coming back to life or zane starts to sleep...

Spring has been patiently waiting for me to be ready, the seeds, the plants, the sun, the rain, the motivation, the energy, and the time,  everything manifested this week.  My muscles ache that wonderful ache of hard work.  My baby is sleeping, my big boys are thrilled to be outside, the farmers are on the field, life is coming back and it is good....

 

 

*ring-a-round-the-cow-pie*

 



first day of spring

may 2,

 a full 42 days after

 the official first day of spring,

 we have now had our first day of spring

 

 

 

 

 

 

I pruned some bushes and looked around my yard and promptly had my yearly "spring yard work" induced panic attack....

 how am I ever going to even put a dent in all the work that has to be done...

 sigh...

 one day...

 

until then there is a load of dog "gifts" that need shovelling... better get started 

the water is flowing...

 

 

 

 the water flows... spring is on the way

favourties...

Some of our favourite things these days are:

Favourite Song:  hey ho: the lumineers

Favourite Show: pingu
funny for kids and adults alike...

Favourite Activities:

Drawing

Painting

Laundry

Favourite Dessert:
Chocolate Pudding
mix in a heavy bottom pan
3 cups of milk
1/4 corn starch
1/2 sugar
heat on medium until it starts to thicken
add 6 oz of unsweetened or bittersweet chocolate and 1 tsp of vanilla
mix until smooth, take off heat and cool in fridge for as long as you can wait (3 hours for cold pudding)

 

trust me after you try this you will never make instant again!

Favourite New Word:  Thicken  the boys must think it is a dirty word cause they giggled every time I used it this afternoon "no we don't add the chocolate until it thickens"... "giggle giggle" "we can't eat it until it thickens...." "giggle giggle"

Our Most Favourite Thing: talking about the weather with a sick fascination... how long will winter really last.... forecast says at least 8 days until a day over 0C... really.... check it if you don't believe me

so we are keeping positive that spring will come, until then we are enjoying as few more days of family time until the craziness of spring begins.

one

 

 

my Zaner is one,

 joy mixes with nostalgia as I say good bye to baby and hello to trouble toddler.  

After a weekend of too much chocolate, paska, birthday cake and too little sleep, 

I look forward to a little less craziness...

 

 

 

 

but who am I kidding...this is my life...

 

 

 

bleak mid winter...

I haven't posted for awhile, mainly because I am a firm believer that if I don't have something, nice, kind, or uplifting to say, I should just keep my mouth shut.

 But then my mom reminded me that everyone goes crazy in February, oddly that made me feel better. 

We have had a rough go these days, Zane continues to wake up hundreds 5 or 6 times a night, Calving is taking its toll on Ben, not only is he up multiply times a night to check on them but our calves seem to have caught a virus that has caused more than the normal share of calves to get sick and die.

Ben is not sleeping, I am not sleeping, but 2 energetic little boys are getting lots of sleep and are so excited in the morning to get their day started, we have a new strategy called "get your own breakfast" we leave out dishes and easily accessible muffins and cups of milk are poured and left in  the fridge, we have about 50% success rate of them getting up eating and playing nicely until we drag ourselves out of bed, or Zane demands that we get up.  The boys love being so grown up that they can get their own breakfast, especially Reid who likes to boss help Dexter with his.

Mostly we are just looking for things to make us laugh, this last week I have been reading through the Parenting; illustrated with crappy pictures archives, and found this entry particularly hilarious (Ben and I read it and laughed out loud until we had  tears running down our face)

 I feel exhausted and guilty and exhausted. I feel guilty that I don't take the boys outside on nice days, (funny I don't feel guilty about not cleaning up breakfast until after lunch) maybe I just want to go outside too...  maybe that's why February drives us all crazy, we just need to go outside...

five

Reid turned 5 yesterday, the plan was to spend the day at the lake sledding, we had 10 days of bitterly cold weather leading up to the big day, Friday was -20C but Saturday morning the sun was shining,  the wind was calm and the temperature climbed to a downright balmy -7C, it was the most perfect day...

 

 

 

My Beautiful, Imaginative, Shy, Introverted boy spent the last part of the day by himself playing in the snow but, that's why we love him