tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34001217690962569482009-12-04T12:41:38.255-08:00Every 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.Jamienoreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-31723578565192449192009-04-02T20:04:00.000-07:002009-05-08T08:27:08.330-07:00

"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.

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-72510672787973628042009-05-08T08:25:00.000-07:002009-05-08T08:26:44.474-07:00

Here 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

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-39964378230094035132009-05-07T10:03:00.000-07:002009-05-07T10:05:53.638-07:00

We'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!

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-52962859696905463812009-03-26T21:35:00.000-07:002009-03-26T21:40:35.410-07:00

"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."

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-58953149945191034982007-05-25T17:07:00.000-07:002008-12-08T20:18:48.463-08:00

Happy Birthday, my little chocolate monster! (She wore more of the cake than she actually ate)

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-62793067811479309932007-05-27T17:58:00.000-07:002008-12-08T20:18:48.069-08:00

Jordan's party went pretty well. I'm glad it's over :) I still have a pretty big mess to clean up, but I'll probably leave that until tomorrow morning. If it wasn't for Teri's help, I would have a much bigger mess waiting for me, so thank you Teri!Here's the pooh cake..

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-21875908162002674782007-06-12T13:06:00.000-07:002008-12-08T20:18:47.778-08:00

On Saturday I decided that I was going to spend the $50 gift certificate to Plum that’s been burning a whole in my pocket since October. Why wasn’t it spent sooner? Well, I’ve been struggling with my weight and promised that I would wait until I lost a bit of weight. So with around 20 lbs lost since that time, I felt like Saturday was the perfect day to go shopping.I wanted to get a cute little

Jamienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-25155828511948229012008-03-18T08:18:00.000-07:002008-12-08T20:18:47.060-08:00

Check 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 :-)

Jamienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-87136859512578911872008-09-02T21:23:00.000-07:002008-09-02T21:27:50.186-07:00

My 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? Why

Jamienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-4402966865198804062008-06-16T22:36:00.001-07:002008-06-16T22:36:47.656-07:00

I 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

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-43476070062665009042008-06-05T19:02:00.000-07:002008-06-05T19:20:48.222-07:00

Is 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

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-67894062500683324762008-03-24T19:35:00.000-07:002008-03-24T19:45:23.940-07:00

Ken'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

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-40666330787294357502007-12-17T13:56:00.000-08:002007-12-17T13:57:48.450-08:00

Learn more at MarsCandyKills.com.

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-51624478133113933522007-12-15T23:11:00.000-08:002007-12-15T23:14:09.490-08:00

Ken 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.

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-67461967384014792422007-12-13T18:55:00.000-08:002007-12-13T19:12:59.937-08:00

Today 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

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-38897802574883662752007-11-15T22:14:00.000-08:002007-11-15T22:17:52.459-08:00

I 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 understand

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-11020948280754273352007-11-15T13:06:00.000-08:002007-11-15T13:44:08.144-08:00

How 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.

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-45308485798239214052007-11-09T16:35:00.000-08:002007-11-15T13:39:53.698-08:00

While 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

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-74551164130597759382007-11-09T13:38:00.000-08:002007-11-09T13:48:21.231-08:00

I 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 socks

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-76955423642462057762007-11-01T21:20:00.001-07:002007-11-01T21:22:51.509-07:00

Want 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

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-34683146688665644602007-10-30T20:35:00.001-07:002007-10-30T20:35:46.939-07:00

Do 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

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-31396610405710981972007-10-24T14:14:00.000-07:002007-10-24T14:28:57.653-07:00

I 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

Jamienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-21115036299833260802007-10-23T13:57:00.000-07:002007-10-23T14:20:14.336-07:00

It'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

Jamienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-34451723339254843932007-09-10T17:02:00.001-07:002007-09-10T17:02:57.327-07:00

I 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

Jamienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400121769096256948.post-8156593361955381972007-07-28T21:02:00.000-07:002007-07-28T21:03:50.222-07:00

Lately 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

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