For My Mom on Mother's Day

I'm writing this note to tell you how much I love you. I don't say it often enough and I'm sure you don't hear it enough. I love you for being my mom.
I love you for your laughter. You could always laugh freely and openly.
I love you for being tougher on me when I was growing up. Now that I have my own kids I see the benefit of it.
I love you for always being on my side, even though sometimes I was in the wrong.
I love you for the crazy things you did.
When you made Nic and I eat out on the balcaney and you pretended to be the waiter,
For making Sundays and not realizing that was the cup you kept our baby teeth in,
For spraying your face with whipped cream and pretending you were a mad dog,
only to realize after it was shaving cream.
I love you for the care you took with me when I was sick; be it from the flu or running nose.
I love you for always embarrassing me in public, no matter who was near.
I love you for who you are and I wouldn't be the person....wife....or mother am I without you.
I wish you lived closer so my kids could have a grandmother near them as fun as you.
Love you mom

Dog Bites

On Easter Monday we went for a walk. My 4 kids and I live close to the park and we were on our way for a little treat (slurpee's at the local coop). We got to the top of our street and crossed the main street to the sidewalk. A neighbour a few doors down was walking towards us with her dog. It's a small shih'tzu and he's ALWAYS jumping up on people. He's on one of those retractable leashes so he can go as far as he wants and she doesn't do anything to stop him.

Anyways; he passed 3 of us before he passed Payton. I always get my kids to move over because I don't like it when people take up the whole sidewalk it's a real pet peeve of mine. So we were over on the right hand side of the sidewalk, she was on the left hand side. He bite Payton on her left leg. He had to turn back to bite Payton on the leg. She screamed in pain, I mean screamed. I turned around and bent down to Payton. The neighbour says oh he just jumps. I said a few naughty words but basically it was "well something happened" I pulled up her pant leg and you could see each individual tooth from canine to canine on the top and the 4 main teeth on the bottom. The neighbour said to me "He doesn't bite, he's 5 years old" What are you kidding me?? I don't care if he's 50, he obviously does. She didn't say she's sorry, she just walked away.
Long story short, I took Payton to the walk-in, got a hold of animal services. We fined the neighbour and animal services took the dog for 10 day quarantine. The neighbour told animal services that she's going to take US to court. Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy? Can she fine us for something we didn't do???

Anyways so now I'm recording everything that happens and hopefully she is just blowing off steam.

Easter Is Just Around The Corner

Easter one of my kids favorite times of the year. I've been baking like crazy, have to send treats to my hubby's work, plus those little people are always asking for handouts lol. Here are some pictures of the treats I made.

Easter baskets

Easter bunnies look simple but are hard to bake just right.

Would You Date Yourself?

So I like to watch "The Talk" I find it interesting when they have their discussion sessions in the beginning of the show.

So the other day they had a section on there where they ask the question "Would you date yourself?"

The things I like about myself, I don't think I would necessarily like them in someone else. I can be rather annoying (you're shocked I know lol), I like things in their place, and I hate cooking, but love baking. So we'd all be fat, grouchy, and cleaning freaks. I don't know that's a hard question, but I really think I wouldn't date myself.

So the question for you is "would you date yourself?"

St. Norbert Y-Neighbours Sale

Tables are still available! Need to do some spring cleaning?

Always looking for a great deal? Come find a great deal on gently used toy and clothing.

Used Toy and Clothing Sale
Saturday April 9th 9 am -12pm
Eagles Club 3459 Pembina Hwy
Admission is $1.00 kids under 12 are free

To rent a table e-mail stnyneighbours@hotmail.com

Report Cards

I hate report cards, as a parent they are not very insighful. The teacher puts my son down as having difficulty in communication both in nov and now, yet in the little write up at the bottom she writes you are improving so well keep up the good work. Then wouldn't you put him down as good??? Is it just me???

She phones me and says he has trouble sitting still. I'm like and.... he's a boy IN SCHOOL! Come on you've never had a child like this before? He has trouble sitting still at home. He'd rather be outside playing. He'd rather be doing something, anything else. Work with him, it's not that hard.

Because the twins are in the same class I'll ask her about one of the children and she moves on and talks about the other one. Well I didn't ask you about that child and really do you need to compare them??? Come on already.

As a kid you'd always worry about report cards, as a parent you worry more about report cards. Is my child going to be traumatized by this?, are they doing to struggle through school?, are they making friends? are they shy? it's very stressful.

I hate report cards, but am thankful it's not me getting them.

February

February is just one of those months. At one point it was starting to warm up then it was -40 with the wind chill, then it's "normal" february weather. Make up your mind already

I'm ready for warm temps and no hat, mitts and boots season already. Come on summer!