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
Monday, December 27, 2010
some ramblings
Christmas is over. It was fairly low key this year. There is MORE I would have liked to get accomplished with CO but with travelling to Ottawa and then getting sick, I just wasn't able to do it all. I am ready to take the tree down (which I usually don't do until the new year). It is larger than I normally have so it is blocking a large section of my living room and it is dropping pine needles like crazy. My dear son whom I love SO much loves to sweep so I have pine needles spread further through my house than I normally would. The only thing really stopping me is I like to sit in the evening and read with the tree turned on. So I will wait one more week before taking it down and putting away the Christmas decorations. I will leave the winter ones up :) Plus I am SO in the mood for spring cleaning and getting rid of things! Hopefully I still will be next week when we are back into our routine and with the new things on our schedule in the new year.
Most of my house decorations are more winter decorations than Christmas ones so I tend to leave them up until spring.
I am content with the little my son got for Christmas. It is SO easy to get sucked into the consumerism of Christmas. I was tempted to buy so much for him that I knew he would like but on the most part I said NO and if I did buy him things above and beyond his stocking and two gifts, I tended to just put them aside to bring out at a later date (some books, activities, etc.) I actually changed my mind Christmas eve and the present I was planning on Santa giving him I put away in my parent's basement and used one of the two presents I bought him (they were of the same set) to be from Santa. I am happy with this decision and may even donate the other gift to the playgroup that we attend on Thursdays or to our local EYC for their toy library. Overall he got PLENTY of gifts between family here and family in Ottawa. I have found homes for everything and next week I am going to go through his stuff and eliminate some old toys and downsize. My goal is for him to not own more than he can personally clean up himself. Everything has a place and he is fairly good at putting things back. The only trouble is when he gets into modes like this week (He pretends he is Santa and he dumps a bunch of toys together into a bag or box walks around saying 'ho ho ho merry christmas' and giving the things away. The bags can be a fairly large mishmash and tend to take some work to resort. But hey how can I get upset that he is so willing to give away his own things.
CO loves to craft and read. In the new year I am going to start working on the kindergarten math curriculum that I have. The program uses lots of manipulates and is very hands on. We will add it to our week maybe doing 3 lessons a week and see how it goes. He very much enjoyed doing our weather chart that I introduced to him this month and understood it right away. We will keep it up and maybe in another month or so we will start doing the weekly chart rather than the daily chart. I also want to start a form of organized prayer with him. I don't know if I am going to do a small book with photos or a wall with photos of people that we are going to pray for daily. I wanted to do an outreach with him this holiday at a senior's place having him hand out candy canes or something but getting sick put a damper on that idea so maybe we can do it for Valentine's. I definitely want to expose him to being involved in the community from a young age so that it will seem like a norm to him. So often I see children these days who don't see beyond themselves or their little bubble and I want him to think about those in need. I try to have him select something at the grocery store every time we go that he puts into the food bank box on the way out the door. I have the photos of the foster children that I have through Compassion Canada and that I have looked after through respite up on the wall and we pray for those children. I don't feel I pray enough in my own life so I want to work on adding prayer to both of our lives in the new year and make it a bigger focus. I want to model things like praying for my son. More than just saying grace. I remember being a teen and going to a prayer meeting with my father and thinking that that was the first time I remember him actually praying out loud for a purpose other than grace. I am not saying my dad isn't a praying man, I just don't remember him modeling it to us while growing up.
anyway Curious George Christmas special is over so I am going to take my little one up and read some stories and do some praying!
Most of my house decorations are more winter decorations than Christmas ones so I tend to leave them up until spring.
I am content with the little my son got for Christmas. It is SO easy to get sucked into the consumerism of Christmas. I was tempted to buy so much for him that I knew he would like but on the most part I said NO and if I did buy him things above and beyond his stocking and two gifts, I tended to just put them aside to bring out at a later date (some books, activities, etc.) I actually changed my mind Christmas eve and the present I was planning on Santa giving him I put away in my parent's basement and used one of the two presents I bought him (they were of the same set) to be from Santa. I am happy with this decision and may even donate the other gift to the playgroup that we attend on Thursdays or to our local EYC for their toy library. Overall he got PLENTY of gifts between family here and family in Ottawa. I have found homes for everything and next week I am going to go through his stuff and eliminate some old toys and downsize. My goal is for him to not own more than he can personally clean up himself. Everything has a place and he is fairly good at putting things back. The only trouble is when he gets into modes like this week (He pretends he is Santa and he dumps a bunch of toys together into a bag or box walks around saying 'ho ho ho merry christmas' and giving the things away. The bags can be a fairly large mishmash and tend to take some work to resort. But hey how can I get upset that he is so willing to give away his own things.
CO loves to craft and read. In the new year I am going to start working on the kindergarten math curriculum that I have. The program uses lots of manipulates and is very hands on. We will add it to our week maybe doing 3 lessons a week and see how it goes. He very much enjoyed doing our weather chart that I introduced to him this month and understood it right away. We will keep it up and maybe in another month or so we will start doing the weekly chart rather than the daily chart. I also want to start a form of organized prayer with him. I don't know if I am going to do a small book with photos or a wall with photos of people that we are going to pray for daily. I wanted to do an outreach with him this holiday at a senior's place having him hand out candy canes or something but getting sick put a damper on that idea so maybe we can do it for Valentine's. I definitely want to expose him to being involved in the community from a young age so that it will seem like a norm to him. So often I see children these days who don't see beyond themselves or their little bubble and I want him to think about those in need. I try to have him select something at the grocery store every time we go that he puts into the food bank box on the way out the door. I have the photos of the foster children that I have through Compassion Canada and that I have looked after through respite up on the wall and we pray for those children. I don't feel I pray enough in my own life so I want to work on adding prayer to both of our lives in the new year and make it a bigger focus. I want to model things like praying for my son. More than just saying grace. I remember being a teen and going to a prayer meeting with my father and thinking that that was the first time I remember him actually praying out loud for a purpose other than grace. I am not saying my dad isn't a praying man, I just don't remember him modeling it to us while growing up.
anyway Curious George Christmas special is over so I am going to take my little one up and read some stories and do some praying!
two books read in less than a week :)
I just finished reading Unlocked. by Karen Kingsbury
I find Karen's books to be a quick read but she does a great job with making you believe so much in her characters that I have a hard time putting them down and I often read them within 24 hours or 48 hours if my son isn't in much of a mood to let me read. I found myself crying through this book (which is common with her books, I am not sure I have ready any of her books that didn't make me cry) which I was regretting doing as I have been coughing for the last 5 days and having a bawl fest probably isn't the best for helping me to get over my cough. This book of hers was about an autistic individual which made me skeptical. Many times when I read fiction with characters with autism and the character isn't usually believable. Sometimes it feels that authors google autism and then their characters have ALL of the characteristics rather than just some of them. This character was done fairly well. Overall I would recommend this book as I would any of her books. She is probably one of my top 10 authors that I like to read.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
book
one of the benefits of being sick is curling up on the couch with a blanket and reading :) I finished this book this weekend at work during down time in the evening. I read this book in a couple of days. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
This book made me very much wish that I belonged to a book club! I enjoyed it quite a bit. It dealt with a lot of issues...marriage, parenting, adoption, abuse, adultery, race, homosexuality, etc.
I liked that all the ladies in the book club were SO different yet their love of reading bonded them together and enabled them to be great friends for many decades (their children bonded as well). Through the book club they were able to accept each other and their differences, be there for each other and celebrate life with each other.
Negative: there was too much talk about sex for my liking fortunately it wasn't too detailed. There was a lot of different issues (some listed above) and by the end it almost felt like too much for four families though I guess there was a large time span.
Anyone belong to a book club?
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
the spirit of it all...
my kid cracks me up...my aunt just walked through (if you know the layout of my house I live in a 4 bedroom house, 2 of the bedrooms are in the basement and are occupied by my aunt and sister, that is attached to a 2 bedroom house, that my parents live in, via a 'sunroom' which used to be a garage and was convereted into livingspace, the dog is the only one who really lives there...the kid plays there and we use the space when entertaining and need to set up a large table) the stairwell headed to my parents place (which is where she takes all her meals unless I cook a family dinner at my house) and CO heard her go by so he yelled 'dat u aunt duce?' 'I'm having a bath because I have a stinky bum!'. He cracks me up! this is totally the words out of my mouth telling him last night that he needed a bath real soon because he is stinky :) my kid totally baths on command. We don't have a set bathnight or time. Basically he has a bath whenever he feels like it (sometimes a few a day) or when I want 5-30 minutes of peace (which usually ends up being closer to 5 when it is my idea)
last night my kid was crying because he wants presents. He is only 3 but it still annoys me that he is sobbing over something such as 'stuff'. I understand he was tired as well but it is hard to teach small children about not being selfish. It is also hard to teach them not to drink the bath water or to plug things into walls. Especially when they are stubborn, contrary, sneaky and fast.
We went out a couple of days ago and did some shopping for other people. He had a hard time in the begining of our thinking of things other people would like (that weren't things he wanted) but i the end did ok. We have those presents wrapped and under the tree (which is hard for a three year old to leave alone but he is doing fairly well. He wrapped one of his toys and has wrapped and unwrapped it a few times)
gotta go he is making puddles through the house for splashing in....ug
last night my kid was crying because he wants presents. He is only 3 but it still annoys me that he is sobbing over something such as 'stuff'. I understand he was tired as well but it is hard to teach small children about not being selfish. It is also hard to teach them not to drink the bath water or to plug things into walls. Especially when they are stubborn, contrary, sneaky and fast.
We went out a couple of days ago and did some shopping for other people. He had a hard time in the begining of our thinking of things other people would like (that weren't things he wanted) but i the end did ok. We have those presents wrapped and under the tree (which is hard for a three year old to leave alone but he is doing fairly well. He wrapped one of his toys and has wrapped and unwrapped it a few times)
gotta go he is making puddles through the house for splashing in....ug
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