Room change around

Yesterday hubby had the day off, he worked all weekend, and then was only at the job site for a few hours as it was bucketing rain... we got over 30mm in 24 hours (that's almost 1 1/4 inches).

Anyway, since he had the day off we were trying to figure out how we could encourage Alun to pick-up his toys, so instead of that we thought if we move the toy room, it wouldn't matter so much. Therefore the toy room and computer area got switched around.

Now if I'm at the computer and both boys are sleeping... (I can wish can't I?) I can hear if one wakes up and needs mommy, or wakes up and is on his way to 'go work' in the drywall upstairs just outside his bedroom. Whereas where the computer area was, I'd be lucky to hear anything other than the thud of Alun jumping off his bed.

Now I also don't have to worry about stumbling over toys on the way to the dining room with dinner in my hands.

I wish we would have thought of this idea before!

Well I have to go and work on Alun's trick or treat bag so with luck I can have it done in time for Friday... if I'm really good I might get it done in time for tomorrow when we go to baby group, with the halloween party there.

A trying week

Well, this week has been trying in more ways than one.... but thankfully it is nearly over.

Wednesday morning Alun had an appointment at Guelph General Hospital to have his nose cauterized. I ended up waking up at 4am, woke and fed David and then woke Alun to get all of us on our way by minutes before 5:00. I had my girlfriend Rachel come with us so that she could help me with watching the boys, and that was such a great help.

We arrived at the hospital at 6:24, got through admissions and to the pediatric day surgery unit with plenty of time to spare. After playing with the toys for a little while we were escorted to the pediatric pre-op waiting room where Alun again was able to play with some more toys. After a brief consult with the day surgery nurse and anesthesiologist and a little more waiting Alun rode off on a tricycle to the operating room with the nurse right behind him.

Rachel, David and I went out the the day surgery waiting area to await word that Alun was in the recovery room, which really didn't take that long. Once the Dr came out to say everything was done it only took about 5 minutes until I was going in to see Alun in recovery as he was waking... screaming and crying as I was afraid would happen.

Alun was a grumpy little bear, but after having something like that done, I'm sure if I was his age I might have done something similar.

We were brought back to the pediatric day surgery unit where he was observed until about 10:30 and we were able to leave the hospital just before 11:00.

After we left we all trucked our way to the closest toy store where Alun picked out "Rushhour Jr." as his good boy treat. The ride home was something else... he was obviously under the effects of the anesthetic still as he slept and woke several times during the drive home. When he was awake he was grumpy and crying... it drove me nuts! I wish he would have slept more.

When we finally arrived home I gave him his second dose of tylenol (the nurses gave him the first while still at the hospital) and then had him lay down for a nap.

David and I joined him and at 3:30 Alun woke me with a start, jumping on me, and then afterwards he was his usual busy body self.

Thursday he was his usual busy self, but today he was back to the grumpy bear he had been on the way back from the hospital. Oh my what a day it was with his grumpiness. Perhaps tomorrow he will be back to normal again, I would really like that. I don't think I could handle another grumpy day in such a short time.

Tag - 6 quirks about me

I was just a another website and the owner had this challenge and I thought it would be really cool to take. Therefore here are 6 random things/quirks about myself.

1. I can knit but I can't purl for the life of me. I know purling is reverse knitting and I've had numerous people show me, but as soon as I stop it's gone...yes, all knowledge of purling seises to exists as soon as I stop doing it, it's like short term memory loss only regarding purling.

2. I hate cleaning my kitchen. I will clean the rest of my house from top to bottom if I could but I hate to clean my kitchen. We even got me a dishwasher so that it would help, but somehow for whatever reason I hate to clean my kitchen. I love to cook and bake and can spend hours in there, but not if it deals with cleaning it other than vacuuming or mopping the floor.

3. I love having long hair, but I want to have it up all the time. I seem to like having my hair up, maybe it's the brushing involved with putting it up, as I LOVE to have my hair brushed. Some nights I'll ask hubby to brush my hair, for me it's almost like foreplay to get my hair brushed. I know strange... but this is a list of my 6 quirks right?!?

4. I sneeze when I wake up. I'm sure that's how my parents knew I woke up in the morning or from a nap when I was a child. I joke with hubby and tell him I'm allergic to mornings because of it.

5. I don't like cream or milk in my coffee unless it's flavoured creamer. Maybe it's just the fact that it's flavoured that works for me, but I found out the other day I really really don't like having regular dairy product in my coffee.

6. I don't like egg salad. I like eggs, mmm one of my favorite things for breakfast, and I like mayo, as long as whatever it is isn't slathered with it, but don't even think about putting the 2 together. Yes, I know mayo is made with eggs, that's why I don't understand why I don't like egg salad, but I don't.

If you'd like to take up the challenge and share 6 random things about yourself then consider yourself tagged.

Here are the rules if you want to play by them

1. Link to the person that tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website

what the ???

Well things were going well today, but then tonight after hubby and I were about to get ready for bed and I remember I needed to make some 'dip-dip' for Alun's apple slices for tomorrow. He really enjoys having special mommy treat with his apple in the mornings. Then hubby and I started talking about how he wishes that Alun wouldn't correct him with his pronunciations as some words he says with a British accent, then we started to talk about how we want him to start pronouncing words... either the Canadian or British ways. Well after about 10-15 minutes of debating I'm being told that the Canadian way of pronouncing things is the idiots way of speaking. I can't think of any other way of deciphering this than to think I am being called an idiot but in an indirect way. Well, looks like hubby and I have no had our first fight. It only took 12 years of marriage and 2 kids to get here, if he would have apologized for having made it sound like he was saying "speaking 'Canadian' makes you sound like an idiot" I'm sure I wouldn't be here writing this out and him being out to get a pack of smokes. Some times he is so much like his astrology sign and Chinese horoscope animal it's crazy.... a Taurus born in the year of the Ox.

Time to go and get ready for bed, maybe I'll sleep upstairs tonight.

Apple picking today

Wow, what a day! We had so much fun today visiting Nana and Granddad, and having Uncle Keith, Aunt Aislinn and cousin Noah there too. After a nice lunch we went to the orchard to get some apples. We filled a basket, and had fun doing it too. 

After not finding many red apples we went to where the golden delicious were and we were able to fill our basket in no time at all.

Almost everyone ate at least 1 apple, I know I had 2 for sure, as Alun tasted 1 of the 4 red apples and he didn't like it so mommy ended up eating it, then I had to taste test a golden as well... oh so crisp and juicy, I'm glad we got a lot of those.

Alun was checking out all the pumpkins there as well, but at $5 each, they stayed there, especially when they are $2 each at the grocery store.

Everyone seemed to have fun, and since it's a new family tradition to go apple picking around thanksgiving, it's also a healthy one.... fresh air, walking, and healthy food and a good excuse to get the family together.

Thanksgiving

Well, I have to say, I had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday. We all jumped into the truck and drove to Toronto to my mom's and visited with her for little while before we went to my brother in law and sister in law's condo for turkey. Keith was an excellent cook, and prepared a wonderful meal. I was thankful my pants were as tight as they were or I would have eaten too much for sure.

I also received late birthday presents, and wow did I ever get spoiled. My mom had given me yarn, yarn and more yarn... 15 balls to be exact. My brother in law and sister in law got me a beautiful beaded silk box, I think it's for jewelry, regardless, it's so nice, I just have to find a nice place to put it.

I also got a few other things from my mom, but I can't remember what was from her and what was from other family members from Finland when she went to visit, once I get them all figured out I'll list them all here... everything I got yesterday so nice, I would hate to not mention it all.

Well, time to run and check on David again, he sleeps so well it scares me.

Whatever the weather be...

Last night we went out to our local Canadian Tire and bought ourselves a weather station. After several tries of getting it going it did finally after the 4th time of taking out the batteries and putting them back in, it did work. It's neat that we have our own mini weather station in our back yard, I'm still waiting for the wind measuring thingey to start spinning like crazy, but I guess that will happen soon enough when the snow starts to fall horizontally, but I won't be near brave enough to think about going outside to see it spin.

This weather station even tells you the recent history so this morning when I finally got out of bed I was able to find out that it went down to 2.6 degrees C overnight, then today it went up to a high of 27.8 degrees C.

Well that's enough about the weather; I got to work on and finished a small baby blanket today for an exchange partner in one of the crochet forums I'm in. Her grandson was born 2 weeks ago and was in the NICU until recently, so I couldn't help myself and made the little one a small colourful 'blankie'. That will be in the mail to her on Tuesday, after "turkey day" in Toronto at 'baby Noah's' house, otherwise known as my brother in law and sister in law's place.

I'm not sure what crochet project I'll take with me on the way to Toronto, probably the Cozy Corner Crocheters CAL afghan I've been trying to work on, but haven't touched since our last trip to Toronto, and with luck I'll get to work on it next weekend when we go apple picking in Hamilton at hubby's parents' place.

Well, I suppose I should get ready for bed, David went to bed at 7 tonight, and he might want a feeding through the night tonight.

Coffee?!?

Well, here I am blogging again, last night my lovely 3 1/2 year old Alun decided that sleep was going out of style so he kept waking me up. Needless to say, I am a walking disaster today, I'm glad I set-up the coffee maker to make 8 cups for today instead of the usual 6 cups, that way I can get more than just my usual small cup of coffee.

On a happy note, Alun is now potty training and only had 2 accidents all day yesterday, both in the morning while we weren't at home, we were at one of my parenting groups and he had one there and the other was on the way home. Who knows, by the end of next week we could be almost trained. As long as he is daytime trained before we go register him for school next month, I will be happy. He doesn't actually have to be trained until before he goes to school, but I would like him to be. Especially when I keep hearing about how when I was growing up... or when hubby was growing up...

Well, I'm not being let type at all, I keep having to fend off my computer from some certain someone wanting to play the Thomas game, at least he isn't asking for his Lightning McQueen game, I'm sick of that one right now.

Let there be light

Today the 4 of us went to the hardware store, hubby's parents gave us a gift certificate for Rona, a store we don't particularly like to go to unless we have to, and after looking around for quite a while we decided to change the light at the top of the stairs, we got a really nice 3 light halogen fixture and the bulbs too. When we got home hubby installed it and wow! I never realized how bad the lighting in the stairway was before that. A few hours later after I had a nap and little Al had part of a nap, we went to the 'Handy Home Store' (as little Al calls it) and looked at the lights they had there, we prefer going to Home Hardware as the staff there are more competent and don't seem to want to be helping out of the store.

Anyway, we went to the store and found 2 light fixtures for the kitchen, another 3 bulb fixture for the centre of the room and a single bulb fixture for task lighting above the sink. When we got home I took the boys to the grocery store while daddy stayed home and installed the lighting. Wow, now we have light towards the side door, we have wanted to buy a light for over there for a while, now we don't have to, and now is it bright in the kitchen too. I'm going to have to keep my kitchen more tidy because you can actually see in there decently, so you'll be able to see any mess in there now.

I should go tidy up the kitchen, I haven't properly cleaned up since Alun and I made rice krispie squares, there were rice krispies on the floor, unless Amber has helped clean that up for us.

Another posting

I don't have much to say today, but I wanted to post, just because I can.

I have however finished 2 crochet projects since my last posting, so I am happy about that.

I completed David's 'mommy made blanket' and a toilet tissue cover for a CAL (Crochet-A-Long) at cozy corners crocheters.

My mom found out there is going to be a craft sale Nov 28th at the Agricola Finnish Lutheran Church in Toronto. Mom is custodian there and as part of her wages she has a 2 bedroom apartment on the second floor. This year we would be able to have a great table as she would be able to 'reserve' our table either while she is helping to set-up the tables (if she does that) or shortly thereafter. I think I may have to try and get a few things made up for the sale, just to figure out what might sell this year... it seems that whatever I make doesn't go very well, I get no one really appreciates homemade gifts anymore.

My mom suggested since glow-in-the-dark yarn is the newest thing, perhaps making snowflakes out of it might go well, I also have an easy pattern for a star, so I'll make some of those too. I got a nice stash of glow-in-the-dark yarn when Zeller's first got it in, they didn't even have the upc in the system yet, someone in the yarn sept had to give out a different upc to use and gave a price of $1.59 a ball. I had paid $5.00 a ball at the Bernat yarn factory outlet in Listowel a few days before. I bought 12 balls at Zeller's, I should have bought more... oh well.

Wow, looks like I had quite a bit to say after all.

Time to go and crochet while I can, both boys are napping and I've had too much coffee this morning to nap myself... Time to find my snowflake patterns.

Cool idea!

This link was posted at the group "the_gathering_room"

http://mypeoplepc.com/members/lpn1993/Lori/id9.html

What a cool idea and great way to recycle pop bottles and 

use them in crochet!