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1. What giveaway would you like to do on your blog? Realistically? Something I made for my business. Dream giveaway? I dunno, something cool like an iPad or fancy-scmancy camera.

2. If you had to choose between natural artistic ability and natural athletic ability, which would it be? well naturally athletic would be cool cause maybe I'd be in better shape lol but natural artistic ability would last into old age.... kinda a toss up! I'm already creative, so maybe athletic...

3. Do you ditch the coat the minute it becomes "spring" or are you a holdout for more cool temps? I'm a hold out. I live in Canada. I can't risk packing up "winter" the second the temps are above 0C (32F). Put it this way... last week we hit 28C (82F). This week, the warmest it got was 8C (46F). Granted, I have washed up all the mitts and toques, but they aren't packed away yet... still waiting. Hell, my snow shovel is still on my porch and the snow melted 3 weeks ago!

4. What would you do if you won the mega millions lotto of 1/2 billion dollars? Faint? Seriously lol We don't have that large of lotteries here and I have a rough time coming up with how to spend the max 50 million you can win in Canada. 1/2 a BILLION? I'd build a pool and SWIM in it!

5. You are at a hotel by yourself...what do you do? I'm a homeschooling/home business running/SAHM... what do you think I'd do? SLEEP!

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1. Where is your favorite vacation spot and why? We don't do fancy-fly-away vacation, but I loved when we went to Niagara Falls. It was a good 7 hr drive but so worth it!

2. What is your biggest guilty pleasure? Greasy, cheesy pizza. Mmmmm....

3. What is your favorite fashion trend right now? Or, in the past? Um... I'm supposed to have a favorite??? I am so not fashion caring lol Right now I'm pretty damn comfy, fleece pj pants, baggy tee and a sweater. Now granted I won't leave my property like this lol For going out... jeans and a longish shirt (not quite tunic) with a v-neck (I can't stand crew necks!) So yeah, none of that are really fashion trends lol

4. What are your spring break plans? I'm an evil homeschooling mom and we don't "do" spring break Bwahahaha

5. What baby names do you hate? Nevaeh - I used to think it was pretty but I swear to crap, every second person is naming their baby girl that! I get the cute backwards Heaven thing, but ugh! 

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1. What do you do when you are really upset to calm yourself down? Smoke. I know, I know, I'm a horrible person, blah, blah, blah. It's my vice. Plus, I smoke outside so I get to hide for a while while I calm down.

2. Do you go all out for V-day or is it just another day? Really, it's just another day. I mean, Feb 15th is more exciting cause that means a bunch of chocolate is half price!

3. Are you more or less productive when Hubs is away? Definitely MORE productive! He's distracting lol

4. What is your favorite time of day and why? I don't mean it like I hate my kids or something, but I love the late evening, after the kids go to bed. I can get stuff done without the kids interrupting me every 3 seconds. Also, Lee leaves for work right around when Brianna goes to bed so I have the house to myself :)

5. What is your go to karaoke song? I don't really have one. I don't typically "do" karaoke.

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1. How often do you shave your legs in the winter? As little often as I can. Gross? I don't care. Heck, if I didn't think I'd get tarred and feathered, I wouldn't do it in the summer either until it irritated me. Shaving is a big pain in the ass.

2. Valentine's Day cards for your spouse: funny or romantic? Hubby and I are weird I guess. We don't really *do* cards. For any occasion. 

3. What are you most looking forward to about spring? Tearing up my front yard! My new house's yard is nasty due to lack of care before we moved in and we moved in too damn close to winter to bother starting anything before. As soon as the ground is thawed I'm ripping the place up with a giant tiller!

4. What's your favorite way to pamper yourself? Sadly, I don't really pamper myself... does giving myself a mani/pedi once in a blue moon count?

5. Does your tax return go into savings or do you spend it instantly? Spend! This year's return is going to the new house mostly

100 Random Things About Me Part 1

I've been wanting to do one of these posts for a while. However, so not to bore the crap out of people, I'll do it in groups of 10 :)

By The Numbers:

28 - How old I am

16 - How old I was when I had my first child

23 - My favorite number

209 - My top weight

150 - My goal weight

4 - How many birth children I'd like to have

10 - Years older than me that my husband is

750 - Square feet of house I squeeze all my crap into

12 - Grade until which I plan to homeschool my children

24,587 - Approx amount of projects I have on the go at any given time :P

Ass Kicking Time

I started back up yesterday in full swing, both in diet and school. I don't think I did too bad! The scale yesterday said 171.8lbs but I knew it was helped by salty BBQ food Monday night so I re-weighed in today. 169.6lbs. Much better.

So my plan.... 
Mini goal - 164lbs by month's end
Mid goal - 157lbs by end of October
Final goal - 150lbs by end of November
That's 19lbs in 12 weeks - 1.58lbs a week. It'll be hard, but I really want to be there! Also, to be my final goal weight BEFORE all the holiday baking would be awesome lol

Yesterday I did pretty well in the food dept. My usual bagel and cream cheese for breakfast (though I really do need to go get my weight watchers bagels instead of the big white ones I have now), honeydew and cantaloupe for lunch, a small wrap with about 1/8 cup chicken and the rest peppers and onions for supper and some more honeydew for a bedtime snack. Normally I wouldn't have a bedtime snack cause I tend to just mindlessly eat, but this was a planned snack with a set portion and I didn't even want to mindlessly eat afterwards!

We met up with our homeschool group at lunch and went on a 1.5km hike. I think it was further than that, but I'll have to see if the website for the place lists distances. Brianna and I enjoyed the hike so much we want to go back soon and often!

Today I skipped breakfast (BAD!) but had another small wrap like yesterday for lunch. Now to figure out something that won't kill me for supper.

Olivia's 2nd Birthday!

My baby girl turned 2 today! I can't believe it! And not in the normal "where have 2 years gone" sense either. More than how can she be 2 if she's the same size Isaac and Brianna we're at only their first birthdays?!

*Again Note: There's a few years missing where we lost our entire hard drive. Also, pardon the pics of pics* *2nd note, yes, all 3 of my birth children really were born within 2 weeks of each other lol*

My favorite newborn pic of her

This is awesome! She didn't like the camera lady "tickling" her with the toy, the next photo (5 seconds later) is of a giant smile lol

Mama and Olivia

Hair cake!

Airmail!!!

Dumped in a snowbank

Classic sketti shot

Cool dude!

Happy Birthday!

Brianna's first lemonade stand

Brianna spent the morning planning. She made up a big sign, a grocery list, a price, ect.... She went grocery shopping with Grandma and got set up. Her cousin came over and offered to stay and keep her company

She made back the money she spent on supplies and even made a profit! We've still got more than 1/2 a bag of ice, 2 cans lemonade and a lemon left so next weekend's business will require even less start up. Brianna's beyond thrilled!!!

Isaac's 12 Birthday!

Ok, so it was yesterday, but I was gone all day and didn't have the energy to post at midnight!

12 years ago my first born and only birth son was born. After 84 hours (yes that's hours) of labour, a screaming 8lb 10oz baby made his way into the world.

*Again Note: There's a few years missing where we lost our entire harddrive. Also, pardon the pics of pics*

First day home from the hospital

Classic Sketti shot

1st Birthday

Meeting Brianna for the first time!

Decorated for Christmas!

One of our favorite pics

Go Sens Go!

First day of Kindergarten

My favorite pic of the 2 of us

First Autograph!

Indiana Jones

First time meeting Olivia!

Isaac chose Baritone for Music class

Happy 12th Birthday!

Garden Yummies

I am so happy with my garden! We're starting to be able to harvest the early stuff (radish, lettuce, ect...) and it is sooooooooo better than the store! I use store bought veggies in the winter, but I long for my garden each time. I wish I had a bigger garden so I could grow enough for the winter, but I figure I still do better than most city dwellers!

Beef Steak tomatoes

Cherry tomatoes

Lee's Jalapeno

Teeny plant, giant Green Pepper!

Baby Spinach and Lettuce going crazy!

First Cucumber

First Zucchini

Bunk Beds!

Brianna had a dream come true this weekend. She finally got the bunk beds she's been begging me for! And she had no clue. We tore apart the girls' room, Brianna saw her bed taken apart and her mattress in the hallway and wondered what was going on. We told her she can sleep on the floor. I think she thought we were serious! While bringing the pieces of the bed in from the car and putting it together we put her in charge of keeping Olivia occupied with a movie, to make sure *Olivia* didn't come upstairs. Because we made it sound like she was doing us a favour instead of trying to keep *her* from upstairs, she was happy to do it and never once came upstairs. Once we were done putting it together I called downstairs (in my normal "mommy's asking you to do a boring chore" voice) to come up and make her bed. I sat, prepared with the camera!

First sight of the bunk bed

So excited!!!

Pretending to sleep

Daddy and Olivia checking out her new bed

Best shot of the new bed with how small the room is

First sleep

Olivia only takes up 1/10th of the bed lol

Humidity Relief

No, not a break in the weather. It hit 37C (98F) here today with the humidex (heat index I think in the US). Ewwwwwww. However, I had a light bulb moment and suddenly remembered my brother-in-law giving us a kiddie pool a couple years back. I had tried to refuse it, saying we had a perfectly good one, but he insisted since we may need it later. Well sure enough, last year our pool got a hole in it and it hit the trash. We found a similar one, but with Lee laid off, $40 is a little out of budget. I swear the kids wanted to kiss Uncle Steph's feet this afternoon LOL

Brianna wouldn't even wait for the pool to fill up!

Once she got over the initial shock of "this aint my bath!" Olivia looooved it!

Apparently "swimming" for 20 minutes is very tiring

Questions....

A questionnaire is floating around blogland and I thought I'd post it if anyone has any interested in the oddities of me :) Feel free to post it yourself, leave me the link to yours in my comments!

What is your middle name? Lynn... I hate it. Especially with my first name (Sandra), you say them together and it sounds like a hick name. Which my sisters loooove to make fun of *gee thanks* :P

How big is your bed? Double. A lot of people's jaws drop at this, but I'm happy with my double. Me and Lee and my giant body pillow fit just fine in it. Oh, and don't forget the cat....
 
What are you listening to right now? Other than the radio, blissful silence

What was the last thing you ate? Supper. And amazingly, what it (----->) say I was supposed to make for supper today!
 
How is the weather right now? Clear and getting chilly not that the sun has gone down. The clouds are supposed to be rolling in for rain tonight (and the next 3 days *sigh*)
 
Do you want children? I *have* children, but that's not the question... Most of the time I want children... course there's days that Olivia's teething and Brianna's refusing to do school work that I don't want them! (j/k!)
 
Hair color? Which layer? The part that's dyed is dark reddish brown. The 3 inches of roots is dark brown with growing amounts of gray.
 
Do you wear contacts? I'll stick with glasses, I'm not a fan of stabbing myself in the eye several times a day
 
Last Movie you watched? Um... in the theater? 21. About 2 yrs ago lol Any movie at all? Um... ah... oh yeah! Shut Up and Sing. Do documentaries count?

What books are you reading? Do Brianna' school books count? Amazingly I'm not reading anything of my own right now (that would explain why I'm a month behind on my reading challenge!)
 
What were you doing before filling this out? Delivering Avon books for my sister
 
Have you ever fired a gun? Nope, and I hope that answer never changes!
 
If you could go to any place right now where would you go? Into my bed with a laptop. Course then I'd need a laptop with internet connection... then I'd never leave my bed... maybe it's better this way....
 
Are you missing someone? Well I hope not! Everyone here is accounted for other than mom, who I know is at work!
 
Are you hiding something from someone right now? I'm hiding from myself how much I ate for lunch *shhhh*
 
3 things you can't live without? Family, music, books
 
Stuck on a deserted island, and can only bring one thing? Since it's a thing I guess that doesn't include my family, so I'd say an MP3 player with like 500 songs and unlimited powered batteries
 
What do you usually do when the alarm turns on? Why is it set?!?! I don't use an alarm
 
What do you think about before you go to bed? Ok, stop moving, breathe even, pretend that doesn't itch, cat - get off my feet! (or something similar)

Five Question Friday

Found a new link up to follow! It's called Five Question Friday. I know, I know, it's Saturday, but I only found it today!

1. Do you and your spouse go to bed at the same time?

Not often, maybe once or twice a week. With Lee laid off, he goes to bed whenever. Usually sometime between midnight and 3am. I go to bed between 10pm and midnight. He still gets up with the kids in the morning so I don't mind. However, even when he was working, he got up at 3am and was gone by 4am so he went to bed between 8-10pm, and of course I went to bed at my normal times.

2. A question for the ladies...What kind of facial hair do you like on your man?

If I could get him to shave 2-3 times a day, I'd love it! I hate facial hair, not just on Lee, but on anyone. 

3. What's the worst vacation you've ever taken?

Brianna was about a year, Isaac was 4, we went to Super Aqua Club in Laval, just outside Montreal. The trip itself was fine, the water park was lots of fun, it was just all sorts of little things. Brianna slept with a bottle of water. She used sippies all day but a bottle of water at night. We forgot a bottle. We tried to get her to sleep without it and it may have worked if we were at home, but a different place, a different kind of bed (the hotel provided playpens) AND no bottle? No way. So at like 11pm we went looking for ANYTHING that was open that would sell bottles. We found there was a grocery across the highway from our hotel. Anyone who lives/has traveled in Montreal knows that only *sounds* close. We didn't get back to the hotel with the bottle for over an hour. Then the next night we got lost again (this time looking for a restaurant for supper) and ended up in a car accident with a young woman who hardly spoke any English. Thankfully her father who she called was bilingual. Also thankfully, it was just a dinner plate sized dent in front of the driver's door, so it was perfectly driveable.

4. What's the first-ever blog you followed?

I can't really remember my *first* blog. When I discovered blogs (and gave a crap what they were) it was around the time I was looking into homeschooling late last summer/early last fall. These are 3 of the first blogs I know I've been following since near the "beginning"

A Year of Slow Cooking (I loooooove my crock pots (yes, that's plural), and this blog is awesome!)

My Life as a Help Meet and Homeschooling Mom of Many (a fellow July 09 mom. She's ultra conservative religious, so if that's not your thing, just skip this one. I'm not, but her kids are just too darn cute!)

Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers (a totally awesome homeschooling blog. I link up here for a weekly wrap up)

5. Do you enjoy amusement parks?

Yes and no. I'm not really a rides person. I like kiddie-land. I'm terrified of rollercoasters (even the ones in kiddie-land!), and don't like anything that tips you on your side or upside down. My all-time favorite ride is the Gravitron, but sadly, my local yearly fair-type-thing doesn't offer this ride anymore. I do love amusement park games though. Which is funny cause the most often offered prize is stuffed animals and I hate those LOL

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Puddles!

Olivia loooooves her ducky rain coat and boots and today we went out in search of puddles