Today both kids got time outs in about a 10 minute span.  Yesterday, I was ready to sell them on ebay.  The fighting is making me mental.

We got haircuts - I love it when my girlfriend cuts our hair - she always makes my hair look so nice.  Then I hate washing it after cause I can never get it to look the same and it always turns out looking like crap.  So, today my hair is back to looking like crap.

Our van is getting fixed today (finally) …. when dh dropped it off, the girl working there said something about them needing it for TWO days vs ONE day.  Then the mechanic dood came out and said, “Nah, we’ll have it done today - don’t worry.”  Yeah, whatever - if you don’t have my van back to me tomorrow, you better give me a back up vehicle …… (cause God forbid we go without 2 vehicles for more than one day around here ….!!!)

It’s a rainy, crappy day out there today.  The only bright light to this day is that I’m going out for East Indian cuisine for supper tonight with some gf’s and leaving the squabbling kids at home with their dad for the evening (oh joys! :)  ) .

We’re having a wrap up meeting on Sunday for our JDRF walk (yeah, the one that took place two months ago).  Again, only two families can show - but I’ve managed to recruit one new family, so that’ll be good.  It’ll be nice to take a few months break from this all before starting talk of next years walk ….

I finally bought a salter scale and I finally started using it yesterday.  LOVE IT!  Just when I *thought* I knew how many carbs I was feeding my kid …….. heh.  Only problem I have with it is that you can’t program MORE food into it - my kid eats a lot of gluten free food, so I’m still having to resort to weighing the old fashioned way with that stuff.

My kids are on a pet rally lately.  They’re bugging their dad for a kitten and have been colouring posters and papers asking him for a cat.  I’m not sure how much longer he’s going to hold out - he’s the only stickler in the family who is protesting the addition of a pet.  Albeit it IS nice to go out of town and not have to worry about who is going to look after “Pickles” (yes, they’ve even named this future cat).  But it’s pretty bad when they go to visit and play with friends and they spend half the time playing with their friends pets vs their friends ….

My kids are obsessed with farts, butts, crotches, toots, boobies and any other words that are “kid-offensive”.  I say kid-offensive because in adult terms you’d use swear words in place of boobies and butts.  I know it’s a stage they’re going through but it’s driving.me.nuts.  The giggling when someone says “Look at my butt!” or “Ohhh, I fell and hurt my crotch!”.  Dear lord we do NOT talk like that around this house so I don’t know why they do it!  Then they giggle and giggle.  And the farts …. OHhhhh, the gas that is passed around here is bordering abnormal me thinks *I hope it’s not my cooking*.  I think they try to force it out for the laughs (not from dh or myself) - but I’m just waiting for the day that someone pushes the limits and actually craps themself playing this little game.  My oldest crossed the line one day when her Dad was laying on the couch and she walked up to him, bent over and said, “This ones for you Dad!” and cut one right in his face.  I couldn’t help but laugh (cause it was really funny) but honestly, it’s not like she is seeing ME do stuff like that, so I don’t know why they think it’s ok to do that!  (But it IS one way to get Dad off the couch ….)

Anyhow, I’m trying to deal with the potty mouth and the use of discretion when passing wind around here.  It’s hard though - everyone loves a good fart joke (and if you don’t, I guess that means you’re anal retentive ??? ha ha!) but really, teaching kids manners really sucks. 

Teaching them discretion/class is also another big one.  My oldest was wearing a dress yesterday.  We had to go to walmart yesterday to pick a couple of things up and while wandering the toy isles, I look over and notice she’s lifted her dress up to adjust her ever-crawling underwear.  *sigh*

It’s a work in progress.

On that note, I guess I’d better go and make some lunch for my gas producing family.

Have a good one.

The last week has been super crazy at our house.  We’ve been all over the place with a family reunion, a trip to Winnipeg to the Diabetes clinic and more camping (of course).

We had a blast at the reunion - I organized “The Olympics” at the reunion and had everyone assigned a different country.  Each person then had to sign up for at least 3 events and did we have some good laughs.  I think the best event was the “Spin, Run and Shoot’er”.  You take a person, blindfold them, spin them around REALLY fast 10 x’s, rip off the blindfold and have them run in a straight line to a table with a jello shooter on it - they do the shooter, and run back, all being timed.  The best was my cousin (who was from Mozambique - he even dressed the part with a wife beater shirt, khaki baggy shorts on, bandana on his head, strip of material around his arm and a b-b gun strapped on to him) when he ripped off the blindfold he promptly ran in a not-so-straight-line into the bushes hitting a few family members in his attempt to get at the shooter.  I think a few of us might have peed ourselves a little…..

Other events were hula-hoop discus, cannonball run (my aunt has a huge inground pool and this even was who could make the biggest “splash” in the pool.  Of course all the “men” signed up for this and did their best belly flops and cannonballs.), Suitcase Relay (another funny event - we had a suitcase filled with horribly f-ugly clothing where each “athlete” had to grab the suitcase, run to the pylon, open the suitcase, put on all the gross clothes *including majorly large bra*, zip up suitcase and run back home all being timed - again, lots-o-laughs with this one), we had a speed colouring event where everyone was given a colouring page, they stood at a big table and when the timer started I emptied a big box of 64 crayolas in the middle of the table.  It was violent - people were practically jumping on the table for the best colours.  They had 90 seconds to colour their picture “the best” - as judged by Grandma.  (Grandma was the official judge whenever needed). 

Needless to say, I have tons of great photos from it - people even dressed the part from their assigned countries.  We then did some family trivia later on which was good for a laugh as well.

After that we came home, did laundry, re-packed everything and headed off to Winnipeg to see how Dani was doing at the clinic.  Her a1c dropped from 7.6% in April to 7.1% this visit.  (can you see me doing my happy dance??)  She grew in height as well.

Once we got back from our night over in wpg, we did a bit more laundry, packed again and then left to go camping for three nights at Adam Lake.  LOVED it there.  Will go back for sure - nice private sites and quiet there with a nice beach for the kids to play at.

We’re home now, I’m doing gobs of laundry and just settling back into somewhat of a routine.  Can’t believe August is almost 1/2 over - school starts up again in a few weeks - YIKES!  We have two more camping trips planned then summer will be over for us.

Anyhow, I have a house that has been sorely neglected these past weeks - mainly because we haven’t been around a whole lot and when we are, stuff is being hauled in and out and it’s looking a little nasty (and here I sit) - but once the laundry is done I can tackle the bigger stuff.  (fun shit)  My kids are driving me nuts when we aren’t out somewhere being entertained (they’ve somehow lost their own imagination) and it’s hard to get things done around here some days when the fights ensue. 

Well, better go and hit up the grocery store - it’s a little mother hubbard-ish around here.