Full of Humour

Alright, so some of you know that my parents are gone all week in Calgary until friday and thus I am "Mommy" ( Peter is just Peter. )
I thought I'd share some of the crazy things these kids say.

(Laura to Zach- in the basement playing lego, maybe) "But, I'm already married..."
(Zach) " WHAT!!!!!!"

Benjamin to Peter in the Van, " You almost killed me there, Peter" (backseat driver!)

Laura to me, " Can I have more icecream?" Me, "no" Laura, " Can I have more icecream?" :S

Benjamin to Mom on the phone, " Do they have lego there?"

Me to Laura at the grocery store, " What can we get Benj to eat for lunch?" Laura, " Hmmm...how about cookies?" :S

Zach, to me after I told him he couldn't stay up for Amazing Race, "*whine*I'm Not A LITTLE KID!"

I was putting Benj to bed the other night, and he was looking at what seemed to be my chest...so I asked him what he was looking at, and he's like, " hmm...nothing..." but kept looking, so I looked down and we were both just looking at my black-with-pink-polka-dots pajamas and I was almost feeling like like was getting weird when he says, " You pajama's look like they have chicken pox."

Annnnnddd, Benj came up to me with one of those paper fortune telling things that are square with colours and numbers and you do a flip flip thing depending on what number you choose and then you get a fortune...I hope you know what I'm talking about...but anyways, I picked Blue, then 5, then 7 and Benj opens 7 and tells me to read it (because he can't read) and I read out loud, " You stink, take more showers." and I'm sitting there, shocked, and he says, " Oops..that one was for Caleb."

On the whole, this week hasn't been too hard. Today I spent most of the day in the kitchen because it's Caleb's birthday and Katie's is tomorrow so I made cakes, and of course tried something new rather than sticking with something nice and easy... It was fun until I started getting tired. Oh, and I pulled a muscle in my back yesterday and couldn't turn my head to the right at all unless I turned my whole body, so I didn't drive anywhere. I mostly sat on the couch and read "Thr3e" by Ted Dekker. That was why I got tired in the kitchen today. I can turn now, but it is still really sore. I don't know if it's even a muscle, I might have pinched a nerve or something.


Anyway, back to 'my' children.

Wellandport Conference

So, I was at the Wellandport conference all day. :D
I went through a few months where I didn't enjoy conferences at all, but I've gotten out of that for some reason. My theory is that because while I had a boyfriend, I didn't go to conferences much (they really are a single's mingle) and then afterwards (trying to get back into that scene) was really hard!

The theory I have about why it was hard is this: I am unapproachable. So I've become very bold and I just talk to people so that I don't spend the entire day alone. Lisa and I tried it again tonight. At supper we sat at a table and said that we were going to sit there and see if anyone sat with us. No one did! all the other tables were pretty much full, and then there was me and her. We haven't decided whether it's her or me, or both...but yeah. We did that once before at Tamarack and the same thing happened.

I don't mind being the person who walks up to the other...but there are times when I don't want to, and then I'll try things like what we did at supper and I end up feeling kind of depressed. :S

It's kind of confusing, because I don't believe that people just don't want to talk to us...I think it's that they don't want to break up a conversation..or something like that... ? It is a bit hard to just walk up to people-even when you have talked to them before, but why leave it to only the ones like me? :P haha

Mom and Dad left for Calgary this morning. Back on Friday night. Mom was so excited all week she couldn't do school. I mean, she couldn't teach school. So now I have to...but whatever. I'm already driving them to music lessons and going grocery shopping and doing laundry and cooking meals...what's one more thing? Besides...if there wasn't a bit of school to do, they would be on the gameboy/nintendo/computer/tv all day.
Another disgusting thing is, if I wasn't going to cook all week they would have eggo waffles for breakfast, pizza pops for lunch, waffles for snack, pizza pops for supper and waffles for after supper snack. eewww.

So..I'm mommy all week. :) it's kind of cool, I'm planning to take them skating at some point, and Katie's birthday is on Wednesday, so we might go out for breakfast.

Ahh! 2 cool things...Marvel in 9 days...and the other

I cut that sentence off on purpose. Maybe I'll finish later.

The art show was great by the way. Only one bad thing, and that was being in heels all evening. I don't think I'm going to be one of those hairdressers who can be in heels all day long. I would take a long time getting used to that.

drool

I think it's funny how Lydia would never be a hairdresser because she can't stand the thought of touching dirty hair. It's funny mostly because she is a nurse (?) and has to deal with things a lot worse than dirty hair...and she has hair herself...which I'm sure gets dirty sometimes even though whenever I see it it's clean. :)

Tonight in church Benjamin fell asleep with his head on my lap about 4 minutes into the service. So I sat for all the songs. And he drooled all over me. He's still little and cute enough that it didn't really gross me out. He missed the offering though, which was too bad because Katie, Benj and I get out our money, and then he switches with Katie, and then with me until we are "mixed up" and I put a dime in the collection plate while he puts in whatever I gave him. hehe. He thinks it's great because it was his idea. What a man.


I just said "eh" twice...I hate that.

alright, I am going to bed-night

Pray For Leanne

Could you please pray for my friend Leanne? She severly damaged some fingers and she may lose them if blood is not flowing through them in the next day or so. So pray for that blood to get flowing and that if it doesn't her family will be at peace with it.
So, good news is I have been accepted at hairdressing school. hurray! And I am all done school at DVSA forever. I only have next week when we are setting up the show, and then the opening night and I'll be gone. It's kind of nice. I'm going to be in contact with a bunch of people from school, so I'm not losing the best things. I'll always do art, just not as a career!

Oh hi. :P
This weekend I went to the conference at the other Sheffield church, Sheffield OPC. It was really fun. I wasn't even going to go at first. I was driving right past on my way home from Kingdom Seekers and remembered and dropped in. It's weird how you can arrive only a few hours after everyone else and feel like a new person. :) We played 4 on the couch with way too many people. But it worked some how...

I didn't stay for the end of the conference. I went home and cleaned the house and did homework like a studious person who is an over achiever. It's ok though. I would have had fun at the gym, but I would have been freaking out now while instead I can just relax and write here. I'm looking forward to the Vineland Conference in a few weeks. By then all my worries about art school will be over!

One more week of classes, then
A week for setting up the show,
Opening night that friday,
One week for the show,
And then?? hairdressing?? I hope so. We will see if it works out that way.
I can't wait to share disgusting hair facts with you all. During my tour of the school I saw a little card with a plastic square in the middle and the words " Lucy the Louse" written above it, and in the little square was indeed, a louse. dead, and placed there for inspection. :) I can't wait. haha

Two weeks from today is the dead line for all my art projects. Actually, it will probably be the last time I ever have to meet a dead line when it comes to art projects. That feels weird.

I went snowboarding at Glen Eden yesterday and spent the whole day off my snowboard, on the bunny hill teaching Benjamin to snowboard! He is not scared of anything because he's so small, so as soon as I let go of his hands he'd turn on me and go straight down the hill with me racing after him yelling " Turn!!! Stop!! Fall!!! Don't hit the fence!" all of those things happened, eventually. Not in that order though. The first time he took off straight he made it, so because he knew he could do it he kept trying...the next couple of times he just fall over onto his bum, no harm done, but the one time he started picking up speed and was heading straight for one of the pillars, you know the ones that hole the snow-making machines? well, at ski hills they are always wrapped with these giant blue pillows and Benj smashed into them instead of killing himself. I was running down the hill to pick him up ( I could tell he was ok..haha) and I was thinking how happy I was that those guards were there, when I look at him as he's getting up and he has this HUGE frown on his face as he yells angrily, " WHO PUT THOSE THERE!?"
hehe

Anyway, I'm going to watch Without a Trace
Hey, Come to my art show!