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you can plan and plan and plan, and be a good girl, and do all the shit…ALL THE SHIT you are supposed to do, and feel proud as fucking hell that you actually accomplished shit, and you start thinking, hey…maybe if I am diligent enough, I can outsmart ADD with good planning and a hint of OCD like checklists……..

You wake up the next morning and see the clean kitchen, you fridge has been mold free for 2 weeks! TWO WEEKS…. and it brightens your mood, and you think,”It’s ok, I got this… I MOTHERFUCKNG GOT THIS. ”

Even if it takes MORE effort, and MORE time than anyone else to pull this mother and wife shit off…

THEN…..You make your tea….in the things you set out the night before, to make it not take much thought to do…..and you are chugging along, almost about to fucking HUM a cheery tune, even thought you are not a morning person, and you open the bread machine you set so diligently last night to make toast for people for breakfast, and that’s when ADD jumps out and smacks you right square in the middle of the fucking forehead.

“HA HA Bitch! You ain’t smarter then me. FUCK YOU, I OWN YOU BITCH.”

Cause you forgot to hit the motherfucking start button, and staring back at you, aside from the yeast water volcano poking up out of the flour covering it, being very much NOT a loaf of bread, is large amount of truth, and fucking self loathing and “FUCK YOU!” from your inner ADD self.

This is not just a one time thing. 10, 20 even 30 times a day you are reminded you have ADHD for the things you struggle with more then other people do. The lost keys, the lack of clean socks, no spoons, you forgot to buy milk,  a smelly SINGLE armpit when you are in the store shopping, and you realize when you were getting dressed that  morning and the kid came to you to help him put his socks on, you stopped in the middle of putting on underarm deodorant and not you have ONE smelly sweaty stinky pit, and so all day the wafting smell from your one  BO pit reminds you CONSTANTLY that there is no cure for ADHD, and yeah, pills only help a little and on a limited time frame, and it mother fucking exists.

So,anyone who dares tell me it doesn’t today, is gonna find their face buried in a pile of fucking gooey yeast water and flour, until you motherfucking inhale all the flour and choke on your fucking words.

ADD fucking SUCKS.

and that is the truth!

MY truth.

this is why i love my kid.

they can drive me nuts through the day fighting and whining, and making  ABSOLUTE mess of the house, having temper tantrums over sensory issues, being cranky from lack of sleep etc.

But today, she had a fairly decent day, though she was whiney and cranky from the heat….then after a lovelery swim in the pond we come home hungry and the girl makes her own supper wth some help… a can of alphabet noodles.

In the middle if eating she asks “can I borrow your DSi for a minute?” I say ya, but give it right back. She did, and I never looked until just a few minutes go to what she wanted to take a picture of… and this is what she borrowed it for!

Peck & Poke

It was too rainy today to do much of anything outside with tools, but we had a break for long enough to take a few pics.

The first is our two girls standing on their roost watching me. These chickens are called Red Shavers, and they are a Canadian breed developed somewhere near Cambridge. Their colour is sex-linked – the pullets/hens are red and the cockerels/roosters are white – so sorting chicks is really easy. At least we know we’ll be getting all hens when the chicks arrive next month! Poke is on the left, and Peck is on the right. It isn’t the sharpest picture, but I was hurrying since it was sprinkling.

Next shot is of the back of the coop. Poke is still looking out the window being curious. I always heard that chickens were a bit thick-headed, but these are very bright and curious. They aren’t budgies by any means, but they’re definitely friendly and interested in us, and not the stupid birds my great uncle had in his coop. Maybe it’s because he had 30 or more and didn’t see people as part of their flock, while we have only 2 who think we’re just funny-looking chickens.

The last 2 shots are the front corners of the coop. We’ve got a padlock on it because we’re a little concerned about a couple of neighbouring kids – one in particular who comes across the back field and climbs the fence. After all the work, we don’t want the chickens getting out and lost. The other shot shows the nest-box side. Our two girls are using an old kitty litter pan for laying eggs at the moment, but when we have more pullets we’ll need more space so I’m making a box which can be attached to the side for them to share. I haven’t made the pegs for securing the door/holding the box yet, so the blocks of wood will keep it tight.

The roof isn’t weather-proof yet, and couldn’t be done in the weather we had today, so the tarp is keeping the rain out a bit. Tomorrow, we’ll get the roof done properly and put the whole thing up on stilts (it’s currently resting on the base without the legs attached to the bottom.

Anyone wanna chicken-sit tomorrow while we finish?

SIT. I said SIT.

-The Mundane One

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

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.

So yeah.. I’m watching Big Bang Theory with the hubby the other night and sheldon talks about spaghetti with hotdogs in it, and I think “OMFG no, people don’t really do that do they!?”

But given I know people who think a real nice spaghetti dinner is pasta boiled and thrown into a can of Tomato soup! GAG

So I did what any normal sane person would do, I googled it.

And when i searched the pictures results…which is how I decide what result page I go to first for every search I’m doing-this little concoction for kids came up when I looked for  Spaghetti with cut up hot dogs.

So I decided to call them spider dogs with just 4 pieces of noodle. I made them for a surprise for the kids for lunch yesterday, and then tonight when we got home from the girls swim glass, and needed supper fast, they again asked for spider dogs.

Easiest Cool mom points EVAR.

(click the picture to enlarge it so you can read the easel)

On the side of our house that people see most when walking past on the small piece ( and only sidewalk) in our little hamlet, there is a “flower bed” that was there when we moved in. it had nothing but dirt and some crappy low weedy plants in it. It was more of a dumping ground.

The Girl cub claimed it as her flower bed, and this year she sprinkled wild flower mix in there, a few misc bulbs from other places in the yard we removed them from.

Late last fall I tore up a peonie bush that was poorly placed on the other side of the house under the bathroom window and just tossed it in there…it was cold, and I said. “well I guess it’ll take or it won’t, let just see.”

Well it rooted, and it’s growing and soon there will be peonies there. which she is delighted by.

I’ve noticed that the walls don’t contain the lily of the valley she transplanted in it, and the clover grass is growing through the holes in the walls of the wood. To keep the wood edging clear, when I walk by I pick out the grass growth. But I smile when I walk by that side to cut the grass, because it was nothing before, and it’s growing into a little while and crazy, beautiful bed of flowers that she loves and waters diligently ( too much).

So the saying on the sign just came to me this afternoon, so I grabbed some chalk and wrote it down on her easle and stuck it in her garden.

For those of you who don’t know I started a “blackboard blessings” last year in my front window, to thank a neighbour for the mystery gift that was left at my door, and now I make new signs on a rotating semi regular basis of quotes or what I’m thinking, or what I feel blessed by.

So this is the sign out side in that flower bed. I’m going to make a “permanent blackboard” for that flower bed with the sign, because since it spilled rain while I was out this evening , the writing it gone now of the easel