Sleepless in Perkins

Well, it's 3:15AM and I just can't sleep; that 2nd coffee yesterday morning really did me in. So I figured it was a good time to catch up.
So, last week, I was in the middle of the Obama action...well, not up close but I work across the street from the Parliament so our streets were closed, cops were going through the garbage cans outside our building when I came in to work, we were picking snipers off the rooftops, helicopters with snipers hanging out were flying by our windows, and I was stranded downtown trying to get home since all the streets were closed and no buses went through. You know, all of the glamorous stuff which comes with such a distinguished visitor. I didn't go up to try to see him when he arrived...saw him waving up close on TV though.

Today, I found out I'm finally moving up in the world. I will now be spending 1 day a week working for Paul, my former boss (who has himself moved up), helping him with National Telecom. He's in charge of all Telecommunications for Deloitte Canada, all by his lonesome, and now I get to help with phone system implementations!! Woohoo!! This is the stuff I like, the planning, organizing, learning....After 10 years, updating distribution lists and paying bills is getting old. Of course I still have to do that but I now also have exciting things to do. Hopefully, this will lead to more interesting stuff.

And more exciting news...my cousin Renée is going to be published!!! She will have a layout (or maybe 2) in Canadian Scrapbooker! I'm so excited and proud of her! Way to go girl!! Just remember who taught you everything you know ;-) Just kidding, you're teaching me stuff! Which made me realise, that aside from riding on my mother's coattails, and having my layouts stolen, I've never been published in my own rights. Of course I haven't submitted anything so it's not surprising...but maybe I should start thinking about it.

Kids are good. Alex is now writing her name, and writes it everywhere. She now wants to let her hair grow, but we had to have her bangs trimmed and her hair styled so it would grow properly. She's pretty cute, but she sometimes reminds me of that character, don't remember the name, it think it was Lilly Tomlin playing it. She was a kid sitting in a big rocking chair, square haircut... She looks so "déplaisante"!
Dominic has a couple of molars coming out so is in a bit of pain. Funny story, he's been asking to put ice on his cheek because it hurts, so I put ice in a Ziplock, in a towel and he rests it on his cheek. Well the night before he fell asleep holding it to his cheek. At around 11 when I went to bed I checked up on him and all the ice was melted, so I took it away. He turned around in his sleep, said "It still hurts", grabbed a small stuffed dog in his bed and held it too his cheek like he did the ice. It was so cute and funny! He slept like that for a while. Pauvre Pitou!
We will be having guests in the next few days...my parents will be here Wednesday for the weekend, and on Sunday will be taking the kids back to NB with them for March break. That makes everyone so happy :-) It will be fun for them to ski with Pépére, Félix-Adam and Marie-Kristine.
So, I wish I could say I'm getting really sleepy but I'm not really; I'll just be paying for it royally later today!

Well, I wanted to leave you with a few pictures, but unfortunatly, I haven't been taking any! Really gotta get to it. So here is Alex, a little while back in her little bed she had for a few days to watch TV.

And here is Dominic on his 6th Birthday...yup, really have to get on this photo thing...

A dream come true!

Today, a long time dream came true...I skied with my family! It was so much fun! Everyone is independant and everyone can go fast enough. And here are photos to prove it.





That's Anne Corno, a friend who gave Gilles his lessons.

Sick weekend

Well, just as expected, Dominic and I were sick all weekend. Dominic more than I, he had a fever and really didn't feel well. I had a migraine at one point but it was mostly uncomfortable. Dominic and I didn't go skiing on Saturday, Gilles took Alex to her lesson. Apparently she can now do her turns and stop. Can't wait to ski with my 2 kiddies again! I'm so excited!
Valentine's day wasn't too exciting. We gave the kids their gifts in the morning; teddy bears and 1 treat. They were quite happy. We were supposed to do fondue but I was too weak to get it ready so we had lasagna (yes, frozen), and I told Gilles he would probably have to spend Valentines night alone since I had a migraine, but I got up around 8 and was able to watch a movie with him and give him his little present. Turned out not too bad.



On Sunday I took Alex to Juliette's birthday party. McDonald's then her home for cake and gifts. They had lots of fun. Dominic had to stay home because he was too sick, but I brought him some McD's when we got back. We had our fondue for dinner then I went to bed at 8:30!!

Today, I went shopping!! Wasn't in the plan but I had to go to work to fix a booboo I did so I stopped in for a few sales. I had forgotten to get snowsuits for the kids at the Clement sale where I usually go in January, so I stopped in. There was nothing left for Alex but got a really cool ski jacket for Dominic and 2 for 1 t-shirts and pants for Alex. Stopped in at Sports Experts and got the COOLEST 1-piece ski suit for Alex! Everything at 50%!! They will fit perfectly next year and the kids love them! Woohoo! On big thing done!!
So, I'm now going to fold a big pile of laundry and then go to bed...gotta work tomorrow...already??!!

4-day weekend!!

Woohoo!!! 4 days off!! But since yesterday, I'm all stuffed up and my sinuses hurt...yuck! But, Trish is coming to scrap all day tomorrow...now THAT's a treat!! I never see her!
So tonight I did the valentines thing with the kids. For Alex's daycare and Dominic's class...just a couple of chocolate hearts each and a valentine. But 1 hour later, it was time to put them to bed. Evenings fly by so fast!
I've been wanting to take more photos to put up here...I guess I just have to be more organized. At least I take a minute to write something most days; even if I can't find much to say past 8 at night...my mind is already numb. So I think I'll go up, watch TV with Gilles and have a drink. I'll try and do better on the weekend....the lllooooonnnnnnggggg weekend that is :-)

Busy Busy

Well, it's the fast life again! Last night I had a Stampin Up club, we had a good time. Can't wait for our scrap weekend in April!!
Now, I'm finishing up a few things on the computer and Alex is beside me stamping gifts for people. She's really good at cleaning and putting my stamps away. She knows the rules... Dominic is playing on Gilles' computer and complaining that it's too slow...imagine! He's 6!
So my parents want to have the kids during March break...works for me. We started talking about a vacation while they were gone, we went through a bunch of options, then we ended up deciding to stay home, give ourselves a budget, and do all kinds of activities here. That way, we'll be more rested and will probably spend less money. I really want to go to Disney World with the kids as soon as Gilles gets a job!
I took tomorrow afternoon off work. I have to take Eddie shaved at 1 so It's not worth driving all that way back and forth, so I'm not going back to work. Woohoo! I have a bunch of overtime I'm keeping to take time off so I'll be using that. Turns out, I still have 4.5 weeks off till the end of August.
Ok, it's bath time for the babies!!

Sweet Sunday

My baby is skiing!! She went down the big hill by herself yesterday. She is so cute!! I actually went down the hill with my 2 kids. Alex wouldn't let me go ski in front of her, she kept saying she wanted to do it on her own. And she did! Gilles also took a lesson and he went down. He liked it but he was sore after. Of course, skiing at our age is not easy ;-)
Today Alex went to play with Juliette, Dominic and Katianna went to play with Antoine and Jasmine; which left me...Home Alone!! I finished 2 sb pages. I did most of what I had planned but not all. But I'm ok with that, I got those pages out of my system. Tonight I will fold all the laudry I did and take it easy I think.

Nothing much

A quiet Friday really; nap in the morning, puttering around in the afternoon, added my sb pages to my blog, finished up a page... Turns out no one came to scrap Friday last night. That's ok, I finished a few things downstairs, sorted my chipboard letters to put them in little drawers, etc. I guess this is how I like my Fridays...really quiet. I get to do what I want, when I want. No one to tell me what to do, what they need, when to do it, etc. Doing what I want, when I want is my greatest luxury as a mom. I mostly did that yesterday.

Today we are going skiing. Alex has her course this morning, Dominic and I will ski and I think Gilles will finally take a lesson and try it out. I can't wait till we can all ski together. It's supposed to rain today but I don't think it will before noon so we'll be done by then.
Chantal and her kids are supposed to come over this afternoon. Moms will scrap and kids will play. Should be fun.
Maybe I'll have more to say later but this is all I can come up with this morning.

Finally! A day at work.

So I finally got a full day's work in today. Alex is still stuffed up a bit and complains of an ear ache once in a while but she is much better.
The weekend is here!! Even though I only worked 1 full day this week, I'm exhausted. I can't wait to take it easy tomorrow. I don't want to go out, just stay in and scrap.
Dominic is going tubing with his daycare tomorrow since school is closed tomorrow and Monday. He should have lots of fun. Hopefully it won't be as cold as today...it's not supposed to be.
Well, I really don't have much to say...I just want to go to bed and finish my book. I'm reading Full Moon, or is it Eclips...from the Twilight series. Anyways, it's the 3rd and I'm almost done! I would never have believed I would go nuts over a vampire story! Even worse, a teenage vampire story. You get so sucked in you really believe they exist and it's real! So off I go....

Quickie

Well, it's really late and I'm really tired but I really don't want to start making excuses and give up on this...So here's a quickie for you.
Lise (Alex's babysitter) called last and and said she was closing today (personal reasons). Gilles had to be at a client's all day so, AGAIN I had to stay home with Alex. So I decided to take her to work with me and do at least a few things that needed to get done. Turns out we stayed all morning. She loved it. She colored; I set up a little desk for her in my office. She watched Mamma Mia on a computer (I had brought the movie and her earphones). After that she listened to her MP3 player and danced and sang around my office. She didn't want to leave!
Then we had lunch with Gilles and went to a few stores to run errands. We pick up Dominic and went home, it was almost 5!
We're all kind of getting sick of Mamma Mia (house, car, work...) so I decided to make a switcheroo on them...I introduced the to GREASE!!! They LOVED it! Alex got mad that I sang every song though...I just couldn't stop myself. So maybe we'll get a bit of a break for now...I guess I'll have to go get High School Musical when we get sick of Grease :-)
Off to bed and my vampire stories now...good night.

Another day...another fever

Alex is still home. She's a bit better this morning but it may be the Motrin I gave her a few hours ago. We'll see. I'm staying with her this morning and Gilles will be with her after lunch.
I'm going out to dinner with Margie and Marie-Andrée tonight since Margie's in town. I see them so rarely it will be an event!
Not much more to tell today, day hasn't even started yet! It's a bright and sunny day and not very cold; it's supposed to be like that all week. What a nice change! Hopefully it will improve my mood. I've been down lately and I'm not sure why; maybe overwhelmed by all I have to do, sick and tired of the same old dishes, laundry, pick up after the kids (imagine if I didn't have a cleaning lady!!). I know, it's everyone's life, but it's getting to me lately. Could be weather, everyone's sick, Gilles not finding a job yet, etc etc etc. Maybe I'll have 2 drinks with the girls tonight!! ;-)

Monday...

Well, Alex is pretty sick. High fever, ear ache. She's had a cold for over a week but it hadn't bothered her until last night. I laid on the couch with her for a couple of hours tonight and watched Mama Mia....again. Motrin helps her but you can tell when the effect disapears. She stayed home today, and may have to tomorrow again. Poor her, she just wants to play with her friends.

Warning, Sunglasses required

OK, I know this is really bright, but it's Alex's favorite background so I'll give it a week...Promise!!

Snow much fun!

So we went out sledding today. We built a really cool slide by the house and the kids had a blast as you can see.