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TRUE: I used to be a lifeguard. 2007-06-24 15:46:34 Yep, I was.
I’ve been swimming since probably about the time I was walking. My mom used to bribe me with going to the pool to get me to do things (like wear my pink overalls - which I hated - and once I wore them that one time in order to get [...]
Trick: I ran a half-marathon and am training for a full. (And some news. Sort of.) 2007-06-26 20:14:43 This was kind of a trick question, but I didn’t really realize it at the time that I wrote it.
I ran a half marathon in 2000 or 2001 - you’d think I’d remember that pain - but am not and have no desire to ever train for a full. The half was [...] Read more:Trick
FALSE: My marriage to the BG is my second marriage. 2007-06-29 11:46:36 I’ve only been married once, and it’s the forever kind. As stupid as I was in the past, I never married one of the mormons.
Everyone got this one right!
You can still guess for #’s 7-10 here if you want to play!
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SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER!!!!
Yep, I’m pretty damn happy about that but it was sad [...] Read more:marriage
The Making of an Artist? 2007-07-03 22:49:45 Best! Toddler! Art! Supplies! Evah!
No art on walls, floors, people or pets. No “colour wonder” paints to eat or markers to suck.
1. The generic brand travel size “magnetic drawing doohickie.”
$2.99 at Toys R Us.
His first drawing experience.
He loved it so much that he actually stopped to hug it several times.
The final [...] Read more:Artist
TRUE: I have never been on a train. 2007-07-02 10:35:28 Though I’ve always wanted to, I have never ridden on a passenger train. When we were young it was a common form of transportation across the west but we always drove. I’d still like to take a train trip one day with our kids. Sleeping on a train would be so fun!
Karen, [...]
Flattery? 2007-07-07 15:42:21 The time: 2:00 am
The BG, drunk as a skunk, gets home from the beer gardens where he’s been watching hot rod cars…um…drive around…in the hot sun for 8 hours with the guys from work. (Yes, I was invited but we have no family in town to babysit Rylan overnight. He first went last [...] Read more:Flattery
True: I grew up on Canadian Forces bases. And damn cute popsicle pics too. 2007-07-06 22:15:46 I was born on a base in southern Saskatchewan in a town where their mascot is a freaking HUGE moose. I lived there until I was 5 when we moved to the base about 2.5 hours from where I am now. I went to school there from kindergarten to grade 9, bussed in [...] Read more:Canadian
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Friday Miscellany 2007-07-13 08:49:52 Even though I’m on summer holidays, it’s been a crazy week and I haven’t had much chance to blog. Today, again, not much time, so here we go with the bullet points…
I had my 4 month (four months? WTF?) OB appointment on Tuesday and FINALLY heard the baby’s heartbeat. We saw it [...] Read more:Friday
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Our Human Family - In Pictures 2007-07-09 20:22:51 When I went back to work for the month of June, I ended up working at a different school for the month. A great school with great people.
One of the classroom assistants at that school is an amateur photographer and we asked her to come to our house last week and do [...] Read more:Family
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FALSE and FALSE. Because…enough already! 2007-07-16 05:00:06 I’ve had about enough of this guessing game so here are the last two.
FALSE: I have had surgery six times in my life.
Three, actually.
1. In grade four I had my appendix out. I woke up in the middle of the night with horrible pains and went to my parents’ bedroom. My [...]
A touch of brilliance. 2007-07-15 14:15:05 The folks at Wateroos recently sent me some samples of their products to review. When I first read their pitch, I didn’t even respond to the email because I thought “I have stainless steel sippy cups that I can fill with my own water. No chemicals. No waste. No problem.” When [...] Read more:touch
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Free is good. Easy is even better. 2007-07-18 09:56:09 Free vid from http://www.myabcadventure.com/ courtesy of Shutterfly.
All you have to do is upload a pic and it finds the face & does ALL the work!
(However, I’m noticing it takes forever to load. Any idea why? I assume their server sucks.)
That’s my excuse for a post today as Rylan was up with those [...] Read more:better
Wordy 2007-07-23 09:47:25 I’ve been previewing the upcoming series Word World and I must tell you that I’ve finally found a show on TV (well, soon to be on TV anyway) that I’d actually let my kids watch.
It’s an incredibly innovative addition to the preschoolers TV lineup that’s coming to PBS Kids in the fall of [...]
You have reached Much More Than a Mom 2007-07-22 10:50:47 Sorry I can’t come to the blog right now. I’m visiting my family but will return soon. Until then, leave a message and have a great day!
We interrupt this anniversary with some breaking news… 2007-07-24 16:24:21 My dad is, once again, cancer free!
Since the first time, he was re-scanned in April and the cancer was back in his lymph nodes. He’s been having harsher chemo for several months and it worked! His next re-scan will be in October. I really hope there’s nothing there, but at [...] Read more:interrupt
Three Years 2007-07-24 05:00:54 Three years ago today, I married my best friend. It was the best thing I’ve ever done. He makes me laugh every day, makes me roll my eyes alot, and makes me a better me.
He’s my partner in everything, he is the best daddy Rylan and baby #2 could ever ask for and [...] Read more:Three
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Weekend Review: Glad Simply Cooking Bags 2007-07-28 05:00:40 I’ve been reviewing some free samples of Glad Simply Cooking bags. I must admit I was leery of these from the start. Microwaving and plastic just don’t mix, and these are essentially plastic bags designed for microwave steaming vegetables.
The press materials accompanying these bags claim that because no PVC is used in the [...] Read more:Weekend
It’s different the second time around. 2007-08-02 10:23:22 Second pregnancies are definitely different
than firsts.
At 16 weeks with Rylan I was barely showing - just in comfy clothes all the time. At 16 weeks this time, I looked like this:
And I swear the camera put those stretch marks there. They don’t actually exist.
Speaking of 16 weeks…with [...]
Mah Chocolate Locks 2007-07-31 16:07:37 I need to get a good - like really good - haircut before I go back to school. Ideas?
Rules:
1. I have a fat face so short hair makes it look even fatter - particularly if it tucks under my chin.
2. I need to be able to tie it back somehow to work out.
3. I’m [...] Read more:Chocolate
Friday Miscellany 2007-08-03 13:37:42 *Public Service Announcement: Since we’re not yet at the point of being forced to allow licensed characters into our home (with the notable exception of the fabulous Spiderman) we don’t own any of these but you might, so have a really good look at the list and accompanying pictures and get ‘em the hell away [...] Read more:Friday
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Blogitty Design & Shut Up About The House Already 2007-08-06 09:33:50 This weekend, I finally figured out how to code this:
I know many of you are regular contributors to and/or reader of T.O.P. so this will make it easier to tell everyone about it - especially for any of you who don’t code at all. Just right click in the box below the image you want and “select all.” Then copy and paste the code wherever you’d like it on your own site.
(I also learned how to make a line. Silly, but I was quite proud of myself. No more periods across the middle of a post. Yay!)
I’m still struggling (read: going absolutely nowhere and begging for help) with
1. Turning this theme into a 3-column design (sidebar, posts, sidebar)
2. Getting the poster’s name and post time out of the posts. I’d just like the date to be there. I want to do this at T.O.P. as well so I’d like to do it myself with help as opposed to having someone do it for me.
If you can help, I’ll love you long time.
It’s a long w Read more:House
The Other Mother 2007-08-06 05:00:10 This is a Mother-Talk book review cross-posted at T.O.P.
The Other Mother is a new (released this week, I believe) novel by Gwendolyn (Wendy) Gross that addresses the “mommy wars” from a fictional standpoint. While I think the mommy wars (between staunch stay at home and staunch working mothers who see no story but their own) are ridiculous and closed minded, they really do happen in some circles. I loved the way this book kept them as an undercurrent throughout the story without ever actually mentioning them.
The essential premise of the book is that the two mothers, Amanda & Thea, are truly only at war with themselves and their choices (as is usually the case in life) and they’re both envious of the other. Thea, the stay at home mom, is jealous of Amanda’s ability to have a break, pee in privacy and enjoy stimulating adult conversation. Amanda, the working mom, is jealous of the unlimited time that Amanda has with her children and the control she has o
Hurts like a MoFo! 2007-08-05 13:31:27 I just got stung by a wasp and it hurts. Really hurts. The BG got stung by the same one about 1 minute after me. Turns out there’s a nest under the cement at the bottom of our front steps and now they’re super pissed because the neighbour sprayed them with Raid. We were just on our way out to do errands and now can’t safely get Rylan out of the house. Anything special I should do to treat a wasp sting since I can’t take an antihistamine since I’m pregnant?
Moving 2007-08-08 13:02:53 As of today we’re pretty much in & out until Saturday night when we finally get to sleep in our new bed! So, that means I probably won’t be blogging until next week whenever I have a connection and drag my laptop out of the sea of boxes. Thanks to everyone who sent guest posts for T.O.P. Watch for them over there!
I am bubbling with excitement so I had to come on and tell you all the I just found out Rylan’s able to go to the “Babysitter From Heaven” in the fall! Yay! I have absolutely NO issue with going back to work now because he likes it there just as much as he does with us. He loves her (as do we), loves his little friends and is incredibly well cared for and adored by everyone. What a relief.
Happy weekend! (albeit a little early…)
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Two hundred and fifty six. 2007-08-13 22:41:20 That’s the number of unread posts in my bloglines. Ugh. I’m going to read them tonight, but won’t be leaving any comments. Sorry - I just can’t. I’m sure you understand.
More deets on the move coming soon. We’re in. We’re swimming in boxes. We have a fantabulous new bed that makes it all worthwhile. We have amazing friends without whom we certainly would have died this weekend. My mom brought mega food to feed all the movers and we’re still eating it because I really need a major grocery shop. Thank God for moms.
Internet is back, and therefore all is well with the world.
Need sleep.
Mwah!
Flirting In Cars 2007-08-16 01:00:21 This is a Mother-Talk book review.
Flirting
In Cars is a new novel by Alisa Kwitney. (I’m not sure why but I have a very hard time saying her name, even in my head.) At first glance, it’s a cheesy love story of the kind that I’d never read. But truthfully? I read it in two days while parenting a toddler, which means it was really damn good for a love story! Definitely still chick-lit, but with the main character being in her 40’s and strikingly “normal” it’s very readable chick-lit.
It’s the story of a Jewish mother & daughter, Zoe & Maya, who move to the country so Maya can attend a school that caters to learning disabilities. They think they’re going for just a year to catch Maya up to grade level and then moving back to Manhattan as quickly as they left. Zoe, being a stereotypical Manhattanite, doesn’t drive or cook and feels very isolated in what sounds to me like a country paradise and struggles with the
I always get what I want. 2007-08-19 12:14:48 Sure, it sounds like I’m a spoiled brat. And I am - kind of. I think it’s important to get what you want when you can, don’t you? I mean, really, as long as our basic needs are met we don’t really need anything else, but I prefer a lifestyle of getting what I want without going into debt. As in, the cheap version of what I’d really like to have.
Before we moved, we sold and gave away a lot of things that we didn’t think needed to come with us. The big screen TV (buying new & bigger for this place), the washer & dryer (got a set with this house), the table (it sucked - getting a new one) and the water cooler (have a purifier here). Less to move makes everyone happy.
Yesterday, after we finally got the painfully small cheque that’s remaining from the sale of our old house, we went out to buy a new table. Our criteria were…dark wood - preferably with no grains visibile in espresso stain, 6 chairs and at least 1 leaf. We foun Read more:always
What do you think of this? 2007-08-24 09:19:02 We don’t have a ton of options for organics in our small city, but we do have one huge organic farm with meat and produce available all year long. All local, all non-carcinogenic. Gotta love it.
But there’s one problem. The owners and everyone there are complete religious freaks. I mean seriously freaky. Not just normal religious, but pervasively and scarily extremist religious.
Their newsletter, presumably intended to promote their business, contains shit like this:
The Muslim Incident
Who can help but hear about the great world conflict between Jews and nominal Christians on the one hand (not to mention other religions) and Islam on the other? Many Westerners who naïvely think
Islam can coexist in harmony with Christianity are not aware that Islam directly contradicts the Bible and foundational, essential tenets of Christianity.
For example, while Jesus Christ declared Himself the Son of God, Islam, by its prophet, Muhammad, declares that God has no son. In the Do
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