okay i don’t mean to sound cynical that is just cruel. i love my kids but man they are starting to drive me crazy……Being city kids they tend to stick to me like glue. And I mean the super glue kinda sticky. They are totally not independent and free spirited kids. They look to me for everything and sometime that can drive me totally insane.

I can’t believe it’s been since March that I have posted on here. I hardly play my farm ville and face book is like What so yesterday atm to me!!!! So let me tell you about our joyous summer break so far. Well we have gone to the local pool about a half dozen times…which is nice. I love to swim, but when I have to watch three kids under 8 all at once it can turn out to become a big chore rather then enjoyable. Sorry  I’m just saying, I mean i enjoy seeing the smiles on my kids faces and the excitement and the, “oh lets play tag games” which i gladly participate in, but when my 4 yr old won’t stop splashing me in the face and thinks it a big ol joke cuz my contacts are gonna fall out of my eyeballs . Well you get the idea. Then we have been doing the library reading program for the summer ,sponsored by td bank. www.tdreadingclub.com/ You get stickers and have to do book reports and when you read nine books, you get a ballot that they put in for a prize basket… It was going good for the first few stickers but boys being boys they kinds found the novelty wore off quite quickly. So I just found having then grab the books they wanted and spending as little time in the library as possible makes for a much more enjoyable experience… When we stay ther to long they go tearing throw the iles of the books playing tag and it usually ends in either me screaming and having peoples heads turn. Or someone else telling them to stop….Or then they are like asking to go on the computers one after another and I always tell them we are hre to read and pick up books not to paly on the computer you can do that at home,… which they do quite well mind you….

Anyway We went to Center Island for the Indian festival which they complained about. www.festivalofindia.ca/ We got a free meal and everything yet they still complained about it while chowing down. We swam in the un- chlorinated fountain across the bridge with God only knows what living organism along side them. I swear they know kids go in those pools of water that look so stagnant why don’t they just chlorinate them??? but they had a great time. Mind you both of my younger kids have bouts of diarrhea after words like i said chlorine is our friend people >-<

So on to our next adventure another day  I have written to much today and if I keep it up I will have one hell of a post and nothing to say for the next few weeks, which wont help with my traffic. (much love … hope  you all are having a great summer and write a comment on how your summer is going too!!!!)

Yes i have been doing other things this past few weeks not to mention that when I am not sitting on my behind, my leg, knee and ASS feel so much better. Must be some kind of nerve problem. But trying to keep off here as much as possible! And not to mention also that my kids take up most of the time on here. I can’t play any games on facebook because to tell you the truth for some reason the computer is so slow and lagging. So yes Christmas is around the corner and I guess this year has seemed the least stressful, but the kids are all out of school now and that is adding up day by day. Ask me in about a week if I want them out of my hair and I will defin say Hell Yah!!!

So thing to do here in this big ugly city. The community center only has paid programs which I can’t afford , and the skating is all taken up by 50+ age group , there is not enough snow to go and enjoy sledding and I dare not take my Clan into the malls because they will probably break or destroy something! So I am stuck inside and around the area with not much to do . You would think I could figure something out and be creative but most of the crafts have been done at school . and not to much into baking atm because I don’t have all the ingredients. My sister has been doing a wonderful job of keeping up with the Christmas crunch I did enter my idea in to her crafty section but not to many other followed. so she was stuck having to find 25 things to craft and talk about . And she has done well I almost got inspired to make the felt holly pendant I saw today. But now I have not a stitch of material to work with let alone the glue gun!!

Went to Metro the other day and the kids got their dad his Christmas present. We decided to do a selection of Hot Sauce which he is into. Some old favorites and some new and interesting bottles. He will get a kick out of that literally

Had our Christmas party in the building and its was seriously so disorganized. This building is so not into the Child friendly kind of party I mean come on now You don’t play Calypso Music at a Christmas party unless it resembles something close to Feliz navidad but that is just my opinion. I think the building just came to eat and no one was really interested in enjoying the Christmas spirit. The kids make the most of it and I had to suggest some coloring pages because no one thought of what the kids were going to do all night go figure. again did I say this building is not kid friendly… Ray was the Santa and he did a wonderful job but the Santa suit they had for him was so cheap and the beard was awful. He literally had no choice but to tell the kids he was one of Santa’s helpers at one point when a 8 yr old saw the elastic attached to his face. and say your not really Santa!!! So this is how my week has been going just sailing along waiting for the big day…. or night my family has always done the Dec 24th 12 o’clock thing. Where my mom was always the one who gave us everything and she made sure we were all aware of that.!! My husband on the other had did the Dec 25 thing Santa go you everything and you were actually surprised to see the gifts.. not like me where gifts came slowly emerging under the tree around the end of November and didn’t stop until the 24 of December. Where my brother would continually count his packages every few days to see how many more of less each one of us had. What the heck is that about!!

So trying to do the whole Christmas party with my kids on the 24th will be a challenge because we don’t want them to see everything yet we have to please my mom into begin the center of attention and show we appreciate all she had got everyone. This will be interesting. Will keep you posted again with pics and such lots of love to all of you and Have a wonderful Christmas yourself if I don’t get back on here in the next few days.. and check out again the Christmas Crunch at http://www.mycraftymom.net/ for some wonderful holiday crafty. cheers! xoxo