Love

Crunch

The best thing about Autumn is the smell and the crunch of the fallen leaves.

Yes I am old enough to own a Lava Lamp!

We put the lava lamp in the window at Halloween and today the sunlight hit it just right.

Oh such wit.

Tonight Pgirl was complaining that supper is late and she was "dying" of hunger. (Which I am thanful for because she is recovering from Pneumonia and hasn't eaten much over the last 14 days. ) Qgirl replied "Oh Well, if you do die there will be one less person to feed!" And proceeded to double over with laughter. It tickled my funny bone too.

Link and Zelda had a fantastic Halloween

Halloween

I heard this morning from a young boy at the school bus stop that his Mom is dressing up as a Housewife for Halloween. Am I to expect that she will wear full make-up, dangly earrings skinny jeans and a cashmere sweater? I am a touch offended that her choice is curlers and an apron...WTH?

How?

How can it be that a person on my choir email list replied to an address in the newsletter I had just sent saying he isn't receiving the newsletter? Hmmm?
Volunteers don't get paid what they are worth!

It's that time of year.

Sure I'll get right on this.

I enjoy home design mags but there are many times that I feel a bit inadequate. This particular article list the must haves for a guest room. In my home one of the girl's bedrooms will some day become a guest room. So in this 8ftx10ft room I will need to fit and end of bed bench, a comfy chair,a small desk, bedside lights,soft headboard,matching bed skirt, blackout blinds,lavender filled sachet.
So lets just say when the time comes to decorate a guest room, I can go shopping for lavender and blinds because nothing else is going to fit in there. hell I can't fit a bench, desk and chair into my primary bedroom let alone the smaller bedrooms.

I volunteered again...

and again it didn't go so well. It was my job to take groups of the class out to find signs of Autumn. I arrived back late with the first group. I arrived back with the second group to hear the teacher asking one of the boys if he had a spare set of clothes because apparently during the 20 min he was with me he had wet his pants....... He had not said anything nor had I noticed and yes! I suck. The last group included a boy looked about 9 years old (compaired to the 5yo's) who seemed not to be feeling well with the demeanor of Jordan Catalano, I swear if he could have leaned on something he would have. So we are trying to get back to the school before the bell and yelling at "Jordan C" who apparently has developed a hearing problem ( or was possible just to freaking cool to hear me) we were at the school doors as the last bell rang and the school children came pouring out the doors, My gtroup spinning like tops.
Seriously I don't think I am qualified to volunteer or at the very least am in prime position to win Crappy Parent Volunteer Award of 2009.

and.......

Here's Qgirl's first homework. All I can say is it's a good thing Pgirl has already been through this because How on earth else could I know that the mission is to cut and paste the items onto this paper?

Rip off alert

Are you familiar with starter ink cartridges in Printers? I am okay with that no big deal. But how would you few about a major purchase say a $25K vehicle that comes with Starter tires. OMG Apparently not long ago new cars were sold with 100 000km tires now some are coming with 20K rated tires.
So Look out while you shop you'll find cut-backs in the strangest places.
Here's a link
http://www.cargurus.com/blog/2009/05/27/tires-on-new-cars-replace-after-20000-miles/comment-page-1

Yum

For the record I am a terrible cook but this evening I made the best Pizza I have ever eaten. I even made the dough from scratch.

Thanks but no thanks

Dh and I went apple picking with Qgirls's class today. Her first school field trip. DH and I had a group of 3 girls. One needed to pee. I took her(H) to the outhouse line-up, where we watched the entire class including dh and the rest of our group go on the hayride.
Then while H and I went on the second hay ride our group picked apples.
H and I finished the hay ride just in tine for lunch but we needed to pick apples for H. Meanwhile I haven't seen DH and the other 2.
H gets a miserable & sudden earache and begins crying hysterically .
I cannot console her. Only the teacher can help her. I run to the orchard to pick Apples for H.
Just as it's time to put children DH shows up with Qgirl and C.
I am offically the worst chaperone ever! next time I offer to help the reply will be
"No thanks Mrs. Lgirl We don't need your help!"

can I get your digits?

Qgirl came home from school the other day saying she gave her school friend our phone number and that her new friend was going to call. So I started asking the annoying Mom questions. "What's her name?" "Did she write down your number?" "No." " Well how will she call?"
Qgirl gets a piece of paper and we put our phone number on it and I am wholeheartedly hoping this bit of paper gets lost. But Nooo at 5pm ( It's always 5-6 pm when kids call WTH? Supper, bath, bed? Hmmm? Play date at 7 pm? I don't think so) last night Qgirl gets a phone call from her 5yo schoolmate trying to plan a playdate. ( Really? Who does this? Who lets their 5yo plan the playdate?) I am trying to remain positive, of course I want my child to have friends. But I have no earthly idea how to go about getting to know another family well enough that we are comfortable enough to send our children unsupervised to their home. We live is a different neighbourhood from the school so it's not like we can get to know each other from the hood like we did with Pgirl.
I know it's not a big deal and it will work out, just in time to encounter yet another hurdle of parenting.