Easter Sunday...

Yes, I know...

Easter was a couple of weeks ago now, 

but I have been procrastinating..

I don't suppose anyone else knows what THAT is about??

This is my grand daughter Cassie...

Isn't she precious??

I think so, but I might be bias...

Pastor Doug is hiding in the background...

For those of you who are new readers, 

I have to briefly explain what my Easter Sunday was like..
I had a BAD morning...
Has anyone ever noticed that church mornings are some of the worst?
Well to make my morning more difficult,
We were visiting a church we used to go to ~ Avonhurst Pentecostal
(Great chuch by the way)
and Kendal wasn't home to help me,
(He was helping out on sound and had to leave early)
I dressed up Gracie REALLY PRETTY..
However, they were being rotten little angels
creatures from the deep..
and by the time I got to church Gracie had pulled out her pretty pony tails
and stepped in mud up to her knees...LOL
and I was so stressed out, I forgot to take off my slippers!!
 Good thing I wasn't out to make first impressions..

She looks like her mommy...

This is my friend Kim...
I keep wanting picutres of her African outfit..
She picked it up when she was on a Missions trip last year..

Tomorrow Bree, I promise I will TRY to get to the pictures you want...
I will not procrastinate...I will not procrastinate...I will not...
(What was it I had to do??)

Now, I am off to take my youngest to her first ever swim lesson...
I am NOT looking forward to being seen in a swim suit...
I can promise there will be NO pictures of that...
RIGHT JUDY?

Just in case you ever thought I was a good mommy...

Is it a rule? When you wash the floor does EVERYTHING have to be drawn to it?

Like the bowl of pudding I just dropped on it? (Not my kids...ME.)

I am having a bad mommy week.
I am NEVER taking my kids shopping to Sobey's every again...
This is me...trying to be sweet....
"OK Jeremy, You can use the little kid cart...just stay with Mommy..."
WHAT WAS I THINKING?
Sobeys IS trying to torture it's customers.
Maybe it is just me they don't like...

So, I made it through the vegie and fruit section mostly in one piece
That is...till I realized the boy was collecting his own selection of groceries...
"Jeremy...put BACK the Twinkies...No, we don't need 10 pkgs of bread..put them back...
PUT them back...put THEM back...PUT THEM back...PUT THEM BACK!
OUCH!"
(This from me after my son ran into my ankle with the cart.)'
"Jeremy, you can't drive the cart that close to my feet....
NO, Jeremy, get back here, you almost hit that lady...Ohoh
You hit that lady...say sorry to the nice lady, JEREMY...say sorry...He is sorry lady..."

and then we turn to the frozen food section...
"OUCH WHAT THE ****"
Jeremy has just ran into my ankle for a second time with the cart...
Adults all over the store are now giving me the evil eye...
"JERRRRREMMMMYYYYYYYY...youhavetobecarefulwiththecartyouhurtyourmommy....

Jeremy laughs gleefully and throws cheese into his cart...
"Put that back"
We make it to the dry goods section...
now there are several boxes of cookies in the cart...
"Jeremy put back the cookies.."
From the boy...
"I want cookies MOMMY!"
"Trust me son, you have had enough sugar..."

Jeremy runs ahead full speed with the cart,
narrowly missing a man coming toward me..
"Jeremy! Be careful!"
Too late..
The cart tips over, and all of his ill gotten gains are all over the floor..
The man stops and gives me "the look"
If your a parent, you know which "look" I mean...
The "look" which plainly says...Can't you control your child?

I start to pick up Jeremy's stuff and put it all in his cart,
...and he dumps it again!!
By now...I AM frustrated, and I take the pkg of pudding Jeremy has grabbed off the shelf
and throw it in my cart...and sigh.
ONLY...
I missed.
Instead
I nailed my one year old in the head...
and SHE starts screaming...
Of course, I was instantly upset...not having meant to knock her..
and so I hug her, and say
"sorry Baby, mom didn't mean to hit you in the head..."
Guy finally walks past me...gives me another  filthy look, shaking his head......

I grab my cart, and my kids, and race to the till before anything else can happen..
When we got home I found Organic oranges..
"Kendal? Did you buy these??"
"Nope!"
My son managed to sneak in some extra merchandise after all...
I am NEVER going back to Sobey's with them to shop again...
Not that they will have me back any time soon...

an acorn is a chav

Friday Follow!

Welcome to Friday Follow! 

This is something new I found today as I was blog hopping, 

and so I thought I would give it a shot...

It's all about meeting other bloggers and finding other cool new blogs!

Who can't get into that? 

If you would like to join,

click on the logo above...and have fun playing!!

Today's Blogs to check out?

One to Try...

Hearts Make Families

and

Midday Escapades

Leave a comment with them, 

and with me too, and I will follow you as well! 

Have a great weekend all....

Feel free to check out other blogs as well...

Rain Rain Go Away..

What is with Saskatchewan weather this spring?

First we get raging gail force winds,

and then rain so bad that cars were getting stuck in the underpasses..

My husbands place of business flooded...

They spent the next two days clearing out the water...

This picture doesn't even began to do justice to the amount of water under here..

When I drove by the first time, there was a car and a van both stranded under here.

The car had water half way up the driver side window..

and it was serious enough that an ambulance and the police showed up...

Not quite sure what good the ambulance ended up being though...

Pepsi is like CRACK for babies....

Wordless Wednesday!

....And did the Barenaked Ladies Rock??

You can bet your *** they did!!! 

We had great seats...10th row...right in the middle..

and as expected, they put on a great show...

I also appreciated the guy who interrupted the show

 to get his Riders jersey signed..

Ballsy!

Really missed Steven Page though...

Wish he would come back.. :(

Ed Robertson

 I apologize for the quality of the other pics...

but I had to sneak my camera in, 

so the great big Nikon was out...LOL!

For more Wordless Wednesday

click here!

When it rains...it pours...

This is Regina today. 

Not kidding.

And what day do you think I was intelligent enough

to drag two little toddlers out?

Cause library time is just THAT important...

And after ...we went to Chapters, 

 to pick up THIS book.

We took it out of the library four times in a row,

because every time we returned it..

the boy would cry, and ask for it back.

I finally thought...

Easy Peasy! I'll just buy it!...

Ok. Not so easy.

It took us a month and ordering from two different suppliers..

Anyways...today it was in.

Problem was, that the Pampered Princess

was already having a Bad Day.

Before the book store.

Before the library.

and so now...I had to carry her in, 

by one arm, her screaming about my abuse..

all the way in...

Until she saw the glass things...
Guess where she headed...full steam...

While I was there,

I also gave in and bought this book.

yes...I am a sucker.

By now..I have had enough of chasing Gracie screaming down the isles

clutching Thomas the train in a choke hold, 

So once again I grab her stiff, screaming body off the floor

by one arm...(the other trying to contain my excited son)

While she yells NO, NO, NO MOMMY NO....

While clucking store clerks shake their heads...

While a well meaning older lady says..

That's all right dear...we have all been there...

(In my head)

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE THERE NOW?

Finally, after having held up a line of five people

while I pay for my books,

chase the princess, 

drop my debit card, 

chase the princess

put in the wrong id code

Tell Jeremy to quit kicking the princess....

We go to the car...

Guess what. 

Starts pouring again...
Gracie starts crying. Again.

On to Walmart...

Finally... a break...

It has quit raining..

I ran to McDonalds in glee...

and actually had a semi quiet lunch..

except for Gracie screaming cause

"I wanna dwagon."

The rest of Walmart was fairly painless until we went to leave.

Of course as soon as I walked out the door...

it started to pour and blow...

and I am not kidding. 

It almost blew me off my feet....

By the time we reached the car...

I was soaked...and covered in mud...

the kids were soaked, but at least in the cart..

I started to unload the groceries...

and a van pulls up beside me...

and waits...

after a minute, I look up,

and she is looking pointedly at me, 

and at the handi sign...

(I was parked in the child spot next to it..)

Apparently she felt she couldn't park with me standing by my car...

So I backed up and waited...

and waited...

and waited...

FINALLY she tries to park...

TWICE...

DID I MENTION IT WAS POURING?

By now, I am standing there 

water pouring down my face...

drenched to the skin..

and she BACKS up 

gives me a dirty look and drives away!!!!

WOW! 

Finally we managed to all get in the car, 

and drove home...

By the time we got there, 

 the little lady was passed out with her giant 

four dollar bunny on top of her in the car seat...

From here on in though...it can only be good..

Barenaked Ladies concerts tonight!
Without the princess and the boy...
Have fun Grandma!  :)

Can't wait! Will make up for all the miserable weather 

the second I am in there...

We got row ten!

and it's all good..I did get a giant bunny...

Maybe Thursday when we head out, 

we can try for a tornado!

Easter Sunday...

 Gracie and Jeremy in their Easter Sunday dress...

You would NOT BELIEVE how hard it was to get this couple of pics...

They were NOT behaving...LOL!

 I might add, that by the time I got to church, 

Gracie had pulled out the cute little pony tails, 

and stepped in mud up to her knees..

I was so stressed out, that I forgot to take off my slippers,

and didn't realize it till I got to church! LOL!

This little girl is so cute..I haven't really been able to pick her up yet, 

every time I have seen her, I was sick...

so today I decided to finally take a couple of pictures of her and her mom...

 Emerald and Naomi

Yes...these are my son's underwear...

I think she might be a little confused

about where these are supposed to go...LOL!