Almost a Good Day

So we had a mostly good day....

Took Brianna to her hearing test. While the tech said the vibrations weren't as high as she liked (but didn't explain that at all *sigh*) her hearing is perfect :S HUH? So what's with the yelling and the odd accent??? The yelling she said is common enough that she sees at least 2 kids a week for, but she couldn't explain the odd accent. So we'll go back to Dr. Joseph June 17th for a follow up of her feet and ears and see what he thinks.

Come back into town and pop by my old friend's house to check out the washer and dryer we were discussing yesterday. Not as new as I thought it would be but her dad gave me a "warranty" on them saying he'd give me my money back if I don't like them within 30 days. Sold. $100 for a washer AND a dryer! They even delivered them to my house! I can't wait for Lee to install them tomorrow!!!

Tried Value Village for new shorts as mine are starting to fall off even though the scale hates me. No go. God I hate buying clothes! Thankfully I've got a few shorts that still fit. Supposed to get hotter over the weekend and hit 30C by Tuesday! (And somehow I've got to get Brianna to wear her sneakers/inserts to school in this heat!)

Came home, ended up having to nurse Olivia since I didn't pump this morning and was gonna blow up (and at that point I'm too engorged to pump). So I guess she'll start her noon sippy feedings tomorrow. We both went for a nap while Lee sat on the porch watching Brianna play outside. When we got up Olivia and I went to the grocery store while Lee and Brianna played a game on the computer (since she had been good all day). Come home and Brianna's playing on the computer by herself, obviously Lee was happy with her.

Made a totally awesome chicken bake for supper. OMG yum! Starting to massively heat up in the house so we've got all the windows open. Olivia highly protested going to sleep cause she was hot and sweating in only a onsie. Maybe we should put in the air conditioner? Get Brianna to get ready for bed. I'm on the porch and hear: LEE!!!! Go inside and all I can smell is Lee's cologne. *sigh* Lee's done what I did the other day and turned off the bathroom light to ignore her tantrum. Ensuing fit. In the bath tub again. Finally get it out of her that she just wanted to smell it. So I showed her how she can smell the cologne anytime she likes without having to pour it down the drain and waste is. She thinks it's wonderful that she has permission. (WOW, another time where ASKING is better than just doing something).

Soooooo hoping that we can make it through the WHOLE day tomorrow being a good day!

The scale finally moves!

Forgot to post this morning that the scale finally woke up and I'm down .4lbs! Still .8lbs away from goal but at least it's moving again! Hopefully I can hit that .8lbs on Friday! My next goal date is Father's Day so I gotta get my butt in gear!!!

Child Slavery Day

So Brianna's home today working. She swept and washed all my floors this morning and as soon as Olivia falls asleep she's gonna weed the gardens. She ended up having to sweep and wash the bathroom floor 3 times cause she didn't do it properly. And I know she hates weeding.

She's already be caught stealing twice today. This morning there were Gusher wrappers floating around (I knew I never should have gotten those). Later she was supposed to be washing the kitchen floor and she was into my chocolates on my desk.

Hopefully we can get around to making up her chart. Between her screaming match yesterday and her stealing and chores today I havn't even told her about it. She loves charts so I'm really hoping it works.

Had to go get more chocolate bars for the school fund raiser. Mom asked for a new case yesterday and it's already 1/2 gone! I'm bringing our other box to Gilles tomorrow to sell until I bring Brianna by on Saturday. With any luck I'll need to ask the school for another case on Monday!

New Plan

So had my meeting with the principal.... he approves of me giving Brianna a strike against her field trip and wants me to tell her teacher as well. He suggests a short running behaviour chart. Running no more than 2-3 days before a reward and using no more than 3 behaviours that we want to change. He approved of Brianna's desire to watch tv as a reward because it's obviously something she really wants and will work towards.

So we're gonna do a sticker chart with No Stealing, Not Arguing with Lee and Doing Chores Without Complaint as our behaviours. She can earn up to 3 stickers a day. If she earns 6 stars she can watch a movie or get 1.5 hrs tv time. If those 6 stars are earned in only 2 days one of us will play a board game with her. If she earns all 3 stickers for 3 days in a row she can have 1 hour of computer time. 25 stickers and she gets another reward (I'm going to let her have a say in this reward) and at 50 stars she gets a sleep over at Grandma's.

I didn't get to do up the chart with her today though cause she decided to have a screaming fit for over an hour about whether she should get out of her grounding early or not (can you guess what the answer was?). It was almost 8pm before her chores (that she started at 4pm) were done (properly).

Tomorrow she is staying home from school and I'm putting her to work. Child slavery! She'll be able to find out how easy the chores she has are! And of course, she'll have to do school work in there too.

On a good note, I did manage to walk from my house around the park and the Civic Complex to the clock tower in 20 minutes. At a normal walk this would take around 35-40 minutes. So YAY! I need to get back to my stretching and strength training at home though. And I really need to look into dusting off my work out videos *sigh*

Olivia gave me a fat/bruised lip this afternoon. She got all excited about the picture of me and Isaac on Lee's nightstand that we gave it to her to look at. Well that was apparently *too* exciting and she started swinging it around and my mouth got in the way. Thankfully doesn't hurt, just annoying and looking bad.

Principal Day

So while being grounded for stealing, Brianna stole again. This time the bottle of strawberry syrup. So she was told she wouldn't get the peaches for dessert she was told she could have if she behaved. Ensuing fit.... Since our kitchen sink is broken Lee had to do the dishes in the tub and was drying them on a towel. We started to tidy them while Brianna grumbled at the world while sitting in the tub fully dressed. Brianna decided to finally be nice and handed Lee a bowl. Then the world ended in Brianna's mind because he didn't say thank you. *sigh*

Conversation on the porch about her behaviour led to her deciding she didn't have to steal, just ask.... gee really?!

Meeting with the principal is today. Gonna tell him about what's going on a home and that while her behaviour is good at school, I've issued her a strike against her Zig Zag Zoo trip.

On another note my weight is still a no-go for change :(

Still no to the goal

Weigh in this morning.... no change *sigh* Which means it hasn't changed in a week. I was even 500 calories short yesterday! So peeved with myself. I was even commenting yesterday how the shorts I bough a couple mths ago are now falling off. I should do my measurements and see if inches are falling off and it's just that the scale hates me.

Brianna's stealing has hit an all time high. She stole a family sized chocolate bar from her school fund raiser at 5am and hid it under her pillow to eat. I swear she's grounded for life. I can't wait til Thursday so she can have her hearing test. If she passes it great, I know it has nothing to do with her hearing. If she fails, great, we can fix a problem and hope it solves some others.

A Trip Back to the Farm

Took the girls to visit the farm and Grandma Hart. Grandma Hart was thrilled with her copy of Olivia's 9 mth pic. Went out to "visit" the cows. Olivia was enthralled. She just stared the entire time. Brianna of course made friends. A brown cow and calf were on her list today. The calf kept trying to lick off her arm and the cow played shy.

I had a moment of relief for the poor cows as each one had the milkers put on. Some of the udders were HUGE! Course, I'm pretty glad my pumping output isn't 22+ *kilos* of milk per session!

Stopped at Lee's parents house again. As usual his mother pretended Brianna and I weren't there. Brianna as usual went to play in the corner with Dylan's toys and talked to me since she's otherwise ignored. Thankfully it was getting close to Olivia's bedtime so we didn't have to stay long. Olivia fell asleep on the way home but I was able to nurse her back down.

I did manage to salvage my diet from Godiva death but having just soup and toast for supper. I know Lee wants to have popcorn and watch a movie tonight though. *sigh* Here comes more salt! I'll try to behave myself.....