Wonderland

June 22, 2010 · Filed under kids · Tagged , , , ,

We finally did it! We bought season’s passes for Canada’s wonderland, and the kids are stoked!!! We visited the park for the 2nd time this season on Sunday and we all had a blast! It wasn’t very busy so we managed to get the kids on quite a few rides.

Natalie’s new favourite roller coaster is the Vortex. I forced her to go on with me last time, knowing she would love it. At first she cried “I’m scared, I don’t want to go on” blah blah blah. Finally she agreed and we got on the ride. Welllllll, it was way faster then I anticipated so I was a bit worried about her after the first drop. I was trying to catch a glimpse of her face (no small feat when you’re strapped into a roller coaster) when I heard her cry “This is totally awesome!!!” When we got off, she was grinning ear to ear. She loved it.

Nicholas discovered the bumper cars, a ride designed for little boys. Seriously what little boy doesn’t love cars, and crashing those cars into others. A dream come true.

The only thing that I don’t like about going there is the cost of food. $11 for a kids meal. SERIOUSLY!? Not happening. We’ve warned the kids we’ll pack a picnic lunch and go out to the van to eat. I’m nopt paying $50 for a crappy meal. The high cost is made worse by the fact that you are not allowed to bring any food or drink (save bottled water) into the park with you… CRAZINESS.

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Help stop the Spread…

June 14, 2010 · Filed under Random Thoughts · Tagged , ,

I realize that many times, a person infected with a stomach virus is contagious before they know they are sick so they are sure to unknowingly infect others. What I don’t get is the number of individuals who will “fight through it” and go to work while they are sick, or send their child off to school after they vomited their breakfast.

Maybe the public is just unaware that they are still contagious even after the vomiting has stopped, for as long as 2-3 days. That means if you (or your child) has been ill, you shouldn’t resume normal activities until minimum 24 hours, preferably 72. What people also may not realize is that the virus lives in the vomit and feces of an infected person. If you take your sick child out to run a few errands and said child vomits in the middle of the grocery store, you have all but guaranteed that many of the people around you will wind up getting sick. Now at this point you may be thinking “big deal” and you’re right in many cases it isn’t a big deal. BUT to the mother quickly picking up some crackers for her daughter who is going through chemotherapy, it IS a big deal. To the middle aged couple with their frail 91 year old parent, it IS a big deal. To the young woman beside you who underwent open heart surgery 3 weeks ago, it is a VERY BIG DEAL.

Please, please, please, keep your kids home if they are sick. If you’re sick, stay home. Don’t go out and spread the infection to everyone else.

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First Grey Hair, Seriously?

May 27, 2010 · Filed under Natalie · Tagged , , , ,

I found a grey hair today. I was shocked, not because it is my first grey hair, but Natalie’s. Your heard that right, Natalie. She’s 8 and there is a single grey hair right at the back of her head. Kinda funny actually. A few weeks ago she was brushing my hair when she said, “I really like your hair Mommy, you have lots of beautiful white streaks in it!” Now I knew I had grey hair, quite a lot of grey hair, but I had been deluding myself, thinking I was the only one who noticed it. Guess not. Not sure if I should point out the single grey hair to her or not…

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30 Day Olive Oil Challenge

May 26, 2010 · Filed under All About me! · Tagged , , , ,

Odd title, I know. I have extremely dry skin. So dry that in the winter my hands crack and bleed. Recently I discovered this website which touts the amazing qualities of olive oil. Now I’ve tried almost every cream on the market and nothing really works. I also have the cortisone creams, but don’t like using them often as they thin the skin. I’ve decided to try olive oil after every shower for a month and see if I notice a difference in my skin.

This is a before shot of the excema patches on my calf. We’ll see how they look after a month.

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May 2-4 Camping Trip

May 25, 2010 · Filed under kids

The summer camping season has arrived! YIPPEE!

On Friday we packed the trailer and headed up to Craigleith for our first camping trip of the season. To say the kids were merely excited would be the understatement of the decade. Nicholas was practically vibrating! All week it was “can we go camping now? Can we go camping now? How about now Mommy?” He could not wait to get to the campsite. As we were setting up the trailer all we heard was “can I go in now?”  ”can I go in now?”  ”can I go in now?” Well, you get the picture.

Craigleith is a beautiful, but small provincial park on Georgian Bay.  The kids were esctactic when they realized the shale beach was filled with thousands and thousands of fossils. I had no idea when I booked our campsite a week ago! We also discovered that shale rocks are, in my opinion, the best skipping stones ever!  Natalie loved skipping rocks accross the water. Nicholas on the other had, hadlittle patience for skipping, instead he spent his time ion the beach heaving the biggest rocks he could carry into the water. He’d laugh every time he splashed himself. As we sat and watched the kids on the rocky shore, I couldn’t help but think of Steven. When we were little I was always in awe of him. You see he could skip rocks. I couldn’t. When he skipped rocks, they skimmed the surface of the water. When I attempted to skip rocks, they splooshed uncerimoniously into the water a meter or so in front of me. Not nearly as much fun!

Each day we would walk over to the beach and hunt for fossils. Another favourite activity was playing at the park. The  kids made plenty of new friends. We attempted to play volleyball. (Note: ATTEMPTED.) We quickly realized that we were not very good. At all. Kids didn’t seem to mind though. Of course no camping trip would be complete without the nightly campfire and SMORES. YUM. Once the kids were in bed, Louie and I would break out the big smokies and roast them over the fire. (Gee, I wonder why I gain weight in the summer)

Monday came and of course the kids did not want to go home. Despite their protests, we packed up the trailer and left the park. We still managed to spend most of the day outside and when bedtime rolled around we realized that poor Natalie had a touch of heat stroke. Poor kid felt horrible. She’s home from school this morning. I’ll likely take her in this afternoon.

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Sick again!

April 16, 2010 · Filed under kids · Tagged , , , , ,

There is currently a bad stomach flu ripping through our fair city. The children in Natalie’s school are dropping like flies and have been for about a month. Natalie suffered with it two weeks ago over Easter. She felt fine when I picked her up at school on Thursday so we stayed to play at the park. She went from fine to “my tummy hurts” to vomiting in 15 minutes flat. It hit that fast. Then the poor kid had to walk home where she crashed on the couch. I got out my trusty bottle of bleach and disenfected every conceivable surface in the house, twice! Then I had to phone Mum and Dad to let them know we wouldn’t be coming for Easter for fear of infecting them too. I felt so bad for Natalie, she was crushed. Then I waited to see who else in the house would succumb to the nasty virus. Imagine my delight when the 1 week marker came and went and we were all fine!

Last night (2 weeks after his sister) Nicholas awoke at 3:30am, covered in vomit. ICK. At least he was happy,  bouncing around apologizing for the mess in the bed. He awoke at 5am sick again, then was up for the day at 7. He’s been funny today, he’ll go from bouncing around to writhing in pain on the couch in like, a nanosecond. Seriously! Now, I know what you’re thinking, “why is he bouncing around if he’s sick?” Well, the only way I can think of to keep him still involves duct tape, crazy glue and possibly staples. I am thinking CAS may have issues with this option. So now we sit and wait. I am hoping the worst has past and he’ll start keeping food down now. I’m off to disinfect the house. Again.

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Time Flies

April 16, 2010 · Filed under Random Thoughts

April is half over. CRAZY! We are in the process of several home renovation projects. Refinishing furniture, new floors and now the garage door. I am the queen of starting projects and not finishing them. This week I have been stripping the garage door and let me tell you it was far more work than I had anticipated! I think it is almost ready to prime, I just have to fix a few rotten spots first. The kids have been fantastic, helping me and not getting in the way.Too much…

Natalie has a loose molar and it is really bothering her for some reason. We’ve never had that issue before, I’m not too sure what is going on. Luckily she just had a dentist appointment, so I am not worried that their is anything wrong.

Crazy tax procrastination. I hate doing our taxes. Two weeks til the deadline and I still haven’t even purchased the software. Luckily our returns are fairly simple and can be completed in a day. Maybe I’ll start next week.

I’m all over the map tonight. Time for tea then bed. Night all!

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Where does the time go?

February 19, 2010 · Filed under kids

I can’t believe how quickly time is flying by. February is almost over. The kids are getting so big, its crazy. Nicholas gave us all a big scare earlier in the month. Once again he developped croup and had to be rushed into the hospital. NOT a nice feeling. Luckily he was okay, but we were housebound for the next 2 weeks while he recuperated. Let me tell you 2 weeks in a house with an active 3 year old is never fun, compound that by trying to keep said 3yo quiet and inactive…I was ready to tear my hair out! Luckily I have a wonderful, supportive hubby who came home each night and took care of me! I’m hoping we manage to stay healthy for the rest of the month, I really don’t want to deal with sick kids again any time soon!

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What was I Thinking?

January 21, 2010 · Filed under Nicholas · Tagged , , , , ,

Usually I consider myself a fairly smart person. Usually. Today … not so much! I don’t know what I was thinking, but I decided to prime the table and chairs with Nicholas as my little helper. He’s 3 with the attention span of a newt. I gave him an itty bitty paintbrush and let him loose. He had a blast! It was actually pretty cute. Needless to say the furniture is now primed. So is Nicholas, my kitchen floor, me… I cleaned up so much paint today it isn’t funny.

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The Nosebleed

January 21, 2010 · Filed under Natalie · Tagged , , , ,

Poor Natalie, last night she woke up in the middle of the night with a wicked nosebleed. Being the sweet little girl that she is she tried to take care of it by herself, but couldn’t. It wound up taking us about an hour to stop the bleeding and get her back to sleep. Not an hour later the poor thing was up with a nightmare. I wound up just crashing in her bed for the rest of the night. She slept in this morning and went into school late.

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