2006 – Page 16 – a hippie with a minivan

Picnic and the beach…

Well, today will be the first time that I meet someone from the net… A fellow MDC mamato be exact… she lives near Sherbrooke which is about 2 hours away so we decided to meet half way in Drummondville and when checking what was there and what possibilities we had I noticed that there was a public beach… so we decided that a Picnic at the beach would be great…

So I am getting together a great lunch and snacks for the day (I love picnics)

So the menu is

Sandwiches on some multigrain baguettes,
rice balls (sticky rice rolled in a toasted sesame salt) with a Soy Wasbabi dipping sauce.
Marshmallow squares with rice krispies, wheat germ, oatmeal and raisins,
Carrot sticks and an avocado (Colin’s Favorite food)
Apples and Blueberries
And I put some juice packs in the freezer for a little cold treat…

It is an unusually cool day for July here so I am not sure how much swimming we will do but the boys are tough and I know that the sand will be a hit! I don’t have many things for sand play so I am going to stop by the dollar store before getting on the road so that the boys will be able to make sand castles and haul sand from one place to another…

There is also a slight chance of rain but 30% isn’t enough IMO to make us not go… So I am off to get ready… I am pretty excited to meet her and her kids… and I find it cool that I will be meeting a fellow MDC mama….

today’s the day…

Well… I am a bit more then 20 weeks pregnant and today is the day that I could call the midwife center in Nicolet… I am still debating it though…

I went to the Chiro last week and she is also pregnant and about a week or two further then me and she called and got a place right away, maybe she took the last place, maybe not… but I am a bit scared of going, yet I still have fears at times and want to go see the midwifes just to check things out… not really now… but near the end…

But I also don’t to have to fight for what I want and what I need for the pregnancy and labour… I love going unassisted and I love the planning of having an unassisted birth… Like I have mentioned in the last post about this… I am scared of pressure, I am scared of this birth becoming medicalized… If I go I would make it clear that I am looking towards an unhindered/unassisted birth.. if a midwife was to be present she would not be in the same room as I when giving birth… however, I am scared that the presense of such a person would hinder the mood and the sanctity that I am looking for…

Today is the day that I should have called if that is what I wanted to do… I still have time but I don’t have the heart…

Barefoot…

I have always been more comfortable being barefoot… I never wear shows in the houseor the yard and if I visit someone the shoes come off… when I was working as a photographer I would always take my shoes off while I worked… Of course in the front of the store I needed shoes, but the minute no one was in the store the shoes were off again… at school I would always take my shoes off in class and when I was in CEGEP I often left my shoes in my locker… I have always drove barefoot also and I feel like I have so much more control then when I have shoes on (well boots since shoes and sandals come off right away when I drive)
I have been visiting the Society for Barefoot Living‘s Website for quite a long time, at least two years now and recently I have been reading more about barefoot living and when a tribe came up on MDC looking for other barefooters well I had to chime in… and I also got thinking about going barefoot all of the time… So last week I started to go barefoot everywhere… walking to the park, doing the groceries, going to the store etc… I was a bit nervous at first but no one even noticed… or if they did I didn’t see them notice…

When Xavier saw that I was leaving to to go to the store and hadn’t put sandles on he asked me why and I told him that I don’t like shoes and I just reather go barefoot…. so since I went barefoot so has he… He thinks that it is great going into stores barefoot and since it has been raining we have had fun walking through puddles in the parking lots and on the street. I love the textures in the supermarket too… and the cold floor feel really good when you are hot…
We gotten a few looks, especially with Xavier barefoot too and I admit It must be a sight to see… a pregnant barefoot mama with a barefoot toddler in a sling and holding the hand of a barefoot preschooler.. and We did one comment today when Xavier went in front of the cart and an employee said “watch your toes” but that’s it….

Not only do I believe that being barefoot is good for our health, I just love the feeling and my feet finally feel free!!

gotta chuckle….

You know when you watch TV and the show ends and it switches to another network?

Well, a commercial had just started and the announcer starts saying “when a deadly mistake rocks the hospital” it cuts to the very end of a vaccine infomercial which says… “be informed of your child’s vaccines” with a link to a website…

great weekend…

We had a great weekend… It was a holiday here so Friday Simon didn’t have work…

Friday we lounged around in the morning and then we went to Zellers for some pics and walked around in the mall a bit… I found some shoes that I need for a few weddings that I am going to this summer and they were on special so that was a definate plus…

Saturday was another leisurely day… I talked Simon out of house work and we sat down by the pool, and went swimming with the kids and just had a lot of fun… Our friend Yan came over in the late afternoon and koined us in the pool and then I made a really nice supper… An entree of Mussles and then Steaks on the BBQ with twice baked potatoes… and then we had cheesecake and a fire with roasted marshmallows….

The kids went in the bath and I took advantage of the last bits of sun light to read abook in the Hammock beside the Fire…

On Sunday I enticed Simon out of house work again and we had another fun day with the kids in the back yard….

One of the coolest things was that both boys love the water and Xavier started swimming by himself… At the end of last summer he was starting to swim and now he is pretty much at the same level and probably even a bit better then last summer…

I love weekends like this, weekends that are spent at home, with the family… getting to know the boys even more then I do already… sitting with Simon just enjoying each others company…

Here are a few pics of the boys in the pool…