General Update

Yesterday, after a week at home, I shuttled Stephen back out to the airport and sent him off to Ekati again. It was a good week together. We built 2 retaining wall type flower beds in front of the house as our "creative time" together. Well, Stephen did the work and I supervised, kept the children out of the way and played pack mule. My poor hands from carrying the bricks! LOL

Today is my honey's birthday. He's 38 and all by himself at work. I'm planning birthday stuff for when he gets home. I have one present for him but I can't reveal it because Stephen reads my blog too. He's also going to be away for our 7th anniversary. It is a lucky anniversary too...our 7th anniversary on the 7th day of the 7th month. I still have to come up with an anniversary present for him. Hmmm...any ideas?

Nathan had his kindergarten farewell ceremony last week. Both french immersion classes were there to sing a couple of songs and get their certificate saying they had just done a year of french immersion kindergarten. It was pretty cute listening to 53 kids singing songs about a Petite Poisson and Dino Dinosaur.

Nicholas has been back tracking on his toilet training because he didn't want Daddy to see his naked bum. It's all well and good for Mommy to see the nakedness all day every day, but Daddy causes naked phobias. Go figure! LOL

Nathan is going through "a phase" at the moment. He is now not only defiant to me but to everyone who sees him. His abilities to listen and think before he acts have gone on vacation. He is a lot more destructive and stubborn. But of course, this is seeing his behaviour in a negative light. To put it in a positive light, he is being more creative, inquisitive, and experimental. He is incredibly focused on his experimentation that he has shut out the distractions around him. (Hint: The distractions are Mommy, Daddy and little brother Nicholas. )

And I have finally gotten some sleep! Yahoo! Stephen's flight to Ekati yesterday was scheduled to leave at 6:45 am so we were up at 4 am to get cleaned up, dressed and to the airport. The kidlets both had little naps yesterday but I didn't. Even with the naps, the boys slept in until almost 10 am. It might have something to do with them both sneaking into my bed last night. What better way to wake up than to have 2 little monkeys play peek-a-boo with you around the pillow?

Despite the nice sleeping in, I wasn't able to move to get up. I've been struggling to move all day today. I can get short bursts of energy and get from Point A to Point B but it's taking a lot out of me. I just feel like I've been beaten up by a whole mess of people.

I've been having some numbness issues with my right side for the past month or so and it is getting worse. I think that whatever the main issue is, I keep aggravating it by getting up and walking, lifting, and just plain living. It has just been getting worse and worse over the past week and now my left side is being affected. I can usually still walk and function but there is numbness and heaviness to my extremities.

To prevent any comments of "Call your doctor", let me assure you that I have already done that. I called last week. I'm heading in on Friday morning and I'll hopefully be seeing my chiropractor before that. I wasn't too worried about waiting to see the doctor until this morning. Today has been the most difficult thus far. We'll have to see what shape I'm in later.

So there it is, boring as hell. I'm starting to realize that I have no life. LOL