Wal-Mart is going to bring Jesus to your children, via action figures.
Retailer Wal-Mart get religious - toys, that is
Ack! So much to say... that would just piss off a whole lot of people I know so instead I bring you the news and I'll keep my opinions to myself.
I was watching a lot of crap TV yesterday (it was raining and I just wasn't motivated to do anything else) and caught bits and pieces of some show about the new definition of Mother, specifically the Single Mother, or now we have to be careful to say the "Unmarried Mother" because a lot of the women aren't single they just haven't gotten married before they had kids.
One statistic being thrown around was that of the mothers that were married, 72% believe that being married made them better parents, and it is important to be married when raising children.
What the hell? I just checked and my marriage certificate doesn't have parenting advice on the back. When I got married was a special manual suppose to be sent to me? Did I not get it because I got married in Alberta but I live in B.C.? I want my "Better Parent" manual dammit! Up until this point I've just been floundering along. If I knew I'd get some sort of edge just because I was married I would have been all over it. I'm all about winning in this parenting game. It's always about winning.
The stat (which is probably bunk because most stats quoted on TV are) made me wish I never got married because being grouped with a bunch of closed-minded, judgemental women annoys me.
Right now my son is having a fit because I refuse to let him move around the side table. Wonder what the manual has to say about that? If I'd known the kid would be strong enough to move around freaking side tables with ONE HAND, I would have bolted them all to the floor. And yes, the side table has come down on his head. So has the diaper changing station (a rolling cart) and a chair.
And I'm married. Truly unacceptable.
I went into Callum's room this morning to start our day and the little guy was sitting up! In his crib! That's a first, and totally threw me off, I actually jumped causing him to startle too. Wish I could have seen him pulling that one off. He can sit up on his own if he can get a grip on something to pull himself up, but its a pretty rare occurance.
The weather has been horribly uncooperative this summer, and this past weekend was no different than all previous trips we've taken. It was sunny the day we drove out to the lake, sunny the next morning while we waited for the boys to return from fishing and Callum to complete his morning nap. Yet the second we dropped the boat in the water it was full on cloud. Not a glimpse of blue to be seen anywhere in the sky. When we pulled the boat out at 5:30 that evening for dinner, the clouds started to blow over.
We have done something seriously evil to piss off the weather gods this much.
This coming weekend Steve is taking the kidlet to Vancouver to visit with his family who will be there for weekend, and I am staying home. I plan on doing a whole lot of nothing at all, or maybe I'll go shopping. Or maybe I'll just rent movies and eat chocolate cake. At any rate, I am ridiculously excited about this.
Summer appeared to be brief, since we're back to the cloud and the rain and the grey. I'm told the end of August is suppose to be awesome though, so I have high hopes.
We spent a week with Michelle and her daughter, first in Victoria shopping and doing the sights. The kids were fantastic. We have very patient children! Then we went out to China Beach on the Juan du Fuca strait. The campground was nice, but the walk to the beach was an adventure (its 1.5 km) which was a little too much walking up hill for the likes of me and Callum so we never did get down to the beach off the campsite. We did go out to the provincial park and thoroughly enjoyed that beach, and to French Beach on a cold and windy day that we were sure was going to be a fiasco but turned out to be great fun for the kids!
Then we were home and spent a lot of money at the market at Coombs, and hanging out at beaches on this side of the island. Overall, it was a pleasant little vacation for me, I quite enjoyed myself. Not that I'm not perpetually on vacation but its different when you have visitors!
Right now Callum is flipping through his seasons book like he actually knows how to read and I'm waiting for Steve so we can get out of the house for a bit. No idea where we're going, but at least it'll be OUT. I've been house-bound for a couple of days and am going a leettle crazy.
I'm also at a loss for anything blog-worthy at the momemt, too. Sorry. Maybe I'll be struck with something interesting to say later in the week.