Our family's journey through life

I love Mondays. 

Why? you ask.

Truth be told most people I know dread Mondays. Mondays usually mean you have to go back to work. No more lazy Sundays. When Monday morning rolls around you know it's time to get out of your stinky two day wearing pajamas and it's time to be productive.You know that at least some weekend in the past you to wore the same pajamas for a 48 hour period.Everybody has at least had one of those blissful lazy weekends.So don't judge me I fully admit I treasure those weekends of laziness.

 In all reality I am not one of those people who hate Mondays.  I look forward to it. Simple because I get to share with my fellow bloggers (you) all of my imperfections.Thanks to Mckmama for creating Not Me Mondays.  I don't know what  I would do with out it.I just might have one heck of a therapy bill.

Thank goodness for Mondays

A conversation I did not  have with my strong witty husband earlier this week

my strong witty husband  "hey babe...um Owain's bedding is all wet?"
me " go ahead and throw it all in the washer..the washer is empty"
my strong witty husband "ok..no problem" 


We go about our day.
On our way home from running errands with a tired toddler in the backseat ready for bed.


I asked my strong witty husband "you put Owain's bedding in the dryer"
He replied "did you start the washer?"
me "I thought you did after all you put his bedding in"
his response "oh well you should of been more specific."


Darn me for not being more specific. I can't believe I forgot  to tell him when you throw a load of laundry in the wash with soap you always have to turn the knob to light,cold cycle.Then the washing machine will do it's magic and walla the clothes Owain's bedding  will be clean!

Gotta love my strong witty husband.He truly is one of a kind.
Speaking of him as  I type he is not folding  laundry all on his own.

My cat is not  terrified of my toddler. She has no reason to run for her life when she see's him running towards her waving both arms in the air screaming "ahahahahahaahaaaa"

She doesn't hide all day until our hyper toddler is asleep.One of her hiding spots is not the hallway closet. She does not claw her way back to the safest spot from a hyper toddler. The very back of the closet. In the process all of my blankets,sheets whatever might be in the closet does not end up on floor.

Nope not my kitty. I am not sure who's closet that might be or who's cat? Do any of you have a clue as who?

I have not been an emotional wreck today,the day before or three day before. Nope not me! Life is perfect.You see whenever we have a bill to pay or simple need to buy a new pair of shoes just for fun we go out to our money tree and pick,pick,pick.Don't you wish you had a money tree?

As I hurry up with my not me post I don't  have a screaming headache. Nope not my head. It certainly does not feel like any minute my head is about to explode. My headache that I don't have is not caused from Pepsi withdrawals. I am not once again trying to give up the one thing I love to drink.  I hate Pepsi! Why the heck would I drink that unhealthy for you full of suger soda beverage?So I an not trying to give it up. Nope not me!

My sweet little boy does not have some unusual sleeping positions. He certainly did not get his crazy sleeping positions from his momma. Nope not me!  I am not known to sleep the butterfly.....
I did not just erase a picture of me sleeping the butterfly that my strong witty husband secretly took of me.

When we went to visit our good friends new baby boy Truman. I did not have complete baby envy.
Isn't he adorable?
Doesn't make you want to have another one?

After a several month absence I decided that I needed to join in the Not Me! Monday carnival.
So I am back!
Back to confess my imperfections.




After a several month hiatus from Not Me! Monday I did not realize how therapeutic Not Me! Monday! really is. Mckmama certainly wasn't brilliant by creating Not Me! Monday so us momma's could fess up or not fess up our imperfections.

While capturing my little man's creativity with my digital camera he did not throw his paint brush right smack in the middle of my forward and I certainly did not chuckle.
I did not spend at least an hour scrubbing paint off of the walls and I most certainly did not go about my day with  dried paint on my forehead. Nope not me!

As I type and confess all my imperfections  to all my fellow blogger's next to me is not my wicker laundry basket over flowing with at least six loads of clean laundry.I would never dream of being so lazy and not fold and put away all laundry as it comes hot out of the dryer. I am not lazy!

I did not put away nearly all of the dishes in the dish washer before I realized the dishes were still dirty. I did not have to go back into the drawers and cupboards to pull out of the clean dirty dishes to only have to reload and start the dishwasher all over again.Why would I make more work for myself?

And I did not suspect a certain  little someone of turning off the dishwasher.He would never

While changing my little man's diaper he did not strike this pose...
and I most certainly did not run into the other room and grab my camera so I could capture his new yoga pose.  and I would never post it on this blog  to share with all of you!Nope not me!

Early today my little man did not throw one of the worlds greatest tantrums.I did not think to myself "WOW! and the Oscar goes too...."

I never find my little man sleeping in the oddest positions....
Nope not my little man!

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I absolutely did not miss last weeks Not Me Monday! I would never dream of missing a Monday where I could be brutally honest just because I was in a funk and to lazy to blog.

And if I was that girl who would miss a chance to be brutally honest the following Monday I would not be brutally honest about everything I did not do in the past two weeks instead of one.Nope not me!

The Sunday before Valentines day my husband and I did not have a date night. We were not childless for the whole night!If we were it would have been really lame because that was the night my husband got sick!He did not spend the entire night on the couch unable to sleep due to a nasty cough and I did not go to bed by ten and slept nearly eleven hours!It was a good thing that was night our date night! Not us!

I haven't been up to blogging lately because I have been in a funky mood and have nothing to say.

The other day I did not completely freak out when I noticed my cat eating a balloon string. Before I could pull it out of her mouth she did not swallow it. Nope not my cat that would just be plain crazy!

I did not jump up and down when my husband came home with a video monitor that he bought off of Craig's list. He did not get a killer deal!

I did not just finally sign up for face book and I am not already finding myself totally addicted. Nope not me! I am not one of those peeps that gets easily addicted to anything that has to do with the computer. Nope not me! My husband is not a computer nerd either!!

I did not have one of the most emotionally draining days ever! as I type this I don't have a pounding headache from all of the crying I have not been doing. I am not blogging just so I can try and put today behind me. Even though I know that there is no way I could be numb of the major loss I and my family are trying to prepare ourselves for. I am totally not freaked out!

And because I did not have such and emotional day I am not about to go into my freezer and pull out a tub of some delicious homemade chocolate Ice cream a good friend made. Not I!
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Every Sunday I don't think about my Not Me! Monday post. I don't wonder when is Mckmama going to put her Not Me Monday post up?Sometimes she post on Sunday and other times she throws us blog reader's for a loop and post midday Monday.Just maybe this week will be my turn to be in the top ten! Well I don't really care about being in the top ten that is not why I am trying to finish my Not Me! Monday post Sunday night.Nope not me!

Earlier this week I pulled our handy dandy(did I really just say handy dandy?)dirt devil out to give the rugs a good vacuum.I did not vacuum Owain's play room(which used to be our dining room),living room and the hall way when I did not discover that the darn dirt devil wasn't picking anything up it was leaving little dirt and dust piles all over!What the heck?

Later when my husband came home from work he took a look at it.
This is not the conversation we had...

After inspecting it for a good thirty seconds...

"hey babe where's the filter?"husband asks full of curiosity

I replied "oooh no! I think I must of accidentally threw it away when I emptied it out!"

Husband responds "well we needed to by a new one anyways"

It is a good thing that did not really happen because if it did you might see me on my hands and knees picking up all the dust bunnies and crumbs that are visible with my hands.I am glad that I didn't throw away the filter!

My sweet little man did not have a fever for a little over 48 hours!It did not break my heart to see him in such a pitiful state.After a day of filling miserable we were finally able to get him in to see the Nurse practitioner and I did not want to give her a good slap across the face when she was cleaning out my baby's ears. Keep in mind Owain was screaming bloody murder. I am sure that people in Canada could ear his screams! I am not kidding! It was awful. After she was able to remove most of the wax during her torture treatment she was able to get a good look and discovered that our little man has a ear infection.His very first ear infection.Poor little man!

Just when we think it couldn't get any worse well it doesn't. Later in the day my little man did not break out into what looked like a small rash on his back. It did not turn into a head to toe rash.Which turned out to be? Well I will let you be the judge?


So it is a good thing that in the picture our little man does not have the chicken pox! or he would be absolutely miserable with an ear infection,chicken pox,a fever for 48 hours! Plus cutting three more teeth. Man I am glad none of this happened to my little man over the week.If it did we probably would have been up most of the night trying to keep our little man comfortable.

With little man being sick I did not make a bed of pillows on our living room floor and let him watch Bear and the Big blue House while we snuggled.

And I absolutely did not share a vanilla ice cream cone with him either. Nope not me!

If all of this did happen to my little man (ear infection,Chicken pox,fever) during his miserable state of discomfort I did not think to myself "at least we are dealing with a normal childhood illness at home" and not in the hospital having yet another surgery.Knock on wood!

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Have a marvelous Monday!!!

I love Monday's Why you ask? Well because this is when I get to be brutally honest about everything I did not do this past week. Head on over to Mckmama's to read some more brutallly honest Not Me! Mondays.

Earlier last week I did not make a cake and I most certainly did not eat half of it before tossing it into the garbage. See I would never do that because I do not have a sweet tooth.If I did have a sweet tooth I would probably have my husband pick up a box of graham crackers so I could polish off of what was left of the frosting. So it is a good thing that I do not have a sweet tooth. Another thing if I did have a sweet tooth I most likely would be eating a skor bar as I type this. It's a good thing I hate anything that has sugar in it!

My little baby did not turn one yesterday! He is still my little baby and not my toddler!

I did not plan on having a relaxing evening Sunday night after the birthday party we did not have because if I was planning on having a quiet evening I would not volunteer to watch my four year nephew(who I love and adore) for a week!

I never feel sleep deprived because my one year old never wakes up several times during the night. Nope not my baby!

I did not break every single rule when it comes to "eating healthy" and I haven't avoided the scale at all!Nope Not Me!

I am thrilled that Mckmama gets to go on a Cruise with her prince and Mckmiracle and I am not disappointed that she won't have time to blog because I am not addicted to her blog or another blog!

After getting up with my son at six o'clock this morning (only getting a few hours of sleep myself) I did not take a nap when he went down for his morning nap and I did not sleep four hours! It wasn't a little after 1:00 pm when I finally made myself roll out of bed! Nope I am not sleep deprived and I most defiantly could not sleep a whole month away if I was given the opportunity.

I would never break my News Year Resolution eating healthy by eating Mcdonalds! That would just be plain gross!!

The other morning while making my son breakfast my cat was meowing because she wanted fresh water. I did not fill her water dish and began to place it on the tray of my son's high chair. I did not stop myself and say "what am I doing? this is for my fury child not my human child!"

I am not tired nope not me!

Did I already mention that I am not tired!!

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Well folks it's that time again for me to unload everything I did not do this past week.

I certainly did not fall asleep before midnight on New Years eve. I did not miss the clock striking midnight and watching the ball drop from time square. How could I possible fall a sleep before midnight it's not like I am exhausted because I certainly don't have an almost one year old who does not sleep through the night!!

When I pureed my son's sweet potatoes and apples I did not put in the fridge instead of the freezer and by the time I realized it. It was to late they have already gone sour.

I am not frustrated with my son's eating habits. I don't spend most of my day trying to get him to drink a whole five ounce bottle and he never just drinks an ounce or two and wastes the rest of his formula.

I did not jump up and down,clap my hands,spin around and do a silly dance when I discovered my almost one year old finally has his first tooth! He did not laugh at his silly momma and decide to join in the silliness and clap his hands too.


When I stepped out of the grocery store this evening and saw that it was snowing again! I did not curse mother nature and I did not make this comment earlier in the day "I like the snow but I am happy to see it finally melting away"

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Boy does time fly when your having fun visiting with family,wrapping presents,opening presents,baking cookies,decorating cookies,eating cookies,watching Christmas movies,taking lots of pictures,Trying to capture every moment on video ,watching the snow fall and trying not to be to exhausted from all excitement that Christmas brings.

Oh and I can't forget the most important thing I have been doing all week is praying for all of our CDH warriors Alina,Carter and Olivia. Some other little warriors (not related to CDH ) that I have been saying a little prayer for is of course Stellan (Mcmuffin) and baby Kayliegh.

I am so relieved to hear the news that baby Stellan isn't having heart problems. That his episode is related to a cold,possible RSV. Which in his case is the best case scenario. Praise God!

Now here goes all of the things that I did not!do this past week

While snowed in I did not decide to bake sugar cookies to hand out to all my neighbors who were also snowed in. I did not burn them and just tossed them in the garbage. nope not me! and because I had all of this frosting left over with no cookies to frost I did not dip my finger in the bowl and then licked it. I did not repeat this several times!

Another thing I did not do while snowed in was rearrange my living room and bedroom instead of working on my Daily December Album.

I did not ask for a pair of Uggs for Christmas. I did not get a pair of Uggs because I am not one of those girls I see wearing their Uggs around town with their pants tucked into their boots. That is just not me! They don't feel absolutely amazing! when I slip my bare feet in them. I wouldn't know because I don't own a pair of Uggs!

On Christmas day I didn't skip my shower and I most certainly did not stay in my pjs all day with out even brushing my hair. Nope Not Me!

I am not once again typing up my Not Me! Mondays the night before. So I will be ready when Mckmama posts her Not Me! So maybe just maybe I can be number ten instead of one hundred and fifty! I am not going to continue to check her blog every thirty minutes so I can try and be one of her top ten! that would be crazy and little obsessive. So it is a good thing that I am not doing that!

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Yup it's that time again. Head on over to Mckmama's to check how some more Not Me! Mondays.I am sure that you will find a good laugh and heck you might even be able to relate to others Not Me's!

This is not my child sitting on top of MT.Clean Laundry! Defiantly not my pile of clean laundry! You would never find a pile like this in my house! Nope not me!

Oh and this laundry explosion all over my living room is not me trying to fold and put away all of our laundry. Nope not in my house! You see in my house I have a magic fairy that cleans,wash,folds and put away all of the laundry. I bet you wish you had a magic cleaning fairy?


Now if this was my living room with all of our laundry I would never walk away from this mess to put my sleepy child to bed and if I did I would never find my cat making her self comfy on our clean,partially folded clothes! Never !!!!
And last but not least I am not at all embarrassed that I just posted pictures of my laundry mess because those are not my pictures,not my laundry,not my cat,not my child.

Ok maybe that is my child and cat but I have know idea how they got in those pictures. You remember I have a magic laundry fairy to do all of my dirty work!

It's that time again to fess up everything you did not do this pass week. Go to My Charming Kids to read more Not Me! Mondays.


I would never let my almost eleven month old crawl around on the floor of Nordstrom's shoe departmnet and climb on top of a shoe box.I would never even dream of it with all the germs floating around! It's a good thing I didn't let him loose in the department store!

While my husband went on a little adventure with our son to Grandpa's house. I did not take a nap instead of being productive around the house. Not me!

I am a super organized wife and mother. I am so organized that I would never ever in a million years do ten loads of laundry and just throw it all in one big pile unfolded. Nope Not ME!

I did not eat Mcdonalds at least three times this past week. That would be gross so it's a good thing I don't eat their!

I didn't skip last Not Me Monday! I would never miss a week. I am always on top of my blogging! Oh and I am not addicted to reading other people's blogs. It is not the first thing I do when my son is napping. Nope Not Me!

I am not stressed out that Christmas is just around the corner! Why would I be stressed out it's not like I still have tons of shopping to do! Remember I am super organized and always on top of everything!

I would never give my son one of his Christmas presents three weeks early and I did not go to two different Kmarts to find the same start to walk shopping cart. The same one his best buddy Cian has. Every time Cian takes it home with him he gets sad. I would never spoil my only child! Not Me!

I am not considering going into my kitchen after I finish this post and making a batch of chocolate chip cookies just so I could eat some yummy cookie dough! I would never do such a thing! Not Me!

I did not host Thanks Giving dinner in our tiny two bedroom apartment. Do you think I am crazy to have two grandma's,one great grandma,one spoiled Aunt,one big cousin plus daddy,mommy (that would be me) and of course the baby oh and we can't forget out kitty cat!

I haven't been cleaning and doing at least five loads of dishes and endless laundry since Thanks Giving day because I am not crazy and did not host thanks giving dinner. Nope not me!

The day after thanks giving dinner I did not go in a state of panic because Christmas is only a month away and I haven't even begin to start my Christmas shopping. That would be crazy of me to just now begin all my shopping. It is a good thing that I am not crazy!


The other night when I was rocking my sweet little baby boy to sleep I did not get all teary eyed at the idea of him turning one in only two months. My baby is going to be a toddler and he will no longer need me!

I hate pumpkin pie! and it's a good thing that I do because I am not the one too eat half of the pie all to myself. Why would I do that! When I am trying to watch my girlish figure. Nope not me!

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It's time for Not Me! Monday's. I know I have been out of the loop for the last couple of Monday's but I am back and ready to share everything I would dream of never doing.


Sometime last week I did not try to attempt to check my email with my almost ten month old's help and he did not decide that it would be a good idea to help mommy with her "to be filed folder" that was in a nice and tidy basket on the bottom shelf of her desk. He absolutely did not make a mess with all of mommy's important papers. After all if they were really important paper's they would be filed safely in the file cabinet,right?I did not turn thirty on the fourteenth and to celebrate my husband and I went out with some of our good friend's and I did not drink for the first time in two years and late in the night I did not get sick. That was NOT a reminder of why I am not a drinker!

The whole time we were out I did not miss my baby!!!

Today I am not packing for the hospital and trying to get caught up with all of the house work because my sweet baby boy does not need to have his second surgery tomorrow and I am not scared for my baby because us mom's never worry about out children,right?

I haven't been so stressed out about tomorrows events that I broke out into hives and they aren't itchy!

Last night we didn't go to a pot luck and I didn't have one to many cupcakes with chocolate frosting and I absolutely did not give my baby a little taste and he didn't go "MMMmmm" What Kind of mother do you think I am? Giving her baby frosting!!!

My brain is never scattered. I never forget or just simple get dates wrong and almost forget to wish one of closest friends a happy birthday! on her special day.

My husband is not a year and five days younger than me. He is not turning twenty nine the day after Owain is NOT having surgery and we will NOT be in the hospital. Nope not us!

My dad and step mom did not forget to call me and wish me a happy birthday because I did not turn thirty! I wasn't disappointed that they forgot because I did not have a birthday!

I would never let my baby boy crawl around naked and help me with the laundry.Nope not me!

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I absolutely did not skip a shower two days in a row and decide to where my pajamas all day after all I wasn't planning on going anywhere I new at some point in the day I would end up getting puked on,pooped on or peed on. Maybe even all three if I was lucky.

Nope I did not miss last Mondays not me just because I was feeling a little lazy. I never get the lazy bug. Nope not me!

I am not starting this weeks Not Me Monday a day early hoping that maybe I can get into the top ten on my favorite blog of all time My Charming Kids. The creator of Not Me Mondays. Heck I would be happy if I can at least be in the top twenty. I am amazed at how fast it fills up.

I would never wash laundry and simple be to lazy to put it all away. After all I never get the lazy bug. So in our house we don't have a pile of clean clothes and next to that pile we don't have a pile of clothes that are waiting for the spin cycle.Not in our house!

I did not eat out several times this week and later weighed myself and discovered I gained four pounds! I never eat junk food,fast food or soda. Nope not me.

So I am posting a little early because I am going back to work tomorrow! It's been nine months since I have had my very one pay check. It will be kinda nice and the best part is I don't even have to leave my house! Any guesses to what my new job is?

One of my favorite blogs I am obsessed with reading is My Charming Kids. Mckmama is hilarious and she has three beautiful children and one due to arrive in a month. His name is Stellan and he is a miracle in the making. Anyways Mckmama started Not me Mondays this last Monday and I missed that one due to the flu but I thought it would be fun to join in this Monday. So here it goes a day early.....



I absolutely did not let my eight month old try a taste of my vanilla ice cream and if I did let him have a teeny tiny taste he would of hated it!

I did not wear the same outfit two days in a row. Not me. I would never be caught wearing the same outfit in a row. Who do you think I am? a total slob!

My son had his first sleep over at grandma's and I didn't miss him one bit. Nope not me. I didn't even look at his picture once or had daddy call to check in on him, Why would I do that?

I would never do seven loads of laundry and just pile all the clean clothes on my bed.

My husband did not have to make a trip to the junk yard to find spare parts for our car that is not falling apart. not our car! It's not a piece of s***t and it has never been stolen. Certainly not three times in two years.