if the good Lord wanted us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollerskates
name the above movie quote :)
hint
gene wilder says it :)
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
tomorrow is the day!
tomorrow is the day that he starts swimming lessons! He was eligible for swimming lessons (without me) once he turned three but with a busy fall and I know November and December was going to be busy as well I decided to hold off until the new year. He is excited. We've been talking about how once he goes to swimming lessons that his teacher is the boss and he needs to listen and obey her. My son is very strong willed and I know he behaves better for people other than me (except for his grandparents).His sunday school teacher thinks he is an angel!
One of my biggest struggle these days is that he feels a need to climb things in order to reach stuff that is put up high (put up high for his own safety). He takes it as a personal challenge. And more often than not he succeeds. And he knows he isn't supposed to. But he does it anyway on the sly. Which means that his freedom is being reduced! I am tired of the mischief. Which means that there is less time for me to accomplish things around the house, or less time for him to have free play. Either way, he is learning that it is no fun to get into mischief as that means a lot of time in his room. I love my son dearly but days like today I am exhausted!
Also I would like to know WHY he feels a need to shut my fridge off. The stupid temperature adjustment is just inside the door and he knows that if he turns the dial, the motor on the fridge turns off. He likes that power or something. I have found my fridge turned off three times. So now every time I open the fridge, I need to double check the dial to make sure that the temperature is ok.
On a positive side we had fun doing some new math games today, he LOVES doing the calendar each day and filling in the weather chart. His colouring is coming along, he asks to paint almost daily as well as to cut and paste. My boy LOVES to craft! Our bible verse for this week is Proverbs 17:22 and we talk about it each breakfast and lunch.
This morning he woke up VERY excited to see a white wonderland! We've been green and brown for over a week. It has been snowing all day (lightly) and maybe if it keeps up we'll be able to make a snowman. Which he has been asking to do since he saw the first snow flake fall this year :) The little bit of snow we had for Christmas wasn't packing snow. Though it was good for sledding.
For Christmas I gave myself three packages of pull-ups. I've done cloth with him since he came and he has always struggled with not soaking through in the night (I toilet him before going to bed just so he'll be a tiny less wet by morning) I am also finding that he is sleeping later in the morning as he isn't waking up due to being wet. My parents use pull-ups on the weekends (he only needs them when he is sleeping). I am undecided if I will use them beyond these three packages. I LOVE the idea of cloth. I LOVE how much money I have saved with cloth. I also like getting up at 7am rather than 5am. I use cloth mostly with his afternoon nap as most times he wakes up dry anyway....that is just my diaper conundrum.
Today I made a huge pot of beef and barley soup. Unfortunately it wasn't ready at lunch time and I resorted to a can of zoodles (something that was only in my cupboard because it was purchased for the food bank and it was missed when we dropped things in the bin on the way out of the grocery store). I was feeling so guilty for feeding it to him. I have never fed him canned pasta before. He HATED it! :) which makes me happy inside. He know garbage food when he tastes it! I grew eating the stuff but really when I look at it I just don't personally want to be feeding it to my kid.
One of my biggest struggle these days is that he feels a need to climb things in order to reach stuff that is put up high (put up high for his own safety). He takes it as a personal challenge. And more often than not he succeeds. And he knows he isn't supposed to. But he does it anyway on the sly. Which means that his freedom is being reduced! I am tired of the mischief. Which means that there is less time for me to accomplish things around the house, or less time for him to have free play. Either way, he is learning that it is no fun to get into mischief as that means a lot of time in his room. I love my son dearly but days like today I am exhausted!
Also I would like to know WHY he feels a need to shut my fridge off. The stupid temperature adjustment is just inside the door and he knows that if he turns the dial, the motor on the fridge turns off. He likes that power or something. I have found my fridge turned off three times. So now every time I open the fridge, I need to double check the dial to make sure that the temperature is ok.
On a positive side we had fun doing some new math games today, he LOVES doing the calendar each day and filling in the weather chart. His colouring is coming along, he asks to paint almost daily as well as to cut and paste. My boy LOVES to craft! Our bible verse for this week is Proverbs 17:22 and we talk about it each breakfast and lunch.
This morning he woke up VERY excited to see a white wonderland! We've been green and brown for over a week. It has been snowing all day (lightly) and maybe if it keeps up we'll be able to make a snowman. Which he has been asking to do since he saw the first snow flake fall this year :) The little bit of snow we had for Christmas wasn't packing snow. Though it was good for sledding.
For Christmas I gave myself three packages of pull-ups. I've done cloth with him since he came and he has always struggled with not soaking through in the night (I toilet him before going to bed just so he'll be a tiny less wet by morning) I am also finding that he is sleeping later in the morning as he isn't waking up due to being wet. My parents use pull-ups on the weekends (he only needs them when he is sleeping). I am undecided if I will use them beyond these three packages. I LOVE the idea of cloth. I LOVE how much money I have saved with cloth. I also like getting up at 7am rather than 5am. I use cloth mostly with his afternoon nap as most times he wakes up dry anyway....that is just my diaper conundrum.
Today I made a huge pot of beef and barley soup. Unfortunately it wasn't ready at lunch time and I resorted to a can of zoodles (something that was only in my cupboard because it was purchased for the food bank and it was missed when we dropped things in the bin on the way out of the grocery store). I was feeling so guilty for feeding it to him. I have never fed him canned pasta before. He HATED it! :) which makes me happy inside. He know garbage food when he tastes it! I grew eating the stuff but really when I look at it I just don't personally want to be feeding it to my kid.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
January 1, 2011 01/01/11
I am at work :) it has been a low key day...other than the craziness but that is just usual stuff around here.
I don't do resolutions due to the new year...never really have. Actually I am not one that really does anything for New Years. In China we prayed in the new year the one time. Once I think I had a couple of friends over to watch movies (I fell asleep). I am more of a night owl in the last year that I ever have been. Not sure why. Maybe because I need to stay awake friday nights so I don't fall asleep and not go to work. That is a big worry of mine. So on the most part I try to stay awake to 11 every night to keep my body on a similar clock. Starting in a couple of weeks my shift is moving by 30 minutes so I will not be starting until 1130. Which I guess really isn't that much of a change to my clock.
I finished off 2010 with 29 books complete (I have atleast 5 on my bedside table started). I enjoy keeping track of what I read and how many books I read a year. This year I've given myself some challenges in what I read this year. Should be interesting.
I don't do resolutions due to the new year...never really have. Actually I am not one that really does anything for New Years. In China we prayed in the new year the one time. Once I think I had a couple of friends over to watch movies (I fell asleep). I am more of a night owl in the last year that I ever have been. Not sure why. Maybe because I need to stay awake friday nights so I don't fall asleep and not go to work. That is a big worry of mine. So on the most part I try to stay awake to 11 every night to keep my body on a similar clock. Starting in a couple of weeks my shift is moving by 30 minutes so I will not be starting until 1130. Which I guess really isn't that much of a change to my clock.
I finished off 2010 with 29 books complete (I have atleast 5 on my bedside table started). I enjoy keeping track of what I read and how many books I read a year. This year I've given myself some challenges in what I read this year. Should be interesting.
books I read in 2010
(#1 being the last I read)
- Unlocked ~ Karen Kingsbury
- Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons ~ Lorna Landvik
- I Miss Mummy ~ Cathy Glass
- Safe Haven ~ Nicholas Sparks
- Magdalene ~ Angela Hunt
- Unchartered ~ Angela Hunt
- Take Four ~ Karen Kingsbury
- Beluga Cafe ~ Jim Nollman
- I Will Carry You ~ Angie Smith
- Quiet Strength ~ Rosa Parks
- Sanctuary ~ David & Beverly Lewis
- bfg ~ Roald Dahl
- The Sound of Us ~ Sarah Willis
- Oliver ~ Charles Dickens
- Not Without My Sister ~ Kristina Jones
- Reunited in the Desert ~ Helle Amin
- The Girl in the Mirror ~ Cathy Glass
- Balancing Acts ~ Zoe Fishman
- A Soft Place to Land ~ Susan Rebecca White
- The Little Ones ~ M.D. Meyer
- The Wife's Tale ~ Lori Lansen
- Damaged ~ Cathy Glass
- Cut ~ Cathy Glass
- The Saddest Girl In The World ~ Cathy Glass
- Hidden ~ Cathy Glass
- Surprised by Children ~ Harold Myra
- Handle With Care ~ Jodi Picoult
- Elsie's Motherhood ~ Martha Finley
- Elsie's Womanhood ~ Martha Finley
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