Ughhh...

Allergies or a cold I have no idea but I feel miserable...
My rose is running, my throat is scratchy, my eyes are gucky, my ears are ichy and I just have no energy at all...
Simon worked during the night last night and got home at about 8 this morning and is sleeping but Xavier doesn't want to leave his side... I got Simon to go sleep in on the bed in the playroom so that Xavier can play and watch a movie while being near his dad...
Colin has been really fussy these last few days and doesn't want to be a foot away from us... I have been wearing him alot but I don't feel too good...

This week is going to be very busy...We wanted to get tons of things done this weekend so that the house would be clean and easy to maintain until next weekend.. (Colin will be a year on Friday and we are having a Party on Sat) There will be a few people here which I don't mind... the thing that makes me a little queasy though is that there will be a few family members here (my mom's side) and they are very critical people and everything has to be perfect... So anyways... I have alot of things to do before Saturday...
Tomorrow during the day Xavier is going to be in Daycare so I will have a bit of time to do a few things but I am giving a pre-natal tomorrow night, then on Wednesday I have a meeting with my fellow breastfeeding councelors, then on Thursday I have a doctors appt for me and Colin in Montreal... Friday Somin is taking off from work though so that we can get things done around the house and Xavier will be in Daycare so hopefully that will work out...

Anyways... today is an Ughh day...

Now this is amazing!

Simon got an E-mail about this guy who does 3D street art and WOW... This guy is amazing! Look at these!!!

http://www.rense.com/general67/street.htm

I got my first order in today!

I made my first Order on Monday and got it today and I put adds up
everywhere yesterday... Of course in my order I needed to add things for myself
so that I can know the product... So I got my first stretchy wrap and my first
pouch and I love them!!! YEAH.. Colin's feet will never hit the ground again
LOL!!!!

So now I have in my Baby wearing Library..


Ellaroo Wrap

Maya Wrap (ring sling)

2 homemade ring slings

2 Pouches (one cotton, one fleece)

1 Stretchy Wrap

2 homemade cotton wraps

Deuter Kid Comfort II (Frame BackPack)



The only problem is that Colin is starting to get bigger (he'll be a year next
week) so I guess I'll have to make another Baby to keep on wearing ;) LOL

Quiet but Eventful weekend...

We stayed home this weekend and cleaned the house and just hung out with the kids... It was a pretty quiet weekend, It rained most of the weekend anyways so it felt good to stay in... This morning I went down stairs to check the garden and left the kids in the house with Simon... I forgot to close the gate behind me cause I was sure that they would stay inside but Simon came out to talk to me and Colin and Xavier followed... Of course Colin headed straight for the stairs (6 Concrete stairs) and all we saw was the little body at the top disapear... I got to him within a second of the fall and held him close and brought him inside... My hands felt all over him to make sure he was OK and Xavier just kept on telling me that Colin wanted Maju (to nurse) and I promptly gave Comin the breast while I kept on examining him... Besides a a little red scape on his shoulder we couldn't find anything else wrong and within a minute or two he was up and walking and back to his old self... This kid is Resiliant! After Supper tonight we went to a park on the Water side and took some pics and had fun...

Colin and I

Walking along

Silouhettes

Watching the Sky

My beautiful boys...

Look!

What's over there Mama?

Colin and I

Two funny little tidbits....

About Colin:

A few months ago when Colin was 100% in the "everything needs to be tasted"
phase a funny little thing happened...

I was at the Computer and Colin was just crawling around being Colin and found
the Cord for Simon's iPod and started sucking it... within seconds I realized
what he was doing but only when I noticed
pop up on the Computer... ;)

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About Xavier:
(this morning)

Xavier: Oh my God!
Simon: Xavier, What's God?
Xavier: Star Wars!

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and of course this pic is a classic....

Mr. Christie you make good Music!

WW Meeting...

I went to a WW meeting today and got my new startup material... They got english copies just for me ;)
I would love to keep going but money is really tight at the moment and it costs 14$ a week...
I want to go for support but I saw the fgroup and I don't know if I would get much real support... but the main reason is that I feel the need to keep on track to see a real weight difference at the weigh-in each week... It feels more official and I don't like seeing the scale go up so I am motivated to keep going down...
I guess I could make my self accountable for the weight loss each week by myself though.... I think I will just try to find a place online that I can get support and be able to get excited by weighing in...
Anyways... I have a coupon left from a few years ago that I can use so I think I am going to go at least next week...
We'll see after that....

I am speechless....

This is more than my brain can handle!

Chandler breast-feeding policy includes criminal charges for violators

I mean WHAT!!!! I.... I.... I....




speechless....

And the times they are a changin'.....

I have always loved whole foods, I have always loved eating in a healthy manner but I have never acted on it 100% in my daily life...
I know that it is the best thing for me and my family so now I am giving up the convenience (well most of it) and going to make whole foods completely a part of our life and eating habits and I am starting today...
I no longer want the convienence foods in my house, I want to cook more from "scratch", I want to eat more grains and seeds, Eat more veggies and fruit, I want to cook mostly vegetarian meals (though I am not planning on becoming a vegetarian), I want to eat more fish, I want to eat less products with refined sugars etc...
Most of all... I want to improve my health, my well being, I want to teach my kids how to eat... and another motivation.... I also want to save money!

Tonights Menu...
Homemade Vege-Pate on Whole Grain Organic Bread and a Salad with a roasted Sesame dressing... Sounds yummy huh?!!!!!

World Breastfeeding Week

What can I say... there is nothing comparable to Breastmilk and couldn't Imagine not breastfeeding the boys...
I don't know if I would have believed someone if they told me that I would be Tandem nursing a 3 yo and an almost 1 year old but I wouldn't have it different now!

I was not breasfed and it does make me sad, I feel like I missed out on something..
For World Breastfeeding Week I send out my best wishes to everyone that is breastfeeding or has breastfed...

My hopes for the Future:

That Breastfeeding will become the norm
That Formula companies will be made to back off
That all women that want to Breastfeed will get the support they need
That Doctors and Nurses will become informed and less ignorant
That Breastfeeding will no longer be seen as "gross"
That NIP will be a norm and will no longer be a Taboo
That Formula would only be availible to those who can't Breastfeed
That People that have something mean to say would just not say it
That Breastfeeding won't be blamed for everything anymore (Colic etc)

Here are my Medals that I wear Proudly!
Sapphire (3 Years) / Gold (1 Year) (Colin is a bit more then 11 months but I believe I deserve the 1 year one) and the Purple Medal is for the rough Start I had with Colin

About weight part 2

This is a followup to my last post about my weight...
On my birthday I decided that I was going to really try to get back into shape and lose weight again.. I know I can do it because I did it before... So on Wednesday the 27th of July I weighed my self and was shocked to see 240.... about 10 pounds higher then I thought and about 15 pounds higher then my weight before I got pregnant with Colin.
I started to journal what I ate and watched my portions and counted my points... still confused on how many I really need because of the tandem nursing.... Anyways... in one week I lost 6 pounds! I love the first week because losing the water weight just makes you fell like you are actually doing something good and seing it on the scale just makes you want to continue....
However... I need support and I am counting on those who come read here once in a while or even on a regular basis... so I am going to be blogging my journey and I want as much feedback as I can get so I can keep it up!

Going Batty ;)

I was getting ready to go into the pool and just grabbing the towels that were on the line and then saw one that had fallen on the stairs... so I go to pick it up and I here a real high pitch sound that sounded like the beetles we have in the spring that try to get in out house so I thought one of them was in there… then the towel was moving... so I think…. Hmmmmm…. That must be a big bug!
So I move the towel to let the bug out and then I see some thing huddled in the corner of the towel... At first I thought it was a mouse or something but then it turned its head and screamed at me and I realized that it was a bat!! So I cover the thing back up again and start breathing again... I'm not scared of bats per-say I just wasn't prepared to have one scream at me at that particular moment... ya know?
So I go swimming, breathe a bit and then went to open the towel again to see if it was OK.. It was already on the stairs at that point and I took a few pics... I went in the house for a few secs and when I came back out it had disappeared... so hopefully it was just stunned... I guess it had flown into the towel during the night and made it fall...

The Bat

Mad Bat with Big Teeth!

Never seen a bat up close like this...

Arghh....

I have been sick for a few weeks... stuffy nose, coughing etc... The last few days the coughing has got worse so I decided to go to the clinic today... I hate the Walk-in clinic here.. the doctors are so rude and the guy I got I really hate cause he prescribes things without explanation...
Anyways... turns out I have bronchitis and my Asthma is getting worse and my old meds just can't cut it anymore and just weren't working well when I needed them.... So I got Antibiotics for the infection which I really don't want to take but everyday my cough is getting worse and all my muscles hurt from coughing... Two new pumps for my asthma and to help clear my lungs from the infection and Cough syrup to help me stop coughing at night (I don't understand why it needs to have codeine in it though!)... It cost me 210$!!!! I can't beleive it!! I didn't even want to go to the clinic but I couldn't stand the feeling of not being able to breathe right anymore...
Anyways... I also have to go for a chest X-ray on Monday... Arghh....

Same old Gripe....

What do people expect from these babies... I am SO SICK!!! of hearing about babies Crying themselves to sleep... it is SICK!! People seem to have this idea that kids need to learn to self-soothe and that night wakings and having trouble falling asleep by themselves are just bad habits and their kids are just manipulating them... Yeah.. big Manipulation!! They are crying out because they want some warm and tender time and help to fall asleep from the person that they love the most... (I better tell my DH to back off when he cuddles me at night cause that is plain manipulation)
And night wakings... Oh yeah that doctor knows best saying that a 10 month old could not be possibly nursing for any other reason then comfort (and of course needing comfort is wrong and a bad habit... we all want to be alone and uncomforted for the rest of our lives right?) What about hunger? what about thirst? What the Heck does a doctor know about a babies needs, and why the heck is comfort such an awful thing to want...
It really makes me sick to know that parents out there care for their kids yet beleive that they are manipulative little creatures that need to be trained like dogs and need to be taught at as soon as possible that the world is a cold and lonely place and that some needs are just not good enough to be met (emotional being the biggest)... Why do people think that so many adults repress their feelings, are stressed and have emotional needs that have never been met by the people that they loved the most and trusted the most as young children... Why is it that people have so many trust issues?


Well... this will be continued soon because at the moment I am being called to nurse my two beautiful boys to sleep...