Deal of a CENTURY!!!!!

I am kinda without internet right now...not sure what's going on. I'll update when I can :)

Anyway!!

I went to The Disney Store yesterday to get the big Buzz Lightyear that Aidan wants. It's all he's asked for this year :) So, we go in, and Aidan hones in on them immediately. Al and I hone in on on the big red 40% Off sign above him!! And when I took the Buzz to the girl working at the front of the store to ask if he was included she said yes, AND THEN she handed me a card worth 15% off on Top of the 40% off!! Seriously!!!! So we figured out how much it made the price, and realized..Hey! We can get Buzz AND Woody for the price of ONE!!!! I am still practically jumping up and down for joy!!

I can just imagine the look on his face Christmas morning when he sees both of them!

YAY!!

On Other happy news!! My Dad and I are new home owners!! (Al and my Step-mother too :)) I can't believe it :) How we worked it is that for now, my Dad is pretty much our landlord. And then when we can, we'll buy the house from my Dad, using our "rent" as the down payment. I am soooo grateful to my Dad. He's awesome.

Have a wonderful week everyone if I can't get on here again!

~Lisa~

Aidan's recent reasons for not eating his dinner...

1. He's too bored for dinner.

2. Dinner is boring.

3. Jenna is too close to eat his dinner.

4. Dinner is giving him a headache.

and last, but certainly not least, and the winner for tonight,

5. "I can't eat my dinner. I'm too heartbroken."

If we don't have them to cry over, we don't have them to laugh over right :)

~Lisa~

Feeling better

The antibiotics are slowly working their magic on my tonsils. Thank God...because seriously! I am never sick like this! I could barely get off the couch for three days! The only downside to the antibiotics is this Awful taste in my mouth!! I seriously feel like I have been trying to suck the colour off of pennies all night long! BLECH!! It's totally worth it :) kinda.

I have got to get my butt in gear. I am supposed to be making two birthday cakes for this weekend! ACK! One for the lovely Miss Sarah, who's Daddy so graciously fixed our laptop for the price of one birthday cake! How much do we love Julie Bo Bolie and her family??? THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS MUCH!

The second one is going to be a lot harder, if I do it. I am supposed to do the Megasaurus (By Wilton) for Karen 's little boy Logan. He'll be four. However, Evan now has Chicken Pox! Karen called me over last night to look at him, and sure enough, looks like the pox to me! I told Karen in no uncertain terms that I am NOT bringing my kids anywhere near hers for awhile(they've never had the pox). I think she was pissed off at me. But really, my kids have been sick on and off for two weeks now. Not only are their immune systems not up to snuff, but my head will most definitely explode if I have to deal with any other illnesses right now. So really, in my opinion Logan and Evan's party should be postponed for awhile. And it'll give me time in between cakes :)

Aidan seems to be a little better. Still not eating much, but neither am I, so I'm not going to push the issue too hard yet. Tomorrow will be different. He slept with Al and I last night. I can't imagine how we ever managed Jenna with us in a double bed! It's SO much easier in a Queen size :) Still not great, since Aidan is a total bed hog, but it was nice to cuddle a warm little body all night :)

Nothing much else is new. We close on the house on Friday!!!! YAY!!

~Lisa~

And Mommy makes four.

I have the sickness too. Tonsillitis. So does Aidan. And Mason has an ear infection. And Jenna's throat still looks a little red.

If anyone needs to find me for the next 17 years, I'll be hiding under a big cozy blanket beneath a very large ROCK.

Speaking of Rocks...My doctor totally ROCKS! He looked at me this morning and said it's been a long time since he'd seen tonsils that gross :) Nice eh? Then he felt my forehead (The medical technology here is Totally Cutting! Edge!) And he looked at me and said "How are you even walking around!? How did you make it out of bed to get here?! (HA! I have three little reasons that gave me no choice!) I need antibiotics.

So anyway, I mention that Aidan and Mason are still fighting fevers, and he looks at them too. Mason is still on antibiotics for his tonsillitis so we only need to go back if he's still having fevers in a couple days. Phew. Aidan needs new antibiotics.

Lets take a moment to review:
1. Aidan gets Scarlet Fever and needs TWO bottles of amoxicillin.
2. Jenna and Mason get tonsillitis at the same time and each need a bottle of amoxicillin.

So that's roughly $50 just for the kids alone! And I am allergic to Penicillin. Meaning my antibiotics usually cost us about $45.

I am pretty much panicking inside thinking that we definitely don't have enough for two more rounds!! The doctor looks at me and says "do you have a drug plan" I replied "Nope, it's been a very expensive two weeks :(" He says hang on a minute, and off he goes. And when he returns(This is the ROCKS part!!) he has antibiotics for Aidan AND me!!! For Free!! I nearly cried right there. I think he may have been annoyed with me for thanking him so much. :) I love my doctor. Really a lot. :) I love it when you get a sign that there really are a few genuinely good people left in the world.

Aidan and I had Jello for lunch :) And we might have it for dinner too :)

A-Z

A - Available or single: Isn't that the same thing? Married :)
B - Best Friend: Alvin
C - Cake or Pie: Tough one...does cheesecake count?
D- Drink of choice: Rootbeer or Pepsi
E - Essential Item you use everyday: Kettle for tea and coffee
F-Favorite color: Blue
G - Gummy Bears or worms: worms
H- Hometown: Born in Guelph, raised in Grand Valley
I - Indulgence: Chocolate
J - January or February: oh they both SUCK
K - Kids & Names: Jenna Colleen, Aidan Alvin Joseph and Mason James
L- Life is Incomplete Without? coffee
M - Marriage Date: August 19th
N- Number of Siblings: 1 half brother, 3 step-sisters and 2 step brothers
O- Oranges or Apples: apples
P- Phobias or Fears: Spiders and falling down a man-hole.
Q- Fave Quote: "When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt." Author unknown
R - Reason to Smile: Almost Christmas
S - Season: Fall or spring
T - Tag 3 or 4 people: Anyone really, I'm a little low on readers this month LOL
U - Unknown Fact about Me: I very rarely use the same Q-tip for both ears...even if I don't need to use the other end for the first ear.
V- Vegetable You Don't Like: Turnip
W - Worst Habit: worrying
X - Xrays: On my leg when I was in grade 5 and fell skiing.
Y - Your Fave Food: Pizza! From Dominoes, with Bacon, Pepperoni and Mushrooms! YUM!
Z - Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Jeepers, creepers...

Where'd they get these peepers?!

Oh what a day...

So, yesterday was my birthday. It came and went without much fanfare at all. And really, that was just fine by me. I'm 27 now. That's the first age I remember my mother being. For some reason I have always wanted to be 27. Maybe this will be the year it all falls into place for me. Who knows.

I had to go to Toronto yesterday for a course at The Geneva Centre for Autism. Great place, lousy course IMO. It might have been good for me had my student been older, and definitely would have been fine if I was a teacher in a classroom environment. But as an ABA therapist, not so much. Oh well, it was cool to be surrounded by people with such a common interest in Autism.

Getting there and getting home was AWFUL! According to Mapquest it should take me 1 hour and 7 minutes to get from door to door. Riiiiiight. It took me exactly 2 hours to get There, and then THREE hours to get home!! I spent an HOUR on Eglinton alone! It was the worst time EVER. I watched a stop light change 15 times before I got to it. I kid you not. I'm sure there was probably other ways I could have gone, but I know Toronto about as well as I know algebra, so I was too afraid of getting lost to stray off my path. And then there was a rollover on the 400, and they shut that down! I know a few routes home from there, but so do apparently every other person in front of me. By the time I finally walked in the door I was shaking, had a splitting headache and just wanted to go to bed :)

Oh well, I guess the bright side was that I didn't have to spend my birthday working or changing diapers and breaking up arguments...right?

~Lisa~

P.s. Happy Birthday to my step-sister Kathy today!!!

Best of both worlds.**Edited**

I love my kids. I really, really do. They're great kids. I like playing with them...usually.

I like the snow. I like to look at it. I like to see it on trees. I like the look it brings to my children's faces when they see it.

I do NOT like playing in the snow. Not at all really.

This past summer my kids developed enough security to go play in the back yard together, without me there.

And it happened again today. I got the pleasure of watching my kids run and jump and slide in the snow. While I sat at the window snuggling with Mason under a cosy blanket.

And when they came I Still got to be their hero by being super-fast on the Hot Chocolate draw :)

**EDITED**
On a not-so-blowing-sunshine-up-your-ass kind of note...Mason and Jenna both have tonsillitis. Oh yes. They do. And I may be the freakin' carrier!!! Oh yes. I had my throat swabbed to check. Merry freakin' Christmas, here's your anitbiotics. Ugh.

~Lisa~

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

My Parents invited us out for dinner last night to celebrate my birthday a little early. We had a great time. My mom made me the Coolest Candy Bouquet!! And gave me a wee Tinkerbell ornament, which you all know was a HUGE hit with me :) I also go two beautiful roses, they're white on the bottom and the edges are a deep pink. I love them!! My grandparents were there too, which was nice. I've grown a lot more fond of them in the past few years. Growing up as a kid, not so much. But I appreciate them a lot more now. They gave me a couple books on tea and a tea set...neat stuff.

Dinner went off smoothly, I got COMPLETELY embarrassed with the entire staff of Swiss Chalet came out singing with a birthday cake for me. I should have known :) My Mom is sneaky like that :)

The worst of times came after dinner. We were all getting our coats on, Jenna had to go to the bathroom, so I took her. On the way back to the table, I saw my George, my grandpa and Aidan leaving, taking some of my presents out to the car. This is not uncommon. My George is Aidan's Hero :) They go everywhere together. (See where this is going yet?) So, Jenna and I get our coats on, I grab my cake and books, and off the rest of us go. I was walking outside across the front of the restaurant when this awful feeling came over me. I saw My George. I saw my grandpa. I saw my grandma. I did Not see Aidan. I called to the "where's Aidan", but they didn't hear me. So I called it again, and then everyone got very confused. George said "He's with you isn't he" I said NO!, then George said "OH! It's okay, he's with your Mom"(My Mom had gone to her car to get something, and wasn't with us yet) I Lost it. I screamed at George "No He's NOT! He's Gone!" I spent about 3 seconds trying to figure out who to pass the cake off to, but everyone was carrying something. I thought about dropping it, but knew that would be a total waste of cake. So I just held on tight and ran as fast as I could back into the store.(Yes, I realize now how stupid that all sounds) I yanked open the doors, and was about 4 steps into the restaurant when I saw my little boy, crying for his Mommy with a very beautiful waitress. I couldn't hug him tight enough. And the poor boy could only say "Mommy I was looking for you. I wanted you". Talk about break. my. heart!!! I hope none of you ever has to try to remain as composed as possible for the sake of your little one in a situation like this. It's hard as hell.

I don't think he was scarred by it too bad, he only mentioned it once today. I however still get heart palpatations every time I think of the 'what ifs' :)

So, that was my birthday celebration :) Yee Haw.

~Lisa~