tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:45:37 +0000Every time I feel like I’ve got things figured out, everything changes and I’m back to square one. Once upon a time I was a student, then a marketing manager, and then a freelance writer. In 2004 my world tilted on its axis and I became a mother – a full-time stay-at-home-mom. Then before I even got it all figured out, in 2006 we added one more to the mix. Welcome to my topsy-turvy life as a SAHM who seems to learn something new everyday.http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jamie)Blogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-7251067278797362804Fri, 08 May 2009 15:25:00 +00002009-05-08T08:26:44.474-07:00Here is a great article: Kids have childhoods stolen by adult agendas"A headline in Saturday's Herald about a new study really gave me pause. It read: "Grade 6 students admit hitting dates." Appalling, isn't it? Not the hitting part; that's only secondary to what's really wrong with this scenario. It's the dates. Grade 6 students are dating? They're 10 and 11 years old! What are their parents http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2009/05/kids-have-childhoods-stolen-by-adult.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-3996437823009403513Thu, 07 May 2009 17:03:00 +00002009-05-07T10:05:53.638-07:00We're trying to find something fun to do while Jordan's feeling a little sick still, so we decided to create our Miis. Here we are!http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2009/05/our-computer-family.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-3172357856519244919Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 +00002009-05-08T08:27:08.330-07:00Funny things kids say"Mommy, Devin's crying," said Jordan."What's wrong with her?" I asked."I donno. She misses Dorthy.""Oh, well what are we going to do with her?" I asked."Um, throw her in the garbage!" said Jordan.http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2009/04/throw-devin-in-garbage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-5296285969690546381Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:35:00 +00002009-03-26T21:40:35.410-07:00Funny things kids saySelf-image"Hey mommy, your chin is starting to drop down like great-grandma's," said Devin."Oh, really?" I said, touching my drooping chin."Yup! Did you see how low great-grandma's was?" asked Devin."Yeah," I said."Is yours is going to be like that too?" she asked."Maybe, sometimes that happens when you get older," I said. "Do you know how old great-grandma is?""Um, 16," said Devin."Is that old," I asked."http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-self-esteem-boost.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-8713685951257891187Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:23:00 +00002008-09-02T21:27:50.186-07:00JordanFunny things kids sayMy kids sometimes say the funniest things...Jordan: "Look Cows!"Mommy: "Good looking, Jordan. There are some cows."Jordan: "Yeah, I eat them!"Jordan: "Mommy, where is the sun?"Mommy: "I guess it's behind the clouds."Jordan: "No. It's broken."Devin: "Is Dorthy going to die?" (Dorthy is our fish)Mommy: "I don't think so, why?"Devin: "She's on the counter. We knocked her bowl over."Mommy: "When? Whyhttp://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2008/09/funny-things-kids-say.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-440296686519880406Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:36:00 +00002008-06-16T22:36:47.656-07:00I just wanted to take a quick moment to let you know what my husband, Ken, is up to, since it's pretty incredible. On June 21, he is going to join in a 400km bicycle ride from Kelowna to Delta to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society. Oh, and he's going to make that ride in only one day!Here's what he has said about his reason for getting on his bike for this event."I have signed up to http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2008/06/raising-money-for-cancer-research.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-4347607006266500904Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:02:00 +00002008-06-05T19:20:48.222-07:00Is it a bit odd that I really love watching kids movies with my girls? Often I'll rent them a video of their own when I rent a video for myself. They get to keep/watch the video for a week, where-as my videos usually need to be returned in the next day or two.This week the girls video rental was Island Princess Barbie, and it's such a great movie. I love that she talks and plays with the island http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2008/06/is-it-odd.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-6789406250068332476Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:35:00 +00002008-03-24T19:45:23.940-07:00MotherhoodKen's home taking some vacation time from work, and today he got a taste of how much fun it can be to be at home all day long with two little drama queens.Jordan was highly emotional all day, bursting into tears over nothing in regular intervals. While Devin chatted non-stop, while also making highly emotional displays of frustration at regular intervals throughout the day.By dinner time, Ken http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2008/03/funny-tired-daddy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-2515582851194822901Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:18:00 +00002008-12-08T20:18:47.060-08:00Check out my new house!!!!!!Okay, so it's not mine yet...I still have to buy a home lottery ticket for it. But, once I do, I know I'll win this beautiful house, just down the hill from my parent's place. Just wait, before 2008 is through, this will be my new home. PS - I'm using the power of positive thinking :-)http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-new-house.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-4066633078729435750Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:56:00 +00002007-12-17T13:57:48.450-08:00Learn more at MarsCandyKills.com.http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/12/learn-more-at-marscandykills.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-5162447813311393352Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:11:00 +00002007-12-15T23:14:09.490-08:00Ken and I saw "I am Legend" tonight. It was a great movie and of course, it was very nice to have an evening out without the kids.The only problem is that I'm now scared of the dark.http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/12/i-am-legend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-6746196738401479242Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:55:00 +00002007-12-13T19:12:59.937-08:00Health and WellnessToday is one of those days. I've been having flu-like symptoms and am just feeling rotten and sorry for myself. Just when I was thinking how unfair it is that I can never call in sick from being a mom, my mom called to see how I was doing. When she heard how I was feeling she offered to come over and take care of the girls for a few hours so I could get some rest. It's great to have a mom that http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/12/somedays-i-love-my-mom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-3889780257488366275Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:14:00 +00002007-11-15T22:17:52.459-08:00Household StuffI have just wasted three days waiting for a furnace repairman that doesn't show. Each day around 4pm he calls to inform me that he won't be able to make it after all and promises to come the next day. Each day I very graciously accept his apology and say I'll see him tomorrow in the hopes that he will actually show up one day. In reality I want to rip his head off. He obviously doesn't understandhttp://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/11/stupid-repairman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-1102094828075427335Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:06:00 +00002007-11-15T13:44:08.144-08:00ToysHow come toys on TV look like so much more fun than they really are once you get them home? And how do they make kids play with the toy for more than five seconds?Humm, the many mysteries of life.http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/11/toys-on-tv.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-4530848579823921405Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:35:00 +00002007-11-15T13:39:53.698-08:00MotherhoodDevinWhile shopping with a friend at IKEA the other day she pointed out a craft activity she regularly has her daughter do. Apparently it's so interesting that her three-year-old angel will sit for hours on her own doing the bead shaping craft. I quickly bought the craft kit and couldn't wait to show it to Devin.Let's just say that it didn't exactly keep Devin occupied. In fact, it was quite the http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/11/when-art-goes-bad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-7455116413059775938Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:38:00 +00002007-11-09T13:48:21.231-08:00MotherhoodMultitaskingI have come to the conclusion that "Child Dressing" should become a new sport at the Olympics. The goal would be to get multiple children under the age of 4 dressed for the day.It might actually be entertaining to see someone else running after a half dressed child while their sibling, a once fully dressed child, finds a quiet spot to undressed. Part of the game could then be finding hidden sockshttp://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-olympic-sport-idea.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-7695542364246205776Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:20:00 +00002007-11-01T21:22:51.509-07:00Health and WellnessWant to get off the couch and do something good? Check out The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's of Canada's Team In Training®. It is the world's largest endurance sports training program. The program provides training to run or walk marathons and half marathons or participate in triathlons and century (100-mile) bike rides. Since 1988, more than 300,000 volunteer participants have helped raise more http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/11/want-to-get-off-couch-and-do-something.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-3468314668866564460Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:35:00 +00002007-10-30T20:35:46.939-07:00MotherhoodDevinDo you ever have moments when your child does something so kind that it causes your heart to swell with pride? Yesterday I had one of those moments with my oldest, Devin.After spending the morning with some friends, we stopped off at my husband’s grandparent’s house for a quick visit. Ken’s grandma is currently suffering from skin cancer and her entire face is covered in awful bloody scabs and http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/10/full-of-pride.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-3139661040571098197Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:14:00 +00002007-10-24T14:28:57.653-07:00I was visiting my friend Andrea's blog and read an interesting post. She took a list of 106 books most off as unreadable on some library list and highlighted the ones she had read or wanted to read. Well, after reading through the list, I was pretty amazed that I had barely read any of those books! My reading taste is mostly fluff, I admit it. After all, it is kind-of difficult to crack open an http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-was-visiting-my-friend-andreas-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-2111503629983326080Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:57:00 +00002007-10-23T14:20:14.336-07:00Health and WellnessIt's been a while since I've posted and I'm not as exhausted anymore. And although I am feeling better, it took almost a full week of terrible withdrawal symptoms to get this way.When I was at the library the other week I picked up a book called SUGAR SHOCK! by Connie Bennett and a lightbulb went off in my head. I suddenly realized why I was feeling so terrible. It's was because of the sugar!Up http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/10/back-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-3445172333925484393Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:02:00 +00002007-09-10T17:02:57.327-07:00I don’t know about you, but almost every month I get paranoid that my birth control pill has failed me. In those few days before my period strikes, I live in utter fear that I’ve been impregnated and life as I know it is over. It doesn’t matter if I’m PMSing and eating chocolate by the truckload, I still worry. It’s all I can think about until my red river flows.There’s always one sign that I http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/09/so-exhausted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-815659336195538197Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:02:00 +00002007-07-28T21:03:50.222-07:00Lately it seems like no matter what I do, I just can’t lose weight. I’m exercising my butt off, but it’s not going anywhere!Finally I decided to count my calories on fitday.com and discovered that I was eating around 2,000 calories a day!!! So I checked out this weight loss calculator web site and determined that to lose weight I need to eat around 1,200 – 1,300 calories a day (a pretty big http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-cant-i-lose-weight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-8094351773431413008Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:50:00 +00002007-07-23T22:50:41.309-07:00MotherhoodSome days the excruciating boredom that comes with being a stay-at-home-mom makes me want to gouge my eyes out! Today was one of those days.Just to keep entertained, I cleaned the oven, vacuumed and mopped the floors. Then I made phone calls and played My Little Ponies with Devin. But the day just went on and on – I didn’t think it was ever going to end!Part of the problem was probably because wehttp://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/07/so-boring.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-1100467538250381566Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:25:00 +00002007-07-22T16:26:48.263-07:00Self-image http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-personality-profile.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-4228794602146975825Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:09:00 +00002007-07-19T17:11:06.373-07:00MotherhoodSelf-imageAlthough I am really not a morning person, I do have to admit something. I love my early morning exercise sessions. Most mornings I get up between 5:30 and 6:00 to bike, jog or swim and have really been enjoying the guilt free time without the kids.Too often I feel guilty when I’m not activity playing with my girls. I also feel guilty when I take time out for myself and leave them with anyone http://discoveringjamie.blogspot.com/2007/07/early-morning-exercise-rescues-my.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jamie)0