GREAT BIG SEA!!!!

Oh ya!  We went to a Geat Big Sea concert on Saturday night and it was AWESOME!!!  Thank you to my sweet Michelle!  It was a perfect choice for a birthday present.  It was really nice I enjoyed it a lot.  I will post pictures as soon as I get them......Mike and Michelle...... could you maybe send me some pictures??!!  :)

LOVED IT!!

Little Current!

How could I forget?!  You guys have to see these pictures.  We took the kids for an evening stroll at the Little Current marina (Manitoulin Island).  And what luck, just as we were getting there these big sailboats where pulling in!  The kids thought they looked just like captain hooks ship on Peter Pan!  It was quite the site...not just for the kids but for mom too!  Check these out!

The kids on the boats were pretty young too, maybe 15 - 17, but it looked like they were having a great time! 

Timmins

Well I was in Timmins for a few days this past week.  What a trip that was.  Who would have thought that on a Tuesday evening in Timmins there would be no available hotel rooms for a 150 km radius?  Seriously?  Thank God my wonderful other half (Thank you Mike!) was able to get past my yelling and screaming at him....for something he had no control over nor any thing to do with, and find me a hotel room.  Yes it was 198km away in Chapleau but that was better than driving the 386 km (or something like that) to get back to Sudbury.  Those highways up there in the bush are SCARY in the middle of the night.  No traffic, no cell service, and a lot of wild animals.  Big wild animals.  I swear (not really hehe!) if anything were to happen you would be doomed.  No one would find you.  You couldn't call for help...... It was scary.  

Any how, I survived.  Barely.  But just being gone the night was tough.  I have such a difficult time being away from Miles.  I can imagine so many things happening to him when I am not there, it's horrible.  I used to do the same thing when Renee and Michelle where little, imagine horrible things happening when I wasn't there to protect them.  Do all moms do this or is it just me?  

But I'm home now, survived the ordeal, yay!!!  Unfortunately I will probably have to spend a wee bit more time in Timmins over the next few weeks.  Sucks, but it is my job.  

You know, it is really difficult to stick to a "diet" of sorts when you are on the road.  I will have to be better prepared for my next trip.  I have really been working hard on eating healthy and getting the weight off.  I don't want to mess it all up because I'm not prepared to eat on the road.  So far I am down about 8 pounds in the last 6 or 7 weeks.  Not lots but I feel great.  I wore a pair of jeans for the entire day last week without feeling uncomfortable!  It was great!  So I figure if I just keep doing what I'm doing the extra few pounds will continue to come off, slow but sure!  

Summer 2009

So is this crazy or what? It is September 13, 2009. Summer is done. Sucks. Do you know that we probably didn't have 3 days in a row this summer where it didn't rain? Not until September that is. Go figure! So in a nut shell, we did nothing this summer. Mike and I had vacation time at the end of July, it rained. We were planning on going camping but we still do tents.....tents in the rain....not so much fun. I'm sure Miles would have loved the mud puddles and Grace would have thoroughly enjoyed swimming, in the rain, but I'm old. Then we had talked about at the least going down to Toronto to the zoo. Didn't seem to be able to find time for that. So basically we stayed close to home, which I suppose was fine. Next summer we will do lots, make up for this summer. I just can't believe that summer is over. I'm not sad though. As much as I am a sun worshipper, I really love the fall. The smells, the colors, everything. I have to look into finding a farm around here where we can take Miles and Grace to pick pumpkins! That would be fun. We are already making plans for how we will decorate this year for halloween! Mike wants to really spook up the yard but Grace isn't so sure it's a good idea. Lets see who wins this one! Amazingly Miles remembers halloween from last year! And now that we are talking about it he asks every night if we can do halloween. When I get home from work I ask him what he wants to do and his response is "lets do halloween!" Cute! Soon baby, soon!

Yesterday would have been Tammy's birthday. I forgot yesterday, sorta. I had that nagging feeling that there was something..... I was just to busy to sit for a minute to think about what that something was. Today I remembered. If she were still alive I wouldn't have been able to call and say happy birthday or anything, but maybe by now I would have found her on facebook or something? Don't know. Happy Birthday sis, Happy Birthday.

Alright! I think I've figured it out! See... give me a few minutes to play and I'm pretty good at getting things done. Just as long as I don't start deleting things with big red exclamation marks that say "DON'T DELETE!"....Ya, I do that a lot........ but then I just call JP and explain (very nicely) that I deleted stuff and he can usually fix it right up! Yah!

Well that's all my playing for now. Maybe I will upload some pics of the boy? He got his hair cut last week, I still don't like it. :(

GOT IT!

Still working on it.

So I've managed to change the way my blog looks, and I'm liking it now! If I could just figure out how to get pictures to download into the body of my posts I would be really happy! I need to personalize this thing. Guess all I can do is keep farting around with it till it works.

Grace had her first dance class today! She was very excited. Daddy took her and I think he enjoyed watching her just as much as she enjoyed dancing. I'm happy for them. They finally have something for just the 2 of them to share and enjoy. Then we spent the afternoon shopping with grandma. She bought Grace her halloween costume! She is going to be a witch this year.....we think. We are keeping the receipt just in case she finds something else, after all halloween is still a ways away. I'm thinking Miles wants to be either batman or spiderman but we didn't really look for costumes for him.... still lots of time.

We've all had a long day and momma has a splitting headache that just won't go away. Time to get the little ones settle and off to bed so we can relax a bit. It's nice outside so maybe we'll sit out with a little fire, look at the stars.

Could be fun!

So I'm thinking this could be fun. When you go back and read your blog entries.....wow....I like that! Anyways I thought of something that I really do want to put into words. Renee started UNIVERSITY this week! How awesome is that! I am so super proud of her. You know, she took her time and did things her own way at her own pace but she made it! She is there, in university! She is happy, and having fun, and doing terrific and I am so damn proud. She is going to do great. She has dreams and plans for her life, and I know in my heart that she will do great. And little miss Michelle has stepped up to the plate and has made some plans of her own. School being the most important. We let her fart around for a while, try things her own way, but she has figured it out. School is important and she is going to get it done, and i can't be happier. She has a vision for her own life, and I know she is going to succeed in whatever she decides to do. My kids are great, I love them all. I'm very lucky. Thanks girls!

Here we go again

So I hear that blogging is good for the soul. I seem to be having a hard time getting into it though. I have some friends that blog a lot, I read their blogs and follow along with all that is going on in their lives, sometimes quite interesting sometimes not. Then I think about my own blog, my own life and I decide that really, I have nothing to blog about. Sad. But now I'm thinking that really that is not true. I have a life, I have children, a spouse....... I have thoughts, dreams, ups and downs. This is what a blog is about right? My thoughts.....my dreams......what my boy did today to make me smile...to make me angry.... I don't know. I feel like I want to blog, I want to put my thoughts into words. Maybe what is making me apprehensive is the idea that I would be opening myself up for others to scrutinize. But so what right...... Only those with an interest in my thoughts would bother reading my blog. And if they want to scrutinize is it only because I am brave enough to do something they can't bring themselves to do? Hmmmmmm So much to think about. I think I will start this blog thing again, private for a while, see how it goes.

Funny how it always seems to be around the anniversary of Tammy's passing that I decide that I need to be more in tune with my thoughts. Interesting.

So that's it for tonight. Tomorrow I will work on making this blog look better. Not really liking it at the moment.