August 20, 2008
August 19, 2008
I need to do something seriously creative...
I'm trying to get myself to Calgary. All summer long I was under the impression we were going to Calgary, as a family, for a week of family fun followed by a weekend of sex, booze and drugs (~ahem~ without our children). Heaven.
ok, maybe not the drugs. I'm not entirely sure about the sex either, but the booze? I'm all over the booze.
It seems that I was the only person who thought this. Now there is all this talk about lack of money, work deadlines, blah, blah, blah.
I'm still going. I don't care if I'm walking to Calgary, I'm going. Steve has done every.single.thing he wanted to do this summer. Although he might disagree with that statement but for the sake of this blog post, consider it truth. And there's another blog post in there, too.
Me? I have had a child attached to my boob while tagging along behind Steve doing every.single.thing he wanted to do or just staying at home while he did his own thing. Admittedly a lot of it was fun, and I didn't really care that I was at home, but for the purpose of this blog post just go with it. The bottom line is that I was desperately looking forward to the Labour Day Long Weekend.
But I'd rather not walk. And because I am a parent and this role comes with some responsiblities (so they say) driving isn't looking good either. 16 hours in a car might be considered child abuse. How absorbant is a diaper?
So tongiht I've been trying to get there by plane.
For a moment, a brief yet glorious moment, I had a seat sale out of Victoria for a steal. In the next moment, before I could even think, it was gone. What the hell? Everyone in Victoria is online booking plane tickets to Calgary? Go to sleep, you're crushing my soul.
And I really need to finish something creative. Again, an entirely separate blog post.
August 13, 2008
Vacation!
I guess I didn't tell you I was going on vacation.
I went on vacation.
I love vacations, even in the rain.
We went to Tofino for the week with some friends and it was fabulous! Unfortunately it was rainy, but hey, its Tofino. Our friends headed out a day early, which was too bad because the day they left ended up being the best evening although it started out pretty dicey. We went to Long Beach in the pouring rain, and even though I love Long Beach and don't mind the rain, I draw the line at carrying around a baby while being drenched. We stuck it out, and drove out to Ucluelet, which turned out to be a great decision. We walked the Wild Pacific Trail for a bit, saw a two beautiful eagles in their nest, and watched the hummingbirds dance. All on the backdrop of the ocean. Then we spent our evening on the beach near our resort campground.
It was really nice to get away with the kids, and I think it was nice for Steve to really spend some quality time with them. 'spose you'd have to ask him. It was certainly nice for me that he spent some quality time with them at any rate.
My little girl suddenly got HUGE, and is all smiles, all the time. She's turning out to be a little social butterfly which is both fabulous and frustrating. We are still schedule-less, and we're still struggling to get her to sleep at a reasonable hour. At least now she'll sleep a 5-6 hour stretch from 10 pm on. Most nights. Baby steps.
And Callum is a terror. A cute terror, mind. He had many, many temper tantrums on vacation because all he wanted to do was play in the playground at the campground. We didn't travel to Tofino to play on a slide. Sorry kid. He went so far as to crawl UNDER the truck to get to the slide because we put up barracades in our site to prevent him from going to the park by himself.
