Hockey Heads!

The kids got these helmets from Fabe when he went to an Oilers game. The kids look soo goofy wearing them. They are so funny, I think.

Opps! Another 'to do' item...

As you can see, our shoes need to be sorted in the garage. WE ALL shake them off and run into the house and leave them.

Pretty bad.

Spring is here!!!

Look at the snow, its almost all gone in my yard!!!!

I am welcoming Spring with OPEN arms!!!

I can't wait for the nice weather!!!

I can't wait to use my bike!

Poor Santa :(

Finally we were able to put Santa in his final resting place...(garage).

He has been stuck to the ground since Christmas.

Tara

Paint.

Okay, I was thinking about painting the big wall in my great room. The wall along the fireplace, on the right side or the fireplace.

And then getting a window treatment for the livingroom.

What do you think though? Something dramatic? Dark? Red? Green? It need something, what do you think???? HELP!!!!

Tara

Van.

Van, dirty too...but anyhow.

Here she is, it looks REALLY nice when its clean and the interior is grey and clean.

Tara

Truck....

Okay the truck is totallllllly dirty as my mom was using it to move my uncle last week. But anyhow....this is the truck. Its dirty, but trucks are suppose too!

10 more minutes!!!

I am leaving work in 10 mins. (physically) but I have already 'left' about 1 hour ago...its been a long day!

Tara

Well I am at work.

And I have TONS of stuff to do however I just wanted to pop in.

I didn't get a chance to buy food yet for my 'meal planning'. The kids are going to Fort Mac this weekend so I have LOTS of plans. Friday is clothing club (first time with this new group, and I can't wait to meet them all) and then Saturday I will spend cleaning and organizing!!!!! I am excited to do this actually! I will have LOTS of stuff to get rid of!

Today at work I had pizza for a child's birthday and then in the afternoon it will be cake!

Tara

Donations...

So at the kids school they are collecting items for donations.

Anyhow, I went to Dollarama and bought stuff. And the crappy thing about having 2 kids in the same school is that they BOTH wanna take stuff...so I divided up into piles each. So thats what they took in today. Its a nice idea though, so I can't complain!

Tara

Easter shopping.

Aren't these the CUTEST little candy-filled eggs? They are soooo super cute! I bought them from Ikea and they have TONS of candy in them, for ONLY $5.99!!!!!

My favorite thing!!1

I love my suv... (lol) but I am soooo glad that they don't have those Mercedes things that people pick off your car...

I don't even 'love' the fact that its a Mercedes, but I just love the whole layout of my suv.

Tara

Flowers!

These are my get well from my stomach flu lilies...

Arent they pretty?

I just love having flowers around :) I would have flowers in every room of my house if I could :) I love them!!!

Tara

Menu planning.

So as a part of trying to get more organzied in my life. I am going to start (attempt at least!) to meal plan for a week at a time. I already got the recipes all written out. They are very simple activities and they are easy and fast to make. But the best thing, is that they are fairly healthy too. So, I am going to shop for it tonight and start tomorrow. On the menu for tomorrow is Crispy Salsa Chicken served with Kraft dinner and steamed vegetables on the side. My plan is to take simple things (like KD) and add a healthier item with it to be served (chicken and veggies). Thats not the best example, but hopefully I will follow up with this and cook soemthing every day and then you can hear about the yummy meals that I will be making (lol) I am *so* not a cooker. But yet, I swore that when I stayed at home I would cook meals. Yeah, didn't go that way. I prefer baking over cooking. I prefer eating baking then eating cooked stuff (lol). But anyhow. Yeah, so thats my plan.

This is how things are looking and my to do list:

1) this weekend totally organize my house and the kids rooms.

2) meal/menu plan and have the ingredients on hand so that they are ready to cook

3) have a housecleaner come in weekly to do bathrooms, floors and the time-consuming cleaning items.

For the kids rooms:

-go through their clothing and get rid of the small/not worn items
-get rid of the toys which aren't being used
-get shelving for both of their rooms
-sand and repaint the top of Kennedys white dresser

Plans for the house are:

-paint feature walls
-get the art up on the walls


I have been already planning my plans for the yard:

-take down old fireplace, and buy a new fireplace kit with a brick circle so that chairs can be secure on the ground.
-have flowers everywhere.
-add to my bird feeder collections
-put mouse poision under the shed (so they don't eat the bird food and keep living in my yard!) ewww!!!!
-organzie the shed so that I have a work area in there for re-potting and what not.

So as you can see, I have lots of plans.

Now, check in with me in a few weeks and see if I have done ANY of it :) Maybe...maybe not :)

2 more weeks until Vegas (I think, still no passport for Fabe) but theres still hope :)

Tara

Holy trUCK!!!!

lol.

Wow, lots of you are interested in our handy-dandy truck!!!!

I will take pics tonight and post them on here...

:)

Tara

Kennedys hair.

Well a co-worker at work has a half-black step daughter and he hair is very much the same as Kennedy's hair. So the other day she had this cool braided look. I asked her how she did it and she told me it was just a 2-strand hair twist. So I divided it up into sections and low and behold it was sooooooooo simple. I can't believe I haven't done this before..considering HOW simple it is. So anyhow, here is the after shot of it. I love this, because I am able to leave it in her hair now for a few days, she can shower with it in and everything. I add bobbles and hair pretty things to match her outfits for the day but I love the look of it :)

Cute hey?

Tara

How much is that doggy...in the window????

In my bedrooom window...(lol)

Day and night he will sit here and watch out there...

Did he spot something of interest???

I love this one of him...

Some pics of Bandit enjoying his favorite place in the house...perched up on the back of the couch he LOVES sitting and sleeping up there to watch all of the action in front of the house. He's so cute!!!

Sunday.

Wow, have I been good at blogging this weekend or what ?

Anyhow. Today, we woke up and went and laid on the couch. (lol) we watched "Honey I blew up the kids" all together in the family room. (I can't believe that show is 15 years old!!!! omg!!!! I am getting OLD!) then, I ran out for McD's for lunch (lol). Got ready, I went to Ikea. I bought Kennedy a tv stand for her room. She got a flat screen tv for Christmas however I refused to put it in there without a proper stand. So, I bought that and some 'junk' from Ikea. There was NOTHING that jumped out at me besides these little green tea cups that would look really cute on a shelf in my kitchen. But I didn't end up buying it as I have enough to do around here rather then put up shelves. Actually, last night I put my 'to do' lists in my journal. Kennedys room needs some work in there, which includes sanding her dresser and adding more shelving. But I am so glad that I got the tv stand out of the way. hopefully Fabe likes it. He isn't feeling so hot today. Actually his tummy has been bothering him for a few days. I think that maybe he has a touch of the tummy flu that I was the host of last week. He has been on the couch pretty much all day and sleeping quite a bit. I wanted to go to GoodWill but didn't want to be gone out of the house too long. I want to start buying some different mirrors for decorating with around the house. Have a variety of mirrors around of different textiles and shapes. Have a wall of mirrors. I think that would be cool. I have to start doing some decorating and painting around here. I am getting SO bored of my house...it NEEDS to be painted...badly. We have to add up all ofFabians gas reciepts for taxes and get our taxes filed. Every year, I have to wait for him to do this...it gets really annoying. I am all ready to file mine...but he takes FOREVER...grrrr!

So Kennedy is in the bath. Mack (on the computer until 8) then he has to shower. And they will be going to bed about 8:30pm. I have some laundry to do. And this weekend they are going to Fort Mac. I have my clothing club Friday night. And Saturday and Sunday I am totalllllllly cleaning and organizing this house....its crying for me to do it...then my new cleaning lady can start!!!

Anyhow. I got a few emails about our truck and van. We are asking 2000.00 for the truck. The ONLY thing wrong with it, is the air conditioning doesn't work. Last year, on the way to the cabin it just went. But it isn't too bad anyhow. But it has power windows and cd player, command start, alarm, its not a bad truck at all. We put 1000.00 into last year for suspension and things like that..but other then that (air conditioning) its a perfect truck.

The van, ideally we would like 4000.00 but we are open to offers of it. Its a nice looking van. Runs awesome...command start. Fully loaded, nice interior. Clean. Looks brand new. Quad seating. I am leary of getting rid of it....I wanted to keep it just to keep it. Its soooo nice to drive and comfy but you know...even though its paid off we pay insurance for it still and we use it very rarely. The van has been serviced every 5000 kms at South Town. The only thing wrong with this, is the cd player/radios buttons are sticky and you have press really hard to change the chanels. We were going to put a DVD player in it anyhow if we were to keep it and so it would have been a new system.

My email addy is taradee@shaw.ca if you are really interested in either I can take a pic and put it on my blog too :)

Anyhow. I have to go and do Kennedys hair. I have new style in mind :) I can't wait to try it. I will take a pic and post it later if it works out well. I love doing her hair and new styles.

Tara

The rest of Saturday.

So we got the kids home. We were all drawn to the great outdoors. We went out front and Fabe and Mack played some street hockey. Kennedy was roller blading. I was shooting hoops. We all hung outside for about an hour. Then, dh wanted to go look at some trucks. We all packed into the SUV and went to the dealership. The kids stayed in the car and watched a movie while Fabe and I checked some out. There wasn't much but he did find one that he likes. We are going to get rid of our white minivan (that sits there...gets driven about once a month) and the truck (its older) so by getting rid of those two and buying something fairly new then that will solve our issue. Fabe still has to sell his 'sports' car once it gets repaired...the parts should be in in about 1 month (finally!) then it can be sold. That will pay off the rest of the SUV...yeah :) So my friends, the dealership ends here (lol). We currently have a SUV, van, sports car, truck and Dh's work minivan...stupid hey? So we will be down to 3 cars soon. My suv, dh's truck, and his work truck. I have found soooo many nice trucks but he wants the 4 door truck, and those extra 2 doors cost a fortune! So if you know anyone who wants a bigger sized Chev Silvarado truck for really really cheap, let me know. We bought it mainly for hauling stuff to the lake lot. That thing is sooooo realiable, its unreal. And its not bad on the eyes either. It has a cab so it can seat 5-6 people (legally). But yeah. We got really good use of it with our yard last year too, we filled that thing up with rocks for landscaping. Anyhow. Since we got such great use of it we thought that we should buy another one. We have to buy another vechicle anyhow. Fabes 'sports' car he can't drive unless its summer. So we are going to sell that, its just not practical. Then the van, well I do love it at times (for travelling and what not, its so much more comfortable!) but we just don't use it. The kids prefer the SUV for the DVD player. I'm not getting rid of my SUV. So the van, truck and car it is. Anyone wanna come to our dealership???? One of your husbands must need a cheap truck for hauling crap around...or how about a minivan? Will sell cheap...Oh and what about a Nissan 300zx imported from Japan??? (lol) parts only take 7 months to get in to Canada to repair it...(body damage!) and did I mention its RIGHT hand driving???? (Jane, don't you drive on the right hand side in the UK?)

Anyhow.

After that, we bought ice cream from McD's. Then, we drove around. Came home, and the neighbors were outside in the 'party' garage. So, we went over there for a few hours...the kids played outside for hours. We came in. Put the kids to bed and we sit the sack shortly after too.

I loved the weather yesturday.

I can't wait for summer.

I planned out all of my yard/landscaping plans.

Anyhow.

Off to breakfast :)

Tara

Saturday!

What a lazy Saturday! My mom phoned at 10:30 am and woke me up. Fabe was already up, he is not a sleeper-inner. So I got outta bed...dog trailing behind me. Came downstairs. Fabe cooked me breakfast :) and I made us some coffee. I love days when we wake up and its just him and I. We sat at the table together. We only needed 1 friggin number to the Edmonton Sun BINGO game and it wasn't there :( No 10,000 for us today. Oh well.

I have been on MLS checking out houses and stuff. There is a house that I want and its been for sale forever!!!! Its right across from the kids school in a Cul De Sac. Its HUGE and beautiful :) but its 525,000 we would like to stick under 500,000. Who the hell would have thought that I would buy a half a million dollar house (eye roll) and DO YOU WHAT THAT COULD HAVE BOUGHT FOR YOU 5 years ago???? Sick market. All I know, is that I want a different house. No bigger, not necessary. Just a better layout. The whole bonus room-trendy house is boring and too show-homey for me. I want a house with FRONT windows on the mainfloor. More windows, and a BIGGER yard. Our house is fine in size for us. 4 bedrooms and a basement that we NEVER use...(that was a waste getting it developed!) but oh well. I dunno. But I do want a bigger yard. So until I find either an acreage or a house around here with a BIG yard, we will still be here. Fabe would like to build again. Ugh, I could NOT bother. I just want a better layout. More functional room. I love my house. I really do. Its pretty and trendy, but not functional always. Yesturday, I went to pick up Kennedy from her friends house and I went into her house and its sooooooo nicely laid out. I want to be able to have 10 kids for a birthday party and not be stressed out. I am *still* kicking myself for the house we looked at last year. It was a 2600 sq foot 2-storey. Okay, so HUGE. But anyhow, it was soooooooo laid out well. Again, wouldn't have use the basement but still....the upper 2 levels were soooooooo big and laid out well. Our master bedroom here is small, I want a bigger one. But yeah, that house was awesome. It was 299,000 and we were dreaming looking at it...'if only...' and NOW if I seen it I wouldn't walk out without an offer on it...it was so nice. And, its probably about 600,000 now. It was on Mill Woods finest cresent, Grand Meadows Cresent. It was just so nice. (done)

So I am not sure what time my mom is bringing back the kids. Mack is excited to come home, as I bribbed him with "IF you do good on your report card, I will pay for a membership to runescape" and he did VERY well so I guess I am buying him a membership. He still has a 1/2 hour limit but oh well. Kennedy did well too. But it said that she has 16 lates (1-6) how???Mack and her go to school together everyday...and he had 3 lates....I will have to ask her teacher about that. AND, I watch her go inside. So I dunno.

I need to make an hair appointment. I am going lighter for my trip to Vegas. And I need my eyebrows plucked.

Well, time to go...my camera battery is charging so I plan on taking more pics and adding them on a regular basis to my blog now :)

Tara

Friday!

So today was an excellent work day. Bought a new computer for work with Windows Vista...I can't wait to play with it on Monday! I picked up the kids from school as Kennedy had a birthday party at 4pm. So I dropped her off there. Mack and I went to Sobeys. Came home. My mom came over. I went and got Kennedy. Visited with my mommy for an hour. She took both kids for the night. It was a nice day!

I have big cleaning plans this weekend...because!!!!! I FINALLY found a cleaning lady!!! She is going to come in weekly for 4-5 hours! I can't wait!!!! So I am going to clean/organize so that she can start cleaning. No more spending hours cleaning for me :) :) :) :) :)

I want to go through the kids clothing. They have SO much to get rid of. (again) find some spring coats, etc. We *are* going away somewhere (Vegas of BC) so I want to ensure that everything is in place for my mom too.

Other then that. Things are pretty good. I finally felt soooo back to normal last night...I feel GREAT today...thank God!

Tara

The neighborhood problem!

So, our driveway is *always* the one that gets dumb things happening to it. For instance, in the winter when they graded it they put the big piles in front of our house. So, we had to shovel it. Then another time, they plowed it and pushed it to our driveway and we always were getting stuck in it...we had to make sure no cars were coming and PIN the gas and hope we could get through. Actually, ON our street while our house was getting fixed Fabe decided to try to 4x4 in our van and got stuck so he got me to drive the Jeep over and try to tow him out...well we hooked it up and all of the sudden SNAP the chain busted and flew back to my jeep and SMASHED my back window on the Jeep..omg I was PISSED off. Anyhow THAT happened there too!

So the latest thing. IS we had a HUUUUGE lake (puddle) as the drain hole was covered with ice. We tried to putting salt. ice melt and everything else on it. Finally I came home from work last week and my neighbor was out there with his quad and blade trying to find it. We used my SCRAPBOOKING to finally get it free...I had pics of the drainhole in the front of the house pictures and we were able to locate it under the thick ice. Anyhow, after like an hour we found it and the whole puddle immediately began to melt...

What amazng story!!! (I know, BORING) but the challenge of trying to find it and then watching the water rush down there was pretty cool, I have to admit.

Tara

ewwwwww!!!!!!

Gross!

Enough said, this is the state that my mini-backyard is in....

grrroossss!!!!

I would like to (at least!) pick it up while it is still frozen though before it all starts to melt...ugh!

Tara

My roses...

Fabe bought me these roses...they are so pretty...they are now dead of course...tomorrow I will take pictures of my get-well-soon tiger lilies...

Tara

Why are you dying?

I bought this beautiful house plants. I always think that plants make houses look nicer. Well, this one is dying or something. I water it, it has lots of natural light, grrrrr...

I don't know!

Tara

My sister is here!

This is from when my sister was down for teacher convention. Grrrr, it annoys me sooooo much. She is so not like me, I can't NOT handle a mess and she just doesn't care. She leaves her bags right by my front door...so annoying !

Tara

Bandit

Enjoying the screen door. I was mopping the floors and the door got all foggy but that doesn't stop him from enjoying seeing whats going on outside.

Tara

tanner.

This is when Tanner was at my house. He was sooooo sick. I was so super worried about him, I was sick with worry. I love Tanner so much and would be absolutely heart broken if he didn't recover from his illness. Thankfully he is doing good now. But I was so worried about him.

Doesn't he look awful?

Poor boy.

He's a choclate lab. Even looking at these pictutes brings me to near tears. It was horrible when he was sick.

The main thing is, that he is better now and hopefully have many more years ahead of him.

Tara

Wednesday.

So I just was going to upload some pics but changed my mind. I will get back on track of this now. I wanted to take some pics of the flowers that Fabian bought me...they are pretty tiger lilies. Anyhow, today was a good day at work. busy. But thats okay. My tummy is getting better, I felt great when I woke up but not so great at work...really really bad heartburn...ugh. Yuck!

Came home from work. Hate Wednesday's as its dance night. So rush home. Get Kennedy, rush to dance. Drop her off. Come home. (got gas on the way home!) then I have to go and get her again. I just cleaned up the main floor. SO its half decent...still needs a deep clean tho. Kennedy has a party Friday after school until 6pm. So I will have to pick her up from school that day and take her there after school. Then, my mom is taking them Friday night...(yah!). I have some scrapbook frames that I would love to hang up on the wall so they need a page to be inserted inside of them. I want to do a page on Cuba..and one of Disneyworld. I want them to host travel pages...so then one of Vegas (IF we get to go, if not then it will be a trip to BC *lol*) So yeah, no passport. They said he will have to apply for an emergency one on the Wednesday (last one of the month) and hopefully he will get it by Friday. Either way, I *AM* packing up for 5 days and going elsewhere then...geesh. What a pain!

So I am down the lowest that I have been down...due to my stomach issues...(yah!) NOT. I would rather have the 5 pounds then have this.

I am soooo tired, again.

Last night, I didn't even get to watch American Idol. Fabe taped it for me as I was sleeping by 9om. Brutal. And NO, I AM NOT PREGNANT! Cant a woman have a stomach issue WITHOUT being pregnant????

Tara

Tuesday.

So, at first I wasn't excited to go to work. I was actually dreading it. But I had SUCH a wonderful sleep and knew that I could do it :)

The kids missed the bus, so OH DARN I had to go to work later.

Got to work about 9am. Jumped right into it. It was like I missed 1 week and it was only 1 day :(

Today I feel better. But my tummy isn't settled tho. I still only ate very minimal.

So I worked until about 4pm and that was it. Came home. Fabe had supper going, blah. I ate 2 hot dog buns (plain) and that was that. I laid on the couch watch Oprah for a while. The kids were playing outside. I feel sooooo lazy. Mack went with 2 boys from here and rode their bikes to the store.

They are still outside. I am yawning. Sorry to complain, but holy moly I just HATE being like this. Then, I think what the hell am I complaining about? There are SO many people who LIVE with this every day while they battle cancer and what not. I know that I *really* do have it good and should stop complaining. I know.

So yeah. Other then work. I have done nothing. I can't wait for bed. Fabe goes back to work tomorrow after being off for a few days so no more suppers gonna be getting cooked for me anymore. Right now, he is cleaning the kitchen as I type. So I need to get it together by tomorrow. My house is a mess. Like a clean-mess. I guess, tidy. But I like it CLEAN. So Friday my mom is taking the kids and I think that I will clean clean clean. I need it to be clean. I hate that feeling from a unclean house. I mean, its tidy. But not clean. I call it 'surface clean' and I need it deep cleaned. So you get my point...BORING hey Jane...talking about my clean (or unclean) hosue...totally a #31~

American Idol is on tonight.

Today my sisters nanny, Annie... :( Her mom died. I just can't imagine her life. I really really can't. Here she is raising a total strangers children...meanwhile her OWN children and her husband are in another country. She hasn' t seen them in 4 years. I can't imagine. My sister bought her a ticket and she is going 'home' for a month tomorrow. But under such a sad circumstance. It takes a sad situation to see her children. Thats the only way that she can leave the country. Then you wonder, is seeing them only going to add salt to the wounds???? I feel so sad for her :(

Well. I should try and get something done. I don't know what. I just wanna go to bed.

Tomorrow, Kennedy has dance class. *yawn*

So much to do.

Tara

finally!

I wasn't able to get into my blog for ever!!! They switched it on me!

Anyhow.

Quick update. I killed myself at work last week. Yup, and everytime I work too hard/much I get sick and catch crap thats going around. Sure enough

Friday at work my tummy was kiling me

Got home at 4:15pm, kids came home. i was already in bed. I couldn't even visit with them :( I fell asleep until 9pm :( Thankfully they are old and made themselves supper...I honesly couldn't do it. I feel awful about it, but I just couldn't. Finally at 9"30 pm the puking began. I felt soooo much better once it was over with...I slept really good. Stayed in bed all of Saturday...Fabe seen I sick I was (it takes ALOT for me to be sick) and so yeah. He brought the kids home supper. They played outside for the day...it was horrible. i got up for a while and tried to force myself to be 'normal' but it took sooo much from me.

Sunday, Fabe called in sick to stay at home. Her ran out and bought the kids breakfast and me flowers (awwww) and I hung out in bed. Thankfully my friend picked up Mack for swimming for a few hours...I didn't feel SO guilty. And I was out of bed mostly Sunday but on the couch or whatever. My back was KILLING me!!!

Monday (today) I feel soooo much better but not 100% yet. I stayed home from work (my 2nd sick day in over a year!!) so I can't/don't feel too bad. A good thing was that I got tickets for FAITH HILL AND TIM MCGRAW for JUNE!!!! Yeah!!!!!! I looooooove them :)

So yeah. Fabe is off today but gone to an appt for allergy testing. The kids are at school. My Avon just got delivered. I want/need to clean. But should I ??? I think I will crawl into bed with my new Avon catalog and read it first :)

Anyhow

thats about it!

Tara

Wednesday!

omg. Another brutal day. At work at 8:15 am and worked the whole day until 5:45pm. It was hell-ish. 2 staff sick again. It was hell. Seriously. Ahhhhhh!!!!! The one staff won't be in until Monday and the other staff SAID that she will be in tomorrow. Its pretty bad. I am getting nothing done since I am soooo busy all day long. It sucks. BUT, tomorrow since the kids are off early that means that I have to leave early :) :) Well about 3:00pm...

Anyhow. Last night my BIL and nephews got in at 10pm. I visited with them until 11pm. Woke them up at 5am. They left at 5:45am. I watched tv in bed for a while. Then had a shower, Got the kids up...did all that. Dropped them off at the bus stop and went to work. So yeah. Fabe took them to the airport this morning. He is tired. Then, I came home to a friend dh's saying that our passports aren't even being reviewed yet... (omg!) and that we need to get the transfer number from the express post and get it transferred here and something. Anyhow, we are down to less then 3 weeks until we are *suppose* to leave and no passport for him...I have one. Anyone wanna come to Vegas with me????? LMAO!

Wish us luck in calling tomorrow morning !

Tara

Garbage picker!

Yes, I just picked through the last week of garbage in the garage for a Canada Post stub...and I found it :) But it was a gross gross job ;)

So Fabe's passport will not be processed any time soon. We are soooo screwed fro Vegas :(

Tara

lonely

I feel lonely lately. My friends are all busy in their own lives. I miss having my 'best' friend. And, yeah. I just wish that I had my 'best' friend back. I feel like I don't 'fit' well with soooo many people. Its so hard to explain why. But I wish I knew what I could do better to find a way to 'fit' with people, without changing who I am...
Tara

Great news!

I am so happy, finally a very well deserved raise for daycare wages in Alberta :) FINALLY!!!

Tara

Tuesday.

Today work was horrible.

2 staff sick, soooo much work to do.

worked 8:15am until 6pm.

Ugh.

thankfully went to bed early last night.

However, my BIL and nephews are arriving tonight and we have to pick them up as they are staying for the night and have to be at the airport at 6am! Ugh. So I have to set up the playpen and get everything ready for them for the one-night sleep.

Anyhow. Boring I know.

Speaking of boring, Jane!!!! Was I #31????

LMAO!

Tara

Tanner update

Tanner is feeling better since being at home, maybe he was homesick? I am not sure, but I will have him for a week next month so hopefully he doens't get homesick again...I am not sure what it was for real, however I am just sooooo happy that he is feeling better :)

tara

quick update.

Well my sister and Annie (the nanny!) left about 30 mins ago. I just finsihed cleaning the mainfloor and mopping. So I am up here on here while it is drying.

Anyhow, well Tanner continued to puke. It was really really sad and I hate seeing him like that. Anyhow, finally Friday night we took him to the emergency vet and they wanted to admit him right away for fluids. After getting the quote (and his not puking the whole 2.5 hours there) we declined and came home. The quote was 1100-1900 for the night for fluids. How pathetic is that? Rip off or what! So instead we left with a 352.00 bill for blood work and a Zantac shot. They called later with his results and said that his liver and pancreatic enzymes were off a bit, but could be due to his puking and being dehydrated. Anyhow. That whole night he was perfect and slept in the bed with my sister the whole night. Woke up, he was doing well. Ate some of his food. We (mom, Annie, sister, Kennedy and I=just the girls!) went out shopping for the whole day! I bought some beautiful capris from Costco (I never could fit their sizes before!!!) I bought 4 pairs!!!! Heheheh!!! Then, we did south common and Tommy, Rafters, Dollarama and did lunch. We came home. Puke in 2 places. Ugh. My sister got ready and went out. Tanner did well. I gave him some of the gasto-formula for dogs and water and he ate that. 2 hours later, puked it up. Sister came home. They went down to bed. She said about 2 am he puked. So she slept on the couch in the living room (close to the back door). He didn't puke anymore. This morning, he ate abit and drank. So hopefully he keeps it down this time. They left so we will see. I feel sooooo bad for him. I just pray that it is nothing. AND, furthermore if you are reading this and ever considering a dog...or a cat for that matter...think about things like that. The UNexpected things that happen to them and you HAVE to pay from your pocket for them. Tanner is very dehydrated however my sister refuses to take him down here. Her plan is to get him up there so that he can see his own yet and get the results from the blood work down here. She said its a matter or today or tomorrow but if he keeps on puking then she said tonight she will take him in. Knowing that more then likely he will get admitted and be on IV until they figure it out. He's a older dog, almost 9 years old and like humans very young and very old become sicker faster. Every time I looked at him my tears ran down my face. I just love him so much and will be soooo heartbroken when he dies :( :( :( :(

Anyhow. Tears runnin down my face. I just pray to God that he will be okay. He just looks sick and sleeping soooo much.

Anyhow. Last night Mack went to a birthday party. They went swimming at West Ed and then slept over at his friends house (our neighbor, actually.) Kennedy went with my mom for the night. Fabe is at work. And it is just Bandit and I. Like I said, I am just cleaning up the dog hair from Tanner and tidying up the house.

When Mack gets home I have to run to the store and buy some stuff. We have no toilet paper, laundry soap, milk, etc. So yeah...its going to be the 'expensive run', so we call it. LOL!

To top off everything with Tanner, my sisters van (yes, the one that the engine blew on her way down here for Christmas...the 2003 caravan). the transmission is going. Its been acting up. Then, her kids and her hubby are in New Foundland for 2 weeks and due to come home tongiht. Well, due to the storm down there their flight is delayed. Yesturday West Jet called them and told them the earliest is Thursday however they today were told with some delays and another flight they can leave tomorrow. SO, new plans. My mom is going to pick them up from the airport tomorrow night. They will stay overnight here. And Fabe will take them to the airport early Wednesday morning. He doesn't want to miss work as they told him these days are now out of his vacation time. So he will work Wed. night now. So yeah.

I have nothing really planned for this week. Just get my house back to normal. Its suppose to be nice all week so dog park lots.

4 weeks until my Vegas tirip (IF Fabe gets his passport in time!!!)

Tara

TGIF !!!

Haven't said that in a while.

Today I slept in. Opps. Got to work about 10am. Was nice.

I only worked until 1pm as I had a dr's appt. Went to that, went well.

Came home, Tanner (sisters dog) puked ALL over the place :(

Yuck!

Cleaned that.

Took them to the dog park.

Came home, bleached the mop.

Tanner kept puking.

More puke.

Puke.

Puke.

Finally I called me sister and told her to come over (she was anyhow, but later). So she came, and he puked for her too. Several times in the 45mins she was here. Finally, she was too concerned and called the emergency vet clinic (6:30pm) and we took him in. Of course, once there. Didn't puke once. She said he is exteremly dehydrated. Wants him to stay overnight for IV and run some tests. Sister agrees. She gets the quote. Ummm, 1020.00 for ONE night and 1926.00 for two nights. Yah, NO!!!!!! Instead she gets him blood work, a shot of Zantac and off we go home. He is finally sleeping. He isn't so restless and in pain anymore :( Poor guy. It was horrible being there though. A little girl, craddling her little kitten in a blanket BAWLING her eyes out. It seemed very very sick. From complications from getting spayed 2 days ago. Poor thing. We could hear her crying in the room...so sad. I would NEVER be able to work there. omg. Never....

Anyhow. We are home. My sister ran to Zellers to get something. Tanner is resting on the floor here by me. Bandit is sleeping on top of the couch so he can also see out the bonus room window.

The kids are still at Fabes moms house. They will be home laaaate. He is still working.

I am sooooooo excited to sleep in tomorrow. I was having the best sleep ever this morning and didn't want to get out of bed...it was THAT good.

Tomorrow, no real plans. I hope Tanner is back to him self...I miss him when he is sick.

So night!

Tara

Today...

Well today was another looooong day. Ugh.

Woke up, enjoyed not having to get the kids ready for school. Was at work by 8:30 am and worked the WHOLE day until 6pm. ALL of the parents want receipts and everything. So, yeah. The little girl was diagnosed with Epilipsy and will be waiting for a MRI to see if anything else. Poor little baby :( Anyhow, after work I came home. Got the dogs and went to the dog park for a while. I love going there and miss it soo much as thats 'my' place in the summer. Then, I went to "sssshhhhh" (taco bell) the bank and then home. Came home, ate my bad yummy supper and then got cozy. Then, Annie (my sisters nanny) called and she is lost on a bus somewhere. So, now I get to go BACK out. ugh. I just wanna cozy up in my bed with the dogs and relax. Fabe is at the hockey game tonight. Kids are gone. I just wanna reeeeelax so badly. Tomorrow, I will go to work about 8:30 again...but I am leaving around 1pm as I have a dr's appt and then will be at home early. I will take the dogs to the dog park and then rely on Fabe to pick up our children from his parents house later. I really, really don't want to go to the west end to get them. My sister will be staying her tomorrow night for the weekend. So I am not sure what we will do. So other then that. Thats all thats going on. Tomorrow I have my dr's appt...for the pill. Fabe is begging me to stay on it for longer. I am not. I REFUSE to take the pill ongoing if we are done...he can get fixed. So I told HIM to make HIMSELF an appt :)

Well, anyhow.

Time to go.

Tara :)

Just waiting for Annie to call...I don't want to miss American Idol :(

I am so envious of Janes blog!

And I would really really really like to make all attempts to try to update with pics often. So I will aim to post pics once a week...but hope for more (okaY!)

almost a week of no updates!!!

Opps!!!!

Anyhow~

Sorry (JANE!)

So this week I have been extremely tired. Was *almost* thinking that I was pregnant. But not so. Anyhow. Lets see. So last weekend Fabe was off. Friday I cleaned the house. Saturday, we went to an acreage to an open house (right by North Bear golf course!) and anyhow, it was SOLD when we walked in the door!!!! GRRRR!!!! So that was pointless. Anyhow, we did that. Drove around out there again. Then, we took Bandit to the dog park for a while (Fabe, Kennedy and I) then I went to Zellers and bought myself an outfit to wear out that night. It so nice :) (regluar size!!!) LMAO! Then went home, showered, left. I went to Bonanza with a large group of ladies. Then we went to Alberts lounge in Capalano mall for Karokee night. It was fun. Fabe went with his friends too, dropped the kids at his moms house. Anyhow, my night out I was speaking with Teresa about her wanting to move to BC. Then Wendy (whose husband works for Shaw as well) said that they were thinking about taking a transfer there. Well, that got me thinking...Shaw...transfer...BC...no winters...perfect :) So on the way home from the north side to the south side I called Fabe and told him my ever-so-smart idea ;) Of course, he was like "move away from my parents!!!" (pleeez!) But yeah. So when we met each other at home, we crawled under the fluffy-crunchy-sounding duvet and got on the laptop for the next 2 hours looking at houses in BC. WOW-the prices of some houses are UNREAL (cheap!) and beautiful houses. So anyhow. Another thing to consider. I would move in a heartbeat. Totally! So he is going to ask his manager how one goes about transferring. We'll see. Sunday, we slept in. Got up and my friend called and wanted to go see "the holiday" movie. So we met up and did that. After the movie, I called Fabe (we talk to each other about 15 times a day!) and he said "meet me for supper" and so we squeezed in a supper before grabbing the kids. Monday, worked. Tuesday, I worked and then my friend called and asked me to go for supper with her...(can you see how many suppers out I have been eating :( ) So, then we went shopping. Bought some capris for my Vegas trip (Old Navy and 2 sizes smaller then usual from there). Then, my sister called and her and her nanny, Annie were at my house! So I grabbed the kids from my friends house where we had a sitter and came home. Annie is staying at my house now until Sunday. My sister is down for teachers convention and staying at a hotel. My nephews are in New Foundland. So Annie and Tanner are here. So tongiht, was hell. I came home from work. Mack was at a friends house from school...so Kennedy took the bus home alone and I met her at her stop. I got her dance bag, dropped her off at dance. Took the dogs to the dog park. Dropped the dogs off. Put supper in the oven. Went and got Mack...got Kennedy then came home and ate supper. Cleaned the kitchen. And finally I am sitting. LONG day, I hate Wednesdays! Tomorrow, Fabe is off. As are the kids. So I don't have to get them ready in the morning (yeah!) Then I he is going to take them to his moms house tomorrow night as we both work Friday. But other then that...Friday I have a dr's appt for the pill (to delay it or else I will have it in Vegas!) then I will come home a bit early. I feel so sorry for Annie, doing nothing all day...I wish I knew someone to occupy her. Friday my sister will be staying at my house. So maybe Friday night we will take Annie out and about in the city :) She just wants to get out of the house.

Today at work...it was sad. We have a little girl who keeps having 'episodes' where she falls and kinda goes unresponsive, but is 'awake'. Anyhow, its very scary. She had 2 of them today and she has been having them everyday. I seen her have 1 on Friday in the bathroom while she was washing her hands. So, I told her mom and she was like "oh I will make her an appt". So today I called dad, as she had 2 of them. And dad sent mom over to take the child to the U of A emerg. I told them, we are very concerned. So I will update...but I have a feeling that it is something important. Her pupils were sooooo extremely large it was just scary when I seen her. Horrible. Ugh. The mom was crying and said that she thought it was for attention. This little girl is only 3 (since Oct) so I don't think that she would come up with that to do for attention. Verrrrry weird. I am so worried about her :(

Well, I am going to pack the kids bags for the night for tomorrow and try to go to bed earlier.

Tara :)

Thursday...

Well I worked in the morning for 3 hours. Then I went to Weight Watchers (see other post). And then, went to Sobeys and bought my food. THEN, came home. Laid on the couch and watched tv and talked on the phone (how productive!). Then the kids came home from school on their bus and Mack studied his math and Kennedy read her books. I cooked supper. We ate drumsticks, baby potatoes and salad for supper. Yummy! Then, I made them home made vanilla pudding for supper (Kitchen Aid, LOVE IT!) and then we went down to the basement and gave Kennedy her machines. She is on Tobi (inhailed antibiotics). Then, once it was done I am on here. The kids are going to bed in the next 15 mins, after I read some stories from Chicken Soup for the Kids soul (they LOVE that book!).

Tomorrow, I work. Mack already asked if Nick could sleep over. I said sure, being he was there 2 nights last weekend.

Fabian is off this weekend. Saturday we both have plans with our friends and we will meet up after at home. Sunday we will sleep in and get the kids from his moms house.

Next week, they only have school Mon-Wed. Thursday and Friday is teachers convention. My sister (a teacher/Vice Principal) will be down here (at our house) and her nanny. Not her kids though, they are in NewFoundLand. So they will be here. Then (ugh) I have first aid on the 3&4th...yuck! I haaaaaaaate taking first aid and really, really wish that I didn't let it expire. So yeah. At least it is in Mill Woods and done by 4:30pm. Its longer then my work day though :(

I start working Thursday with my new salary which comes into effect March 1st. I am trying not to take off any time, as Vegas is April 1st. Its hard to not take any holidays...but I have to think about our big Flordia trip for 2 weeks then 1 week at Christmas (plus Vegas) which is already 4 weeks PLUS, I am taking off a week in July...so 5 weeks :) Good thing my boss loves me :)

Anyhow.

Gotta get the kids to bed b 9pm

Tara

Don't ask me about my Weigh in..

I am sloooowly falling off the weight loss wagon and I am NOT ready too :(

I *want* to do this more then anything. I really, really do. After watching Oprah today I realize that if I really really wanted this more then anything then I would be doing it. Right! So tomorrow is the day. I mean it. No more of this half on half off. I gained 1.4. I knew that I would gain but I didn't think that much! But its okay. I have gained more then that before. I am still 26.4 pounds down! But still, I was up to 28 pounds and my 30 pounds goal is now more further away. Grrrr! Anyhow, so I went to Sobeys and spend 162.00 on my healthy stuff. I have no excuse. Except Saturday night I am going out and hopefully I make good choices, I never seem to though. But I will try. Also, I am upping the time on the treadmill to 30 mins a day. Or aquasize. Its time to get serious. Like gosh, this is ridicilous! I was doing sooooo good for sooooo long. So anyhow. I am going 'hard' tomorrow until next Thursday night when I weigh in. No more of this.

I exercised alllll last week. Ate pretty decent. I have been super busy at work.

Anyhow, back to 'day 1' tomorrow again!

:)

Tara

My week so far...

Well all is well. Tuesday was a very stressful day at work as I let go 2 staff. They were not working out well so it was time to let them go. We have (actually I have) been 'cleaning' up around there quite a bit. Both staff and children. Sadly, we don't have any help for a few 'high' needs children and have had to give them notice. We can't bring our daycare further with staff and children who are kinda dragging it down. Now, that sounds harsh. But come on, from a business perspective you can't a child who is responsible for hurting other children on a regular basis. We have let go 3 children whom the staff feel that they can't handle any more. Only 1 parent was very upset, as she knows that it will be very difficult for her as her son has been booted out of every daycare in which he has attended. Its really too bad, but life goes on. Maybe now these parents will care to see that their children have issues and need help. So anyhow. Yeah. Today was busy as we were 2 staff down. So I had the lucky job of working soley on ratio and trying to run the preschoool room which was *hell* the staff that I let go had NO routine and ugh, it was just bad. Those kids ran that room. So now we have to go back in there and set up that room. Which won't be too hard. Needless to say, tonight is being spent reading about the preschool age and how to set up an effective room. Fun reading :)

Yesturday, we had pancakes for supper for Shrove Tuesday. They were yummy :) Fabe was off yesturday. I went to aquasize with my friend. Tonight Kennedy had dance class. And she was super happy as she got her magazine in the mail today. Chickadee. She sat and did the activities. She loved it. Mack was grounded off the computer tonight. He usually gets 30mins a night to play on it, but due to forgetting his French at school and not being able to study he was 'banned'. So he was comfy watching a movie on the couch. Kennedy was busy playing with make up (BLUE!!!) and covered her face in eyeshadow and said she looked like Hilary Duff, lol.

Anyhow, I gotta get my 'homework' done for some sanity tomorrow :)

Tara

A very bad eating day!

Oh well.

Today is Family Day (so Happy Family day readers!) and since Mack was over at his friends house last night, we picked him up early today. We woke up and Fabe made Kennedy and I breakfast. Then, we had showers and got ready. We picked up Mack and went to Sobeys. I ran in and bought some 'junk' for the day. Healthier junk. But still, not WW stuff! Anyhow, we decided to go for a drive. To where? We weren't sure. So we jumped on the highway and off we went. The kids had their headphones on and were watching a DVD while Fabe and I just talked. We use to go for drives when we were younger too. It was great. Not knowing where your going, is even better. We ended up in Camrose. Turned around then came back...we checked out acerages around the city (Jane, I wanted to scout out your place but have NO clue where you live around!!!) but yeah. We would love to buy a house out of the city. I told Fabe that be prepared...if we do it has to have a barn/quonset or something..because I would then go to SPCA and adopt like 5 barn cats...and 2 big dogs. But yeah. Anyhow. So, we drove around. Went into South Cooking Lake. Its pretty neat there and I loooove the new houses there and the ones that back/face the lake. Its a pretty cute little 'village'. The school is like built into a hill or something. (Jane, can you please email me I was trying to look on your blog to email you but I cant find your addy so can you please email me, I wanted to ask you something taradee@shaw.ca )

So we drove around for a few hours. Then the kids got fed up. We got fed up. And we headed back home. Kennedy cleaned her room. Mack is working on it. Fabe is cooking supper. I feel yucky from eating bad today...but oh well. I will not stress out about it.

So tomorrow is back to work. I am so happy for the extra day off that I had. It was a great relaxing weekend. I *so* needed it. This week will be stressful at work due to letting someone go. But other then that....thats about it. Tomorrow I will go to aquasize. Kennedy has dance Wednesday. Thursday I may or may not take off, we'll see. And, other then that. Its all good.

Anyhow!

Tara

Sunday.

I know, I need to add some pics in soon. I know!

Today was a great day. Relaxed alot. Kennedy is feeling MUCH better today...thankfully and her fever is gone. So she slept for 10 hours and I will put her to bed at a good time tonight as well.

Today I stripped all the bedding off and washed everyones bedding. Did the treadmill for a while again. Tidied up the house...not too much though as it was pretty clean :) Gotta love that. Kennedy and I just hung out. We watched a roller skating movie down in the basement. Talked to Fabe about 5 times. And yeah. Nothing much. Mack called and asked to sleepover again. So he is. Kennedy wanted to go out for supper but I honestly don't have the willpower to eat well out. So, instead I bought her Taco Bell. Oh, that was AFTER I made her help clean out the SUV. Tomorrow, I hope to clean the van out. So we went to Hughes and cleaned it out...it looks so pretty now..and so very bling-blinging! Then, I got her Taco Bell and opened it all up for her and began eating some of her fries...(I could have easily eaten them all up!!!) but I told her not to let me eat anymore :) I only had a few!!!! (lol). There is a taco leftover that I will open up and throw away or else....lol. Gotta love having NO Willpower!!! Anyhow, came home. She began to eat. Fabe walked in. We chatted. I am just on my way down to change the wash again, and to give Kennedy her machines and do some more on the treadmill. I am *trying* to do it when she gets her treatment. I figure, if she can 'sacrifice' 15 mins for machines then I can do it for the treadmill. Sometimes though I just tidy down there and sort laundry. I don't want to get into the habit of leaving her down there while she is getting her treatments as I think thats unfair. I stay down with her while she has them...we moved it all down there once the basement was finished. They are big and take up alot of space and in order for them to be open and ready to go they need room. So she has them all set up down there. We bought a little fireplace as she complains about it being cold and it blows heat so she likes it. Plus she has like 5 blankets! I will have to take a pics!!!!

Anyhow, Desperate Housewives tongiht :) :) I have 4 points for popcorn and a diet Pepsi!!!

Tara

Saturday.

Wow, I have blogged for like 3 days in a row!

Anyhow. Its 10:39 pm and Today I laid on the couch for most of the day! (lol, its true) well until about 2pm I did. I had a HORRIBLE sleep last night. I ended up falling asleep at 8:30pm. Ugh, I so did not feel good! Then woke up at 10pm when Fabe got home. He brought home pizza for the kids. He put them to bed. I crashed again. Then, today I woke up about 9am. Ate and fed the kids. They hung out in their rooms and with each other...they built a super fort. Then, Mack had to be at his friends house at 2pm so he showered and got ready. Me and Kennedy drove him. Kennedy wasn't/isn't feeling very well. We got back and she slept for 2 hours (SO not her!!) I hope she isn't catching what I have been battling (sinus pain, sore body, aches) so I had a shower and got ready and woke her up and we went to a movie. We seen Flushed Away. It was so cute. Then, we came home. She was coughing quite a bit. Her head hurts. Gave her some Tylenol and gave her her machines..I did the treadmill while she had her treatmemts. Now we are all up here in the bonus room. Her and Fabe are cuddling on the couch. She has a slight fever that he just detected. Might need to go the dr's tomorrow for some stronger antiobiotics...of course the CF clinic is closed until Tuesday...she can't wait until then...we'll see. Anything over 38 on my ear temp. requires a dr's visit. Her normal temp in the ear is low about 36.2 and tongiht its 37.4 she feels hot though. And its scary, as she is only on Keflex. Anyhow, we will see tomorrow. She NEVER complains about not feeling well...she just doesn't look well though either. I am hoping with a good nights sleep she will be okay.

Anyhow...I cheated today! Damnit!!!! I had some movie theatre popcorn and licorice (shit!) but oh well....Felx Points are the best things ever :) But I did do 25-30 mins of walking today! Tomorrow will be absolutely NO cheating!!! Vegas is sooner then I think!!!

Tara

Frrrrrrrriday :)

Gotta love Fridays especially when Monday is a long weekend too :)

Today I worked. Came home, the kids beat me home (opps!!!) they were just taking their boots off. I got them snacks and what not and went with Bandit for a huge walk...I timed it...30 mins of fast paced walking. So did that. Came home, was frreeeeeezing from the open field part and froze my face :( Ouch. Came home, got my jammies on laid in bed (kids came for a cuddle to tell me about their days!) then I watched the news. Now I am out of bed, feel so tired. Ugh. All day my nose was stuffy...I can feel 'something' coming on. Great. Mack was trying to arrange a sleepover tonight however it can't happen until tomorrow night...he is sleeping over at his friends house tomorrow. So it will be me and Kennedy tomorrow. Maybe we will have a girls night and hit a girls movie! I am in my jammies in my nice clean house. Feels great! I am not going to do anything/much tonight. Lay in bed, watch a movie or read or something. Fabe is working.

I ate SO good all day until (sad) I had a HUGE piece of birthday cake at the daycare...it was a little girls b-day and I had to have a piece :( BUT I did a walk. And tonight I will ensure that I don't go over. This weekend will prove to be hard...but I HAVE to have a good loss on Thursday!

Anyhow..

Tara

Clean house!

Yeah, today I opened up the windows a crack and let the FRESH air flow in. It was a nice cold breeze but felt so crisp and clean. I cleaned. The kids got home from school and immediately went outside to play. Mack hasnt' come home yet (its 6:37pm) but called and said he was eating over there. Kennedy and I had an easy supper. She didn't want spaghetti (Fabe made it yesturday) so she ate leftover rice from supper last night with maple syrup (gross, hey?) and I ate a lean cuisine and then a Smart One cake for dessert. I ate soooo well all day and I am *so* proud of myself. With the nice weather I feel motivated again to stay on track as summer is coming up...already all of my summer clothing is to big for this summer. So the more that I loose, the more that I have to buy :) :) :) So yeah. I have 3 points leftover but I am going to save them for later and have a mini bag of popcorn and a diet Pepsi for a treat...thats only 1 point total. Because of HOW bad I ate yesturday at work I am not going to eat all of my points everyday this week. I will leave out 2 a day. Tomorrow after work I will go for a nice long walk with Bandit again, I love walking. And I have a trail that I take and its a few Km's long so total it must be 4 km's or so...I need a pedometer I have CHEAP ones that suck. I need a good one. Anyhow. Tomorrow at work will be STRESSFUL. I am letting go one staff. I hate that. Its been stressing me out tho and she is just NOT working out...and she is a level 3...ugh. I hate the 'levels'.

Then its a nice loooong weekend...I just want to get through it without cheating!!!!! (food wise, lol) I need to get to next Thursday and I know that I will be so happy with another few pounds! I am STILL 2.something pounds away from 30 pounds!!!!!! ONLY 2 point something!!!!!!! I NEED to hit that mark!!!!!

Tara

My day off :)

LOVE my day off. Today was nice, I woke up (didn' have to get myself ready!) and in my jammies I took the kids to school. Came home. Crawled back into bed for an hour...tried to sleep by work called and then Fabe was talking to me...lol. At 11 I got ready and stopped at McD's for the kids for school-lunch. They LOVE when I bring them something special. So I did that...stayed and visited in Kennedys class for a while with her then found Mack and his table of boys and talked with them for a while. Mr. Cool. Lmao.

Then, I went to WW. Which went REALLY good :) I don't know how..but it did! I lost 2.2 pounds from last week! lol. So I think/hope that I am re-motivated again. We will see, I guess. I really want to be. Then, I came home.

I took Bandit for a HUGE walk (35-45mins fast paced!) then came home and ate a Smart One. So here I am. The kids are taking the bus home, and will arrive in about 1 hour. Fabe made supper yesturday for me to serve tonight...I love that!!!!! So supper is 'made'. I plan on really cleaning tonight and putting away the HUGE pile of clean laundry that I have.

I did my exercise for the day (yeah!)

And, I feel GREAT that it is nice outside. WHAT a difference it makes on your day with nicer weather!

So thats my day so far!

Tara

Horrible blogger!

No excuse, but honestly I have been soooo super busy lately!

Anyhow, the weekend. It was great. Mack had his best friend Nick sleep over Friday right from school. They played on the computer and video games. Then, Saturday morning we dropped Nick off as he had hockey. We went to WalMart and I bought some stuff that I/We needed...boring stuff really. Then, we went to the Space and Science centre. The kids were begging me to see the Hurrican Katrina Imaz movie. So we did that. Then we took a few hours and checked out the other stuff...we were there for a few hours (I will post pics hoepfully tomorrow) and then we came home. Actually no we didn't-we picked up Fabe and went to Millhurst Pizza (they have the BEST buffet there!) we ate. Then we came home..bed by 11pm. Sunday, cleaned up mostly. Then we headed down to my moms house for her foster son's birthday (21!!! he came to live with us when he was only 7!!) amazing. He is off to England for a month to hostel and explore! Good for him :) So, we went there...I at HORRIBLE there :(

Monday was back to work. Staff issues again (yes, AGAIN!) ugh. Came home, Kennedy was twisting around and all of the sudden SCREAMED in pain!!! Her leg!!! She said "I broke my leg!!!" we iced it and everything and Fabe insisted she go to the hospital for an xray..so we spent 3 hours there...she pulled a muscle. She is still limping slightly. So yeah that sucked. Took up my whole night, but she is okay.

Tuesday- Worked late. Like 6pm late. ( i hate that!) came home. Ate. Went to aquasize.

Wednesday- Worked late again. 6pm, to see the parents. Came home, ate. Went to aquasize.

Thank GOD, that I am off tomorrow...plan to do nothing much really...relax maybe clean. But just relax. I need some down time. Big time. Plus, WW tomorrow (yikes!)

This weekend, we don't have much planned at all. I am not sure what we will do. The kids will want to ski I know that. So they can do that a few times.

Fabe is ACTUALLY off Family Day so I am unsure what we will do together, but obviously something :)

I have been a little stressed from work. We have a dead line to become accrediated and I need to see improvements. I have one staff who doesn't listen to me, she doesn't 'hear' me or something. She is soooooo resistent to me. I hate it. So, I will have to deal with that on Friday and have a new staff starting on March 1st to replace her. I haaaaate letting anyone go. But I need likeminded people on board. We NEED to get this done by Sept. 2007. HAVE too.

Other then that I am okay. The eating thing is not going good :( I was doing so well Mon, Tues and then today I ate cupcake, cookies, etc at work for the Valentines Day party :( but at least I went to aquasize.

I am sooooo unmotivated. I hate it. Hopefully tomorrow will be a wake up call. I am still carrying around 2 pounds that I gained so yeah. My goal was to be down 20 pds by Vegas (April 1st) however the further it gets the more unlikey it becomes :( sad. I looooved loosing every week. It was such a great feeling...maybe the meeting I can re-motivate my self :)

Anyhow. Thats about it. I have TONS of pics to upload. But I am off to bed...

Happy Valentines Day!

Tara

Staying where I am

Well I told my current owner about my job offer and she pretty much matched it...considering it would be more time driving and gas I think its a really good offer! I am so happy, I have never made this much money per a year in my life :) Feels great!

Fabe and I am actively looking for a daycare. We will work on the finiancial stuff later...but the main thing is having 20% down for a business loan, so thats good :) I just really more then ever wanna buy a daycare. I am SO confident in my self now :)

Anyhoo, I am where I was...

Tara

Job offer.

Ugh.

So the job that I met the lady for, called. She offered me the job. She wants me soooo badly. But I am scared to leave my comfy job. I dunno what to do. I am going to check out the daycare tomorrow night at 5pm to meet with her. The pay is REALLY good. I am getting paid now really well, but this is *really* good. Like per year, 15,000 MORE a year..like it means 1200.00 more a month...bring home :) So yeah. Hours aren't an issue she said. She understands that I have kids and what not. So yeah. Scary! So I am going to talk to my boss tomorrow. And tell her the bad news. But money is money. And I want to make lots of it (who doesn't!) and its work that I love. So yeah. My boss won't match this huge increase...I know that. But I still feel so bad. But like I said, money is money. And SHE is making tons of it with her business so I can't feel bad for her. I just am not a person to be like that tho, so I would be willing to take a pay loss (as the other centre is on the west end...) but it would have to be a pretty big increase for me to stay there and other things would have to change...

Anyhow wish me luck tomorrow!

Tara

Weekend

Well the kids left to my moms house Thursday night. Friday I worked until 6pm. Came home, relaxed. Saturday, I slept in. Fabe was off, but went in to work. I went to the liberal MLA meeting at a church here to discuss the new child care plans (they reveal it Monday) but I already know all about it and it looks GOOD :) Then, I went to Southgate to shop for a while, bought myself 2 new pairs of shoes :) Love shoes! Then, I met a lady who wants me to work for her. She just bought a daycare and realllllly wants me. She is willing to pay me a VERY (very) good wage..but its on the west end...ugh. I would work 8-4 8:30-4:30 whatever I want. Such good pay, but I hate being all the way on the west end...so far from the kids. Where I am at now, is sooooo flexiable. But I don't know! Its so hard to know what to do. I think I will talk to my boss tomorrow and tell her about my new propect and see about a raise. I dunno. So we'll see.
Last night, we HAD plans for a dinner and a movie night...but we went to dinner and the food took waaaaaay too long. So we ate slowly and just chatted. Then we drove around and got some ideas for a daycare location. We are going to talk to our banker and see what he can do for us. All of these jobs want me, so that they don't have to be there. I can't do it all. I do, do it all. But I am not the owner and feel restrained. I have a vision for a child care centre. Above and beyond a 'normal' place. So I dunno. We'll see. Then we came home. Watched tv in bed.

Today we woke up about 8:30am (early!) then ate cereal (lol) and began cleaning. I love when Fabe is off to help clean. LOVE it. So he did a bathroom, I did one. So we are done the upstairs and he is working on the main floor while I let the floors dry (lol, what? They are drying!!!) Then we are going to get ready and go out somewhere for a while.

I finally mailed his passort renewal last night. It will be there tomorrow. As long as its here by April 1st then its all good. I am getting really excited for Vegas...everyone is assuming that we are going there to get married...but we aren't. Its not planned that way. If it happens that way then we'll go from there. Honestly, we are planning to rent a hall this summer and do something VERY simple (no gift, donations to CF foundation) and thats it, just party. But if we get married there then we will still do a reception thingy. We'll see!!!!!

Well I think the floors are dry. So better go :)

Tara

School Skipping...

Today I decided to keep the kids home from school. They both have been battling colds. Kennedy went to the dr's yesturday as she was up the night before coughing and puking. Total asthma attack :( Anyhow, the dr's put her on Prednisone and a new nebulizer treatment and wow, what a difference. So anyhow, I slept in (knew we were going to school today) and we got up and relaxed. Kennedy had her treatments. Mack enjoyed tv in the am, all of the shows he misses while he is at school. The livingroom is horrible right now, as you can see (lol) I have spent waaaay too much time of the computer. BUT, as you can see from the clothing pictures I purged a little today and got rid of those clothes that Mack has been keeping in his closet. I am so happy that I have sold all of it, as of now :) Yeah! Now I have to go through Kennedys stuff. Its crazy! My kids have waaaaaaaaay too many clothes!
But yeah. It was a great day. Tongiht the kids are going to sleep at my mommy's house and they are heading to Fort Mac (on the bus, the roads are too bad!) with my mom tomorrow. Fabe is off this weekend, and it will be great to have it all alone. Mack is unsure if he is going, Kennedy is looking so forward to it...she can't wait and has been counting down the day until she leaves. I was worried that she was going to be so sick and not beable to go..but the meds have calmed her asthma sooooo much I can't get over it :)

My girls night...

At my friend, Lisa house. This is who I am going to Vegas with and Patty (red shirt) the 3 couples, we are all going together. I am super excited.

Lisa does pedicures and we did hand treatments at her house, us girls. Perrafin wax treatments. It was super fun :)

My ring!

Ok yucky pinky paint, but I loooooove my ring so much !

Flowers!

So since I have been missing summer so much I have been buying flowers, weekly for myself...to brighten up my kitchen...I love flowers. I never really loved them all of the time tho. In the past few years, is when I have really taken a liking to them. They DO make a difference having them around. In a perfect world, I will have flowers in each bathroom, bedrooms and throughout the house. I really, love them. Its been a while since Fabe has bought me some...I just buy them for myself. When the same ppl come over they are like "these are still alive?" I say "no these are new ones!" ppl think that I am crazy. But oh well. And they are super cheap and brighten me up so ohhh well. I love waking up to them in the early morning when I go down to prepare for my day...they are there and so lovely!

Messing around with my camera...

I take pretty basic pics with my camera and surely am unaware of all of its capabilities. So, once in a while I feel so inspired to read about it. This is the box from my camera. Decided to play around with it. I have so much to learn about it. But I am not really in a rush to do so. I was reading in my bedroom in bed one night and felt the need to take some pics around my room of things...lol. weird, I know. I need to go to the free 1 hour session that I get, when I bought my camera. I know NOTHING about it...except Auto mode and what button to press. I love my camera tho. And the new lens that Fabe bought me is UNreal :)