5

So as of tommorow at about 11:47ish am we'll have made it. 5 Whole years married. wow, I can't believe 5 years have already whisked by us. And sometimes I can't believe I have been in a serious (sometimes) relashionship for that long, well 5 years plus another 2 and a halfish, wow.
Here's to another 5 and a bit lovey....


ps- we've been married so long now, our wedding photos were actually film not digital, so i couldn't for the life of me find a picture of us on our wedding day, I will search, but for now i leave you with one of us on our one month anni, just back from mexico!
Will post more when we get back from Tofino, we head out first thing tommorow!

Out with it

We are not planning on having another child for a couple more years.

Yay I surprised myself at that too. You see life is kinda just getting back to being about all three of us now. Cole is at an age I can just drop him off with a sitter or lola or oma and go sing somewhere. We've got a good thing going as the song sings, and none of us (including cole, DEFINATLEY including cole) are ready for another one just yet.
I know this is so shocking to be coming from me. Me who wanted 8 kids, (then got realistic and settled on 4, and now is thinking 2 - but still wavers with 3. Seriously because we are waiting now I think my verdict may be still 4. But who knows. Life takes us so many wonderful places and I am so happy to be planted where I am. I love life right now. I have a life right now. I love my kid, my hubs, my new home, my neighbourhood (LOVE my neighbourhood) I love the routine.
So that's it. no kiddies unless something sneaks by me, for a wee bit longer. Even though all our friends are having their first and seconds, we just are not there yet, and finally we are damn happy about it.

So to you peeps who keep asking if I am pregnant, no, I am not, that's just my gut hanging out, no baby, just belly..... now if you'll excuse me I have some Ice Cream to deal with.

Making it work....

When people constantly ask me when I am returning to work I tell them I'm not. But that's not really true, that's an easy (or also not so easy way out) of a long conversation.
Most people seem surprised.
Others just accept it and move on.
I usually go away feeling like I gyped myself a wee bit out of who I am.
So what do I do.
I stay at home ( actually that is really such a wrong wrong term to use, because we really are rarley home) but I take care of my Cole during the day. I also take care of Coles good Friend J once a week while his mom teaches Violin lessons.
I now have a job teaching Theatre classes to kids on Wednesday and Thursday evenings and sing for the occasional wedding or funeral. I also am part of a Theatre troupe with Jer that performs a Kids show in the spring to many schools in the lower mainland as well as out of town. I rehearse once a week for this closer to the dates of the show. I also take Tap class and sing in a choir once a week as well.
But all this is too much for the average person to take in.
So I find myself uncrediting myself and just say, I stay home.
I really do wonder why people do this. Other people I know are proud to say they work, proud that they can " do it all" and I wonder why others who are unconventional in their work don't give themselves the credit they deserve.....
hmmmmmm I feel much better now thank you.

anni up

only 2 more weeks until our 5 year anni, and this is the very first year we are NOT heading to the most magical place on earth (Tofino) to celebrate. Sadly there is just not enought money in the bank this year, soooooo we are heading to my aunties very rustic sleeping cabin, outdoor shower, and composting outhouse on Galiano for the weekend, and I think it will be wonderful! Cole will be able to play on the beaches at the lakes, and we can explore the island fully this time since we are not biking on this time we are bringing our car. Can't wait, but I am still a wee bit sad that I won't be seeing my mackenzie beach this year.....

zee weeklies...

Coffees: 18
Hours of sleep: 27
Chompers busting through my babies gums: 2
Playdates that required me removing beloved unsharable toy: 2
Kitchen cleaning rampage: 1
Bedrooms that are absolutley unlivable in at the present moment:1
Parents extatic about it being friday night lola night:2
Kid extatic about it being friday night lola night:1
Books read: .34 still working on the family and the red tent
Movies watched: 1 Cassonova with Heath - wee bit slow but fun
Late charges at library paid: 5 bucks worth
Times we watched sesame street kareoke:87

Enjoy your weekends peeps....

To Grandmothers house we go....

Tommorow is Friday. HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH.
I love my boy. Dearly. And I love spending every week with him. But I also can't wait to drop him at Lola's tommorow night and just come home, eat greasy take out with the hubs and watch Juno. Lame, I know, but I am oh so stoked.
If I could possibly get everything on my list done for tommorow that would be even better. But I doubt it.
Hey what do you get for someone who has everything but means everything to you, but you don't got a lot of cash to spend, meaning you want to get the best gift possible for a wee amount of change...
stuck, am I.
Okay crap tv, I'm heading into my disaster of a bedroom and reading....to tonic
koop out