Post Weekend

So. Phew. I don't really even know where to begin. Nothing's really been happening, I guess, and that's why I haven't blogged in so long. But now I don't really know what to say.

We spent the weekend with family. That was cool. The boys spent today recouperating in their jammies and we read stories together and played lots of Lego in the playroom.

I was able to head out to hunt for some deals at the mall and low and behold, Justin Bieber had just left. Apparently he was there shopping with his entourage of bodyguards and when I arrived the screaming girls were still busy texting all their friends. It made the 6 o'clock news and it looked like the whole thing was quite the scene. I feel sorry for the kid but who in their right mind heads out to shop on Boxing Day when they're as popular as him unless they want to make a scene. Yep, that's what I thought.

The kids are doing really well. Kyle's learning around one new word every couple of days. His latest ones are "stinky" (tinty) and "more" (mah). Shaun has been keeping himself surprisingly busy while out of school. We went tobogganing last week and he had a blast flying down the hill headfirst. Ian is nearly night-trained and has been fighting tooth and nail to wear underwear to bed. He's been dry every night for nearly a week even with all the late nights we've had recently so tonight I put him in undies. His sheets are due to be changed this week so I figured now was as good a time as any for him to have a wet bed. We'll see if I change my tune tomorrow.

Craig had his first ever visit to the chiropractor last week for his back. He said the guy snapped-crackled-and-popped him and he felt a little better that day and into the following day but admitted to me on the weekend that he's back to feeling the same back pain. I know a lot of people feel like they need to rely on a chiropractor to give them regular adjustments (including many of Craig's own immediate family). We rely on other methods that don't include a chiropractor but this visit was a last resort for him. Poor guy! And it ended up being $80 down the tubes for the consultation and adjustment.

Overall we're keeping busy. I've accepted more and more that the house will never be as clean as I'd like it and that ALL the laundry will never be done at the same time ever again and that there will probably be some sort of food remnant in Kyle's highchair. That's okay. My kids won't remember that the toilet seat usually has little drips on it; they'll remember that I'm hopeless at the card game War, that I can toboggan down a hill with a child on each knee and still manage to stop at the bottom before hitting the fence, and that mini trampolines are a lot bouncier than they look!