I keep telling him he really should have his own blog

I had started a post yesterday, but it was mostly a poor me post about how sick I was and how horrible I felt. Today I am feeling a bit better, though still under the weather and should be headed to bed where I can get some rest while the kids are sleeping too.
I will leave you with an excerpt from an email my hubby sent me. Responses we could have to questions we get asked on a regular basis...

"Oooohhhh are they twins?"
"No but they were side by side in the nursery and we liked that one so much we stole her too."

"They don't look the same, are they identical?"
"Yes they are, but Mommy did a lot of drugs while pregnant and that one is the Crack Baby, the other one is fine."

"You guys must be busy."
"Not at all, we hire recently laid off oil rig workers to change their diapers. Those guys like getting their hands dirty anyways."

:)

Wow! 11 years!

Today marks 11 years since DH proposed (I wrote about it last year, so won't write again). I am so thankful for the lifemate that I have, that GOd gave to me.

11 years, several trips, 3 different churches that we worked in, two apartments and now a house that is our and a wonderful son and twins on the way. It's been an awesome ride so far and I am looking forward to what the next 50 or 60 years will bring!

Love you M!

P.S. I know we don't do Valentine's on Valentine's Day, but the babies and I are craving chocolates, so if you want to get us some in the next while, we would love it! :)

My Week

This past week has been a bit of a busy one. Last week DH was home to work on the basement. It was so nice to have him here, though he was downstairs most of the time doing mudding and taping and sanding. Not too fun of a job and extremely messy - dust everywhere. I helped him clean up a few different days and the first day even though I had a mask on my nose and everything were still covered in the fine dust. On Sunday, we made it usable again - good thing as I NEEDED to do laundry and couldn't get into my laundry room as it had plastic stapled over the door. Anyways, now we got to start on the priming. Maybe we'll be done for Christmas!?!
Speaking of which, I still have not put up my Christmas decorations and I am beginning to get a little depressed about it. I look forward to Christmas and decorating every year and then it just seems to fly right by and this year will be even worse as it'll be 3 weeks less that I get to have the wonderful Christmas lights and pretty decorations. Oh well, we will be doing it this weekend, for sure!
Saturday my book club had their annual Girls Christmas Party at my neighbour C's house. It's always fun! We had a gift exchange and I, of course, gave something that had Tupperware in it. Apparently the ladies liked my gift as it was stolen (yeah, it was a "Chinese" gift exchange where you have numbers and can steal a gift twice) and then some people wanted to order some. I ended up having 6 people order things through my Christmas party, which is not bad at all! :)
Monday I had a Tupperware party at my friend K's house. Only 3 people besides the two of us showed up, but we had fun anyway - it was very casual - I did no presentation, we just talked, I have my stuff out and they could ask questions. It was an enjoyable evening, though I was out late again.
Tuesday I had A here for an hour and a half - C and I have begun a babysitting exchange. While she goes to speech therapy with J, I have A every other Tuesday a.m. and then she takes R the other two weeks. Then I took R to A's to put down for his nap and went to an appointment with DH, then back to A's for Mom's group. A cold has been making its way around our house, so I really didn't feel well in the afternoon at A's and when R and I came home I just rested. DH has the cold pretty badly.
On Wednesday, R and I went for chiro appointments, then for groceries. It took DH an hour and a half to drive home after picking up our Subaru at the dealership that only takes half an hour normally to drive home from. There was around 15 accidents on the road that DH heard about when he was driving.
Yesterday was interesting. It started off pretty normal, cleaning house and trying to get things down around here. Just before I was going to put R down, DH phoned to see if we could pick him up from the CTrain as his cold was bothering him so much he couldn't concentrate at work. We did and R fell asleep for 2 minutes in the car. When we got home, he talked and complained for an hour before I went in there. He was feeling hot and his nose was running, so I gave him Tylenol Cold and rocked him for a long while. I finally put him down and he cried - but I was the heartless mommy who let him and went to have a shower - when I got out 10 minutes later he was fast asleep and slept for 2 good hours before I went in to wake him at 5 (I was scared he wouldn't go to bed if I didn't! :) DH slept through everything from quarter to two until five! I got an hour sleep in myself - yeah! My parents came over for supper and then stayed to babysit R while DH and I went to a Friends Church Leadership Christmas party. DH is going to be doing some speaking at church and this was a way for us to get to know some of the people who are in leadership there. We felt it was pretty important that we go or we would've stayed home due to DH's cold - though after his long nap and some Tylenol he was feeling able to function. I am glad we went and I am thankful for our church. People went out of their way to introduce themselves and strike up a conversation with us. It made us both feel good as well as confirmed our decision to make Friends Church our home church. We are very thankful to God for our church and the people we have gotten to know as a result.
Well, I gotta go, I have a Tupperware order to put in this morning and I gotta get a hold of K to do it. She decided to go to Arizona for a week, so this may be fun!

Flames game

On Thursday DH and I went to the Flames game and had a nice night out together. My dad came over and babysat for us (without my mom as she was sick) for the first time on his own. He didn't break his record of no diapers changed as I got R ready for bed before we left!I love spending time with my sweetie, all on our own!

Do what Mommy says, not what Daddy does!

Tonight at supper DH did something that made me extremely upset on one hand and made me want to laugh on the other. You know how you know pasta is done if it sticks to the wall when you throw it at it? Well, DH decided to throw a piece of fettuccine at the light fixture above our table. R was thrilled! He wanted to try too. Kept on talking about it the rest of the meal. Made motions to pick up one of his alfredo sauce covered fettuccine and throw it. I had to talk him out of it and educate him about how it is not polite nor socially acceptable to throw pasta at the table. People don't want to end up wearing food. Mommy doesn't want to clean it up. Just because Daddy did it doesn't make it right nor something that you can do.
Most women call their husband the big kid... this is one of the prime reasons why. :)