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My Favourite Flower

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My fav flower, picked for me by my fav 5 yo :)

Cherries!

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"I'm the bestest cherry picker in the whole world mommy!!!?"

Burning the fat!

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just did 1.6 miles on the gazelle. I’ve noticed the last two times that after all the gardening and muscle toning with the tiller, though it killed me, it had a benefit… i’m sweating like crazy to go the same time/distance/speed… my metabolism is speeding up and I’m burning off the fat baby! WOOHOO

Poke the Chicken

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lol..I just realized that “poke the chicken” might sound like I’m saying to poke the chicken, but really the chicken’s name is Poke.

ADDventures of Parenthood

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a short, but much needed break at the beach

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We live on lake Ontario. We have always enjoyed going to the quite beaches during off peak days/times, and taking walks.  we are in a very touristy area, so some times it can be jam packed. We love it on quiet days after a hard rain when no one is around. We have not done it in quite some time…I hope we can do it more often.

Goats

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Just now, on the way home from town picking up THE NOW WORKING tiller, we had to stop and rescue three baby goats on the magic road. The neighbors got them this week, and this is the second time they’ve escaped. they were not home, so I had to find out where they belonged and then we each carried them to the barn yard. I tried to fence them in the LARGE fencing that WILL NOT hold them in by putting empty apple crates along the area they’ve been escaping from.  I had no pen to write a note so I’ll pop by tomorrow and let them know they were loose and we put them back. I hope they stay put this time. I LOVE rural life. these kinds of things are the reason why :)

Now the kids are studying about goats for homeschool :) ON  Saturday…because they wanna, and it’s FUN, and INTERESTING, and REAL LIFE. :)

All Nighter

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All nighter drive in weekend.

Our local drive in is wonderful, I love it there…laid back, a fun park for the kids, and NEW released movies for a GREAT price. the second you drive in the gate you go back 20 years.

The playground it all the old wooden and metal slides, and teeter totters, and old swings. the kind you could get a splinter from, or a cut from the painted over rust on the sides of the slide.. it’s GREAT :) Survival of the fittest :) We survived…I’m not into raising wimps :P

On the Victoria Day weekend they always have an all nighter, 4 movies back to back.

the boy being 5 still gets in for free, and the girl cub is $3….so it’s a good bang for our limited buck.

We don’t have a lot of funds for entertainment, in fact the internet is what we consider our entertainment fund, and we try to do a lot of stuff for as cheap as possible or free ( and a bit of gas money), but we always try to swing going to the all nighter.

We spent the last of our money this month ( save some gas for the kids swim glasses midweek) to go to the all nighter…Sadly… it almost didn’t happen because CFShubby (The mundane one) was in so much pain going, the idea of being cramped in a car for almost 12 hours between going and being there and getting home, we had a bit of a meltdown from frustration before we left. Living with CFS is not easy for anyone.He was too sore… I was frustrated at the idea of him not being able to go. I’m a problem solver, so I was trying to come up with ideas to make it better for him and didn’t want him to miss it & The kids would be dissapointed if we didn’t go. HE was crabby because my ideas were none that appealed to him ( thought he is a bit stubborn, and sometimes I think if he at least TRIED the idea, it might work. shhh)

He came with us….and made it through…but it is pretty bad when he can’t even do these things as well anymore. It’s a whole other blog post, but I’m so tired of my husband’s life being limited to coming to the living room to try and play some video games with the kids for a few hours before needing to crash again.

Anyway…for $23 ( and the gas there) we saw 4 new movies. Shrek 4, Iron Man 2, Clash of the titans, and She’s out of my league.

I tolerated but chuckled in a few places at Shrek 4.. it actually has a real good moral lesson to ADULTS who gripe to much about their lives( so basically all of Twitter)

Iron man 2 was good….I enjoyed it…except for the bathroom trips with each kid, and therefore missing some of the best action scenes. RDJ is hot as usual as Tony Stark…but I much preferred him in Sherlock Holmes. ( glad there is another one in the making :) )

Clash of the titans.. I didn’t watch, I mostly dozed through it…too much mumbly dialogue…thick accents for my CAPD and it was going on 3 am…. no ADHD meds left in me, and not entertaining enough for my attention span at that hour.

She’s out of my League.. was actually what I’d have to stick in the category of “good” and though I would not pay a full theatre price to see a basic, typical boy gets girl, boy loses girl” romantic comedy…if you do get the opportunity to see it for cheap, or rent when it comes on DVD, it is worth the watch just for the one HILARIOUS shaving scene…it by far tops the 40 year old virgin waxing scene :)

We got home as the sun was coming up, and I made breakfast for everyone, as I watched the birds and the chimpmunk living in our wood pile wake for the morning get breakfast too. I watched a Starling steal hay from our bales we put around the house in the winter, and take them up to a tree and add it to it’s nest.Then we all crashed in bed exhausted.

It’s going to be a short, kind of lazy day. It’s like Sunday to us today being the holiday weekend.

weeds

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-children are like mystery flowers in a garden…always
wait for the weeds to really grow, and care for them like they are the
last precious rose on earth before deciding they are bad, because you
never know how beautiful they may turn out to be when they are tended
to and loved and allowed to fully bloom!

Love Notes

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I let the kids write on the front of the dishwasher with white board dry erase markers.

This is the most recent note my 9 yo daughter left me :)

( i played with it in irfanview, because the actual picture was rather dark)

Apparently she doesn’t love me on friday and saturdays.. when I asked her about that joking aroung, she said that of course she did, but I already knew that, cause Fridays is Family fun night, and Saturdays I let her play with her friends :)

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