Sunday, January 23, 2011
A Sunday Afternoon We got invited to Josh and Jill's for dinner tonight. Kyle and I quite like Josh and Jill. It might be the case that they are my favourite people that we've met in Winnipeg. (shhh...) Jill joined my soccer team. This is how they invited us: We were driving home from church. Their van showed up beside ours (which was a little strange because they don't drive home the same way as us) Jill who was in the passenger's seat, motioned for us to roll down our window. I was sort of hesitant, seeing as it's freezing. Then we were ahead of them. Then they caught up and she held up five fingers and then did the sign for eating, as in "eat at five" It took repeating it a few times before I figured it out and nodded. And that was that. Jill kept Sloan unexpectedly for me when I dropped Adriel off at Benson's (her son) party just because Sloan was saying he wanted to stay too. This gave me a little break. Have I mentioned that I like Jill? Well, I do and it's not just because she's always so willing to do nice things for me, but it helps.
This is what happened Sunday afternoon:
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| Sloan woke up from his nap with glorious bed head. I sat him down to eat a perogy lunch. |
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| He digs in. |
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| He lets me capture his sour cream-bed head on camera |
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| A sizable bite |
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| He stuffs the rest in with his chubby fingers. "Why are you bugging me, Mom?" |
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| He stands up in his chair turns around and asks for more. Too bad there wasn't any left. My kids loooooove perogies! |
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| I finally got it!! The peacock head band that I've wanted since I found it boxing day of '09. I was kind of hoping it would eventually go down in price. It never did, but thank goodness it was still there over a year later. It waited for me, and i waited for it, making it a joyful union. I wore blue leggings and my brown boots with it to church today. |
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| Isn't it wonderful? You want one too, don't you? |
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Sarahstottle posted @ 2:16 PM
Friday, January 21, 2011
Picture post
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| This is what my bedroom window looks like. It was pretty and glittery with the sun shining through it. |
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| This is my street. All the houses look like boxes stuck together. |
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| I tried to capture the fluffiness of the snow. |
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| This is our box house. |
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| I tried to capture a picture of a snowflake for you Laura, and this is unfortunately the best I could come up with. It was freezing, like you don't even know, and I was worried that my camera would break. |
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| I suppose I fit in here, because I'm so white. I camouflage. |
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| I liked my outfit and tried to document it. My view looking down on it. |
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| somewhat of a bird's eye view |
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| Adriel wanted to try. The camera was big and awkward for him and this unflattering picture is the result. |
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Sarahstottle posted @ 4:46 PM
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Life Goes On Sorry about the last melodramatic post. The overwhelming wave of nothing ever goes right has passed. Sometimes it just feels like I get kicked when I'm down. And it can be lonely. And cold. No surprise about the cold part.
There are some things I like about the snow, and why not focus on that, seeing as I have a few months left to live with it? Sometimes, when I go out at night, it's snowing really lightly and it looks like glitter falling from the snow. I also love the way the snow sparkles when it's dark out. I used to think that was so magical when I was a kid, and really, it is magical. The snow here is so different from snow back home. It's so light and fluffy and one of the neat things about it, is when it accumulates, it's not all packed together so when you look at it, you can see each individual ornate snowflake. And sometimes when you take a step back and look at it, it looks like cotton batting, it's so puffy and air-filled. It's pretty cool.I also enjoy how quiet the world gets when it snows. It's almost like a reverence. Snow has it's place in the world. I really do prefer it to rain sometimes. No offense Nanaimo, I still love you.
I'm in Nursery at church. It was weird the way it happened. Because I'm the activity days leader, the primary pres. told me that I'm automatically a primary teacher (which I'm pretty sure isn't true...) and she asked me if I would serve in the Nursery. That's where the majority of my church was spent anyway because Sloan won't let me leave him, so whatevs. I was already helping out, I just wasn't teaching any lessons. The nice thing about teaching Nursery lessons is that they're short, to the point and simple. You stick to the basics.
Today we went grocer shopping and Sloan was so excited about his new diapers that he asked me to take his diaper off and put a new one on. I obliged, since he was about due for a diaper change anyway. About four minutes later he came up to me and said "Poopy Mommy." Nice. I need to get a potty for that boy.
Kyle got a job at Rona. |It's good but it sucks at the same time. We need the money. But now he's around even less. Hence the loneliness.
Are you really sure money can't buy you even a little bit of happiness? Because if he didn't have to work, I'd be happy. I'd also be happy if I could go shopping for myself once a month. Just sayin...
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Sarahstottle posted @ 2:38 PM
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Life is hard! I'm just having one of those days. I'm going through a rough time right now and I'm waiting for it to let up. Let up already!!! I could really use a sister right now.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 5:30 PM
Saturday, January 08, 2011
The Birthday Boy in his birthday suit
So here's to Sloan:
-I am absolutely so in love with the age that he's at right now. He's learning how to talk so much and he imitates everything. It's so cute.
-When I tuck him in at night he insists that I make his "babies" (which are actually a little frog and a big dog that are kept in his crib) say goodnight to him because I did it this one time.
-Lately I started calling him Sloon to tease him and he corrects me and says "Oan!" which is what he calls himself and he has a husky voice.
-He wakes up early in the morning and we go down stairs and lie down on the couch under a blanket and he snuggles right up to me with his soft cheek next to mine and goes back to sleep. Although I usually can't fall back to sleep I lie there and love the feeling of his little body next to me and the way his chubby warm hands touching my face or arm and I think about how I couldn't possibly feel more love for anyone as I do for in those moments. I'm just overflowing with love for him. I feel so lucky that he loves me too. I really cherish those moments. And then as soon as he hears Adriel coming down the stairs his head pops up and he calls out to him so excitedly.
-He has this naughty face that he gets when he knows he's doing something wrong, where he'll kind of look at me out of the corner of his eye but won't make eye contact. It's hilarious. Makes it hard to be mad at him for whatever it is he's doing.
-He is a huge mamma's boy. More so than Adriel by a long shot, and poor Adriel because Sloan wont let him by a momma's boy. I'm not allowed to go upstairs or downstairs without him. If I do, he cries and is quite upset about it. (to give an example)
-He's very attached to his soother. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that, although I have recently limited it to bed time and in the car. There are times during the day though where he rubs his chest and makes a wimpery noise because it's not clipped on and he wants it.
-When Im busy around the house (which is often) he'll get in a mood where he just wants me to sit with him on the couch. He pushes my legs and asks to sit on the couch. Sometimes I just have to stop and give him some cuddle time. It's really probably more rewarding for me than for him and I need him to make me stop sometimes or I never would.
What can I say? I love him to death. I just want to squeeze him and smell his hair and kiss him over and over and stare at his cute cute face. I know I'm biased but he's so darn cute in his ways. I'm lucky to be his mom. So happy birthday to Sloan and I promise when you actually know what your birthday is, I'll be better at making it fun
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Sarahstottle posted @ 8:36 PM
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Boredom I have been booooooored. There hasn't been much to do around here since Christmas. We all got sick. Adriel and I weren't as bad as Kyle and Sloan, but we each had a bad day of lying around or two. Things have been closed due to holidays and there just isn't a lot to do with kids when it's FREEZING outside.
Yesterday I tried. Adriel was asking to go outside and play. I suggested we get bundled up. Kyle was anti. "It's so cold outside!" he said. I was all, we'll bundle up and the exercise of playing in the snow will keep us warm. I was desperate for some exercising endorphins (I really need to hit the gym!) and I thought some fresh air could be good for us who had been cooped up all week. How bad could it be?
It was bad. It was soooo cold. The freezing wind instantly bit at our faces. We lasted five minutes of walking before we turned around to go home. Adriel balled all the way home. Partly because we weren't going to play outside and party because he was so cold. (which reminds me, as a side note the other day he told me that the cold was biting his ears, ha ha).
Even though we have been pretty bored, I'm still not looking forward to Kyle starting school again this week. It has been so nice having him around. He lets me sleep in in the mornings. He let's me take naps if I'm tired (which ironically, I have been exhausted. From what? Doing nothing? I know I was sick and I was taking care of a sick baby this week, but I have been so tired) We hang out and watch things. We hang out and play with the kids, and even if we are bored, it has been relaxing.
But then I live in a barren frozen waste land, and sometimes when we're out I say "I can't believe you moved me to this!" I'm allowed to say things like that, right?
I feel like I should share something that I don't really feel like explaining much of right now. Kyle has switched out of the design program and is going back into engineering. He wants to go somewhere along the lines of structural engineering, which still has design elements in it and things. There are better schooling options and he's realized he's happier doing that sort of thing. Is that an adequate enough explanation?
I realized that I forgot to do Sloan's birthday post. I should get on that.
Any suggestions for the boredom rut I'm stuck in?
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Sarahstottle posted @ 4:18 PM