My grandma and your grandma
Were sittin' by the fire.
My grandma told your grandma
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire"
[Chorus:]
Hey now! Hey now!
Iko, Iko, unday
Jockamo feeno ai nan?
Jockamo fee nan?
I have had this song in my head today because I have been thinking about grandma's and being a grandma (don't worry, I am not going to be a grandma right now!!) and what grandma's do. When I think about grandma's I think about cinnamon buns...not sure why, it just seems like a grandmotherly thing to do! I can't sew, can't knit, can't bake bread (well, I guess I can make sweet breads now!), can't crochet, can't keep my house clean worth a darn...just can't seem to do those grandma things! I am a little worried that one day when I am a grandma I will not be able to offer my grandkids these wonderful memories and keepsakes like my own grandmothers did...so I decided to start making cinnamon buns! Today Will and I put on our aprons and pulled out the Purity cookbook and made cinnamon buns! I told Will that this will be our special thing to do (I guess it's a motherly thing to do too) each week - and I better start giving away some of these sweet treats or my weight loss dreams will be once again be put on hold! I figure if I start learning how to make these buns now, by the time I am a grandma, I will have them perfected!
Maybe I will take on knitting next!
SJ
Monday, September 26, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
It has been a while...
Hello Stranger! It has been a while since my fingers have hit the keyboard for anything more than checking Facebook! I had a very sweet message for me on Facebook from my big sister - she said she missed my blog!! So, I decided to sit down right now, with five children running amok (and one of them has a very strong aroma to them!) to let you know what's been happening in my life lately!
My three year old son is a Playschool drop-out after only four classes! I signed him up for playschool this year (with the intention of him going for two years), two mornings a week. The very first day he told me that the "Blue Circle Boy" was bugging him - they all have a coloured shape on a pin to help them identify their lockers and such - and I thought it was just a one time thing, so I didn't make a big fuss about it. For the next three classes he complained that this boy (who shall remain un-named) was being very mean and he didn't want to go to playschool anymore. I thought about just putting him in on the other two days they run, but then I found out the real reason for this change of heart - Zachary!! Zachary is one of my day home boys, who has been with us for almost two years! Will has grown up with Zachary and they are attatched at the hip! I don't think Will knows how to function Monday through Friday without Zachary...so I decided that it was not worth the fight to take him to playschool for this "bonus" year, and we will enroll him in plasychool next year, with Zachary! (and if he really doesn't want to go then, well that's okay too...playschool itself is really just a bonus in life!).
Speaking of signing kids up for things, let me tell you about last weekend!!
Saturday morning we went to our towns "registration day" at the mall - the day when all the different organizations get together in one central place for registrations. Grace had told me a few weeks ago that she wanted to take skating this year and I figured that would be the perfect thing for all three of the little kids to do - kill three birds with one stone, I figured! The boys were up for it, which actually surprised me a little since Mark is terrified of even touching ice with any kind of footwear other than sturdy winter boots - so I was eager to enroll them! We got to the mall and I felt like my head was about to explode because of a lovely head cold I had and Grace wouldn't let go of my hand the entire time, even when I was trying to fill out the forms and my boys only wanted to go to the pet store and to get icecream...oh, what I great time it was! Once I finally was able to get Grace to stand on her own I started to fill out the forms but as soon as I had put her name on one page she burst into tears and started saying she no longer wanted to skate!! She asked me what days skating was on, and I said Monday & Wednesday - she cried even more (I think because she is a worry wart and thought it was going to cut into her playdate with her best friend that coming Monday, after school!!). I did not have it in me to try to calm her down and all I could see was my future Mondays & Wednesdays: I would drag anywhere between 3 and 6 kids (depending on my day home kids) to the rink, clad in snowsuits and mitts...each carrying their skates (more like me carrying three pairs of skates)...and me, sweating with my glasses falling down my nose as I try to wedge my childrens feet into their brand spanking new, stiff as a board, skates...then I would have to tie all three pairs, as my children have only ever been exposed to velcro, and I haven't tied a pair of skates in many, many years! Did I mention I will only have 15 minutes to do this all in? Skating starts at 4:15 p.m., my kids bus pulls up to our house at 3:50 p.m. and by the time we actually get to the rink it will be 4:00! The one good thing about this early start time is that we would be back home, finished all three skating lessons and making supper by 5:30 p.m.!! Even with the early supper start, I have decided to forgo skating lessons and just take my kids (and my husband) to public skating instead! No pressure, no fundraising, no worries!
One of the reasons I have been away from my blog for so long is because I had to catch up on my t.v. shows from last year before this week when all the shows started up again! In just one week I managed to watch last season (the entire season) of "Parenthood", "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Good Wife"!! As you can imagine I did NOTHING in my spare time but watch t.v.! We don't have PVR at my house (not for lack of wanting or trying...it just has to do with our location), so if I miss a show, there is no catching up! I am all caught up now though and last night I watched Grey's and on Sunday I will watch The Good Wife...I am sooooooooo excited! I saw a commercial for "The Amazing Race" last night, so that will be on my list of shows, plus Criminal Minds has started up this week too!! My t.v. plate is starting to overflow - I might have to dust off my VCR and watch my missed episodes the old fashioned way!
One wonderful thing has happened to me in the last week or so - I have started to lose weight! I quit Weight Watchers (for about the 6th time), cancelled my Curves membership - they were both making boat loads of money off of me, without me using them at all - and I have begun to lose weight - go figure!! I am not dieting, starving or on any plan - I have just stopped all the mindless eating! I am still eating the same crappy way I have always eaten - no broccoli or grapefruit for me, just not so much of the same crappy stuff! I have realized that I don't have to deprive myself of anything, I just have to know when to stop!! If I keep this up I should be a back to my pre-Will weight by early 2012!!
Well, I have five very grumpy little children in my house and three of them are going to have naps (ah, I love the sound of that!)...so off I go to change diapers, tuck kids in and clean my oh, so messy house!!
SJ
P.S. just incase you are wondering, I did change the very fragrant child a few paragraphs ago!!!
My three year old son is a Playschool drop-out after only four classes! I signed him up for playschool this year (with the intention of him going for two years), two mornings a week. The very first day he told me that the "Blue Circle Boy" was bugging him - they all have a coloured shape on a pin to help them identify their lockers and such - and I thought it was just a one time thing, so I didn't make a big fuss about it. For the next three classes he complained that this boy (who shall remain un-named) was being very mean and he didn't want to go to playschool anymore. I thought about just putting him in on the other two days they run, but then I found out the real reason for this change of heart - Zachary!! Zachary is one of my day home boys, who has been with us for almost two years! Will has grown up with Zachary and they are attatched at the hip! I don't think Will knows how to function Monday through Friday without Zachary...so I decided that it was not worth the fight to take him to playschool for this "bonus" year, and we will enroll him in plasychool next year, with Zachary! (and if he really doesn't want to go then, well that's okay too...playschool itself is really just a bonus in life!).
Speaking of signing kids up for things, let me tell you about last weekend!!
Saturday morning we went to our towns "registration day" at the mall - the day when all the different organizations get together in one central place for registrations. Grace had told me a few weeks ago that she wanted to take skating this year and I figured that would be the perfect thing for all three of the little kids to do - kill three birds with one stone, I figured! The boys were up for it, which actually surprised me a little since Mark is terrified of even touching ice with any kind of footwear other than sturdy winter boots - so I was eager to enroll them! We got to the mall and I felt like my head was about to explode because of a lovely head cold I had and Grace wouldn't let go of my hand the entire time, even when I was trying to fill out the forms and my boys only wanted to go to the pet store and to get icecream...oh, what I great time it was! Once I finally was able to get Grace to stand on her own I started to fill out the forms but as soon as I had put her name on one page she burst into tears and started saying she no longer wanted to skate!! She asked me what days skating was on, and I said Monday & Wednesday - she cried even more (I think because she is a worry wart and thought it was going to cut into her playdate with her best friend that coming Monday, after school!!). I did not have it in me to try to calm her down and all I could see was my future Mondays & Wednesdays: I would drag anywhere between 3 and 6 kids (depending on my day home kids) to the rink, clad in snowsuits and mitts...each carrying their skates (more like me carrying three pairs of skates)...and me, sweating with my glasses falling down my nose as I try to wedge my childrens feet into their brand spanking new, stiff as a board, skates...then I would have to tie all three pairs, as my children have only ever been exposed to velcro, and I haven't tied a pair of skates in many, many years! Did I mention I will only have 15 minutes to do this all in? Skating starts at 4:15 p.m., my kids bus pulls up to our house at 3:50 p.m. and by the time we actually get to the rink it will be 4:00! The one good thing about this early start time is that we would be back home, finished all three skating lessons and making supper by 5:30 p.m.!! Even with the early supper start, I have decided to forgo skating lessons and just take my kids (and my husband) to public skating instead! No pressure, no fundraising, no worries!
One of the reasons I have been away from my blog for so long is because I had to catch up on my t.v. shows from last year before this week when all the shows started up again! In just one week I managed to watch last season (the entire season) of "Parenthood", "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Good Wife"!! As you can imagine I did NOTHING in my spare time but watch t.v.! We don't have PVR at my house (not for lack of wanting or trying...it just has to do with our location), so if I miss a show, there is no catching up! I am all caught up now though and last night I watched Grey's and on Sunday I will watch The Good Wife...I am sooooooooo excited! I saw a commercial for "The Amazing Race" last night, so that will be on my list of shows, plus Criminal Minds has started up this week too!! My t.v. plate is starting to overflow - I might have to dust off my VCR and watch my missed episodes the old fashioned way!
One wonderful thing has happened to me in the last week or so - I have started to lose weight! I quit Weight Watchers (for about the 6th time), cancelled my Curves membership - they were both making boat loads of money off of me, without me using them at all - and I have begun to lose weight - go figure!! I am not dieting, starving or on any plan - I have just stopped all the mindless eating! I am still eating the same crappy way I have always eaten - no broccoli or grapefruit for me, just not so much of the same crappy stuff! I have realized that I don't have to deprive myself of anything, I just have to know when to stop!! If I keep this up I should be a back to my pre-Will weight by early 2012!!
Well, I have five very grumpy little children in my house and three of them are going to have naps (ah, I love the sound of that!)...so off I go to change diapers, tuck kids in and clean my oh, so messy house!!
SJ
P.S. just incase you are wondering, I did change the very fragrant child a few paragraphs ago!!!
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