I’m totally and absolutely jealous – and for no real reason. I mean. I DRIVE a car to the school.

You see, today, and for the rest of the week I will be heading to the school to pick up the boys. L needs to be shown with an adult present a few times how to get home before I entrust him to his nine year old brother. (we live two blocks away from the school). But this afternoon when I got to the school, in my CAR, I was instantly jealous of the little pack of moms standing by the front doors. They had the COOLEST strollers.

My favorite on, cus yeah, I was staring at them like a man does with a nice car, was a Two Seat Indie Twin All Terrain strollers.

It looked exactly like this, only blue. And it had babies in it.

I remember when P was in kindergarten,I would have the baby – he was just a few months old – in the stupid umbrella stroller that was too low – and I am short – so it hurt my back. B was two years old and hated the walk, so I always ended up hiking him on my hip as I struggled to push the baby in the stroller – and I had to do it two times a day, there and back. Don’t even get me started on how hard it was trying to get those stupid wheels through the snow!

I Wish I had All Terrain wheels back THEN!

Yeah. Dropped the boy off for his first day of Pre-K and now I have all this free time to myself. I will have every afternoon, in fact, to myself.

Maybe I can work out one of those fancy schmancy health plans where I drop off the boy and then do an hour on Wii fit. or I can take the time to catch up on the laundry which is seriously behind. I could even take the time to have a nice relaxing bath – BUT OMG THE HOUSE IS TOO QUIET TO DO ANYTHING!

I mean. Even the DOG is quiet.

My eldest boy woke up this morning at eight and then woke me up – on sunday – THE WEEKEND – when I get to sleep in!

He was in a bit of a panic. See, he is eight years old, he will be nine in a month and a few days, but he had a big icky zit  on his chin. It was one of those white puss filled kinds. He washes his face each night with a face wash (a few months ago, I noticed a bunch of black heads on his nose), so he figured he was in the clear and  would never have to worry about pimples.

I think eight going on nine is too young for him (or me) to be worrying about acne, but I’m not sure. I remember being in grade four and getting a hair cut, the hairdresser chopped all my hair off – really short – and put it in a perm – my mother insisted. It was horrifyingly embarrassing, because as soon as my bangs were off my face everyone could see the pimples on my forehead.

I know girls mature faster than boys, and maybe that is why I had acne in grade four, and also, my boys are a lot cleaner in terms of personal hygiene than I was at their ages, but I do worry that this lone pimple is a sign of what is to come. I would do pretty much anything to save my boy the embarrassment I went through during my teen years in regards to acne!

I told the boy to leave it be, and then pointed him to my face wash, which is a bit stronger than the one he was using, and for now, I guess, that’s all that I can do.

What face wash do you use? What do your children use?

Check it out! Anything look different round here? My good buddy Nobody helped me switch Mommy Madness over from Blogger to Wordpress!! This is something I have wanted for quite awhile, and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without Nobody!!

(insert huge thanks here)

I’m actually writing this on the itouch and haven’t figured out how to link to people yet, and the jtouch doesn’t have spell check, so be forgiving of all the typo’s and spelling errors!

I still need to get into the “about” section of Mommy Madness and get my links up in there.

In any case, it a rather hard to write more than a few lines on this thing, so I will sign off now, but I’ll be back soon with a real update – I’m actually at my in laws to celebrate my father in laws 69th birthday!!

I have three kids and a very active dog. It’s time for me to make a doctors appointment.

Four years ago when I had my tubal ligation, the doctors found a mass in my right fallopian tube. the mass was tested and came back benign. A year or so later I went to my OBGYN with complaints about my period – specifically, the amount of pain I was having.

The doctor told me that the pain was likely caused by adhesions – scar tissue from my tubal was attaching itself to my internal parts. My doctor told me that the process to fix this is very non-invasive, a very small incision through which a laser thingy is inserted and burns off the adhesions. At the time I felt that the pain was still bearable enough to say no to the surgery. I have never had good luck with recovering from surgeries!

But after yesterday and the day before, I am sure the time has come for a little bit of intervention. I was absolutely unable to do anything. I could not walk, I could not talk, the pain was that bad. The children were worried because I was on the couch shaking, close to vomiting from the pain. It took six extra strength Tylenol and eight migraine strength Advil to finally get the pain under control – It still hurt like an SOB, but at least I was able to move -and that only lasted for three hours, then I had to take more pills.

As soon as I stop bleeding – I’m not sure I have ever had a period this heavy in my life – including the bleeding after the children were born – I will be calling my doctor for an appointment!

On the day before we left to go camping, I started feeling lightheaded and hungry all the time. I decided that the zylene was at fault and chose to not bring them with me to the campsite. I have since started taking them again, and have not had a re occurance of my light headedness.

So far I have not seen a noticeable weight loss, but I am more than willing to give this time to work.

Tonight I will begin drafting posts to try and explain how much fin we had camping. Although you may have read about our trip on BPR, I will be talking about the more intimate parts of our trip on Mommy Madness.

I feel more comfortable here, letting the mommy side of me be seen, and thats a good thing, as that is what I am, A mother!

My sister is on Crack. There is no other explanation.

Here are some facts:

1. My sister has had multiple organ transplants and is on LOTS of drugs to keep her body from rejecting her latest organ.

2. My sister has had a stroke – a very bad one in the past. She was 20. It was unexpected and is still unexplained.

3. My sister has high blood pressure. Blood pressure that the doctors are unable to control with medications, she must monitor her BP six times daily and report to her doctors with the numbers to see if she needs to increase or decrease her daily medications.

4. My sister has a habit of finding losers on the internet to date. Her first internet BF came from over seas. He repeatedly beat and raped her, yet she dated him for three years.

5. She recently – within the last six weeks – dumped her last internet loser after finding out he has been cheating on her.

And the worst part?

6. She found a new internet loser. He lives in Texas. Sometime between January and March, my sister plans on flying down to Texas to meet him.

Do I have to go any further?

On the plus side, here are some of the reasons she may not be able to go.

1. The travel insurance she wants to get, blue cross, will deny her.

2. Due to all the pre-existing medical condition she has, most other travel insurance people will deny her as well.
**she may then, in all her wisdom, decided to go without travel insurance**

3. My sister is on welfare. Don’t judge, its disability welfare, she is honestly unable to work. After rent, she has almost 300 a month – to be spent on bills, food, personal items etc. It is unlikely that she will raise the funds in time.
**unless she decided to do us all proud and get back into dealing drugs**

I am absolutely terrified that she will be able to board the plane. If she does get to Texas, the likely hood that she will phone my father crying in the middle of the night needing money to fly home is 100%.

My dad cannot afford that. Not the money, and not the emotional stress this will cause.

Days like this, I really understand how a person can hate their sibling. For once in her life, I would really love for her to THINK THINGS THROUGH!

We gave Smokey – the dog – her very first ice cream cone the other day!

Stop- I KNOW dairy is not good for dogs, please no lectures, it was a teaspoon of ice cream in the bottom of a cone!

She was begging so cutely – she doesn’t whine or cry, she sits and pushes her head into your leg and looks up at you with her big ol’ doggy smile, and I could not resist. I made her the cone and held it out to her. She looked at me like I was insane!
“Can I take that?” she seemed to be asking so I pushed it directly against her nose. She opened her mouth, went to take the cone and stopped, again looking up at me like “Really lady? This is mine?”

I pushed it against her mouth again and told her to take it.

She did.

The next ten minutes were hilarious as she gingerly carried it to her bed, laid down and held it with her front paws and began to devour her cone – Like a HUMAN would!

First she licked out every bit of ice cream, and then she began taking the tiniest nibbles of the top of the cone, and then finally, FINALLY, she crunched down on the bottom.

She was in heaven, and we were in stitches laughing!

Today is the last day Hubs works before his vacation starts. This year, unfortunately, he only gets a week off. Normally they get two weeks. We are still not positive what the days are that we will be going camping, But we WILL be going.

I just hope that there are NO storms while we are there – we tent it!

The boys are over the moon, and hubs and I are just as happy! There are SEVERAL things around the house that need looking after, and now is the time to get it done.

becuase it is the long weekend, we will NOT be going camping until at least Tuesday, so we want to finish all this stuff up before then so we have the rest of the week to relax!

We need to get the patio done, the ground is finally dry!

We need to fix our bedroom window – the crank is broken so it will not firmly shut – a pain in the rear during all these storms!

We need to put in “lawn and garden” edging along the back fence, and get the landscape rocks in and spread.

And… I think that’s it!

Sunday night we had a nasty storm come through. it spawned three tornadoes that touched down and numerous funnel clouds. needless to say, I was scared out of my tree. Hubs was very confidant and seemed to actually be enjoying himself.

My eldest son was born in late October, and the summer after he was born, the very first thunderstorm we had I got scared. how do I protect this baby form mother nature herself?? Since that day, I have been terrified of storms. I love summer, but I dread the storms. I think about them during winter months, planning how we get out, where we hide during a tornado and what papers I would need to bring during an evacuation situation.

Sunday night I was literally shaking. I made many trips to the washroom becuase I feared that if there was anything in my bladder, I would pee at the next loud crack of thunder. At one point the hail was coming down so hard (it was two inches in diameter) on the skylight that I was hyperventilating. I would have been in tears, but I was too panicked to cry!

I wanted to run screaming out of the house! In the hail, thats how loud it was. I had taken my four year old out of his room on the upper levels, and put him to bed with his eldest brother in the basement becuase I was worried about how to get the dog and cat down when the time came to hide from the tornadoes they were warning us about.

And in the morning, when I went out to survey the damage, I cried. My beautiful apple trees were ruined. The leaves torn, the apples bruised.

It seems like we are having one storm a week with hail. I cannot remember a summer where we get more than one storm with hail, and in 2008? This is the sixth time!

I am So damn tired of storms.