With School brings busy days

Wow I can't believe the summer is almost over and Little Austin is gonna start school.  A new school too, which is scary and exciting.  I have a PAC meeting next week and with that brings a lot of responsibility for me.  I am excited and scared all in one cause I am taking on a secretary position and I think I will be ok with it.  I really hope to meet new moms like I did at Eagle View, I really need a friend support system in my life.  Seems funny but I really need friends in my life.  I always hope I can find the kind of friendship that I have with my Best Friend in Edmonton but that is hard to come by.   If only my friend could live here in Victoria then I would be set.  I am thinking that Austin will be fine making friends but he has talked about his old friends more now that summer is ending.  He does have our neighbor friend that he spends lots of time with so that has been helping him.  So I have been part of an e-mail group called fly lady and it helps you keep organized and clean.  I love it and it is making the stress of the house and Day care to a minimum.  I am so excited to get back into a school routine and have my fly lady routine. I think this is going to be a good year.  Right now I am in the middle of trying to get my Epicure business name out there.  My goal is to be able to stop having a Day home by next September.  Have a daytime job while the kids are in school and have my epicure business.  

Wanting meaning to my life

So I haev been really emotional lately with life.  Not that my life is bad in anyway I just feel like I have yet to do something big with my life.  I know I have a daycare and I am a Epicure consultant but that just doesn't feel like enough for me.  I have always just wanted to write a children's book.  I just cant seem to figure out how and where to start.  I ready 2 books every night to my kids and the more and more I read the more and more I wish I could just but pen to paper and write a book.  I really don't know how people do it.  I am like that with Painting as well.  I love to paint I just have a hard time starting.  I am trying this new on line thing called fly lady and FLY stands for  Finally loving yourself.

(taken from Wikipedia)  FlyLady is a support and self-help group that offers advice to help people with housekeeping , founded by "The FlyLady", Marla Cilley. ^[1]

The group is based upon the website FlyLady.net, as well as a Federated Media's BigTent group for its email mailing list.^[2] Many members of FlyLady have stated that the group has helped them and has changed their lives.^[3] [4]

FlyLady's messages cover topics include clutter, the value of routines, weekly and monthly cleaning, increased self-esteem, and letting go ofperfectionism. As of 2010, she has over 550,000 members on her email list. ^[5]A store on her website sells organizational tools and housewares, sent from the FlyLady Distribution Center in Brevard, NC. In 2007, sales from the store reached US$3 million. ^[6]

http://www.flylady.net/

So far so good, but we will give it a week and see what happens.  I used to belong to this group when I fish had Faith in High River but when I moved into my Mother in laws before I moved to Victoria I just stopped it and remembered about it over the weekend and signed myself back up. 

I like my friend Shoka (think that's how you spell it)  am up over my head with consignment stuff.  I am also at it all weekend for a total of 8 hours.  Don't get paid for it but I do get to keep a higher % of what I sell. so it will be worth it and I love doing stuff like that.  Also a good way to meet other people in Victoria.  

Geo Cache

So me and my family have been doing Geo Caching and we absolutely love it.  Well Austin and I absolutely love it and Roy and Faith tag along cause I say so LOL.  I think it is great family activity and outside time.  Austin and I can spend hours riding our bike.  Driving from Cache to cache and walking of course.   The other day we found 4 and we wanted to keep on going but bed time was just around the corner.  I recommended it anybody who just loves taking a stroll.  It is pretty inexpensive Hobby.  You need your I phone app (or GPS) that's it and its hours of fun.  Austin and I have decided that we are gonna make our own Geo Cache on our street.  We have come up with a cleaver name as well.  "Normandy is the troll under the bridge".  We live on Normandy and there is a bridge int he park and we plan on putting it just beside the bridge. Cleaver right :)   I can only image how funny Austin and I look, we are supposed to not let muggles (as they say) see us but the other day on one of the Bus Stop series there was a Geo Cache up really high on the poll and the only way we could reach it was to have Austin sitting on my head for suppose while he climbed the poll.  Good times hehe. I absolutely love my geo caching time with Austin.  I hope we have this time together for years and years to come.

                                          Faith enjoys Geocaching when she finds the treasure :)

  

Here is one of the GeoCaches we found.  We needed to take pictures to show proof to Austin that we found it.  He was at the bike park close by.

Breath

So I fell like I can breath.  Things just seem to be going into place.  I have five hundred things to do and cause of summer it seems to be dying down.  So I think this is my time to get really organized and ready for Sept 2011.  Once that is done I need to focus on my Epicure (which I love) and start painting.  I have myself a brand new desk which is making my head less cluttered.  I am finally after about a year of taking my medication noticing that it is working.  I fell so much better about my everyday life.

Gonna be getting our kitchen redone in a couple of weeks and I am so excited.  The family and I will be spending our time in Kelvin at my cousins house and my sister and her family will be there so I am super excited.

So far the summer has been great.  Faith started Dino Camp on Monday and Austin starts Swim Camp next Monday and Faith is enjoying herself.  It was hard to see here go to camp with out looking back and to tell me when she was done that "she didn't miss me and that next time I need to stay home longer"  :) Oh my I have a feeling she is gonna be a really hard teenager to deal with.  We are probably gonna butt heads cause we are so alike.

Well I guess I will try and post more, as I always say but as soon as this organization business is done I can really get into my blog and hopefully post some pictures of my paintings, but only time will tell.

End of a chapter

I can not believe that it is the last Friday before school is over. Next year is a new school and I am scared. I really hate making new friends. I have a brunch on Sunday with the current mommy's of Eagle View. They are setting it up to say bye to me :( Austin is getting picked on yet again do summer and a new school is gonna be good. I am excited for summer. The kids have camp. Faith has Dino Camp and Austin has swim camp. So super excited about that. Then off to Kelowna for a week and then home to a brand new kitchen and upgraded bathroom. Lets not forget another week off :). So yeah this is going to be a good thing but sad to say good bye.

Things are coming to an end

We had a pretty good week this week, so far.  Dinner at my house where we had a wonderful dinner on The charcoal BBQ.  Seafood for our starter.  Mussels, Shrimp and salmon.  then  for dinner we had Asparagus steak and Potato wedges.  So yummo and it was with my sister and Family and Mom, so it was good company.

the Hockey game was on Monday so I decided to get into the spirit of the game (even thought i absolutely hate sport watching and how crazy people get about losing and the game) I mad a dessert called "Stanley Fruit Pudding cups."  it took a lot of thinking on Austin and I's part to come up with the name.   I normally hate Pudding but Epicure makes the best Pudding.  I actually liked it and ate it all up.  and of course the kids did today.  Today I made Stanley Fruit Jello cups, so hopefully Vancouver wins.  Austin told me this morning that "he felt sorry for the Canucks"  i asked him why and he said "Because Boston is gonna win, I am psycho dont you know"    He is so cute.  I do think Boston is gonna win the cup too but I want Vancouver to win.  I just have the gut feeling.  

 So yesterday was Austin's last Day of Gymnastic's and he passed Level One  :)

 He has decided that after he received his Ribbon that he has to go back to get Level Two.  he wasn't planning on returning but he wants to now.  Which is awesome.  I was hoping he would decide that.  I watched him after he got his ribbon and you could just tell he was so proud of it, it made my heart melt.  He is such a great little man.

Faithie's last day of Gymnastics is Sunday so I will have to post some pictures.

So as you can tell great week so far.  Tomorrow I have appreciation tea at the school, early pick up of the day care kids (BONUS).  Friday I got called into work (Boo)  so I have to miss the morning of EVE beach Day but the afternoon will be spent at Gyro Beach.  

Keeping up with life

So yes it has been so long since I have written a blog but wow I have been so busy it is crazy.  I have so much on my plate right now but like I have said before I kinda like it.  i am so used to not having friends and not doing anything outside of the house that the more stuff I have to do the better.  I get bored really easy and then It makes me depressed cause I have no one that is close to me that I can just say hey lets talk.

 Like for instance my husband is gonna get a ass kicking if he doesn't start living up to his promise. Before we moved here I was a full time just stay at home mom.  I had no job  and all I did was play with my kids and clean and cook and My hubby didn't have to do anything.  I way I say it was he worked so it was only far that I took care of the house and kids.  I liked it, i didn't mind doing it.  Then he desired he has had enough of Calgary and off to Victoria we go.  Moving yet again.  I told him no the last time we were in Victoria we were buying diapers with pop bottle money and I was not going to allow my children to live like that again.  He promised me that it would be different, and it has been for sure.  He said you can start a Day home and still be home with the kids and he would take on 50% of the life responsibility's.

 So on Sundays i take Faith to gymnastics, I do the grocery shopping for the week.  I clean the house for the start of the week.  I make sure there are crafts and stuff for the day care kids, make lunch for Austin.  Monday Austin has beavers, Tuesday Gymnastics for Austin Wednesday I usually have a PAC Meeting I clean the house daily for Daycare.  I take car of 5 kids just so we all know.  I cook the dinners I make the lunches, I help with the home work.  I take the kids to parks and Play groups and birthday party's I started an Epicure business to make extra money and I am in the middle of trying to do consignment sale to make extra money with stuff that is just sitting in boxes.  I made a cook book this year with Austin's school.

 So the reason for this rant is because I have asked and asked for help.  and nope nothing.  I asked him last week to please call Kia about the leak in the car.  I dont know the first thing about cars so when they ask questions like where is the leaking coming from all I can say to the guy is the bottom of the car.  One freaken thing I ask him to do and he says to me yesterday.  Well why cant you do it.  You think I have anytime to do that.  or Marlena why dont you work out more, you are always saying that you are so out of shape why dont you go for a run on the tread mill or take a swimming class.  (I thought swimming class was a great Idea, just gotta figure out when I can do it).

So anyways needless to say he is mad at me for being so cranky and he doesn't know why I am being so cranky.  and I am pissed that he doesn't know why I am mad.  It pisses me off more that he thinks that my day is so much easier and I should find time to do everything.  I take care of all the money and the schedule, he doesn't even know when my birthday is most days.  So that is my rant.  OMG things need to change or I will loss it.  I think I wanna pretend to have a nervous breakdown just so I can go stay in a hospital and relax and have people feed me hahahaha.  On another note, does anybody know if this blogging site has an ap for the Iphone.  I would like to read blogs and write my blogs on my Iphone.