Oh how much fun are we going to have this summer.
{Note to self: Lock all dangerous materials and items away; knives, cleaners, medicine and markers!}
Friday, June 19, 2009
The first day of summer holidays...
...and this is what I find! It was not even 10am and I was on the phone with my printer when they come back being "kitties". Are they not cute?! Thankfully we only have Crayola in my house and there was no marker on my new carpet or walls!
Oh how much fun are we going to have this summer.
{Note to self: Lock all dangerous materials and items away; knives, cleaners, medicine and markers!}
Oh how much fun are we going to have this summer.
{Note to self: Lock all dangerous materials and items away; knives, cleaners, medicine and markers!}
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Modern Work at Home Mom
So today I experience one of the joys of being a work at home mom. I am talking to a potential client on my Blackberry. She has called me because she loves my work and is interested in some graphic design work and having a logo designed for her new business.
I am outside at the time, walking my neighbours daughter home. The kids were all out playing in the rain, it is 5pm, and my husband just got home. He took our kids in to get dried off, I took my neighbour home. My Blackberry rings in my pocket and I think it is him telling me I am taking to long. What can I say I love to chat with my neighbours! I am home all day with small kids, forgive me Hun if I relish in adult conversation. Is it him? No it is a potential client, she got my number from my lindsaybrewda.com website.
I come into the house and he realizes I am on with a client, so he doesn't give me a hard time for taking a while. My little girl comes to me, I follow her into the family room for a moment and kept talking. She is behind me for a few minutes, I can't see what she is doing and honestly I am not paying attention. I am on a business call after all, and my husband was right there in the kitchen. Well all of the sudden she comes up to me with a wipe in her hand and I take her hand, notice as I am talking that her hands are covered in brown. I do the check in my head...
1. Did she get chocolate? NO
2. Is it mud from outside? NO
3. ...
This has a smell... OMG it is poo! My daughter has poo all over her hands and no diaper on which means... I look around for poo, picturing it all over my area rug and couch. All the while I am still chatting it up on the phone. Biggest talent of being a work at home mom is not letting the person on the other line know that everything is crazy around me. Heck I bribe my kids with treats if they will behave for important phone calls!
Well as I now know that there is poo on my hands, there is a little girl with poo on her hands, there is a diaper sitting on the floor with poo in it and I can't imagine what her butt looks like I give in. I tell the wonderful woman on the other end of my Blackberry that I am up to my elbows in poo and I really have to run. She laughs and tells me she has been playing with her baby trying to keep her quiet while talking to me, and totally understands! She offers right away to let me go and call her back. I know at this moment that I can't get a pen because if I did there would then not only be poo on my hands, my daughters hands, my floor, her butt, it would also be on my pen. I ask if I can call her back on the number she called me on, it showed up on my display. She said sure, I could call or email her back. I giggle and say thanks and I will get back to her as soon as I can. My husband takes and hangs up the call and I deal with the poop.
I have now had a couple of occasions with my sweet little girl and poop. You see, she is miss independent and she was trying to change her own bum. She probably realized that Mommy was on the phone and that Daddy doesn't like poop {thank god he does puke!} so the best option was for her to take care of it herself. Gotta give her credit for her go get em attitude. My son never did this to me, thankfully. So it is all new.
Oh the joys of being a modern work at home mom, talking business on my Blackberry while up to my elbows in poop!!!
I feel like a blog post in my new favorite book - The BlackBerry Diaries: Adventures in Modern Motherhood, by Kathy Buckworth
I am outside at the time, walking my neighbours daughter home. The kids were all out playing in the rain, it is 5pm, and my husband just got home. He took our kids in to get dried off, I took my neighbour home. My Blackberry rings in my pocket and I think it is him telling me I am taking to long. What can I say I love to chat with my neighbours! I am home all day with small kids, forgive me Hun if I relish in adult conversation. Is it him? No it is a potential client, she got my number from my lindsaybrewda.com website.
I come into the house and he realizes I am on with a client, so he doesn't give me a hard time for taking a while. My little girl comes to me, I follow her into the family room for a moment and kept talking. She is behind me for a few minutes, I can't see what she is doing and honestly I am not paying attention. I am on a business call after all, and my husband was right there in the kitchen. Well all of the sudden she comes up to me with a wipe in her hand and I take her hand, notice as I am talking that her hands are covered in brown. I do the check in my head...
1. Did she get chocolate? NO
2. Is it mud from outside? NO
3. ...
This has a smell... OMG it is poo! My daughter has poo all over her hands and no diaper on which means... I look around for poo, picturing it all over my area rug and couch. All the while I am still chatting it up on the phone. Biggest talent of being a work at home mom is not letting the person on the other line know that everything is crazy around me. Heck I bribe my kids with treats if they will behave for important phone calls!
Well as I now know that there is poo on my hands, there is a little girl with poo on her hands, there is a diaper sitting on the floor with poo in it and I can't imagine what her butt looks like I give in. I tell the wonderful woman on the other end of my Blackberry that I am up to my elbows in poo and I really have to run. She laughs and tells me she has been playing with her baby trying to keep her quiet while talking to me, and totally understands! She offers right away to let me go and call her back. I know at this moment that I can't get a pen because if I did there would then not only be poo on my hands, my daughters hands, my floor, her butt, it would also be on my pen. I ask if I can call her back on the number she called me on, it showed up on my display. She said sure, I could call or email her back. I giggle and say thanks and I will get back to her as soon as I can. My husband takes and hangs up the call and I deal with the poop.
I have now had a couple of occasions with my sweet little girl and poop. You see, she is miss independent and she was trying to change her own bum. She probably realized that Mommy was on the phone and that Daddy doesn't like poop {thank god he does puke!} so the best option was for her to take care of it herself. Gotta give her credit for her go get em attitude. My son never did this to me, thankfully. So it is all new.
Oh the joys of being a modern work at home mom, talking business on my Blackberry while up to my elbows in poop!!!
I feel like a blog post in my new favorite book - The BlackBerry Diaries: Adventures in Modern Motherhood, by Kathy Buckworth
Monday, June 8, 2009
Going on a road trip!
Bright and early tomorrow morning my husband and I are hoping in his flashy red sports car and hitting the road. We are going on a road trip, without our kids! We are going to do a little shopping (for those of you Canadians who love shopping in the US you know what I mean) and my main place to stop is Target. Yes some might think that is nuts, but we don't have Target in Canada and there are so many items that I hear all about through my wonderfully great American friends and wish I could buy. So I have my list here and all ready for my shopping trip to Target!
This is the first trip without kids, ever! Yes it is just an overnight, but still it is 2 days with no kids. It is 11 hours total in the car without kids! It will be quiet (well besides the concert), there will be no fighting (unless the hubby bothers me) and I will be able to sleep in (ask me on Thursday if I was up by 8am). Oh my small small world!!
Well we are excited! Why are we embarking on this adventure? Eddie Vedder is why. For those of you that don't know who he is, you needed to pay more attention to the grunge scene in the 90's, okay just joking! Eddie is the lead singer of Pearl Jam. He did a great soundtrack to an amazing movie "Into the Wild" and did a solo tour last year. We saw him in Toronto last August and it was amazing, a real intimate show with amazing music. That man can do amazing things by himself, I can't wait to see Pearl Jam in TO in August. I have been a fan since the beginning, but it is my husband who has really pushed the music back on us. The entire family loves it, really my 2 and 4 year old rock out and know the words to most of their music. Well he decided to do a couple more shows before the band sets out on their tour so we jumped at the chance to see him again.
Well enough about the music, I better get my butt off this computer and pack, I am leaving in 8 hours and I still need to sleep! I am so excited I am not sure if I will be able to sleep. Does that make me sound like a bad parent? I will miss my kids, honestly I will. Well maybe only for a minute!! Okay ask me how much my hubby and I talked about them while we were going. We both are so looking forward to getting away but I am sure we will miss them dearly.
This is the first trip without kids, ever! Yes it is just an overnight, but still it is 2 days with no kids. It is 11 hours total in the car without kids! It will be quiet (well besides the concert), there will be no fighting (unless the hubby bothers me) and I will be able to sleep in (ask me on Thursday if I was up by 8am). Oh my small small world!!
Well we are excited! Why are we embarking on this adventure? Eddie Vedder is why. For those of you that don't know who he is, you needed to pay more attention to the grunge scene in the 90's, okay just joking! Eddie is the lead singer of Pearl Jam. He did a great soundtrack to an amazing movie "Into the Wild" and did a solo tour last year. We saw him in Toronto last August and it was amazing, a real intimate show with amazing music. That man can do amazing things by himself, I can't wait to see Pearl Jam in TO in August. I have been a fan since the beginning, but it is my husband who has really pushed the music back on us. The entire family loves it, really my 2 and 4 year old rock out and know the words to most of their music. Well he decided to do a couple more shows before the band sets out on their tour so we jumped at the chance to see him again.
Well enough about the music, I better get my butt off this computer and pack, I am leaving in 8 hours and I still need to sleep! I am so excited I am not sure if I will be able to sleep. Does that make me sound like a bad parent? I will miss my kids, honestly I will. Well maybe only for a minute!! Okay ask me how much my hubby and I talked about them while we were going. We both are so looking forward to getting away but I am sure we will miss them dearly.
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