The boy won...for tonight!

How did he do it!?!  I can’t believe my three year old defeated me!  Here goes:

I’m trying to watch Grey’s Anatomy at 7pm instead of 10pm so I can get to bed early.  I’m folding a mountain of laundry when The Boy starts his routine of annoy Mommy while she works.  Can I help Mommy?  If I push over all these neat little piles that’s helping, right???  NO!  So I take him by the shoulders walk him down the hall to his room and tell him to play with his Choo-Choo (aka Thomas the Tank Engine set).  I leave and get back to work and the plot line when I hear this shaking sound.  It’s the sound of many plastic parts rattling around in a card board box.  Walking down the hall with a suspicious look on my face I find my child with the box that contains the plastic battery-powered train set my mother-in-law gave him.  There is a strange grinding noise emanating from said box.  Upon further investigation, I dumped the whole box on the floor, I found one of his battery powered “Thomas” trains uselessly chugging away amongst the parts.  After turning it off, I then instruct my progeny,

“Boy, (I don’t really call him boy.  I just won’t list his name here.) put the choo-choo back in the box.”

To which he replied, “NO Mommy!” as he stomped his feet.

I then continued with “You will stay in your room until the choo-choo is in the box!” and promptly left to catch the next 15 minutes of Greys.

I come back at the next commercial to find him reading one of his books.  I take the book away and repeat the aforementioned instructions.  Same reaction as before except the use of the “Pouty Lip” is applied.

After another 15 minutes of drama on the TV I come back to find him lying on the floor with his feet pointed at the ceiling rocking back and forth.  Once again, “Boy, put the choo-choo back in the box!”.  He then stands up, crawls into the bed and covers himself saying, “No Mommy, sleep!”.  Okay, at this point I don’t believe him and go back to the last segment of Greys.  Fifteen minutes later I go back to his room and find him ASLEEP!!!  Friggin’ kid won the argument…for today!  I WILL WIN THIS!  Tomorrow when he gets home from daycare there is going to be no TV and no computer games until the GOD DAMN choo-choo is back in the box!  How’s that for parenting!?!

Ciao for now.

Perfect Sundays...:)

I have been having a whole string of perfect Sundays! This is the second Sunday where The Boy has randomly crawled into my lap in the mid afternoon and promptly crashed. I love this little human so friggin’ much!

I went to the Nickelback concert last night with KCh. and Marshy. It was without a doubt the BEST concert that I have ever been too…EVER! Danko Jones sucked clowns, but Live, and Nickelback put on a hell of a show. They both played all my favourites. The only downside to the whole thing was some chick who thought the landing on the stairs closest to us was her own personal platform. She did her “I flick my long hair over my shoulders and its dancing” dance and was pretty much made fun of by the entire section. Did that stop her? No. Oh well, making an idiot of ourselves in public places is a form of self expression…I think.

This past week at work has been hell. My company is being sued and it revolves around how my office does registered letters. I am so friggin’ stressed about going into work tomorrow. I don’t wanna go. I just wanna stay home with my head under the covers and pretend that it’s all going to go away. I’m so stressed that I’m going over with J the plan if I get fired. Yay. Can’t wait to see how this all shakes down.

Anyway, it was too cold to take The Boy on any field trips this weekend. We’ll see how we do next one.

Blog ya later.

Woohooo

Woohooo!!!

My Sweetie is taking me out for a Valentine’s dinner tonight! Don’t know where we are going yet. We’re thinking of the Vietnam Palace, Yang Schen, Mamma Gratzi’s, Azteca’s….Don’t know maybe even somewhere new. Sara is here and playing with the Play Doh with The Boy. Speaking of which, had a great day with him. We all went to the Carlingwood mall for a couple hours. Bought new underwear of everyone, J got a new kitchen doo-hicky, we all went to Harvey’s for lunch and then home. The boy was overall good. There was a wee incident after leaving the play area in the Electronic Boutique that lasted for about 20 minutes. I love tantrums in public places! They make me laugh because they are usually over something so trivial. “MOMMY!!!!! I wanna go back and play with the game cube!!!!” Not like, “MOMMY!!! My arm was just severed and my life blood is spraying the walls!!!”. Although the volume and passion behind the screaming would be on the same scale! :( Anyway, when people stopped and stared at me dealing with the crying with hugs, I just stared them down and said loudly, “He’s a sad boy.” They would either smile or shake their heads in disgust. Their issues, not mine.

Anyway, must go. Time to hop in the car and decide where dinner is!

Nighty Night!


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So, I tired to publish the above post before we went out. Didn’t work, couldn’t connect to the server so I saved it. It’s now Sunday morning. Last night was awesome! The boy was happy to see Sara($25) and apparently they got along great. The boy even asked after her when he woke up this morning. J and I ended up at Patty Bolands for a nice informal dinner. We were on the ground floor in the back in a little nook of a table. Snuggling and PDA’s (public displays of affection) were had. J had the cornmeal crusted-saffron aole haddock, while I made due with the vegetable curry sensation. I don’t know why they named it that. There was nothing sensational about it. Flavourless/colourless would be more accurate. Then again they were going for a Thai/Indonesian curry while I’m used to Indian curry that is very flavourful. J and I basically ate off each other’s plate so I had my share of his fish as well. After dinner (75$ with tip) off we went to Oh So Good for cake and coffee at my request($25 with tip). I haven’t been to this place in ages. I had a Chai café latte with a slice of chocolate brownie cheesecake, while J had English Breakfast tea from a mal-designed pitcher, (it leaked on the table whenever you poured from it.), and a slice of “The Real Deal”, which was some sort of chocolate mousse cake with slivered almonds on the top. Neither of us finished, but it was due to richness. So now we are at the end of the evening, the drive home. My tummy, is at this point not happy at me, I don’t know how I made it the 45 min. drive home ‘cause when I finally got there I lost all my dinner. J compared me to the Simpson’s episode where Homer wouldn’t stop eating the giant sandwich that was older then time, I looked all grey and shaky and shivery. He made the bed for me and tucked me in. I feel much better this morning, but Holy God! J ate the exact same things that I did. We shared plates the whole night and he was fine!?! ARG! Oh well, now my only gripe is that how am I supposed to Weight Watcher point out what I threw up and didn’t throw up???? The entire evening came to about $130 with $5 of parking. We both said the same thing, we’re not going out together again until our anniversary in August!

Anyway, The Boy wants some attention.

Ciao for now.

Weekly Update

Weekly Update

Lots of stuff happening this week.  The first three days of my work week were candy-coated Hell.  The boy was getting us up at 3:30 in the morning every night, sometimes twice a night with bathroom issues.  Whether he had peed the bed, had gone pee-pee on the potty, had a nightmare, basically no sleep was had.  By Wednesday night I was beside myself with exhaustion.  I had plans with friends on Tuesday night AND Wednesday night.  I was so crusty I cancelled on both.  Sucks ‘cause I was going out with KCh. for movies on Tuesday and M&G with Teddy on Wednesday.  (  Anyway, Wednesday night we had our first good sleep in almost a week.  Friday was even better so I ws flying high at work.

Speaking of work, The National Capital Race weekend is coming in May.  Our company is a major sponsor of the 10k and 5k.  I’m going to be walking/running the 5k and have started fundraising.  The best thing ever happened!  I convinced my Inn to donate a night at their place for fundraising!!!  I’m going to be doing a raffle on March 3rd.  I can’t wait to see how much money we make on this!

Weighed in today, lost 2 lbs!!!  I love it!  Am back at 154 lbs…again.  I looked through my tracking booklet and I have hit this one about 6 times in the last 6 months.  Ladies and Gentleman, I believe we have a plateau!?!  Mom got her 10 lbs lost ribbon last week!  I’m so friggin’ proud of her!  I booked us in for pedicures as her reward for putting in the work.  We’ll go get funky toes and then off to Rideau Center to go out to lunch and shop.

My sweetie is taking me out for Valentine’s Day this Saturday.  We’re going to the Vietnam Palace on Somerset.  J has been there before and said it was amazing, can’t wait to see if it lives up to all the talk.

Anyway, off to bed.  Can’t wait to sleep in tomorrow!

Ciao for now.

Whoops...

Weird. Accidentally made a blank post....better fill it with something....

Dooodeedooooodeedoooooodee.....

Hmmm...

Smeh.

Bye

Great weekend so far

Great weekend so far. Friday night was hanging out at home with the boy while J went out to Grisa’s place to watch a basketball game. I ended up getting in my pj’s early and was in bed almost as soon as the kid was asleep. J woke me up a little when he got to bed late, then the boy had to go pee-pee at 3:30 in the morning. He won’t just go down stairs, do his business, and then go back to bed. He wants the acknowledgement that we know he went so he will call and call until someone answers and says he is a good boy. Only thing is we want to SLEEP!!! Arg. Oh well. We were up pretty early with him and got the laundry started, the floors mopped and vacuumed, and the kitchen cleaned up. After that, we all went out to lunch together at Wendy’s and then off to the Agricultural Museum for a family day out. The boy behaved SO well! He was great at lunch, and he was even better checking out the cows and sheep! He would walk up to each animal in the pen and say, “HI COW! HI SHEEP! HI BULL!”. Too cute showing him this kind of stuff for the first time! I can’t wait to take him to the Metro Toronto Zoo!

After we got back from that I still had the itch to travel. I hopped in the car and went to the dealership to check out the Hyundai Sonata for J. He has been trying to talk this car on our list of possible replacement for the Neon for a long time now. Okay, he wins! GREAT looking car! It’s gonna be interesting to see which one we end up with by June. From there it was to St. L. mall for some track extensions for the boy’s Thomas the Tank engine collection, Bayshore for a book for me, pants for J, and some more spice jars for J.

Tomorrow the plan is for me to work some overtime, then over to L&James’s place for me and James coming to our place. We are calling it SPOUSE SWAP 2006! L and I are going to watch Wedding Crashers and the boys are going to nerd out on the computers.

Ciao for now!

It wasn't food poisoning...

Yup, I got a touch of stomach flu today. Apparently, 5 out of the 6 kids in our daycare came down with the same thing and all the parents are dealing with it as well. All because one family brought their kids to daycare even though they knew they were sick. ARG!!! Oh well, who needs to go to work...oh yeah, I DO! :(

Going to see Underworld : Evolution tomorrow night with KCH and my Sweetie. Even though the movie is being panned, I'm excited. A night out with my Honey is always fun.

Buh Bye.

GREAT WEEKEND!

What a fantastic weekend! I feel so relaxed right now it’s not funny. The whole thing didn’t start off very relaxed. It looks like Ryan picked up a bit of food poisoning ‘cause on the drive down on “The Seven”, just before the Timmy Ho’s by Madoc, the Boy woke up and started talking about having to go pee-pee. Well, we figure we can just pull over and let him water the snow. So we get pulled onto a side road and drop his pants…to find that he has pooped…A LOT! Insert family doing the quick change of his pants ‘cause it’ frickin’ cold and he is shivering (poor boy). We just get him in the car with a clean bum when he start projectile vomiting. Some went down the front of him but a lot of it went out the car door and never hit anything but the ground! Once again, POOR BOY! We get his shirt changed and him under his coat to get him warm. Before we start back on the road we give him the “Potty Cup” to hold in case he is feeling sick again. This a like the insert to a training potty that is like a giant mug with a handle that has rounded rims. This was the best idea we had ‘cause he was sick twice more and both times he got it all in the cup and all we had to do was chuck the yuck in the ditch and use a wet wipe to clean his mouth and the cup before giving it back to him. Once we got him in the door at Nana and Poppa’s he was even dry heaving in the kitchen sink before we could get him to the bathroom. At this point I’m am convinced that the Inn weekend is cancelled. I’m not just dumping a sick kid on my folks to go off and whoop it up while my baby is going through Hell and they are going through it with him. Turns out though that the next morning he was fine! Not 100% but no more throwing up, there was never any sign of a fever, and he was drinking and nibbling on food. So, Mom and Dad convinced J and I to go ahead and have our weekend.

We went shopping at the Northumberland Mall for the earrings that I had seen at Christmas and had planned to buy with my overtime money. My Sweetie surprised me and bought me the matching necklace as an anniversary present! LOVE THAT MAN!!!

We had lunch with my best friend/bridesmaid LW at the Oasis Bar and Grill (Got an awesome pic of L and I in the Henley Arcade on the way back to the car. Someone was getting creative with their graffiti and had done some poetry and some flowers.), went back to the Inn and checked in, met with an old friend of the family who runs a used car lot and put him on the hunt for a used Mazda 6 sport wagon or hatchback (whichever he finds first), went to Walmart for a quick shop, and then back to the Inn to settle in. I had a lovely swim, J watched Discovery channel, I read one of my ebooks, and we both just relaxed. LW and her husband TW came over for a quick dinner before they were out to play poker with some friends of theirs. It was nice to have them over, we don’t get to see them often enough due to the distance factor.

Slept great, had a great breakfast and was back to pick up the boy for around 11:30. He was happy to see us and besides still having some bad bums is back to normal. Mom and Dad had a great time with him…except for him getting Nana up at 5:30 in the morning! :(

Anyway, great weekend, can’t wait to see what this week brings.

Ciao for now.

Life Bullets

- Started the process to register the boy for Junior Kindergarden, yes I did cry a little

- Am doing some under the table work to organize a friend's files and records keeping system. this equals earrings money!!! :) Am sad 'cause I missed time with the boy tonight. He stayed home 'cause he was uber-grumpy and I was going to take him with me to the friend's house while I worked. Too grumpy for me to do work and not be concerned about his behavior at the friend's house. Apparently he fell asleep 5 minutes before I walked in the door. I tried to wake him 'cause it was only 6:30pm but he wasn't budging. I'm going to be going to bed early 'cause he will be up at 6am I'm sure.

- I am feeling so tired/sad/hungry right now I don't know whether to cry, sleep, or find something deep frid to do both of those thing in before I devour it.

- Wanna go see the Trews at Barrymore's on the 4th but none of my friends like them enough to pay the $20 ticket. I've done the "go the concert by myself becuase I love them and being by myself can't stop me from seeing them live" thing. Now I'm at the stage I just wanna go to see them and not stand there like a loser...alone. *SIGH*

-Am depressed about work. My boss told me it really "bothers her" when my face looks worried when she is telling me about new projects. Gee, I guess I should look happy when she is overloading me with work to the point that I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

-The light at the end of the tunnel right now is my Sweetie and I going to our Inn this Saturday! Can't wait! Gonna swim my face off, and then stuff it with Chinese Food! WOOT!

Gotta go find something that isn't running away too fast to consume.

Buh Bye.

DOUBLE HOLY COW!!!

I can't frickin' believe it! Marshy won the trip to San Fransisco this morning!!! One trip left...hmmmmmm......

WAAAAH!!!

So I take the boy into the Dr. today. After she diagnoses him with an ear infection and bronchitus, she takes one look at me and says, "Open up.". So I'm now home for the rest of the week with Strep Throat. Yippee. All I gotta say is we had better be health for next weekend! Wouldn't it be great for J and I to be hacking and coughing at the Inn for our anniversary!?!

Blerg.

Double ZZZ...ZZZ..

Another fun night of the croup. If this kid is not showing any signs of getting better toinght he is going to the DR. tomorrow. It was another night of sitting in a cold room while his breathing straightened up, being woken up every hour, and the new one was him being in a fever at 4:30am. That was 2 cups of juice, 7.5 ml of Motrin (he's 42 lbs, that is the dose for someone his size), and lots of hugs. I'm so not here mentally. My goal today is to get through with as few mistakes as possible.

*sigh* I want my little boy to be feeling better...:(

*ZZZ...ZZZ...*

K, so the boy was up alot last night. The coughing woke him up several times and the first time he was absolutely terrified of the humidifier. I had to talk him down from that one, then every other time after that it was coughing woke him up so then he would need a hug, need a drink, need some love then back to sleep. Poor sick kid.

SO TIRED.....:(

Going to the Mart that is Wal tonight! YAY! Going to get the boy a present for getting toilet trained. Am thinking along the lines of play doh......

Poor Boy...

The boy has major croup right now. He went to bed fine, was sleeping like a log, but when I went to check on him about 45 minutes ago he was tossing and turning, desperately trying to swallow, then finally started the seal-barking-coughs. J and I had him on his puffer then opened the window in my hobby room so that some cold air could stop the attack. Maybe 15 minutes in there settled him down. We now have the bed elevated, the humidifyer running on high, and the window cracked open in his room. No worries, will close it when we go to bed. I put socks on him and tripled his blankets. He shouldn't freeze. *sigh* He is going to be home a couple days with this...

Potty training is going great! We had a 90% dry weekend! A poop on the potty both days, but a whoops poop in his pants at about 5:30 tonight. I caught him trying to "wash" his briefs out in the toilet, eeewww, and he looked so sad when he saw that I had caught him. Oh well, Rome wasn't built in a day.

J and I had a fun 30 minute conversation about new cars. Basically we talked around the idea about finding out how much Barney would be worth on the trade in, but in the end we can back to the fact that we still have a ton of debt after buying the house and it makes more sense to suffer through with my purple shit-box at least until June. We are planning on going by Sarnia to my Grandma's, both of them, place for a visit. J and the boy have never been and I haven't been since.....hmmm....I think with Mom over Easter when I was still single??? It's been awhile. Also, we have the annual trip to New Brunswick in August. All this would be easier with a bigger car.

Must go, new Gray's Anatomy tonight.

Ciao for now.

Friday night...

Had a GREAT start to the weekend! Marshy came home with me. Jay had a fantastic meal ready to go of field green salad with balsamic dressing, french onion soup, and creamy chicken alfredo with mushrooms and red peppers. After stuffing ourselves silly, Marshy and I headed into town to see "The Family Stone" at the AMC. DO NOT GO SEE THIS MOVIE! It is advertised as a romantic comedy. It is NOT! It is all about strife in the family, ton's of tear-jerker moments, and overall you come out of it feeling depressed. We tried to go to Dairy Queen to end the night of carnage on a high note, but the place was packed, the line up to the cash was out the door, and after 5 minutes of standing in an unmoving line we hit the road. We stopped at the Mac's once we got back into town and picked up some ice cream and went back to the house to watch some TV with J before taking Marshy home.

I started back with Weight Watchers yesterday. I have gained 3 lbs since the last time I weighed in a month ago, but that is 3 pounds less then I was when I weighed myself 2 weeks ago. I'm sooooo motivated right now about the program again! I have a new leader for the meetings again and she is great! I still miss our original one, Trish, but she is happy with her new job I'm sure.

Potty training is still going. We are still having problems with the poo-poo on the potty, but I'm sure we will get that under control before we go to Cobourg in a couple weeks.

We have the babysitter booked tonight. We are going to our friends' place tonight to watch Sernity on their 62" TV!!!! We sent them home with the Firefly box set a week ago...They have been staying up til midnight all week watching episodes! They are so hooked! It is going to be hard to watch Wash die again...I so hate/love Joss.

Anyway, have a great weekend!

DUM DUM DUUUUUUUM!!!

Remember Mom and Dad, NO JUDGING!!!

For the rest of my community, my Mom and Dad now have access to the blog. I've not deleted any content, just gave them the warning that this was my diary for the past year so they are not allowed to judge the content or thoughts expressed here.

Potty Training

Yeah...so it's going okay! The boy has not worn diapers, except over night, since Friday night! He does the pee-pee really well. Poo-poo is another issue. He can do it on the potty, he has done it on the potty, he just doesn't want to do it on the potty. SIGH! He will figure it out...or we'll beat it into him...or out of him...whatever! :)

Weigh in tomorrow! Yay. It's now time to face up to how much I have to lose again. I know I gained about 8 pounds over the holidays. Then it's breaking new ground again. Oh well, it's fun having Mom on the program with me. We talk about points and food and stuff on the phone.

BONUS COMES TOMORROW!!! YAAAAAAY!!!! That will be a big chunk put on the credit card! As my loving and long suffering Husband likes to say, "We have to pay for the things we already own before we can buy new stuff!".

Three more weeks until my Sweetie and I are HERE!!!! I love this Bed & Breakfast! I have talked it up to so many people at work, our babysitter's Mom and Dad have just booked in for their anniversary in June!

Sigh, what to do...work out or watch CSI.......I'm off to the treadmill.

Blog ya later!

Kay

HOLY COW!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAHH!!! OMG!!!! I just won tickets to Nickelback from the BEAR!!! Caller number 9, Baby! Marshy at work had been trying to call in for the past week and I had been teasing her that if she won while she was at work she had to take me. So this afternoon the time to call happened and she bugged me to call in as well. Well don’t I get a spot in the queue and friggin’ Scott Lear picked up! When he told me I was caller #9 I said, “YOU’RE FUCKIN’ KIDDING ME, REALLY???”. They played it on the air without bleeping me out! TOO FUNNY!!! ‘Cause Marshy bugged me to call in, I’m taking her instead of J. Don’t worry, he understands!

Y-A-W-N!!!!!

HOLY CARP! Yes, I do mean the fish, not the excrement! I am TIRED! I have just had a fun-filled evening with toilet training of the Boy. We finally decided to just take the diapers away and deal with all leaks with repeated trips to the bathroom. He is THREE for cryin’ out loud! It’s time he learned. No worries about the furniture. I have bagged all couch cushions, bought a big sheet of plastic for the recliner, and I ask the kid every ten minutes if he has to pee-pee. I won tonight! The score was three on the potty and two on the floor.

I am SO proud of my Mommy! After nearly a year of nagging, pushing, and pleading, my Mom went to her first Weight Watchers meeting last night! YAY MOM!!!! I think it’s going to be a rude awakening to start portion controlling, but it is a life style change that is going to prolong her life. I was so inspired by her after talking to her that I immediately got on the treadmill to work out. Did I mention that I took a month off of plan and gained about 8 lbs? It was a FUN holiday, but I'm ready to get back to having some control.

So, after I do my post about how I’m not going to do much posting, my public gets two in one day. Just so you all know what my husband has know for years:

I’M A LIAR! :)

Blog ya later!

Kay

Merry Blergmas Part Two

You are not going to believe this one! So I get the car into the dealership to get an oil change and a “peace of mind” inspection done. HOLY GOD! $1430 later and I have my shitbox Neon back. To make it all worse they gave me a new Jeep Grand Cherokee to drive over night! I mean COME ON! Why did you have to torture me by giving me the Neon back!!!

*Sob*

Happy New Year!

So we made it through the holidays once more. The drive down was horrible, the family time great, the boy getting his air hockey table awesome! New years was quiet and nice with Mom and Dad up here. We played about 5 games of sequence and then went to bed.

I so wish I could blog more. I'm losing my desire to maintain this site. J has our family blog under control and it gets more pictures up. I'm not going to disappear or anything. Am just not going to update as often. Anyway, will see how I do over the next month.