This summer has been quite busy.
Alex has been away in total 4 week already, and still have one more to go.. maybe even more.
I never quite pictured life without him before. It is hard.
Very hard. I have to cook and clean and bath and do dishes and sleep and mow the lawn and put gas in the car and the list goes on, all by my self.
Adjusting is the hard part. I always thought it would be the nights alone, but its the days that is hard. I can always go to sleep at night if I need them to go by quicker. During the days I can't. The nights I used to dread. How am I supposed to fall asleep without his warm body beside me? What do I do if there is a noise I am not too sure of? I have gotten used to this. Get this... I am in my BASEMENT!!!!! alone while Cass is sleeping upstairs. everyone that knows me, knows this is a HUGE HUGE DEAL!!!!
When Alex was planning his work trip away, I was also planning. I needed to get my mini salon up and running, and I needed to clean the basement and vacuum and clean the upstairs, get things ready for when the inlaws come. I am sitting at the computer for 2 hours now.. and this is what I have done!!!!... procrastinate.. my mom would tell you I am super good at that.. I can unfortunately agree...:(
I wanted to put together come christmas presants and starting working on Cassies photo book and so on..
To watch them grow and learn the ways of the world. I am often in awe at their wonder, their pure joy in the magic of life. But all the same I hurt when they hurt, I want to hold them in a bubble of love and safety. But I know that they must experience life – all of it, even the pain and hurt it can bring.
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Full moons
As of now you can't convince me full moons don't affect people.
Two days before the full moon, Cass becomes irritable and doesn't sleep much.. Feels like a new born baby, this stuff really effects her. So tonight is night two of a full moon, which means day 4 of not to much sleep and I want to pull my hair out or pull the Britney spears shave your head stunt so I can't pull it out.
Before having Cass, I didn't believe in much. It's funny what a little human being is capable of changing. I use what's called magic potion... Not too sure if it works, but it's supposed to make you more relaxed and its apparently good for changes. So here's to night 4, we will see if it makes tonight any better. It's an all natural "potion" got it at a store called bumble tree here, costs an arm and a leg, but what doesn't these days.
Alex is attempting to put her to bed right now, all I hear is "aunty Abby Abby daddy daddy anana grr grrr grrr puppy???" Coming from the baby monitor, she has become quite the talker these last couple weeks. It makes me happy to listen to it. Kind of releases some stress. You get frustrated they aren't sleeping then she starts talking, and it just kind of disappears for a while. Puts a huge smile on your face. You forget about the bags under your eyes and your unshowered hair and no makeup and headache and just enjoy the sounds and words she is trying to speak.
Tomorrow we are going on yet another trip to osoyoos. I am tired of travelling, but it will be nice for the inlaws to see her, it's been awhile since the last visit. Maybe I'll get a little more sleep, or less sleep, I guess we will see...
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Time flies
Cass is turning 15 months soon!!!!
Where has the time gone.. that's the question that is always asked!
But really.. 15 months ago.. I was going to go into labour any day..
15 months ago, I was golfing everyday and walking to get this beautiful baby girl out of me!
Life has changed. For the better of course. It has been a hard adjustment but we have made it this far! That's something to be proud of.
I have never felt so much pride when cass looks at me and alex and said "I love you"
or when she says puppy and barks like one. she eats by herself and is very independent.
I never thought that one itty bitty person could grow up so quickly, and right before your eyes!
Life with Cassandra is very very busy. She started walking at 10 months, so you can only imagine how she is walking right now!! Not walking, running, everywhere! I should be about 150 pounds right now just chasing her.. but sadly I'm not haha I wish I could put her into sports or something at this age already, because she needs to burn the energy, I can only do so much. I am going to start taking her to a play group called wiggle giggle and grow! where all the kids just run and play games and tire themselves out, while the moms drink coffee and watch them play! Should be a lot of fun!
We used to go to a group well tried to every Tuesday, that was a lot of fun, but because she was an early walker, it was hard to keep her still, so after that I had a hard time going because she was everywhere, and those kids ranged from 0-1 years of age! A lot of fun though! And learned a lot of new songs and games to play with them.
Cass has made a really good friend named Lily, Lily just started walking at one, so now they are having so much fun together, they are still a little rough, but its so great to see them learning how to play together, and pulling at each other and sharing even though they are not to sure what sharing is just yet! I can't wait to see them grow up together. Patty had to start work now, so not as many play dates as we would like, but there will still be enough!
We took the girls and did a photo shoot the other day! my goodness that was the cutest thing ever!
Patty and myself had brought a whole dresser of clothes, didn't manage to put them in many different outfits, but we had a picnic and the girls just ran and ate food!
was a great time! Here are a couple photos from that day!
Cass and Lily are a lot alike, so when we have play dates its a lot of fun. Patty and myself try to consume as much coffee as possible to stay awake and we talk and laugh for hours a day! Its so great to have such an amazing friend who has a daughter Cassie's age! You don't always need to have everything in common, if you run out of things to talk about, there are always your children, but in our situation, that is not the case! Patty always has so many stories to tell and we just sit and laugh. Its great!
Cass gets to meet one of my best friends this weekend!! He is home from Taiwan finally after 2 long long years! I can not wait to see him and visit and catch up! It has been wayyy to long!
I go to work one day a week now usually Fridays which is a nice little break once a week, my mom watches cass and the odd time she can't one of our great friends Tiffany does! She always has a lot of fun with those two! Cass spends a lot of time with tiff as well so it's really nice that she knows her and I can leave cass with her. Its great to have friends like that.
Back track a little bit here... My mom turned 60 this year just a month after cass turned one, so I worked really hard and put together a great birthday party for the two of them at the columbo lodge. I got to surprise her with two special guests and a lot of family which was soo nice. She cried... Many times.. Must be the old age thing... ;)
Where has the time gone.. that's the question that is always asked!
But really.. 15 months ago.. I was going to go into labour any day..
15 months ago, I was golfing everyday and walking to get this beautiful baby girl out of me!
Life has changed. For the better of course. It has been a hard adjustment but we have made it this far! That's something to be proud of.
I have never felt so much pride when cass looks at me and alex and said "I love you"
or when she says puppy and barks like one. she eats by herself and is very independent.
I never thought that one itty bitty person could grow up so quickly, and right before your eyes!
Life with Cassandra is very very busy. She started walking at 10 months, so you can only imagine how she is walking right now!! Not walking, running, everywhere! I should be about 150 pounds right now just chasing her.. but sadly I'm not haha I wish I could put her into sports or something at this age already, because she needs to burn the energy, I can only do so much. I am going to start taking her to a play group called wiggle giggle and grow! where all the kids just run and play games and tire themselves out, while the moms drink coffee and watch them play! Should be a lot of fun!
We used to go to a group well tried to every Tuesday, that was a lot of fun, but because she was an early walker, it was hard to keep her still, so after that I had a hard time going because she was everywhere, and those kids ranged from 0-1 years of age! A lot of fun though! And learned a lot of new songs and games to play with them.
Cass has made a really good friend named Lily, Lily just started walking at one, so now they are having so much fun together, they are still a little rough, but its so great to see them learning how to play together, and pulling at each other and sharing even though they are not to sure what sharing is just yet! I can't wait to see them grow up together. Patty had to start work now, so not as many play dates as we would like, but there will still be enough!
We took the girls and did a photo shoot the other day! my goodness that was the cutest thing ever!
Patty and myself had brought a whole dresser of clothes, didn't manage to put them in many different outfits, but we had a picnic and the girls just ran and ate food!
was a great time! Here are a couple photos from that day!Cass and Lily are a lot alike, so when we have play dates its a lot of fun. Patty and myself try to consume as much coffee as possible to stay awake and we talk and laugh for hours a day! Its so great to have such an amazing friend who has a daughter Cassie's age! You don't always need to have everything in common, if you run out of things to talk about, there are always your children, but in our situation, that is not the case! Patty always has so many stories to tell and we just sit and laugh. Its great!
Cass gets to meet one of my best friends this weekend!! He is home from Taiwan finally after 2 long long years! I can not wait to see him and visit and catch up! It has been wayyy to long!
I go to work one day a week now usually Fridays which is a nice little break once a week, my mom watches cass and the odd time she can't one of our great friends Tiffany does! She always has a lot of fun with those two! Cass spends a lot of time with tiff as well so it's really nice that she knows her and I can leave cass with her. Its great to have friends like that.
Alex is busy with work and has to go to creston for another week, then we are both going on our own little trip Alex is going to kelowna to have. Boys weekend golfing and my mom and myself are going somewhere as well. Should be a lot of fun I can't wait for a little get away and shop till we can't stand anymore haha my mom and I are really good at that
Cass had a blast meeting a bunch of people that have never got to meet her before, and she played and played and then slept like a baby!! It was a super busy weekend for all of us my two good friends from Medicine Hat came down as well I only got to see one because Kerri ended up in the hospital the day of the party so that was a little scary!! She's doing much better now though! Ill post some photos of that later.
I got to do my first ever 5 k run it was called colour me rad it was such a blast.. So many people we could hardly rush it, so not really a run 5 k but it was still my first non race I did. Every km they sprayed you with colour and by the time you finished it was everywhere!!! 
This was the three of us who did it together!!! Some great moments with the girls that memory will always be there it was soo much fun.
This was the three of us who did it together!!! Some great moments with the girls that memory will always be there it was soo much fun.I also did a walk in support of my friend who has cancer she is one tough kid and such an inspiration I did 16.4 km that day with them that was a lot of fun and a lot of support. Hopefully we will get to see her soon if she comes this way or we go to Calgary! She is one person I wish everyone could meet, she has a special place in our hearts that's for sure.
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