Canadian Moms & Moms to be!

[Tiff]

I was wondering how your big reveal went Reba! So happy for you!

 

[readynwilling]

YAY Reba!

Glad everyone had a nice day. I didnt' do much, i've caught J's cold. Tim did try to take me for breakfast (i declined) and we did end up going for supper (but more for convenience).

 

[Sarahkka]

I had a GREAT day leading birdwatching tours at the bird sanctuary!
Then I came home and we ordered take-out from my favourite Japanese restaurant, followed by a positively divine cake (lemon and coconut) and a very nice bottle of wine!
And today, I got to go pick out my present: a new wallet! I have used a very beat-up old canvas travel wallet for almost a decade and I recently discovered these really fun wallets and picked out this one:
https://mywalit.com/en/large-double-zip-wallet-purse/seascape/
So, I felt very spoiled and pleased and have been having lots of fun trying to fit my kajillion cards and crap in it!

So, I had the weirdest thing happen today. I had to clean up our garage a bit as we are storing some things for my brother for awhile. I started on it just after four and got really focused on sorting and cleaning. The sun was out, the boys were playing in the back yard so I kept chatting to them as I worked, and after what I figured was about an hour and a bit, I thought I should go in and toss dinner in the oven.
I walked into the kitchen and the clock said 7:30. I checked all the other clocks, thinking that this could not be right, but it was. I somehow entered a worm hole in the time space continuum. I swear up and down that I could not have been out in that garage more than an hour, but apparently I had unwittingly put in 3.5 hours. I actually felt quite guilty. Poor husband had been frantically trying to call me for two hours, as he had a late call and knew I needed to go pick up my brother and his stuff at 7:30. He was starting to get really freaked out that I wasn't answering the phone. And the boys got dinner at their usual bedtime.
Maybe I should have asked for a watch for Mother's Day...

 

[Melissa_M]

Cute wallet!!!

That's crazy you were out there so long.....but that happens to me too....if I get in to the cleaning/organizing "zone", I can be at it for hours and hours without realizing it!

 

[Sarahkka]

I think it's daylight savings - it was so bright and sunny all afternoon and evening, I just had no clue it was late.

 

[Vickie]

well at least you got a lot done?

it is very bright out later now! I feel weird putting the kids down at 7

 

[Melissa_M]

It is super strange putting The girls to bed when its bright and sunny. Luckily they don't question me on it

 

[Maggs]

I go to bed and it's still daylight lately but it's summer and it's light out till after 10.

 

[Vickie]

that's crazy Maggs!

I don't feel guilty putting my kids to bed at 7 they are monsters after 7

 

[Maggs]

I know! Still light out till about 1030 and the sky is lightning again by 4. Scotland is on the same latitude of northern Labrador or so.

 

[Melissa_M]

That is crazy how light it is there!

 

[Sarahkka]

Not only does summer bring bedtime enforcement challenges, it brings unbelievable amounts of filth. I should have taken a picture of the boys' bathwater after last night's bath. Dark grey.
Oh well, dirt=healthy immune system?

Ugh. Having one of those nights with Simon. He is so great and fun these days and then he has these episodes of being such a stubborn, willful, disobedient little @#$%$!!!!!! And he ALWAYS pulls these when I am at my most tired and least patient. I know it's normal and part of being four and all that, but it makes me so so so mental. Like I am going to regress into a four-year old and throw my own tantrum if I have to deal with one more thing. Maybe I should try that? It might get his attention!

 

[Reba]

I totally think you should throw a good o' tantrum I bet that would smarten him up "Oh no mom's lost it!"

 

[ryder]

My kids are the same Sarah, out in the dirt all day pretty much and fight tooth and nail until the sun goes down about bedtime LOL... I detest the sun for the bedtime problems.

We had a nice mothers day, I didnt really get spoiled, we all went to a fishing memorial and Jasmine caught a little sunfish.. And then we came home and napped and then went out for dinner to boston pizza

 

[Tiff]

We've got the blackout curtains and they seem to work well for Claire. She doesn't have a hard time going to bed if its light (for the time being, thank god) but I'm sure as she gets more older she's going to start questioning it ha ha.

 

[Vickie]

Hannah's back talking is at an all time high, so frustrating!

Hope your house sells soon Joss!

My kids are grubby at days end to I figure at least they are happy?

 

[ryder]

I've tried black out curtains but they just push them aside anyways lol

 

[readynwilling]

my solution is to not put her to bed till 9:30 but its sorta the routine she set for herself, and it works... she sleeps 9:30 - 7/7:30 and naps for 2-2.5hrs in the afternoon. AND I figure when the baby is born, newborns have such messed up schedules I will probably LOVE that J sleeps till 7:30 so that im not getting up at 5 with a toddler after being up all night with a baby!

 

[ryder]

My kids still sleep until betttween 6-7am Even when they do go to sleep by 8pm! LOL I dont think I could stand them being awake and downstaires until 9:30, especially since there are more then 1, they just get overtired and fight.

I look forward to my quiet evening time way too much

 

[Melissa_M]

My girls both go to bed between 8 & 8:30 and wake up around the same time in the morning.... works for me!!! Except I wish Alia still napped. I do quiet time but she rarely ever falls asleep then anymore so usually the only time she naps is in the car if we're driving somewhere.

I say whatever works!!!