Ear Aches, Hair Color, Foot Pains and Little Monkeys!

Hello All!

Sorry that it's been awhile since I've had the chance to update my blog... Things have been a little insane over here... I'll start with this blog and write another one later about what has taken most of my time...

Are you ready?

Yes, that's right... My hair is purple! Funny thing really... Family photos was a week and a half away and I had just told Tyler that I was going to color my hair a 'natural color' for the photos (which are being sent to everyone we know with our new address and such...) and then Chelsey over at Rice Photography asked if I would do a photo shoot for her the upcoming Saturday... What do I do? Color my hair a funky purple! *LOL* It took me a few days to realize just exactly what I had done... So purple hair for the family photos it is!!

In the wee hours (and I mean wee hours) of Sunday the 13th Daddy took Emma to the emergency for a ear infection. Poor kid was screaming and crying once it was bedtime! My heart ached hearing her.... So Daddy packed her up with the PSP and a movie and off they went! Amazingly they were back home on about an hour and a half! Apparently when you take a little kid in they boost you on the list a little and when you mention 'ear infection' they send you to a different area where only a pediatrician works! Go figure! Sunday morning I got up and bought Emma her much needed med's... Things have been much quieter since! *L* (AND we made it to our last day of Church in our current ward! Boo Yah!)

Monday Tyler came home with this....

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Wait for it....

There we go!

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Poor guy...

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Blah!

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Ugh!

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So long story short, he sprained his ankle... I should take a new photo... Blood is breaking under the skin everywhere... When he wraps it his toes do that Fred Flintstone thing...

He went to the Doctor after work on Monday and has been placed on light duty at work (erasing marks off papers before they're filed... Yippee! :P) until sometime next week.

Could this happen at any better of a time?

Nope.

I'm very thankful that it happen this week (although I would have loved it to never have happened!) and not next week as this weekend we take possession of our new home and will be painting our girls walls (two different colors with a chair rail in between!!!) and cleaning, tinting and sealing our basement floor. Next week is the big move and I need Tyler to be in his best health (feet included) to move everything!

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Oh there we go! I forgot I had this on here... It's now like this everywhere on his foot!

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(This photo reminded me of when Zoë was little and had pudgy feet! *L* Without the bruising and blood stuff going on...)

And tonight I went to see what the girls were up to in the room and this is what I came across...

Yeah... Lucky that thing is stable! Goodness!

Mommy wasn't very happy. They started to get down once they saw me in the room but, to their surprise, I said 'STAY!' and ran upstairs to grab Tyler's cell phone so he could see what his little monkeys had been doing... (He's been hanging out on the couch for the last few days and only moving if he really needs to! *L*)...

I do have to give the girls credit when they were getting down... Emma said 'Big girls first!' and then climbed down the side onto her end table and onto her bed all while Zoë waited patiently... then Zoë climbed down the side onto the end table and down to the floor.

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So this is a quick update of how our life has been.... Oh wait! The house we're living in officially sold on Monday! We had the inspector here Saturday (this story deserves it's very own blog!)... Things went really well (obviously) and we did family photos out in Leduc Saturday! I'll post some of those soon!

Okay that's all for now! *L* Hope you enjoyed! Please leave a comment... Ya know...If you feel like it...Or something... Nothing negative about how I'm a bad Mommy for telling my kids to 'STAY' instead of rushing over and hauling them off the shelf please. Thanks!

The Chaos has just begun!

This morning the Realtor called and informed us that there was a couple that would like to look at the house between 2:30-3:30pm.


Ugh!


Now as some of you may know, our Church time is from 1-4pm... Yes, you read it correctly.... 3 hours! *L* Every Sunday!


So when the Realtor called you would think we'd automatically be saying 'Heck yeah, Bring them on over.... Why not have lunch??!' (Okay... Well maybe we'd leave out the lunch part... Maybe...) but we didn't....


You see... The girls have slowly been catching the chest cold that I've had for two months now... And I hate every horrible sounding cough they produce in the middle of the night where they can no longer breath from the coughing attack....


This happened a lot last night. Two nights ago Zoë got a bit scared at the fact that she could no longer breath (honestly) and came to our bed for awhile... Last night was no different (except for when Emma rolled off her bed at 4am and smashed her nose into the wardrobe which has some hard edges... Poor thing! *L*)... So this morning we decided that I would stay home with Zoë while Tyler took Emma to Church... This way not every child in Nursery would get the horrible, dreaded chest cold that lasts forever....


And then my cell rang.


*sigh*


So, of course, we prepared for people to come to the house for the viewing. Tyler would go to Sacrament while I did stuff around the house with the girls... This includes making sure that every one's beds are made (bounce a quarter off of them good! *L*), every room is spotless as they can be, vacuumed (including kitchen, living room, etc), dusted.... The dishes from last night are washed... Bathrooms cleaned completely through once again (this happens every day now... It's tiring! *L*)... I do not feel good about myself until this routine is done before we leave the house... Every time. Also, the just mentioned must be done while not allowing the girls to tear what I've just cleaned to pieces.... I think that's my hardest chore of them all! *L*


Anyhoo.... Tyler showered this morning while the girls watched some kid-TV and I got the bedrooms cleaned and got myself dressed. Then Tyler ironed his shirt (because, as we should all know, I DO NOT iron! *L*) and such while I made the girls pancakes and waffles... And tore apart the bins that were under our kitchen table (some may remember that I mentioned I had taken our table away... I did. It's still in pieces in the storage room upstairs... This is the craft table from the back room... Um humm... Not my idea...). I couldn't stand the fact that Christmas decorations were hanging out of the bin into your walk space in the kitchen. The kitchen is small enough as it is... So Tyler comes upstairs and is a bit flustered at the fact that I have now made more work for myself! In a few more minuets I had everything packed up where it's supposed to be and the bins in the storage rooms ready to move! AND my kitchen looks more open! HA!


Back to my story.... I started to vacuum which I think was going to make Tyler lose his head from total confusion (why, WHY would you do this to yourself???!!) when he took over. I showered (YAY!)... I gave him instructions to vacuum the whole house, every corner you can think of!


After my shower I came out and there's Tyler, all dressed for Church sitting in one of our living room chairs.... Napping! *L* Poor guy! And to add to this he didn't vacuum everywhere that I had in mind. Although he 'swept really well' in the living room! Ha, Ha, Ha.... Yup.


Tyler left for Church shortly after this while the girls played hockey and golf in our living room (with a death threat if they break the TV! *L*)... I did my hair and make-up...


Oh yeah! I left out one of the best parts of my story... Right before I went into the shower (but after all that cleaning) I got a text message from the Realtor, "Showing cancelled.... :) lol"


UGH!


Anyways.... Tyler went to Sacrament, I got myself and the girls ready... And somehow kept them busy enough that they didn't make the house look like a tornado had stopped by....


Now we're ready to head out to family dinner on the other side of the city... And I have some peace in knowing that the house looks 'show-ready' just in case someone want to view it while we're out.


And the chaos begins....

678....

Sq Ft is what I have been living in for 5 years.

Yes, 678 sq.ft.

It was alright when it was just Tyler and myself.... Then is was okay when we had Emma... But once Zoë joined us it became tight. VERY tight.

Tyler always thought we were in the 700's for square footage.... I honestly didn't think so.

Then the stats came out on the house and I saw the numbers '678' or 63 m2.

Awesome.

*L*

I couldn't stand it and wrote the Realtor last night with the proper spelling of the College (see 'Driving me nuts!')... And this is what was waiting for me in my e-mail this morning:

"Thank You :) Will fix.
Any word on a KEY ?"

HA, HA, HA... Yes, I crammed in talking to you in the morning, driving to the other side of the city, dropped off my girls at their Great-Grandparents, picked up a water/sand play table for my girls on the north side. drop that off at my Mom's, drove home and had to wait in traffic for a car that was on fire to be taken away... Got home with just enough time to rush to get showered, shaved, hair and make-up done (all in 30 min's! This is amazing for me! *L*) and out the door to meet my Husband at his work by 4pm. Why did I meet him at his work? I didn't have a clue at the time.... But once into his vehicle we spent the rest of the evening furniture shopping (ideas) and going out to Fatburger which, by the way, is one of the best restaurants I've been too! Our evening was, sort of, a date! AWWWW! I'll take what I can get! Since I think our last 'date' was in November! Ha, Ha, Ha....

Off topic... Anyhoo, back on topic....Definably didn't get the key cut yesterday for him. As well, checked out the mls listing today and the spelling still isn't fixed! *LOL*

Ugh.

I better go now... Must get these kids fed and out the door to spend some time at Chelsey's so I can have the house ready for a showing tonight at 5:30pm... (While writing this the Realtor called to ask if I had a key for him yet -hadn't checked my response to his e-mail- and to inform me that another realtor would like to show the house tonight... 5:30-6:30pm... And that we have confirmed a showing for Saturday at 1pm (this bounced around from Saturday to Sunday at 10:30am -which was not going to happen as that's our 'mad rush' to get ready for Church- and back to Saturday at 1pm! *L*)....

Right. Best get changed before the realtor arrives to leave a key box on my door...

Driving me nuts!

Okay so it's driving me nuts... I have to show you the spelling error!

"Grant McQwen" is what the Realtor wrote in his first draft and then published on his final draft.....

The true spelling of this VERY well known, possibly about to take over the College world in Edmonton Colleges...

Grant MacEwan (named after "Dr. J.W. Grant MacEwan, former lieutenant governor of Alberta, MLA for Alberta, Mayor of Calgary, author, historian, environmentalist, and educator") is growing so quickly! It's been around since 1971 but just in the last 5 years has it taken over downtown Edmonton (oh yeah, there's four Grant MacEwan's here! On every side of the city! We, of course, live by the 'Centre for the Arts and Communications' one.... Well... Yeah! *L*) with it's huge campus, living for student, work out space, etc...

Anyhoo.... I could go on for hours about how he probably should have noticed the HUGE signs on the College with their name on it... Or the billboards all over the city promoting registrations for next years and summer courses.... Or their ads on just about every radio station here...

Oh yeah! And it's ORANGE! I mean really, REALLY orange!

**I'd like to note that the orange building is not the downtown one.... This is!

Welcome to Grant MacEwan Downtown Campus!

Robbins Health Learning Centre

(Totally check out the link for the above...)

AND they have "A student residence nearby" (as stated in the article from above) that "are not dorms, but rather apartment-style one and two bedroom units with their own kitchen and bathroom areas"...

You have to, HAVE TO take the virtual tour!

http://www.spinsimple.com/macewanresidence/student/

RIGHT NOW! It's insane!

WHAT exactly is the defintation of 'Realtor'??!!

Well let me tell you!



"Realtor
One entry found.

Realtor


Main Entry: Re·al·tor
Pronunciation: \ˈrē(-ə)l-tər, -ˌtȯr, ÷ˈrē-lə-tər also rē-ˈal-tər\
Function: collective mark


—used for a real estate agent who is a member of the National Association of Realtors"



Thank you Merriam-Webster!



As you see know one really knows what the Realtors job is...... This must explaint eh trouble I've been having with ours.... Well, not really ours.... But my Husband's parents whom we've been renting our house from for... Humm... I've been here about 5 years and Tyler was here for a few years before that... So 7ish years. Yup.



I'm learning that I may have too high of expectations from Realtors, can you believe that??!! *L* I knew that today was the day this house (that we're currently living in) was to go on the market... So i get up this morning and check the Realtors page and there it is! Spelling errors and all! We're right arcross from one of Edmonton's most well known Colleges and he has spelled it wrong! GAH! Does he live here???!! Honestly.... So I give him a call... Chat it up with him about how I need ot get a key and how I need to be out of the house for at least an hour when there are viewings, etc.... And I forget to mention the spelling errors.... I did ask about the listing though and he assured me it would be out today he was just working on the spec's sheet.... Um humm... I gave him my work e-mail so that he could forward that right to me... Which, I'd like to say, he still hasn't done and it's now a new day! Blah. I could go on about our conversation but I'm saving it up for later on when I have no kids around me and can compeltly focus on ranting... Lucky you!



Anyways, I got home about 12:30am (oh yes!) and checked out the mls site, and there it is... The spec's of this house.... SPELLING ERRORS AND ALL! Ugh! So I sen the 'Realtor' and e-mail stating that the very well known College was spelled wrong and he may want to fix that as many young couples (he's aiming this sell at first time home buyers or someone rental imverstors) attend such College....



Does that make any sense?



This may not sound so bad right now but when I'm not so tired later on today I'll write more about my morning of phone calls back and forth with this awesome (ha, ha) Realtor..... And such.



Tired now, going to bed!