This past weekend was crazy. Not like any crazy I have ever experienced. Our good friends Les and Stacey were in Richmond General waiting and waiting to be induced. They were in there from 8:30am Saturday until today. And we had the pleasure of taking care of Jakob for two whole days and one whole long ass night! The boys had a pretty great time together, we rode the train and carousel in landsdowne, we played and we fought, they cried, they laughed, they napped, they actually slept through nap times together at the same time in the same room, on top of this all my sister was in town for the weekend. So we continued with the plans to see them for dinner Saturday night and brought Jakob's to my parents for dinner, then brought him home with us and put the boys to bed. They slept fairly well, Jakob got up a few times but all in all he did amazing for being away from mom and dad for so long. We then went for a HUGE walk to Steveston in the sun and they ran around and passed out in the double on the way home where they continued their nap for 3 full hours! Les came and picked Jakob up at around 11:00pm... I was exhausted to say the least, but so happy that everything worked out. We loved having Jakob over, and we are so happy that baby Tobias arrived safe and sound.....the 11 pound 9 ouncer was delivered vaginally and I am soooooooooooooooo amazed at the human body.... i just got back from visiting the Mennie's and will post some pics tommorow morning. But he is adorable and HUGE! He's pretty much the size of two baby Cole's.... but they are doing well and I am just basking in the beautiful scent of a newborn again. Thinking I think it's almost time to do it all over again..........................

craftiness

I am in love with craftiness. I am feeling there are never enough hours in the day to do all the things I long to do. I have a beautiful full, life, but I am wishing so terribly badly that I had more time to be crafty. I love to scrap, and make cards and dye eggs, but I am longing to learn how to knit.... There are so many things i want to do...and there are so many things i want to do because I have discovered them on the internet... the internet has become the most amazing tool for me. I've discovered so many lovley things, beautiful things, breathtaking things, and I sit there with my laptop in my lap and thing I want to be able to make that.... I am soooooo inspired, but I don't know where to begin, I wish to god someone could have taught me how to sew, and knit.... or to needle point! Oh how I wish, because right now it feels there arn't enough minutes, or hours or even days, weeks months or years left to learn. I suppose once I get through having toddlers around, I can hopefully have more time to be crafty. But I have signed up to start knitting. They meet once a month or so and I think I am going to give it a try! Anyways I'm off to clean the house now...have an inspiring day, I know i will!

sunday

7:30 this morning A called. At 34 weeks, she was bleeding. Crying, asking if I could take D so they could head to the ER.
Our morning went swimmingly. The boys had soooooooooooo much fun spending a sunday together. Much Thomas loving was had, and many giggles and kisses too. And not a tantrum, screaming I'm pissed because you stole my toy anything occured. It was great. What was better was that although everything isn't all better and great for A, it is controlable and can be fixed. Her mom is heading over tonight and will spend the week, so I do feel she'll be well taken care of.
Through all of this, I havn't been able to control the tearing up I am experiencing. I know everything is going to be fine, and it's not even me going through it, but after becoming a mom, the thought of loosing a baby, The mere thought, sends me into waves of sadness, that just wash over me and rock through me. I am very close to A, and very close to her son D. And I can't bear to think of what could....
We had friends over last night for a movie after our rehearsal. And she lent me this great book, "great expectations" or something, anyway it's all about childbirth and all the different stories shared by writters. canadian writers. And it encompasses ALL stories. good, bad, scary, terrifying, uplifting, hillarious, etc. And I think I am a little desensitized to it all. We as mothers, hear so many "stories." Stories of labour, delivery, recovery, midnight feedings, fights with husbands, re-sexing again, children having fits, not sharing, what jimmy did at grandma's what Noah did at playgroup.... we hear it all, but we don't actual think too hard on it. And when I do... it hits too close to home.
A, I'm thinking of you.... and we'll be over for cookies and tea in the morning.... and we'll share somemore stories...

.....and then you doggy paddle

ha ha ah ah ah aha ha ahhahaha.... you can all laugh now. As soon as I suggest my week is going swimmingly.... well you start to doggy paddle.
We had a lovely morning at J'J's this morning. The rain dampened our hopes of a walk with our weekly mom's group. (GS is closed this week because of Spring Break)
We had a great day. C and J played so well together. But this sharing issue that all 2 year olds have ack me. Somedays I'd like to lock them all up in the closet and retrieve them when they are three. I need some advice on discipline. I'm leary of getting out parenting books because that makes me feel like a bit of a freak. But I am at a loss of what to do. When Cole doesn't share or get his way, full voice vocals kick in and they don't stop. I've tried reason, corners, bedrooms with locks, I will not spank my child, so what the heck else is there to do? Akc thursdays, Jer was right you tend to suck....

this week is going swimmingly

a lot of blogs out there are fabulous, i am a newish blogger, i've been blogging since I got pregnant with Cole. I love following blogs that I like, I like hearing the ups and downs, it makes my life seem more normal. But somedays I feel a lot of the blogs out there are very negative, a lot about how bad life is going and such and such. It's so easy to vent it out on the computer, that's what's so fab about blogging you can get it all out. But then I came across a blog where almost every post was positve. And at first i thought life ain't like that sister. But then I started to check back more and more because I got such a buzz off the positve family stories of her life. And it fed my own in a very positive light. So although I will definatley not post positive all the time.... i am making an effort to shine the light on the good and happy days too, because we often have them but don't think about how great they actually are!
So this week IS going swimmingly! We booked our tix to Hawaii! And we got a steal of a deal on them. Jer's mom has offered to pay for Cole's ticket and we are actually going! Fabulous. We so couldn't have afforded this without all the deals and such but it's worked and we're going and i can't wait. We have had a great week playing with friends, hanging out with friends, had a break from teaching which as great and fab as it is, I am very thankfull for a bit more evening time with the family. And Cole ( who used to nap for all of 45 minutes at a time and only once a day) has taken to one hour - sometimes 2 hours!) WOOOOO HOOOOOOOO. I've started memorizing my lines for the show in april, and we have our first rehearsal on friday. My house is relativley clean, we are somewhat caught up on laundry, I've been busting my but on brahms for our april concert and Cole loves it! and i have actually been able to relax in bed with my book the past few evenings, instead of being too dog darn tired to stay awake. So this week has been wonderful so far. and it's only half over, I still look forward to a walk with my mom group tommorow, dinner with N my cousin staying here from holland, help from pappa on friday with laundry and then a cole free night while we rehearse for our show, Breakfast with my newly engaged bestie jess and hopefully if the weather holds out a lovley bike ride for our family of three in coles new seat! ( we have a trailer, but i think he'll love this seat more!)
So my positiveness can go forth and multiply, until then it's time for a cup of tea and my book until munchkin wakes up!

blip

We had a blip morning today. Not really a roller coaster day,just a blip kinda day, well morning actually. You know those days that start out great.... you know the ones i mean, where your kid only chose to scream at 3am and not 1,2,3,4 and 5:15 am. so you feel rested, and then he decides to snuggle with you and tell you all about the short morning he's had with his pappa. Eating bagels, thomas (sounds like
dumb-ahs) tells you he had a one a day (flinstone vits) and then proceeds to show me his belly button and insist i show him mine) a lovley lazy morning. And then chatting to a friend, and they say something, nothing bad, nothing even really not bad at all, (if that makes any sense) but it sets something not so inside and you feel you have to change the morning because it's getting a bit icky from this not bad thing at all that was said but mabye your ovulating and are a wee bit hormonal or something. So you go to call your other super mom friend and hubby answers the phone and she's sleeping, so you can't vent about the totally not bad thing at all that seems absolutly ridiculously trivial by now. So I call my C. And thank the lord she is preggers and works retail managment, because she gets fabulous shifts that totally jive with my somewhat at home mom scheduale. And so a drive is in order, and coffee and puoutine, and popcorn (hello she's pregnant, i just go along with it!) and then you come home and you feel refreshed and you scrub the whole kitchen until it shines and smell's so much like the bald guy you can almost see him waving at you from the sink. And then your perfect child goes down for his nap and you can start memorizing your lines that you have been putting off for weeks, and that need to be done by friday, and you think thank god for that blip, that stupid not really bad at all thing that was said that turned today into a beauty....

Life

You know those weeks when things fall into the most perfectimisimo places, well I had one, and we are heading into a beautiful weekend. Most Fridays Jer's parents take Cole for the evening and we pick him up on Saturday. Leaving us with Date night Friday, and a lovley morning Sleeping in (for both of us!) on Saturday morning, followed by whatever the heck we want. But tonight we gave Lola a break and are having a full fledged family weekend, and so far it's been wonderful. Our home is somewhat clean, laundry's done, and we have not a plan in sight! Yay! For the first time in months! Better enjoy it, as next weekend it's into rehearsals for Encore, and we have lots to memorize!

Fresh

What a wonderful wednesday. My beautiful bestie cheryl came over for a gorgeous stroll along the dyke into the Village. Cole had a wonderful time at the park as always. While we sipped coffees and chatted. Then we headed in to the wonderful scottish establlishment for some lunch ( what a treat!) and then we walked back with the most beautiful backdrop of the mountains in front of us as Cole took a nap in his buggy. Then we plopped him into his bed and we caught up and talked baby names for her soon to be! It was a perfect wednesday. Now I wake for the munshkin to awake and then it's off to work for me! Hoping Thursday is just as wonderful!

Coles 2nd Birthday a sneak peak!