Heartache :(

So, I've had a bit of a heartache today.  With only three days till I am "over-due"  and a possible two weeks of pregnancy remaining, my poor, well-loved maternity pants have become threadbare.  In the bare-bottom-ish area.  A rather important part of a pair of pants, if you ask me. I'm quite sad about the whole affair. These pants saw me through my last pregnancy, and almost to the end of this one :(    They have a few war wounds already.  Like an ink stain on the back pocket.  Put there five weeks ago while I was moving....

I'm sure the bare spot is due to frequent washing.  It must be.  They are my only pair of out-of-the-house pants.  I have a pair of black stretch pants that I wear around the house.  I will not be seen in public in them.  They are only good for lounging, and wearing on the desperate laundry day.  Most days, my beloved pants are thrown into the wash at bed time and dried in the morning, to be worn by the time I have to drive to school.  It's a great system.  Yes, the bare-ness was definitely the result of frequent WASHINGS!  Not WEARINGS!  Definitely not caused by the rubbing of my thighs as I walk.  My thighs don't do that!

So I am left with a few options.  I have a lovely pair of orange striped pj's that I bought for our trip to Florida.  They match a lovely orange T-shirt with flip-flops on the chest.  Yes, I could wear those in public....If my house burnt down!  I also have a pair of plaid green pj's that I have been "over-washing" for the last three years.  They are a little worse for wear, but could pass at school in the morning.  My other options....Patch the bare-bottom-ish pants and hope that no-one notices, and that no one I see has read this blog and is now checking to see if they are the bare-bottom-ish pants (how embarrassing!) 

I really don't want to invest in a new pair of pants at this late stage!  I mean, who's to say I will ever even need a pair of maternity pants again! (No we haven't decided yet!)  What if I go into labor tonight ( it COULD happen!  Don't laugh!), and don't need the new pair that I plan to buy?   Can I get away with hiding out at home for the next two weeks?  No, I don't thinks so.  I could start wearing skirts everywhere I go.  This is a viable option.  I do have a few skirts.  My dear sister Lacey has been wearing a "house dress" around home lately ( her husband oh so lovingly has renamed it a "castle dress".  We are both at the end of our pregnancies, btw).  I could resort to a "house dress", as well.  Hmmm.

Anyway, if you do happen to read this blog, and you do run into me before this babe arrives, please be polite and comment on my radiance and glow, and not whatever I happen to be wearing on my bottom-ish area!  We may still want to be friends at the end of this week, and my hormones are not very friendly these days!  Sooooo, if I am still wearing my bare-bottom-ish pants, don't go looking to see how well I mended them!  :D

Happy Valentines day!

Our kids school had a Heart to Heart Market to raise money for Haiti.  Here's what we sent for the sale!

 

These are Kool-Aid  flavored rice krispy hearts!  I also threw in some rolled oats for fiber.   We made purple and pink.  

 

Cut them out with a cookie cutter!  

I'm boring...

I'm so boring lately.  We had so much to do today, that we started the puzzle from h***!  It's been an all day project, and I now have cankles ( my feet have swollen so much that my calf runs into my ankle!)  So I'm giving up on the puzzle for now.  I think we may just give up on all that sky....

We are down to two weeks till due date now.  I'm ready.  Not anxious yet.  Not too uncomfortable yet.  I can keep going.  But I would really love to have this one in  less than my normal two weeks overdue.  We'll see.  It starts to get old when people start commenting.  Just grin, right?  Oh well...

We are loving the new house.  We've got blinds up, some pictures hung, it's feeling like home.  I think that has more to do with the scrubbing of the toilets than anything.  Something about cleaning them just makes if feel less like a hotel stay!  And, we are slowing down our trips into Calgary.  We are starting to use our local resources!  For a few weeks, we were making several trips a day into town!  Yikes!

I am missing my superstore.  We have a No Frills here, but it doesn't carry the bulk items that I buy.  :(  or the rice milk.  So, It's in to Calgary once a week at least to visit Superstore.  :D

We had our first house guests!  My sister and her kids came to stay.  It was a great time!  We had ten kids here, then five more cousins showed up to play.  We were only missing our cousins from PEI. They played together all day, and we didn't hardly see or hear them!  The house has lots of places for them to play. After our cousin party, the kids went to bed and Lace and I enjoyed our CHEESCAKE!!!

This is smothered in callebaut, raspberry sauce, and hot fudge sauce!  Yummmy!  The rest of my half of the cake is in the freezer, waiting for my next sugar day, and for the celebration of my birth and Lacey's birth!  MMMM.  One of us needs to have a baby ASAP!!! 

Soooo, that's all that's new with me.  I've got my birth supplies, found some of the baby clothes, now I'm playing the waiting game. Waiting for a reason to eat cheescake! LOL

We have had a new addition!!!!

No, not a baby yet!  A lizard! He has been given a lovely stripper name of  "Jackie Legs", because he's "such a great jumper"!!!  My many thanks to Auntie Leanne, for this new addition to our family!

And a big thanks, for all the excitement that "jackie Legs" has already brought to us!  We had a great time the other day when, while attempting to feed his new pet, Alex dropped the container of crickets onto his bed.  Then came the screaming and yelling that had me running up the stairs to see what part of him was injured only to discover him climbing up the wall trying to escape the little nasties...

 
So, super mom to the rescue, I started catching them as best I could without touching them, for I too would have prefered to be climbing up the walls!  We found a Poke ball in the closet that worked great for snapping them up and dropping them into the container.  At least a dozen later and we thought we had them all, till the screaming started up again as one of them made a trip down the heat register.  We are still waiting to see if he made it out alive....

And, during all this drama and screaming and general freaking out, my lovely Peter decided it was his duty to lecture us and let us know the proper way of feeding ones' pet (he has a pet snake, you know), and informing ME that he would just have to take over feedings from now on, blah, blah, blah...

Needless to say, I am glad that we have not been revisited by the escaped cricket.  I do not want to have a repeat performance of  "cricket on the bed" with it's lovely musical numbers and insane dialogues.  Nor do I want to spend any more time on my hands and knees chasing down nasty little crickets that I KNOW are probably planning their second escape as I type...

 

Welcome to the family, Jackie Legs!!!!!