Better late, than never!

Life is slowly resuming to normal after the Craft Show season for me.

For a few weeks now,  I have not been sleeping normally.  By normally, I mean I've been only sleeping an average of 5 hours per night (trying to get everything ready for my craft shows of this season).

After my big show last weekend, it's taken me a few days to get back on my feet.  I've been sleeping an average of 10-12 hours a night and STILL feel groggy at the start, middle and end of each day.  Luckily, I've been going to bed around 8:30pm each night.

Today, (even though I'm still in my jammies at 4pm) is the first day that I feel like doing anything (over and above what HAS to be done - like cleaning, cooking and organizing) - YAY for me!

By 2pm, Noah and I sat to cuddle and watch a movie and take some time to relax.

Thought I'd check in and give you all the link to Eyes Wide Open, in case you wanted to check out the results of the Christmas at the Coliseum. 

Life is great, now that we're heading back to 'normal'!!!

Crazy Days

What an absolutely crazy day, today has been!

 

Let's see, FIRST:

 

As we were saying our morning prayers, Noah let out a BIG FART.  I was MORTIFIED and very disappointed, and HE KNEW IT.   We chatted about his VERY bad choice and at this point, I doubt he'll EVER make THAT choice again!

 

SECOND:

 

As part of Noah's grammar, he had to look in the dictionary for words that come in the middle of the two words given.  He shyly said, "Mom, I didn't know there was swear words in the dictionary.'.  My reply (thinking it was like 'ASS' or 'CRAP'), 'yes, well some words that YOU think are swear words are actually real words.'. 

 

When he brought me the dictionary to read to me:

• F*CK
• F*CKING
• FUCK OFF

After reading 3 words, I stopped and held it in to make sure I didn't burst out giggling, wondering WHAT THE HECK I was going to say at this point. 

 

WOW, I did NOT realize that these choice words were in fact in the dictionary and to be honest, I was SHOCKED and DISGUSTED, considering this was THE dictionary we needed to buy last year according to the public school list of supplies.

 

 

THIRD:

 

As we sat doing some crafts, Noah asked me some questions about S-E-X.  I mean, we've had 'that' talk before (if you remember THIS POST) but this time was way different.  He had LOTS of specific questions!!  I won't go into specifics, but I think I did an OK job at answering his questions!  He seemed satisfied, well, that was until the final 'blow' came with THIS question when he looked at me and said, 'Mom, can you give me like 'step-by-step' instructions about how SEX works.'  My heart pounded and raced, wondering HOW was I going to do THIS in an age appropriate way??    All I could come up with was this:  "OH dear, I was so NOT prepared for THIS question for SEVERAL more years - and honey, come back to see me in about 10 years and we'll have this discussion.'

 

 

WOW...all of that today, PLUS I was up by 3:30am (making jewelry for over 12 hours).  ALL THIS drama,  has left this mama completely wiped out! 

 

Good night y'all, I certainly hope you have a happy sleep (just like I will after this CRAZY DAY)!

 

 

Observation

I witnessed something the other day that made this mama so proud.  I'm not really sure how to write about it to convey my deepest feelings, but I'll try my best.

It all happened when while Noah had a friend over.  This friend is so sweet, and just like every other child in public school, he is following in the other children's trends and attitudes.

Now don't get me wrong, Noah has lots of attitudes of his own - BELIEVE ME!!!

But when it came to the fashion trends, that apparently many of the children have been following this year, Noah just couldn't get it and wasn't shy to share that with his friend!

It was cute to witness, considering last year when Noah was in public school he was the FIRST one to follow in the latest trends & attitudes. 

It was cool and relieving to see this new found confidence that had been COMPLETELY depleted at the end of last year in Grade 3!

Man, do I ever love watching my boy grow and mature!  Such a blessing.

You wanna hear something funny?

Well - it's not THAT funny (unless you have a twisted mind like my husband)!!!

So last night, I asked him to pick up his laptop off the floor or someone would trip over it.

This morning, when I got downstairs the laptop was picked up in front of my laptop, the cables were dangling and the laptop tray was still on the middle of the floor.

When I got up to go to walk through, and GUESS WHO tripped over the cable of the laptop???

ME & MOI !!!

To SAVE his work laptop from crashing to the floor, I performed a tricky maneuver that ended in my BIG TOE crashing to the ground resulting in a broken toe (or I am 99% certain it is)!!

After about 30 minutes of it throbbing, turning colours and greatly swelling, I hobbled up the stairs to tell him what had happened.

And what did he do?   LAUGH

Can you possibly imagine that lack of compassion??

But then again, so did I!  We've been laughing ever since, making songs about it and having some fun!

Hope you have a happy Friday and don't break YOUR toe!!!

LOL

A real natural.

He's a real natural.

He's super sensitive.

Really caring.

Very tender and loving.

Extremely excited about baby's.

Completely shocked me!

Made me super proud.

I just can't believe it, considering he has not ever held a baby or even been around a baby!

Tuesday, we babysat for a friend of mine (who is also the baby sister of a friend of Noah's).

As soon as she got here, Noah was very anxious to get his 'hands on her'!  As soon as she woke from her car seat, I handed her to him.  He held her, talked to her and snuggled with her.  How dare he?   I had to fight him for some snuggles of my own, with this sweet little pumpkin!!!

As you can see, he's a real natural.  He watched TV, while playing with his iPod (finding Evva music she'd like), while snuggling AND amusing her with her little caterpillar toy each time the music would stop!

He even fed her some of her bottle, and was VERY proud to have done it!

Funny though when she made a big, stinky poop for me he didn't want anything to do with that!!!

Then, when it was time for a nap he just HAD to have her and continued to snuggle with her after she fell asleep!

It truly made me teary eyed and very proud to see my baby's excitement with a 2 month old.

Several times throughout the day, he referenced his excitement about having a baby sister come into our family.  How excited he was to cuddle with her, protect her and teach her!  That said, if he could have an older brother this would be his preference!!!

What a boy!  So proud of you buddy!

Love you!

xox

Life on hold....

This is how I'm feeling today!

First, I'm tired of coughing, having pulled a muscle in my back from coughing so much.

Second, I just found out today that we can not update our home study until we are fully residing in Ontario.  This means, until we get moved our adoption is completely on HOLD.

Not a great feeling...AT ALL.

The way I thought it was going to happen was that we'd get our home study updated, our file all up-to-date and have our dossier (our pkg of information) all ready to go to Vietnam upon our arrival in Ontario.  This way, from the moment we arrived in Ontario we'd be on the official waiting list (I think I have this right??).  Having a (possible) couple year wait from this date - possibly less considering we are on the special needs list.

NOW...we will have to start all of our file ONCE we move (which at best will happen in the summer months of 2011, at worst Sept 2011) - which means that we will wait and CAN do nothing for 8-11 months :(  Frustrating, to say the least.

I feel a little defeated right about now.  I KNOW I am NOT defeated, just ON HOLD.  I know much of this feeling probably comes from being under the weather and I just DON'T sit still very well.  I have a hard time taking care of me. 

So, the newest news in our adoption is that we must WAIT, even longer than originally anticipated :(

Sick of sick...

...is a complete understatement!

It's been 8 days now of being full on sick. 

Last week, I was in bed each day for 4 of the 5 days.  This weekend, I had to push myself to make it through the Craft Show.

So Monday, I got into the doctor and (again) I have acute pneumonia, am on a powder puffer and antibiotics.  It's crazy, really!  But apparently, being a smoker for so many years had done some damage to my lungs, causing them not to get rid of simple colds very easily (and these simple colds turning into bronchitis, then acute pneumonia.

Knowing being on the mend on my short term horizon, I'm feeling rather impatient to feel 100% again. 

Luckily, considering we home school we have some flexibilities.  So this week, I declared a NO SCHOOL week (except for math) in order to get completely better and to spend some time with my boy!

So far, we've watched tonnes of shows:  Elf, Men in Black 1 & 2, The Karate Kid, The Little Rascals, Lots of episodes of the Road Runner and more to come! 

It's been a relaxing week and I know I will feel better soon, thankfully!