Being Predictable

Isn't this always the way? You buy a season pass to say Skiing?  No snow!
I bought a season Pass this year as years before for the Provincial Parks we like to go to, and BAM! it's rained almost every other day since.  Predictable right?

I bought groceries for the kids to eat? "I'm hungry! there's nothing to eat" Predictable!

I finally get comfortable with turning on the new Radio station in town with my kids in the house all summer? BAM! they start airing distasteful commercials with beeped out swear words or start discussing the legalization of Pot, and Swapping wives, if they had a long lost twin? ugh!!! I really should have known better. Responsibility is really lost on the general public.  Predictable! Mess up a good thing again.

So here's my blah blah blah on all these.


Rain? Stop!!!
Snow? if you must in the winter, when we expect to go sliding skating and skiing, and snowshoeing.
Grocerystores? make food more affordable. I just forked out 210. this week before getting all the meat and yogurt and milk and bread.
Kids? at what I give you not what you want. I don't care that you think you can predict how that chicken will taste because I made chicken last week? TRY it! I swear I changed it.

As for language. Yes I have been known to swear, but it's not something I'm proud of, and it's not something I want to hear from impressionable children of the world. It looks bad, sounds bad, and is not funny at all. It's not funny to hear a 4yrold say "son of a ..." or "F this or that" or "S...." when they drop a toy.  If we can all clean up our language and our expectations of the world out there, maybe we can raise a world that cares more about how others feel. Consideration for others is not predictable in this world. It's not. 

And I've got older kids who I will correct if I hear them talk with such disrespect to the people they are talking to or about.  I am the parent I will correct them.It's a hard job when all the adults around them are not acting with any form of respect for each other.  Parenting is hard. Anything worth doing is usually hard.

Respect, a word that needs more respect! 

In my Head and Memories

Summer really doesn't go this way. It doesn't rain, it doesn't get cold, and it doesn't feel blah. It is always sunny in my summer memories, and we wore shorts from the minute it turned summer until the day we went back to school in the fall. Fall (although really the end of September) was the Tuesday after Labour Day and not before.
Today, is the end of our first full week of Summer vacation. I haven't had to get up and make lunches or tell anyone what time is bedtime or up time or anything else. So waht am I doing? I'm watching the rain fall!

On the plus side everything is Green!

Me time Again

I can feel it closing in, the end of the school year is tomorrow. I'm done packing lunches as of today. It's time for me! so in an effort to get some "me" time, I'm coming her to the Kyooty Side of things. My Side. Not the Center side where I often talk about the kids or share my kids with you all. (much to their dismay) But me.

So update on me?
I'm stuggling with with weight loss again. (Big news right?)
I'm working on an idea to get me some down time over the summer once by taking an hour or two in the mornings before the sleepers wake. (Ok yeah that looks better written down, we'll see)

I wonder if you'll all join me for tea in that chunk of time?

I've finally got a cellphone over the past year so I can even sneak off to write here without sitting in this specific chair.

I'm still selling Avon.

This is turning into one of those "this is empty space must fill it" or like Date night without the kids where all you think about is what the kids are up to or talking about the kids where they don't see?

I can't be the only blogger that does this can I?

How do you all find your Me time?