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the one with the donuts!

Posted on March 4, 2010

and a lit­tle catch­ing up! This post is going to be a bit of a mish­mash so bear with me!  I don’t know where the time has been going but I just can’t man­age to blog reg­u­larly lately!  So, what have we been up to lately??

We’ve been vis­it­ing friends and eat­ing too much and drink­ing too much. I love my friends!  I’ve been clean­ing the house/organizing for view­ing.  I’m still amazed that I’ve got­ten 2 view­ings (and count­less emails) from the tepilo web­site list­ing. We are list­ing w/ a local estage agent, he’s com­ing on Mon­day to get the details and the house should be listed by next week! I’m been a bit stressed out about the fact that our house is not super ready to sell.  We are 3 liv­ing in a 2 bed­room house with little/no stor­age so it gets a bit clut­tered around here.  The kitchen needs to be mod­ern­ized. The back gar­den needs a lit­tle love.  Then I just remind myself if the kitchen was all shiny and new I’d be ask­ing more money!

Oh and in case you’re won­der­ing how Wal feels about all this, he’s just going along with it and I’m sure if/when some­one makes an offer he’s going to act all sur­prised!  LOL that’s just what he does and I love him for it– when I’m not irri­tated with him for it!  I keep telling him we’ll be mov­ing in with his par­ents if we sell before find­ing a place.  As most of you know THAT would be inter­est­ing!  On that sub­ject Squidge is con­stantly talk­ing about my par­ents and how they live in Amer­ica.  Sooooo because I’m an evil bitch I asked her if Daddy had a mummy or daddy, she said no, he did not.  I hope that made Wal feel like shit! Not that it’s his fault his par­ents are use­less pieces of flam­ing dog doo… Any­hoo I’ve always said I wouldn’t be nasty to/about them on this blog as it’s their loss so I’ll end it there.

I haven’t men­tioned wed­ding plans for a while so I’ll do that now.  Wal and I are get­ting mar­ried on the 24 April at Man­ches­ter City Hall.  Noth­ing fancy just the 3 of us and our wit­nesses.  I still need to speak to my wit­ness (yes, I’m look­ing at you Biff) and I KNOW Wal hasn’t con­tacted him wit­ness either so we might end up just pulling some­one walk­ing down the hall! Last minute cuz that’s how we roll!!  I hope this doesn’t offend any­one but it’s just a for­mal­ity.  We are plan­ning on hav­ing a party later in the year and invit­ing all our friends and fam­ily– I’m think­ing August.  I just want some­thing really casual and laid back for the ‘recep­tion”,  I’m not really into all the for­mal­ity and tra­di­tional wed­ding rig­ma­role.  I’ll let ya’ll know the details later in the year.  If you want to come to the party and you don’t think I have your address just send me an email.

Con­sid­er­ing this blog is sup­posed to be all about Squidge I sup­pose I should men­tion her.  I’m find­ing her more and more grown up and it’s hard to wrap my head around!  She’s going to be 4 in June but I swear she’s more like 12!  She never shuts up, con­stantly wants me (or her Dad) to read to her, knows how to write (finally) her name, loves to imag­i­na­tive play and loves donuts more than any­thing else in the world.  Thank good­ness (or not) for Krispy Kreme)

I also want to apol­o­gize to my Mom for not call­ing her.  Every day around lunch time I think about call­ing my mother.  The only prob­lem is that lunch time here is 5 am there– not a socia­ble time to call any­one!  I’m hop­ing to finally call tonight after Squidge gets home from nurs­ery.  I’m not mak­ing any promises as we’re bak­ing pizza for sup­per and I might not survive.

If you’ve read this far down you really are a ded­i­cated Squidgy­boo reader.  Because I’m a slacker blog­ger I’m going to open this up to ques­tions.  Now the last time I did this no one asked any ques­tions and my ego was wounded.  Still here I go again, this time I’ll make cook­ies so I can drown my wounded ego is  choco­late chips!   So what do you want to know? Any­thing I haven’t men­tioned that you’ve been curi­ous about? Now is your chance! Also any lurk­ers out there why don’t you stop for a sec and say HELLO!

the one where we party

Posted on February 24, 2010

It’s a sure sign of the times when your kid goes to more par­ties than you do!  On Mon­day we rocked the bowl­ing alley for Noah’s birth­day party.

Squidge was really excited even though she was still feel­ing a lit­tle under the weather.  The birth­day boy had all his friends over to BK for the meal then we headed over to the bowl­ing alley.  I don’t know if it was the walk/run or the cold weather or her still being a lit­tle bit not her­self … as soon as we got to the bowl­ing alley she had a cough­ing fit cul­mi­nat­ing in a big old puke fest in my hand! LOL sorry for TMI!  I kind of thought it might hap­pen, it was that kind of cough, so I had a wipe and cupped hand just in case.  It was pretty gross as she had JUST eaten her sup­per.  As soon as she puked she ran off full of beans!  She spent almost the entire night danc­ing her lit­tle bum off!

It didn’t stop her from get­ting a top bowl­ing score and win­ning a colour­ing book– Woot Woot!

After walk­ing back to our car and puk­ing some more it was time for bed, but not before eat­ing some birth­day cake!

There was also a lit­tle bit of this…

when­ever she doesn’t get what she wants.  I think she had asked for a blue slushie and being the mean mama I said no.

the one with good friends

Posted on February 19, 2010

Squidge and I met up with one of my bestest friends today.  We were sup­posed to go and have a mini photo shoot for N who is turn­ing 3.  Instead of buy­ing another toy I thought I would take some pho­tographs and then frame one.  Unfor­tu­nately N was a lit­tle under the weather and the weather was a lit­tle crappy.  We changed plans and met at a soft play (warm and dry) with the hopes of get­ting some time to shoot.

We had a fan­tas­tic time as usual.  B sat there and lis­tened to me stress out over school place­ments and houses… ya know the usual!  Squidge is still a  bit under the weather her­self but still she had a good time.  As we were leav­ing  I got to take a few pho­tos but like I said the weather wasn’t ideal– a lit­tle too cold and the kids were a teensy bit tired.  I did man­age to get some but not as many as I would have liked.  Still I’m sure B will like the gift as she’s totally into hand­made thought­ful gifts.

the one where she’s poorly

Posted on February 18, 2010

Poor Squidge has been under the weather all week.  On Mon­day night she was run­ning a really high fever (102°-104°) so we both had a pretty rest­less night.  I decided to keep her home from nurs­ery, I thought send­ing her would delay her recovery.

So we’ve been stick­ing pretty close to home all week and are begin­ning to get cabin fever.  Thank­fully on Thurs­day we’re meet­ing friends and we’ll both be able to blow off some steam.

I think I for­get to men­tion that Wal got back on Tues­day and some­one is over the moon to have her daddy back.

She’s been stick­ing pretty close and keeps telling me that she loves him the most but she still loves me.  She’s really affec­tion­ate and I’m really enjoy­ing it.  She ran­domly through­out the day will come up and pat my leg/arm and smile at me or give me a hug and kiss.  I love that she’s such a cud­dly child and hope it con­tin­ues for a long long time.

the one down memory lane

Posted on February 17, 2010

Wal lost his phone while in Poland last week.  His new phone arrived and he wanted some pho­tos of us.  As I was look­ing through some pho­tos taken over the last 6 months I found one of my favorites.  I think Wal looks really nice (shoooo shexy) and Squidge looks três cool!  I might just have to print this one out and frame it.

Did I men­tion we have a view­ing on Sat­ur­day?  I’m a lit­tle ner­vous about it as I don’t think the house looks per­fect (or if I’m hon­est any­where close to per­fect), but if it was per­fect I’d be ask­ing more ££ for it. Keep­ing my fin­gers and toes crossed that the per­son is look­ing for a bit of a project.  Send pos­i­tive buy­ing vibes!

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