Happy Anniversary

Last night John and I celebrated our 2nd wedding annivarsary. Wow time flys when you are having fun.

Its funny to think that we met only by fluke in a dingy night club three years ago and if the circumstances had been changed ever so slightly then we would have missed the opportunity of a life time. Thanks to an intoxicated friend who was "hooting" at my rear end, and john being so polite as to apoligize for his friends crude behavior, we could have never layed eyes on one another.

I feel blessed to have married the right person on the first try and feel in my heart that we were brought together by God even if it was in a night club.(I was always told never to find a mate in a bar!!) But he is my partner for life and am truly thankful.

We still find time to run around the house and wrestle and laugh and enjoy each others company at dinner. Sure we get busy with work and kids but he always kisses me before bed and tells me he loves me.

I could go on and on about how much he means to me and even have to choke back a few tears along the way but the fact of the matter is I did marry my best friend and true life companion.

So I say cheers to my best friend and lover......Happy Anniversary Honey,

may we keep on trucking through thick and thin, tears and laughter and poopy diapers in between...I love you more than beans and rice

My Two Cents

Lying in bed last night i was thinking that so often we get caught up in the day to day life; bills, deadlines, practices and pressures that we forget why we were put here on this earth.
Have you ever helped someone with something so small like, holding open a door for a person or offered assistance to an elderly person on an icy street. When you walk away you have a good feeling in your body.
Why do we get that good feeling?
I think that it's because we are doing what is right.......helping one another.
That is what we should try and do everyday if we can is help someone in some way. It may seem insignificant at the time but you never know, maybe that friendly smile to a stranger may have been just the thing that person needs.

"Where there is love there is life."

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

GOOD MORNING NICHOLAS FAMILY !!!!!!!

Great morning so far........aiden slept in till 9:30 and autumn is in such a pleasant mood. Received a phone call from my dad the smorning which was a nice change, he was in Turner Valley and wanted to have a look at our new house.

Now I just have to finish my morning coffee and continue packing up my bathroom........ you never realize how much crap you really have until you have to move it to another location.

I'm finding things I havent even seen in years and am wondering why I have been hanging on to them for so long...like who needs to carry around a little container of leg wax for five years?....well apperantly I do!!

I'm feeling lighter already and I know that the stuff I'm giving to Good Will will be put to good use.

I hope everyone will have a fantastic day and don't sweat the small stuff........and it's all small stuff.

"The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King, JR.

Cabin Fever

Alright, I have been in the house for too long. Its time for some fresh air and a little bit of nature. I find myself out of breath just doing basic house work and the kids are climbing the walls (literally, I had to explain to autumn that she can't climb the brick around the fire place)
So we will be off in a few minutes to enjoy our world around us, I'm sure I will have to tell Aiden to wait up for me as my walk has now turned into a unattractive duck waddle and will most certainly pull a ant or two out of Autumns mouth at least once along the way.

So I encourage you to get a least a bit of fresh air today and hear the birds or if your in the city the sounds of police. Have a great Day and enjoy all that life has to offer.

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

Oscar Wilde

Enjoy the summer

It would seem that winter is sneaking up on us very quickly. Just sitting outside on the deck for a few minutes and you see squirrals gathering food and the trees seemingly swaying the winds to come forth. We may have a month or two of nice weather but then winter will be apon us and hopefully the snow will come like it hasn't for years. Enough of this piddly fluff from above. I want to see real snow fall, the kind that actually covers all of the ground and enough to go sledding on and make snow angels with. The thought of how the trees look all covered in crisp new snow and teaching my kids to skate and bake cookies for christmas seems to overcome me with a smile. Such a nice thought isn't it? So I'm going to make the best of what is left of this year and take the time to notice the small stuff and hopefully you do too!

Rolie Polie Olie

I am finally narrowing into the home stretch of my third pregnancy and really feeling .....well....huge. Friends say" wow you look great" but are they thinking "wow your butt is the size of the titanic" and just being good friends and saying what will make me feel good? Either way it's hard to convince me that I do look ok. So only 8 more weeks of self hatred towards my rear and then Im free.... free to sleep on my tummy and bend over and pick up toys without holding my breath or lie on my back without feeling dizzy.

My husband is very understanding and tells me how beautiful I am carrying his child...he says he loves my new curves and offers to run to the store for any of my sweet cravings. I should probably be taking full advantage of this special treatment, but just don't have the heart to send him down the street for a chocolate bar at 10:30 at night.

So I will endure the eight more weeks of pregnancy with a positive additude, because I am truly blessed to even be pregnant, and take each each day with a greatful heart.

Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies.

Merete Leonhardt-Lupa

Thank You !!!!

It's so nice to hear that other people enjoy what I have to write. In my head It's just mindless banter but to hear that other family members enjoy reading my thoughts it makes me feel, well, special......not the" I need help walking and talking " kind of special but the" warm and fuzzy" kind of special that you can only get from a family members warm words of encouragement. So a thank you to those of you who responded and cheers !!!

love you all!!

These are My kids ??

As much as I love my kids, I have never been grossed out by anyone more so than my two darling children. Sure I bath them daily, cut there nails and clean there little ears but still they have there ways of making my stomach turn.
When my son was born 3 years ago I was thinking that boys would be harder to raise since they are made of frogs and snails and puppy dog tails, but looking back I can only think of one stomach turning incident that made me gag. Aiden was "helping" my mother with laundry when all of a sudden I heard my mom yelling GROSS, GROSS, so I came running down stairs to see aiden being pulled away from the mop bucket licking his tiny little lips.

Here he had been a little thirsty and decided to have a drink out of the mop by sucking the dirty water out!!!!

Autumn on the other hand, has left me with so many incidents that recalling half of them would require serious hypnosis. She has a fasination with toilets that I will never understand and when she was still crawling anything left on the floor was fare game to enter her mouth. I've seen her eat australian dung beetles, dog poo, a dead fly, dust bunnies on the floor and this is just the few things that my subconscience will allow me to remember !! I thought that little girls were made of sugar and spice and everthing nice. well I was ripped off !!

On the other hand my children rarely get sick, my husband contributes that to all the "yukkies" over the years, and have a vast assortment of taste and I guess that what didnt kill them made their immune systems stronger.

So I will leave my stories to you to have a little chuckle, hope you weren't eating lunch, and say G'day until tommorrow.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Herman Hesse

what am I again ??

Last time I looked I thought I was just a woman with some dreams of seeing the world, maybe trying some new exotic foods and meeting new people.

Now, after two children, when I look in the mirror I know that Im not just a woman...I am a nurse that fixes scraped knees and removes splinters, a great story teller that uses different voices for each character in a book, a lawyer that mediates disputes among screaming clients, a chef that caters to the fussiest of customers, a laundry maid, cleaning maid, and gardener, secretary and over all foreman to a working and functioning family company.

Some would say that a woman looses herself in becoming a wife and mother but I would say I found myself and so much more.

Sure, there are times when you want to go to the washroom in peace without kids banging on the door shouting "mom" repeatedly or take a shower before ten O'clock at night or just pamper yourself by curling your hair once a month to remind your husband why he married you, but how boring life would be if we had no children and only took care of ourselves.

A Woman will truly learns new things about herself that she didn't know she was capable of when she runs a family.

But remember to take time outs for yourself and put your needs first because if you don't then you will loose who you are. You can't take care of a family if you can't take care of your self first.

So I will leave you with my thoughts on life for today and hope that you take them into account in your own life.

Children are the purpose of life. We were once children and someone took care of us. Now it is our turn to care.

Cree Elder

It Starts.....

Who new I would end up so happy and content being just a mother and wife at 23 years of age.

You meet a man, he likes you, you date, the next thing you know you having your third child in three years and are thrilled. Did I miss something here? All I heard growing up was "don't throw your life away and have kids"and "don't settle for some man" well I never. This seems like the most rewarding life I could have chosen for myself. I wish every woman in the world could have the opportunities I've been given.

A husband who could take care of his family if we all had to run to the hills and live off the land, yet be romantic with his wife and playful with his children.

I know now that I have made the best decision of my life to marry young and pop out a few offspring. When Im old and grey I will not regret my husband or my children for they are the ones that that keep me going. Who could resist a little boy that calls meatloaf "abalobe" or a husband that leaves his homeland to marry a woman with a new born baby. Not to many men in this world would give up what John has given up but he would say " I didn't give anything up but I gained everything" spoken like a true man!!

So I say to everyone that reads these written feelings, Enjoy your life for what you do have, not for what you think you need, and be truly thankful to be alive !!

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson