A Day at the Beach.

Up here in the middle-of-nowhere Canada, winter can seem to last FOREVER. So as soon as the ice starts melting even the slightest bit, and the sun shines high in the sky we venture outdoors and try to soak up as much of the beautiful weather as we can. Because, realistically, in 4 months it'll all be over.

 So the other day my babies and I packed a picnic lunch and some outside toys and headed out to the local beach. It felt so good to pull out some of the summer toys and picnic-y things! Cleaning out the camper was just as liberating - but that's another story! What a beautiful day we had! We were lucky enough that it wasn't too windy, so the cold wind off the lake wasn't over-powering the sunshine. The kids had on their rain-boots due to some wet and squishy grassy areas. But me, I couldn't help but ditch the sandals and stick these ol' toes in the sand! :) :) :)

For those who totally know what I mean and what we're going through - summer is almost here, it won't be long before we ditch the jacket and bask in the sun ALL day! It's going to SO be worth the wait.

For those who are lucky enough to live in those parts of the world that don't see snow or anything remotely close to winter - you suck. ;)

Happy waiting everyone!

It's gonna be a gooder.

I'm SO excited! My sister whom I haven't seen in over 2 years should be here today!! Unfortunately she's only staying for a day or two on her way through but I'll take it! It's going to be a busy week. I'll be busy with my sister for the next day or two, and then we'll be going out of town to go shopping for Easter/birthday presents for the girls. Yes, we have to go out of town to buy these thing because we live in such a small town, hence the name! :) If we're lucky enough to find the things we need, it's like 2X more expensive so making the trip is totally worth it. So, we'll be most likely staying a night or two out of town which I'm equally excited for...I love getting out and doing something different.

Little sister A's birthday is on the 7th but we won't be celebrating until Sunday so a few of our friends that work can come and celebrate with us.  I'm not doing anything too crazy for her because she's still so small and I don't really see the point of making a big huge deal of something that she won't even remember. But, it's an excuse to get our friends together and celebrate my little girl's big day!

Also on Saturday there's a community garage sale going on at a local community center and I put my name to a table. I have like 3 bins of baby stuff I still need to get rid of, not to mention the 8 lots I put up for auction on ebay. One day I'll get this stuff under control! :D

So, I'm so excited to see my sister it's been way too long! It's going to be a good couple of days, busy - but good!  Happy Monday Everyone.

Talk soon,

Reality Check!

         My little girl is officially growing up! Last night my oldest {almost 5} went on her very first big girl sleep over at my best friends house. Her daughter is 6 months younger than mine and they grew up together. My BFF recently went back to work full time so we really don't see them as much as we would like, which is hard to explain to a 5 year old. It would be different if they went to the same school but they don't even have that in their favor.


Anyway, long story short, two weeks ago I invited my girlfriend's daughter for a sleepover at my house and she did awesome! And it was so nice for the girls to have some quality time. So, when my friend texted me on Thursday asking if it was ok to take big sister M for a sleepover I thought it was an awesome idea, but I wasn't sure if she would choke come bed time and want to come home.

Night time came and went and there was no phone call. I decided to get my work out in {since I had chicken fingers,curly fries, and chicken strips for supper!} and I brought the phone just in case she called to say my girl wanted to come home. I grabbed my iPod to put my tunes on and I see that she had posted on my wall that all the kids are sleeping and she did awesome! I felt a lot better.


My little girl got a whole lot bigger in my eyes, and I know that it's only going to get worse from here. Soon she'll be going to school every day and giving me attitude and not wanting her mommy anymore! I hope I'll be ok. At the same time, I know there'll be a thousand more joys and great things that I should look forward to while my little girl grows up. There's just certain times that remind me how fast she really is growing up.


Talk soon, :)

Ugh, what a week!

I haven't been blogging that much lately. My youngest daughter got the flu the other night and it's been a few days of one sick little girl! :(  Any time one of my children gets the flu/vomits I feel SO bad!! That's the worst thing to have to watch your little one dry heaving with that scared to death look in their eyes. My youngest is a trooper when it comes to being sick compared to my oldest. She will whine and cry all night because she hates even the thought of throwing up. So I felt lucky in that respect that it was only the little one that got sick. Watch, now that I've said that the school will give me a call letting me know my other one is sick too! It would be just my luck!

So, other than that I have been also having some major mommy guilt issues going on involving time spent on computer. Lately, I've trying to join as many blog hops as I can to up my followers and also trying to blog as much as I can to bulk up the quality of my content. With that being said, it's so hard to find time to do it! Especially with it being March break this past week and my daughter wasn't in school, I felt so bad to be sucked in to the computer. There was more than one day that I closed the laptop and didn't even touch it.  Is it normal to feel so guilty for having something of my own that I want to accomplish? I'm sure it is. Also, should I feel bad for taking time for myself. I know I could be blogging at night when they're asleep but that's the time that I usually want to spent with my hunnie so that idea gets thrown out the window. And then there's night shift, which he's on right now. So I could find time to blog then, right? Wrong! Night shift is when I want to get all my major spring cleaning done and by that I mean painting! I've put a fresh coat on the kitchen and primed my hallway which I plan on putting colour on as soon as little sister is 100%. 
The only conclusion I can think of is that it's one of the joy's of motherhood - feeling guilty or bad about something you're doing all the time! :P

As if that wasn't enough that I was worried about, I've been on this getting in shape kick. So also finding the time to get in a workout is trying as well. And I mean, there's no way in heck I'm getting up before the kids at 6 am like some crazy women I know! But honestly if it came down to it, I think I totally would if I was dedicated enough.

I hope you all had an awesome Spring/March break with lots of extra time spent with the fam :) 

Talk soon,

A Multi-Cultural Lunch.

Usually on days that big sister is at school {Tues. and Thurs.}, I'll just make an easy, snacky lunch for little sister.  I'm never really that hungry as well so I don't see the point in making something huge for one little person.
As I was fixing her lunch the other day, I had to laugh at how many countries our food came from! 

• Dragon Fruit {Pitaya} - this fruit is cultivated many places including Mexico, Thailand, and Hawaii. But ours came from China!
• Tortillion - These babies come directly from Quebec, and are SO good! It is a roped, moist, salty cheese. We have a friend that lives close to one of the major factories bring us huge bags of cheese when he comes to town to work :)
• A good ol' Hard Boiled Egg - A strange addition to this lunch, but little sister loves them, and it's good protein! 

Yummmmmmmm - O ;)



Reasons To Smile

I put little sister to bed for her nap and jumped on the laptop to try to catch up with all this blogging stuff. I'm sitting at the kitchen table drinking my coffee and feverishly going through one of the many blog hops I'm trying to keep up to. To my left I hear a 'plop' sound on the living room floor and I look over to find big sister emptying out my laundry basket.

"What are you doing?" I ask impatiently (thinking she's deliberately making a mess of things)

"I'm going to fold your laundry for you, so you won't have so much work to do." my beauty replies.

Hey! Why are you taking my picture?

Silly Billy

Concentrating...

I'm a good folder, hey Mommy!

It's moments like these that I feel so proud and blessed to have such an awesome little girl :)