GLORIOUSLY WONDERFUL DAY!!!

 I don't think today could have been any better. Mark is away all week this week and each day I wake up and wonder how I am going to get through today, plus another 3 days on top of that being all by myself, Well I was proven wrong today. An amazing friend offered to watch Wade today and so I took full advantage of that. I feel I hardly ever get good quality one on one time with Macie anymore and I hate that, so I planned a day full of things we used to do before Wade. First we started by heading to the pet store and checking out the bunnies, puppies, and fish. She is so cute at the pet store and loved the kisses she was getting from the bulldog pup. Next we came home had a quick snack and game of hide and seek and then headed to the pool for some swimming. It is only $2 from 12-1. Macie's favorite thing to do today was jumping off the side into the pool, she did it about 20 times in a row. Then we headed home and had some lunch, sang Let it Go from "Frozen" about 100 times, did some coloring and then headed back to pick up Wade. Macie was so good and it was so nice to have some one on one time with her. After I picked up Wade I headed to Motion Fitness for a good 7KM run and a bit of muscle toning while the kids went to the daycare there. I just have to say genius of these fitness facilities to start putting child care in for mom's. I go almost everyday for 2 hours and it is so nice to get that break and a chance to de-stress. Then we came home had some supper, played with Play Dough and got some great snuggles from Wade. At 7:15 I was getting ready to make a bottle for Macie when I realized I had no Milk. Great I thought, Macie is exhausted and know I have to lug two kids in and out of walmart for some stupid Milk. At the very end of our quick trip Macie was being so good that I told her we could go and get a cookie from McDonald's and that is when the sweet lady beside me paid for our cookies, Seriously could my day have gotten any better, yet it could snuggles, books and bottles with Macie and she fell asleep in about 2 seconds. Wade has also been a dream the whole night, didn't make a peep at walmart and made cute silly noises on the floor as I read books to Macie. I am so grateful for my amazing day and all the people in my life who helped make it amazing.

29.50

Tonight my sweet hubby let me get out of the house for a work out as me and Macie have been stuck inside all week sicker then dogs. I was finally feeling better today and desperately wanted to go work out, so I headed out after Macie went to bed. I got on the treadmill and couldn't believe how much energy I had for how sick I had been all week. What happened next was awesome, every 5 minutes I kept going faster and faster and it felt incredible. After 29 minutes and 50 seconds I completed 5 KM's. It was awesome and I couldn't believe I did it in under 30 minutes. 3 weeks ago I ran my first 5KM's in over a year and it took me 35 minutes so I thought it would be quit a while before I could do it in under 30 minutes, but I proved myself wrong tonight. It is incredible how are bodies remember the movements and how quickly the muscles come back. My goal is in 6 weeks to run a 5K in under 27 minutes and run 7 Miles just over 11 KM's in one hour. I'll keep you posted on my progress.

CRUMBLING

Do you ever feel like your life is pointless, useless senseless. That you are going no where in life and accomplishing nothing. You have no friends and no life. You are just a fluff from a dandelion, of no worth and no use, and the one task you have been given in life you are so terrible at that you felt if your children got to choose again they would pick a different mother. Every day is the same thing get up, feed children, clean house,  yell at children, clean up puke, yell at children some more, feed children, clean house,  clean up puke, yell at children.  Just this same everyday routine of nonsense. Ugh how do you get out of that rut, how do you find Joy in doing the same boring things day in and day out. I don't mean that my children don't bring me Joy, they bring me more happiness and Joy then I can imagine, however the same boring stuff day in and day out is driving me crazy. Maybe it is just those winter blues talking, I hope it is just those winter blues talking. Maybe I should stop now before I say more and people think even that much less of me.

A series of unfortunate events!!!

It started last week when Macie got a small little cut on her eye, nothing serious but still annoying enough that it irritated her for a couple of days, then Friday my hubby headed to North Batteford for some snowboarding, I got the phone call at 8:30pm. "Umm kalinda this is Billy, Mark has been in an accident. He caught an edge while snowboarding and went down super hard knocking him out. The damages were some temporary memory lose a bad concussion and a smashed in face. His body is just finally starting to not be soar anymore. Then to top it off yesterday while me and my mom where at Motion Fitness working out Lily got her nail caught in something, we think the baby gate and ripped it almost fully out. When we got home I saw her limping and knew something was up, when my mom picked her up she saw blood. She would barley even let us touch it. So we took her to the Vet to get it checked and the poor little puppy had almost ripped the nail right out. They had to put her under and take the rest of it off and do some stitching and bandaging. She is now on lite duty and some antibiotics until everything heels. Although it was a rough week for my family, I know it could have been way worse and so grateful that we were being watched over.

My Little Buddy!!!

While I haven't lied at how difficult these past 2 1/2 months have been with Wade, however I need to give some credit where credit is due.

- He is a phenominal sleeper, already sleeping through the night on average 9 to 10 hrs, this past week he has been getting up but I think that is just from a growth spurt. Even though he has gotten up this past week it was only once and right back to sleep for another 6 hrs.

- He has the best smile ever, Mark calls it a mupppet smile. He just opens his mouth so wide and gets so into it.

- He loves to snuggle and gives the best snuggles even when he is not sleeping he loves to snuggle into mom and dads chest

- Even though his cry is loud and happening a little more then I would like, it sounds really cool. He has such a deep raspy voice. When he is not losing his mind I actually don't mind listening to it.

- He is such a Handsome little Dude and I love showing this handsome dude off.

Thanks so much to my awesome friend Jen for taking these adorable pictures of Wade

Sunday cuties