation spots on it, the one outside the drugstore had bandaids on it, there was a robot one and one with a tattoo. Really cute!
Final day there we had breakfast and high-tailed it out of there. It looked like it was going to be a hot day, and we had enough of touristing it-we headed to my dad’s in Calgary, where he set up the wading pool for the kids and had beer in the fridge! Gotta love dad!!!
