Tackle It Tuesday

I was a slacker for the past two weeks but I'm back on the TACKLE wagon.

Who are we kidding??? As Mom's we are always tackling something but I like to post To Do List items only for Tuesdays.

First up...I bought myself a shrub...a Cherry tree/shrub {is a tree but grows like a shrub} and the rain stopped long enough for me to dig a hole and put it in the ground.

Now if I only had the cash and time to figure out what else to put in this HUGE plantar.

Any ideas????

It's full sun back here.

The garden is in!!

I also went up to my Dad's house and stole a few lilacs to put between these towering poplar's so I do not have to look at a plowed up field for the rest of my life.

I love the field but not when it's left to sommer-fallow.

The lilacs are hard to see but it is so wet around here you cannot get any yard work done.

Madame sent home a note from preschool stating that she would like the yearbooks to be completed by June 2nd...this Wednesday.  I knew this day was arriving so I had been working on them here and there, whenever I had a sleeping toddler and the twins were resting.

I miss my dining room table.

BUT.....tonight I finished all 20 yearbooks...I am SO happy to get that job out of the way.

Completed books ready to ship back to the school.

 

I wanted to clean the table off and put my stamping stuff away but it was after 10pm when I finished.

I'm tired and wanted to get this post done so I cleaned up the paper scraps and that is it till tomorrow.

Because of the rain my children have spent alot of time in the house so next week's tackle will for sure be housework!

What are you tackling today?

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Quotable Monday's

Strength does not come from physical capacity.

It comes from an indomitable will.

-Mahatma Gandhi

My Favorite by Far

I am an American Idol junkie {I have to be since Canadian Idol was shut down a few years back}.

But I do love the judges, Ryan Seacrest and the whole shebang.

And this year I thought my favorite song/moment was during the finale when Canadian Gal Alanis Morriessette came out and sang with Crystal Bowersox BUT...this was by far my favorite and I will be watching for this young ladies album hopefully someday.




Did you have any favorite moments on American Idol this season?

Wordless Wednesday - Go Team Go

{Love the last pic!!!}

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Quotable Monday's

"Don't ever mistake my kindness for weakness."

-Brett Michaels "Celebrity Apprentice"

Relaxing Into The Chaos

I'm sitting in my bedroom looking around at what I think is chaos.  To most people it would be considered "clean for living with kids" but definately not tidy by any means.

Laundry baskets, 3 to be exact, toys {how and why are they in my room when my toddler is trying to open the diaper rash cream}, blankets, and whatever else tornado toddler has brought in here.

I tidy all day long and it doesn't seem to matter.

I know many of you can relate.  You feel like your constantly picking up, putting away, repeat, repeat.  Sasha just yelled "Mom Gage has a marble in his mouth!"  Do I get up...no...why?  Because I can see him from where I am.  When I asked him to spit it out he does.  He is 18 months old going on 4 years....sigh.....

I love my life...I truly do.  I love how you fade from one stage with children and enter another without ever truly noticing it happened.

Like today...we took the younger three out for lunch and I noticed how well my four year olds were sitting and eating...behaving almost like very well mannered children.  That my friends has been a long time coming.  But it happened and today I noticed it for the first time.

My toilets are cleaner...and I don't mean the bowl of the toilet.  The base and the floor to be exact.  That means my four year old son is starting to aim at the right spot.  A silly thing to put down in the baby book but hey it makes me realize they are growing up.

So when I look around this room and see the chaos in it and how it trails down the hall to the kids room I should just relax into it.  I struggle with that.  I know Motherhood will test you to your limits and my limits are silly neat freak things but I have to fight with myself to not freak out when things are not going my way.

I fail miserably and often but I know there is tomorrow {totally stole that from Dixie!}

Now Gage is in here getting into the drawers and lotions, standing on an ottoman to be able to do that.

Sigh................I'm tired.

I'm sure there will be many sighs in my life.  With my Grandma being so ill this week, her heart was bad...real bad, I wondered if she was thinking of all the years she lived.

I do that now and I'm only a quarter way in {or so I hope}.  I look at my 7 year old and wonder how the heck did he get so big so fast.  It's cruel in a way how fast our heart can explode with love but yet break a bit at the thought of our children growing up and that need for us disappearing so fast...so very very fast.

I love being a wife, a friend, a sister, an Aunt {I do love love being Aunty}, but my biggest blessings by far is the chance I have receieved at Motherhood.  And though sometimes I'd love to give all my children away, I know I'd miss them after an hour of silence....okay maybe 8 hours.....!!!

I wonder on a daily basis why God blessed me with my four children.  I felt blessed with one child.  I guess there was way more work on me than He figured with just giving me one so why not put me to the brink with four!  I love it, and hate it all at the same time and that is what I need to figure out..the middle ground.  Too bad it might be when they are all grown and gone away.  Let's hope I get it sooner than that.

But for now, I plan on forcing myself to be in the moment as much as I can even if that moment includes four children each singing their own song and one of them screaming just because he can.

Many, many deep breaths are in order.

May Long Weekend

This is what I do most days...push a toddler on a bike he is too small for but insists on riding it.

He also makes vroom vroom noises as we go along.

Hockey crazy toddler.

He expects me to cheer everytime......

Can you tell my kids are excited to get on our boat?

Maybe they are just playing it safe on the trampoline!

Geese...so many, so noisy but I love it!

What are you all up to this May long weekend?

We are off to the lake tomorrow.

I have a ton of things to do today to get ready for an overnight trip but I can't wait to use my new pink fishing rod!

My Family Needs Your Prayers Again

This time I need your prayers for my Grandma.

She has been struggling these past few weeks with her diabetes but we found out today that it is so much more.

She needs a pacemaker and was sent via ambulance to a bigger city hospital with a heart specialist.

He says she could have died at any moment.

In this province "urgent" doesn't always mean immediately but in my Grandma's case it does and that is how we know this is serious, there are no alternatives.

She is in frail health as it is so we all worry about tomorrow.

She will be having surgery tomorrow and I ask you to pray for it to go well.  Pray for strength and courage for her and of course comfort for everyone.

I thank you.

Wordless Wednesday - Lovin' Who He Is!!!

You have no idea how much he likes this shirt.

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Quotable Monday's

"A Woman"

"Be very careful if you make a woman

cry, because God counts her tears. The woman

came out of a man's rib. Not from his feet to be

walked on. Not from his head to be superior, but

from the side to be equal. Under the arm to be

protected, and next to the heart to be loved."

 

This is written in the Hebrew Talmud, the book where all of the sayings and preaching of Rabbis are conserved over time.

When Children Play

The twins were playing doctor with their stuffies.  They had the doctor kit out and were playing nicely when I asked them if they would like some band-aids to assist with the injuries on the stuffies.  They happily agreed.  I gave them a few thinking it would satisfy them for awhile.

Wrong.  Sam asked for more right away.  I obliged and off he went.

Later that night as I was heading up stairs I noticed something on the willows I have in my front room.  They are cut branches so it could not be leaves....what I was seeing was band-aids!

I give you The Band-Aid Tree....

It made laugh seeing all those band-aids so well placed.

I had no idea this is what they were doing.

I learned two things that day.....

Pay more attention...this could have been something far more dangerous,

and that my kids are funny.

I left the band-aids on..I kind of like it for now.

Blah Blah Blah etc.

Not much to say but feeling the need to blog.

I'm battling a sore throat.

We planted sunflower seeds....monstrous sunflowers or so the package says...could be interesting.

I am hoping that my husband will get the garden tilled this weekend so we can put the vegetable seeds in this next week.  It is always organized chaos with the kids helping out.

I have not worked out since last Thursday when the flu hit our house.  I have not felt healthy since then.  That makes me cranky.

I am on binge...of buying stuff.  Stuff we need but still I am scared to check the bank account.

Umm...what else???

I'm watching CHip's with my 7 year old son...he LOVEs the DVD series and to be honest I'd rather him watch this than shows on television today...it's cleaner, if you know what I mean.

I really dislike BING search engine..Google's my kind of thang...BING is the default search on the laptop but I shall change that.  I only type this because I searched for a picture of Ponch and Jon and BING did nothing for me.

I miss Bob & Susie...my cranes.  They have not returned yet.  I keep binoculars at the ready everytime I think I hear them.  My kids mourn for my loss.  Sad I know..but I do love those cranes.

Hoping to get a good night's sleep to ward of this pesky sore throat.  I rreeeeaaaalllyyy would like to be less cranky for everyone that has to live with me through the weekend.

Have a good one.

Wordless Wednesday - Feeding the birdy

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Quotable Monday's

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

-Alanis Morissette

A Perspective Some May Not Like

Maybe it's because I'm battling the flu.

Maybe it's because my own Mother has passed on.

Maybe it's because of the commercialism.

But I'm not a big fan of Mother's Day.  The same as I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day.

I love the homemade cards and gifts from my kids...LOVE and cherish them.  I am happy celebrating with just that.  No fancy shamncy stuff.  That's just me I guess.

If anything on a day like today we should give that extra hug and kiss to our Mom's, Grandma's, Mother in  laws etc.  Or anyone that is a Mother figure to you.

Maybe I don't like the fanfare...I don't like the spotlight.

I love my family and I love feeling cared for but not only on one day.

My mother passed away at the age of 50.  As and adult I realize how I took her forgranted, all that she did on a daily basis because I am in the same boat as she was right now...often feeling taken forgranted on a daily basis by my children and my husband.  I do not want that, the bitterness she portrayed on day's like this.

Yet here I am spewing it.  Bitter and unthankful.

Geez I have no idea where this post is heading.

In conclusion I would say on one hand I love my family thanking me for all that I do for them but on the other hand I dislike the fact that it will last only one day and just because somebody says so.

Make sense?

Somebody send me some scripture quick!!!  I think I need a refresher on service, gratitude, etc.

Yee Haw

It was Cowgirl/Cowboy week at preschool.

We purchased a tricycle for our youngest.....

these two are not our youngest!

Miss Wiggle Bottoms

Maybe someday he will get his chance to ride it!

Until then I think these two are having fun!!!!!!!!!!!