100 things

100 things about me?! sheesh do you really want to know all this stuff?

1. When asked "hair colour" I never know what to put. Would "various" constitute as a definitive answer?

2. I wish I had the time to blog more and was a better writer.

3. I don't really have a favorite colour, movie, song, actor.

4. However, 4 is my favorite number.

5. I never thought i'd have children.

6. I am a much better mother than I thought i'd ever be.

7. I often wish my kids weren't so loud.

8. I feel like my Dad when I turn down the TV on them.

9. I wish I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

1o. I wish I had studied harder in school and gone to university. But it was easier to be less than average all the time. That way no one ever expected more.

11. I think i'd make a good doctor or midwife.

12. I would love to watch a baby be born (besides my own).

13. I hate being in the house for too long, yet I am not an outdoorsy person.

14. I no longer have contact with my oldest childhood friend. I hate that.

15. I hate laundry. Yet I cloth diapered Trent.

16. Three kids is way more work than I could have ever imagined.

17. I never thought i'd have a girl, but I am so glad I do.

18. I think my kids are wonderful, perfect, well behaved and adorable. But yet I try really hard to not be one of those oblivious mothers who really does think their johnny can do no wrong.

19. A few weeks ago I was the substitute teacher for preschool. I loved it. It was one of the best day's i've ever had.

20. I love that I know most of the teachers and families at our school. I feel safe and secure leaving my children their.

21. Big Daddy and I volunteer more than our "fair share" of time in our community.

22. Big Daddy and I have been together for 11 years. Married for 7 (soon to be 8)

23. We have been through some really rough spots in our relationship/marraige. So much that I am suprised we survived.

24. Our relationship is better than ever because we persevered. I truly believe that. We are definately reaping what we've sown.

25. I wish I knew then what I know now about weddings. It is about the marraige, not the wedding.

26. Big Daddy purpously threw out my phone number the first time I gave it to him.

27. I am right handed but do many things with my left hand.

28. I often wonder if I come across as annoying or a know it all?

29. I love having a clean house, but hate cleaning up.

30. I wish I could do more to lessen my footprint on the earth.

31. I love making my kids laugh.

32. I have never been on a tropical vacation.

33. I have plans to go to New York in May. I am sooo stoked!

34. When I was young (3 or 4) I caught my toe in the spokes of my tricycle and just about ripped it off.

35. None of my children will ever ride a bike without shoes on.

36. I had a muscle removed from my mouth as well as braces to repair the large gap I had between my two front teeth.

37. I love that I have nice teeth.

38. I swear too much.

39. I have never ski-doo'ed but I love riding a sea-doo.

40. For many years of my life we had a large stick on picture of a larger than life cow on our garage.

41. I have gotten drunk with my Gramma.

42. But for the life of me I can never beat her at scrabble.

43. I got roses from my Mother in Law the day before my wedding because she knew I would be stressed out. It wasthe nicest gestures I could have recieved on that day.

44. I got a dozen long stemmed "jessica" roses from Big Daddy the morning of my wedding.

45. My grandfather used to send us the strangest things in the mail. Once he sent our family a fully cooked turkey on the bus. It was on a plate with stuffing wrapped in tinfoil.

46. I once got hit by a car and never told anyone because I thought i'd get into trouble.

47. I am really good at my job, even thought I think it is a bit mundane and boring.

48. I get aggrivated at cashiers who are really slow, have messy tills (bills all askew), and don't know how to properly count change back to a customer.

49. I hate seafood and refuse to go fishing.

50. I have begun to appreciate cooking for my family and actually enjoy it a little.

51. I enjoy organizing things.

52. I like beer.

53. I have never travelled off the continent.

54. I recently applied for my very first passport ever.

55. Big Daddy and I are very seperate financially. We will never ever be one of those "one bank account" families.

56. I can't play any instrument.

57. I have never done my own income tax.

58. My sister and I have many inside jokes. She would laugh if I called her Lorne and told her it was five o'clock in the morning.

59. I love the tv show "friends" I miss it a lot. I own all 10 seasons on DVD.

60. I am a tv addict.

61. When it comes to junk food I have no self control.

62. I wish I had a thicker skin.

63. I also wish people respected me more, but I dont think my personality demands it.

64. I was born with brown eyes, so was my mother and my daughter.

65. I have naturally curly hair.

66. I went to business college because I didn't know what else to do.

67. I once flipped some lady the bird while driving and she called the cops on me.

68. I was 26 when that happened. The cops were rude to me and made me cry. Big Daddy finally asked them to leave.

69. I am not a puker, I have puked once in the last 20 years.

70. I love looking at photographs.

71. When I was a kid I hated pizza.

72. Isn't it odd that I met and married a pizza guy. (now turned accountant of course)

73. I feel really sad that I couldn't take Big Daddy out and whoop it up when he got his degree last May.

74. I have never ever asked for a raise at any job.

75. I have never been fired from a job. However I have been laid off twice.

76. I hated the colour pink, until I had a baby girl.

77. I dont live in the same province as any of my extended family.

78. I never thought i'd breastfeed a child for this long. But I wouldn't trade in the experience for a million dollars.

79. I am absolutely terrified that one of my children will become a drug addict.

80. I can't leave the house without mascara on. If I realize i have I will stop at the store and buy some.

81. I love diet coke. I have a hard time going a whole day without one.

82. I have skinny dipped, with a life preserver on. Didn't want to drown!

83. Trent almost drown in our bathtub, in my care. It was a sickening moment that makes me ill to think about.

84. I have a tatoo which i'd like to cover up one day.

85. I am a gemini

86. I hate tea, but enjoy coffee.

87. I absolutely hate singing the song "happy birthday". I think it's lame.

88. I keep flushable cleaning wipes in my bathroom so that if someone pops over I can clean while I am in there and they wont know.

89. I always fear my house stinks like baby poo.

90. We have a bird, Millie. I hate birds. I have never touched the bird and am terrified when she is out of her cage.

91. I would love to have a puppy, but dont want the hassle or the expense.

92. I walked down the aisle at my wedding to a pianist playing Canon in D. To this day I still love the way it sounds.

93. I am lazy.

94. I wish I had the balls to get a small diamond nose ring. I will give birth, but I dont have the gnards to pierce my nose.

95. Big Daddy calls me princess.

96. He now also calls Addie princess.

97. I hate action movies, I refuse to watch them. They are terribly unrealistic.

98. When I was 17 I got fake ID made so I could get into bars.

99. I love to read magazines.

100. Our family gave up ice cream for lent and both Big Daddy and I have had mishaps. We aren't telling Joseph. He would be devestated.

Forgetful much?

I really do find that after having children my memory isn't what it used to be. Give me people, names, faces and facts about those people's lives and I can remember them like my middle name. But give me a task and I am bound to forget if I don't write it down.

Just ask Big Daddy. He gets more than frustrated with me when he asks me to do something like say.... call the bank. Days and days go by and he comes home every night and asks me "did you call the bank today?" The answer was generally a "well, I forgot because...."
Big Daddy now knows to write this stuff down for me. Even then it is hit and miss.

But in general I do find I remember the important things, picking kids up, dropping them off, diaper changes, feeding them. Those kinds of things.

However, the last few days have been horrible. I don't know what my damage is? The other day I had started painting Addie's room. I was working away getting the walls prepared and it was around 1pm and my Mom called. While talking with her it dawned on me that I had to pick up Joseph after school. Until that moment I had been totally oblivious to the fact and had something not happened to shake me out of that mode I probably wouldn't have thought about it at all. It was the weirdest thing as my days Monday thru Friday revolve around picking up the kids at school. I guess it is a really good thing that the rule for our family is that if someone isn't there to pick you up after school you go to the program (schools in-house after school daycare). Joseph is spectacular with this rule, too much so some days.

So, I was just getting over my weird feeling of almost forgetting all about picking up Joseph when today's incident happened. I took the boys to school. I got Trent into the preschool room, got his shoes on and his cup out. We smooched good-bye and I was off. I chatted in the hallway with another Mom and headed out to the van, I got into the drivers seat and got all comfy and thought "this is weird, why is this weird?" Unbeknownst to me I was still holding Addie! Like how does that happen? I had totally forgotten to put Ad in her car seat. It was the weirdest feeling. I mean thankfully I didn't do something really dumb like leave her in the preschool room, or drive away with her on my lap. But jeez.

I hope that at the end of the day this is all worth it and my kids are really really smart because I think each one of them has sucked out 1/3 of my brain. Thus, leaving me with pretty much nothing left upstairs. Some days, it is just a hat-rack.

What have you done?

The ones I HAVE done are bolded.

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the northern lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer (I think I do right now??)
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sang karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children/currently raising child
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication(an ad LOL)
106. Lost 100 pounds (Collectively over the years)
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart (probably but no one has told me so)
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head (part of it anyways LOL)
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life.

I am guessing Shar will do this next!

Funny haha or funny peculiar?

Yesterday was a day off of school for Joseph. He had been invited for a sleepover at Gramma's house with his cousin. When Joseph got home he had many tales to tell. So many that he had grouped his day into chapters and told me about them one chapter at a time. Can you tell Joseph has more recently sprung into reading small chapter books?

One of Joseph's favorite past-times at Gramma's is perusing the Sears Christmas Wish Book. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a catalogue that Sears puts out at Holiday time so that children of these lucky homes who receive said catalogue can circle and point out and beg for all the unrealistic toys they want Santa to bring them. I do realize it is now March and Christmas is long gone. Joseph could care less though. Quite often he still pulls out the now tattered and well loved wish book at Gramma's and ogles all the toys and games he has on his "wish list". The catalogue is falling apart at the seams and many pages are just laid in there places and aren't actually attached anymore.

After we cruised through the chapters of Joseph's day he informs me he has something hilarious to show me. Joseph is laughing so hard he can hardly walk. He makes it over to the front door where his jacket hangs on a hook. He is still laughing. It is one of those laughs where he is laughing so hard that it is making me laugh. I honestly don't know how he made it there laughing that hard without actually wetting himself. Through his laughter he tells me that he has a page of the Sears catalogue to show me.

At this point I honestly don't know what to think. He then whips out the page and starts to unfold it while shouting "undies UNDIES!!"

Ok, I know boys think undies and gitchies are funny. But to bring HOME a page of them??? At this point I am not sure what to think? Should I be happy it was men's undies, thankful he isn't yet into looking at at the Sears catalogue for women's undergarments? I just had to laugh it off. But should I be a little disturbed that his piece de resistance was the men's leopard print thong (read: banana hammock). I don't think he had any idea, he just thought it was hilarious that there are "George of the Jungle" undies.

I haven't the heart to tell him that toting around a Sears catalogue page of underwear isn't maybe the most appropriate behaviour. So if your around and he reaches into his jacket pocket and pulls out a folded page.... be for warned. It might be something funny, or something peculiar.

Again, again!

I know, it may be redundant but I will say it again. My two boys NEVER cease to show me how different their personalities are. Joseph is conservative and Trent, oh Trent. I don't think the term "fly by the seat of your pants" quite says it all, but it's close.

This morning as I was driving the boys to school the van started to slide on some ice. We went just a little bit sideways but not too out of control.

Overheard from the back seat:

Joseph: (in a very worried shaky voice) "ummmm, Mommmmmmmm"
Addie: slurpslurpslurp on her soother
Trent: (wide grin on face and all) "WOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Let's do THAT again!!!!"

It was a pretty good way to start the day.

Six months old

Can she get any sweeter? I don't think so. I can't believe how big she is getting. Six months. *sigh*