Just a quick post on our costumes!! We worked so hard on them... well we had to work really hard on my hubby's which turned out amazing! Anyway here is my Medusa costume:
Note i'm wearing a cute pearl necklace my gf got me WHICH i will talk about in detail at a later date, perhaps... one day...
Then of course we will start with the youngest of our sweet boys and he was sporting his pumpkin costume (of course passed down from eldest, but might as well do it when they don't have the ability to say different lol!).
so bundled up he kept swimming on the floor instead of crawling.
And now the one the best kid costumes i have ever seen EVER! My eldest silliest little man. "Mr. potato [eldest]!" He says lol.
"CHEESE!!"
Now for the best costume idea i think ever created; spawned from an idea from the show "cougar town" that we love!
My hubby saw that episode and was like "THAT'S IT; THAT'S MY COSTUME!" and here it is !!
"I'm the windy guy man!"
Yes that is right he is "the Windy Guy," a few ppl mentioned how he was in their top three favourite costume all night! It was great and I used craft wire to string on those leaves to that horribly broken inside out umbrella. He used a coat hanger to make the tie fly backwards. I made sure it was big so you could see that cause his tie seemed hard to pick up when it was small.
If you want to know any details on any of the costumes (like where to buy the potato head costume which also includes MRS. potato head pieces let me know i'll link you up!) Tweet
So today was the big day. Everyone decided to come at the set time for the party to end. I was pretty pissed; still upset about the basic disregard for our schedule etc.. etc... I am just happy that eldest is too young to understand what exactly happened; especially when ppl where just horrifically and rudely late. But that's not what I came here to post about tonight. I wanted to share our day with you, I hope you enjoy the following photos.
our pumpkin cake!
Opening presents!
This year was just great in the respects that he was interested in opening his presents. Last year we had to open the majority of them for him as he would have on opened and became fixed upon that one and only toy. He showed amazing expressions of suprise and happiness I just loved it. He was even polite and would go and kiss and say "tank you" to everyone who EVENTUALLY came by.
Eldest sporting his Air Jordan track suite he got!
I hope you enjoyed the pics; I am not going to post up all the pictures as this post would probably never end. But at least you get a look into my super uber small house!
I wanted to to a tribute post to my little guy for bringing me so much joy in the last three years. My life has changed so much because of you and I am so thankful for that. You have taught me more about myself and who I want to be and you continue to make me want to be a better mother, a better person. I cherish you every moment that you are with me and I will cherish all the times you aren't in the future. You are an amazing big brother, with no jealousy whatsoever, you express nothing but love to everyone around you. You may be mischievous and rambunctious but i wouldn't have it any other way!
Here are some great memories of your time with me, so far. I love you eldest with all my heart and more.
My mom with eldest @ her place. about two weeks old. Only a few months before she passed away.
7 months old.
11 months old. (can barely see a difference in these two lol)
16months.
18 months on our camping trip.
20 months.
2 yrs! last years Halloween costume (not completely finished here) he was a caveman.
2 yrs 6 months!
today!
I hope you liked my little photo timeline of Lawrence ( I could have done it month to month but that would have been tedious to the max!)
On another note, for those of you who read my last post, you know how upset i was yesterday about my birthday and how i canceled my party. Luckily for me i have a couple good friends who are dedicated to taking me out tonight anyways. I am going. Only way i'm gonna cheer up is if i put myself out there and get myself out there to have some fun with the gals! pretty much none of us know each other, i know everyone but that's about it. So it will be new and exciting for everyone! I hope anyways. When i come home it will be decorating drunk time... maybe i dunno depends on the condition that i come home in lol.
I am not even sure what to say today. I canceled my party after ppl started to pull out like mad last minute. I hate that.. its like inviting your whole class to a party and one kid shows up and hes 20 minutes late. I dunno my hubby had to pull out due to ID issues with it getting renewed etc.. everything just started to fall threw. Maybe tomorrow I will go anyways with a couple girls but I am not sure yet. I felt so upset i just canceled it I was finished. Childish?? Perhaps but lets face it i'm an incredibly sensitive child i guess. Kinda jealous, I managed to pull off a party for my hubby in August and over 30 ppl showed up to say Happy Birthday ALL of which know me 15 are VERY close to me at least. Only a couple of those people can make it and two other girls one from west van and another from my old work. No one really knows each other, forcing conversation is tiresome especially when dissapointed. It's not like i got my hopes up a great bunch RSVP'd yes and then my hubby can't make it and BOOM. Gone.
I'm probably just silly, so be it. I actually cried today, like a seven year old at that party where no one came. Depressing.
Yet another Birthday celebration gone and done; yet again. Cursed birthday I swear. ANYWAYS my new focus is making sure this isn't a "month" curse and ensuring my sons birthday is great! Lucky me ALOT of our friends are attending that, so i guess i'll get my party anyways...
So excited for his party and now I have a crapper load more time to get everything done and i'm not freaking out about it as much.
In the mean time i'm trying to figure out how to add this code to my blog in our to make this a mobile site for and an offer/review partnership sort deal. You may have noticed their button at the side of the screen on the lower right hand side. Hoping to figure out what I am doing wrong if you have any experience please let me know in the meantime this is the link to my "mobile site."
In the meantime here's this gorgeous picture that I accepted today into the "Vancouver" group I am apart of on Deviant Art. It is just lovely and a photo from a landmark park in Vancouver.
So in preparation for my massive hangover the morning of my sons party i have already begun preparations for the party AS YOU KNOW from my past posts. Anyway, I have to update you on the continuation of this party planning WITH cute cookie making pictures and pumpkin carving!
As you can see my eldest just loved making cookies with daddy while i took photo after photo. Ironically he ends up yelling at me "mommy too many picture!" Which made me practically pee myself it was so funny.
We made the cookies yesterday and they are in the freezer waiting for icing etc which is what the kids will do at the party. I couldn't find any halloweenie sprinkles and plain orange seemed boring for kids so i have found a container of dinosaur ones lol. I thought the kids would like.. well mainly eldest will.
Today we decided to spend our before dinner time pumping out two pumpkins. Yes i will hopefully be buying a couple more, money seems to be WAY tighter than we wanted for the party but that happens, we adjust and move on. So here is our lovely pumpkin carving experience; which is great cause this was the first year eldest could really do anything to help us out, he did a great job and had a great time but he was too much of a clean freak to put his hand into the pumpkin like mommy. Apparently i'm the messy 3 yr old boy in the house cause i love how gooey and gross it is, its fun.
The bathing of the pumpkins!
Eldest hiding from pumpkin guts.
Eldest took it upon himself to collect all the pumpkin seeds. Which he couldn't stop eating.
Daddy carving our "scardy face" pumpkin as eldest says.
our finished pumpkins!
Eldest giving himself a pumpkin nose!
OoooOO
AAAHHH!!!! lol!
I hope you liked em!
I also wanted to mention on a side note about how exciting it is to receive e-mails of ppl approaching me about blog ideas or wanting partnerships. I am slowly getting there ppl isn't that thrilling??
Alright I wanted to just say that today i just haven't had the time to read many posts and i'm sorry for that. I will be starting fresh tomorrow and i am not going to stress over it.
*note: post has be personally written by ME and all opinions are mine [unless outlined otherwise], in no way should this replace the advice of your doctor; I just want to spread the word and bring awareness; not only to you my readers; but to myself.*
But on another note. I woke up this morning to find an e-mail requesting me to write a blog about osteoporosis, which ironically I have a very close connection to. My mother suffered from osteoporosis and currently my father apparently has advanced osteoporosis. Clearly I am high risk and I do believe that the word should be spread on how to care for yourself. Did you know that one in four Canadian women over 50 has osteoporosis!? That's really high and shocking, especially for me cause with my history i pretty much know that I will get osteoporosis EVENTUALLY; so i should be concerned; are you??
Are you at Risk??
This website has managed to give you an idea about whether or not you should be concerned about your later bone health. My mother wasn't a terribly old woman and you don't have to be even at risk to take some steps to the prevention of osteoporosis in your life. www.onthegowomen.ca has even compiled a few recipes to help in the prevention of osteoporosis and to extend your own bone health risk or not. Plus they look super yummy!!
Here's a little something from the website:
"Don't let osteoporosis slow you down
Are you concerned that osteoporosis could get in the way of the things you love — or need — to do? The good news is, you may be able to take action now to strengthen your bones. And if you’re already taking an osteoporosis treatment, you may have options you don't know about.
Could you be at risk for osteoporosis? Find out now at http://onthegowomen.ca"
I hope that this brought some attention to this subject and helped you figure out your bone health.
I have been thinking all day today about my life so far in its vast shortness. Not only do I have many regrets, embarrassments, accomplishments, joys, sorrows and big bunches of NOTHING. I have someone who i honestly never thought I would be. If i talked to a teenage me and told her that this is what your life is going to be at the tender age of twenty three I would have probably spat out a drink in her face laughing so hard. I never thought that I would roll over next to someone, let a lone have to drag myself from that bed each morning to care for two children who I ACTUALLY gave birth to. It's amazing to me, dumbfounding, and down right unexplainable. But here I am. A mother. A mother to two boys at that lol.
You want to know what I wanted to be doing at this age RIGHT NOW??! I wanted to have a loft somewhere rural, really deep into the city life. I wanted to travel the world and experience everything that was unnatural to me. Now?!! I hide from that sort of thing, isn't that sad?? It makes me sad. I wanted to be acting big shot small shot i didn't care i wanted to be on stage. I loved it. I bathed in it. Thinking about how amazing i felt when i did those things honestly brings tears to my eyes. Those times are so precious to me no matter how trivial they have have seemed. I miss it. Desperately.
Does thinking this make me a horrible person?? Horrible mother?? Its not that I am saying I have LESS than what i wanted its just DIFFERENT from what i wanted. I just seem to dwell and I would hate to push my lost "day-dreams" onto my kids. I would much rather instill a sense of YOU CAN DO ANYTHING! Cause you honestly can if you put the work into to and are willing to wait on the long scale. I guess i kinda just answered my question, my doubt. I just have to wait, just cause i didn't, doesn't mean i can't, right?
I hope so.
me at 18... *fox whistle* I have even hotter ones than this... but i digress.
me now... eeww... but i do have some nice pictures of current me!
see its alright :D
I wont even get started on said body issues at this point.
I am officially [insert drum-roll] the big 23.... OOOOoooOOO. I told you i was young ppl, don't doubt me for a second here lol. Anyway I am just popping in to do a little quick bunch of nothing at this point... its my birthday i can get away with that. Tomorrow I am hoping to write something meaningful... maybe a memory reel of my past b-days... not that i remember too many. The first b-day party i remember i was like 7 and i'm pretty sure all i remember was candy apples hidden in a bag, then whatever photos there are. But i'll save that for tomorrow when i have the attention span for it.
ever have one of these days??
Where you just can't think properly?? Where everything is slightly off and always dull feeling?? I feel like i have nothing terribly interesting to say and any good ideas I come up with I don't have the "motivation" to verbal diarrhea all over here. Even though technically i'm doing that right now... but i digress.
Today I went to the mall and my mother in law bought me a jacket. A lovely jacket; i am clearly in love with my nice black button and zipper down jacket with removable hood. But it sucks to say that I myself couldn't buy it. Is that horrible of me?? I mean i know wanting to be able to buy that myself isn't a horrible thing, but thinking that after receiving such a lovely gift that i so desperately needed? I have been stuck using jackets that no longer fit me, in the sense that they can't do up anymore; with my tits in the damn way. Either that or i am high-jacking my hubbies sweatshirts etc.. which is sloppy and diminishes his jacket supply. At some point I will be in the position to do more. In the mean time i am just gonna keep going, keep striving and doing the little I can for others who are even worse off than myself.
On another completely random side note. I want you all to check this show out.. TODAY!!! I love it, i'm a sci-fi-fantasy kinda geek but even my father in law likes this show and my hubby (though lucky me my hubby and I really meet on the same page on tv.)
Hello all nice to meet you. I have been trying to figure out a great way for all of you to get to know me. But i seem to be finding it hard for me to even get started. Whether it be a particular memory about something that i could turn into story form or whether its to share my views on something I just can't manage to get started or find the words.
I thought that a lovely idea would be for ALL OF YOU, to ask me something that you would want to know about me. You can post a view on something and ask my opinion, silly questions others wouldn't think of or what ever it may be! I would love for you to share and I would love to tell you all about it!! But to get the ball rolling just this once I figure i can share a tid bit of the OLD me.
Earlier today i found myself reading some of my old poetry in all its raunchiness! I was a young teen when i wrote the majority of these and thanks to the wonders of the internet they have been saved upon my deviant-art account. So I want to share one with you and I want you to tell me how it makes you feel, whether it be embarrassing, heartbreaking w/e IDC. I just want to know! I haven't written a poem in so long I want to connect to it again. On the level i did when i wrote these poems.
A long night of thoughtless drinking, A cigarette between my lips with smoke circles slowly dancing. Your dress sliding next to your curves the smoke twists around your blood red body. Last inches of smoke slide across you lips, lightly kissing. Your hat brim and cool darkness cloak your eyes. The candlelight glistening along your lipstick.
A long night of thoughtless drinking, A cigarette between my lips, My smooth white hand traces your cheek my tongue tastes your lips, bitter of lipstick. Tasting all of you, my hand feeling your thigh touching your heat as the flame flashes across our faces. Eyes are touching us, peeling us away. My hand stretching up along your waist caressing your breast of milky white flesh.
A long night of thoughtless drinking, A cigarette between my lips, Your soft white body lies intertwined with red satin, Just covering your beautiful hills and valleys, a cool breeze passes threw your body inviting. Kissing along your body. lightly licking you your ebony hair flies among my pillows.
A long night of thoughtless drinking, At the end with a cigarette between my lips.
I remember fixing your uniform the day you left, I was fixing your pins and buttons on the day you marched out our door. Waving I shut the door and could still feel the imprint of your kiss on my cheek. I could still smell your cologne throughout the house. Your clothes left, unmoved in our closet. Your work shirts fresh and pressed. The bed was still warm from the night before. A coffee mug abandoned on the side table, still alive and steaming. The smell of black coffee infests the room, as I lay myself on your side of our bed. A deafening silence fills the house, your footsteps not heard. No wind is blowing, no birds chirping. Only remorse.
It’s only been two months since you marched from my life. Your smell is drying away on the clothesline, Your gentle spirit floating beside me unnoticed. Our bed sheet clean and still holds your cigarette burn. Pinning up the pillowcases that your head once lay on. A dark figure covers me, a blanket of darkness. A man in uniform without your face or body is over top of me, looking down at me. In his arms is a flag, folded and pressed with your pins laying on top. Bowing he holds out the letter, poison. His face pain stricken I fall in silence, no tears, and no sounds as the envelope falls at my knees. I fell to pieces when I got that letter, a million thoughts smashing me to smithereens. I will never hold your hand again or feel your kisses on my cheek. I will never hold you close at night while you lay sleeping sound. My sheets will no longer hold your smell, and no new cigarette burns will appear. There was no goodbye, no last embrace.
I died the day I got that letter. You died six months ago and I cannot grieve. Your clothes are moth eaten and withering away, barely hanging on. Your coffee no longer there, only the ring on the table for a memory. Your wife still here a broken shell, never to mend. I died the day I got that letter, on the battlefield with you.
p.s. as some of you know my mother passed away from Lung Cancer and NO i don't smoke anymore.
ALSO i wrote BOTH these poems in 2004.... wow long time.... (well at least ALOT has happened and changed since then for me since I am such a youngin'.)
ITS THE MOMENT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!! The end result on my pumpkin loot bag idea!! Well after going back to my old work and stealing pudding. Here is how it all happened:
Us running threw the kitchen my old work area.
MMmmmmm stolen pudding.... *drool*
After eating our fill of pudding we decided to recruit yet another minion to my sons birthday bash crafting. We walked our way to the liquor store got a pack of four coolers and headed our way back to my place for some chaos! So here it is folks the tipsy step by step instructions lol!!
1) put contents in the middle of orange tissue paper and bunch together at the top.
2) use green floral tape to create the stem and DON'T FORGET THE LEAVES!! I did like three times, this is my gf putting on the ones i missed.. not to mention i forgot to take a photo of me actually wrapping the tape around but i figure you will figure it out.
3) The end result! The smaller ones are the goodie bags and those huge ones are going to but filler pumpkins for the party since it is pumpkin themed and I can't afford to buy a ton of pumpkins, cause we all know we can't high jack them from Safeway anymore *wink wink* lol.
But this isn't all we did folks!! in our tipsiness we managed to pump out a homemade banner for the party!!
Here's my gf sipping and doodling!
still at it!
end result!
OOoooOOo very nice
We had a great time and I got some stuff done; I hope that you all love it!
okay i know this is tedious as many of you have heard a crap load about my planning for this silly childs party that I have coming up. BUT I have to continue as i seem to lack any other fun interesting information. So here goes; today I think i have finally finished buying all decor supplies for the party, with the exception of the pumpkins which will be costly as my plans of a Safeway robbery are proving silly and are clearly rhetorical. ANYWAYS... I am literally doing everything pumpkins; I have ordered a pumpkin cake which will be amazing I am sure and can only hope anyways. I am pretty much bought every pumpkin decoration in any dollar store in order to really get the point across lol!. I will have pumpkins hanging from the ceiling, orange balloons that i'll draw faces onto just for kicks, gel pumpkins for the windows, pumpkin lights for one of my little windows or along the wall wherever it ends up. I found pumpkin straws, which is awesome! As well as these blank paper pumpkins the kids can decorate; and halloween themed colouring books which i plan to go threw and find all the best pumpkin related colour ins etc for the few kids coming out. I have officially decided to complete the pumpkin loot bags so I have gathered the orange tissue paper and green floral tape to pull it off so i'm very excited about that. I will even end up making other filler ones just to help cute back on the real pumpkin budget since I do already have two of em anyway. I don't really want to have more than 8 pumpkins since thats alot of carving to do! I was even thinking of asking everyone to bring a pumpkin to carve and we could make a party activity out of it for both the adults and kids.
Of course this all doesn't mean that I am done. I still have to assemble everything not to mention purchase the food which is going to be rough as it is!! I have also only just realized that I have to make a personal loot bag for a baby around my youngest age... what the heck do i put in a loot bag for a child that small??? Honestly. Under $5.00 cause well the thriftier the better! THEN I still have to go out and buy him a present; I have NO idea what to get him. We got his grandparents to go buy him an Alfie which i am excited about. I have to find out if they are going to be buying him the extra learning packages or not, cause i might just buy those for it so the presents go together kinda. I am tempted to go out and find him a BBQ set cause he loves to cook and watch daddy cook on the BBQ; or hes just trying to find an excuse to be outside lol.
Other than all that we are still anxiously waiting for his Mr. potato head costume to show up in the mail; should be hear around the 26th or so we think. I am just so excited to take Picasso like photos of him in his costume. I made sure to get him a reasonably big bag to carry around this year lol; of course he'll be emptying it out periodically into the stroller but I don't want to keep buying a new one every year so this one should be a good size until hes about 6 or so lol. I still have to convince my hubby to dress up into a costume this year; as i said last year was the last year he could get away without having at least a LITTLE bit of a costume. I'm trying to get him to get some nerdy fake glasses and a red bow-tie, I was gonna grab him some suspenders but the idea doesn't seem to be sitting very well with Mr. Too-Cool. I on the other hand have figured out my costume and it will be "Mommy- Medusa" I shall where my regular clothing, with done up make-up mask and toy snakes in my hair lol!! I thought it quite clever and less work than "Madame- Butterfly" or "Wind." So there you have it folks! THAT is how dull I am.
I will be updating with my step by step production of making the loot-bags! Hopefully it will be a Gong show so as to entertain you lol!
Alright from my last post I got a request for this recipe and I am more than happy to share it, even though its not really a recipe but i'll give you the step by step on what i do.
So for you Mama mia the recipes:
ROAST
Take yummy chunk of meat cut up a few garlic cloves and insert them into the roast in different areas.
Cover the outside in salt, pepper and rosemary, pour one regular mug full of hot water and two beef oxo packages into the roasting pan. DO NOT add veggies to the raosting pan otherwise you will not have sufficient supplies for your gravy later. Do veg separately.
put into oven at 350; baste regularly; and if you have it, add a chunk of sewit to the top of it for added moisture and yumminess
GRAVY
take two rounded tbsp of flour and about equal parts butter or margarine to a pot and mix together.
Take the juices from the bottom of the roasting pan to this and stir till incorporated; YES it will be thicker than you want it at this point.
In mug like before take another two beef oxo's with hot water and then add this to the mix in the pot and stir. Thickness at this point is up to you if you need it thinner add milk till its just right; if it too thin add a mixture of cornstarch and milk to it and it will thicken again within a couple minutes; add salt and pepper to taste and add the blood from carving the roast and you're done.
I can only hope that your roasts will end up similar to mine; like i said i don't really have a recipe i've just been making it since forever. I apparently have a really good talent for pumping out roast dinners; it would have to honestly be my signature dish at this point.
after 30 min in the oven... sorry i ate everything before realizing i needed "finished" pictures lol!!
